Signs Your Boss Is Pushing You Out: Musical Chairs

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The "most effective work environment" debate has been raging for decades, with a new study offering a new theory on how to best run the office seemingly surfacing every month. However, when your desk is reassigned more than once, take a quick walk around the department to see if anyone else has been relocated. If yours is the only ass that's been forced to find a new home, you're either the target of a ploy to drive you nuts, or your employers don't care enough about you to not stick you wherever's most convenient for them that week. Never has this tactic been more perfectly portrayed than in the Mike Judge film Office Space, in which poor Milton is relegated to new desk after desk, despite passive, muttering protests. And just like Milton's manager, yours likely won't quit playing this game until you reach a breaking point and light the building on fire, or reach the final destination on your seating tour: your very own couch.