Floating IT Professional in USA

The Floating Professional.

No NoNo!!! Dont jump to the conclusion that floating in any sense conveys a Flying Carpet or a Jet setting IT Professional.
This is about mere mortal IT consultant contractors working in huge enterprises , who have fallen prey to shrinking work spaces and cost cutting strategies of Facilities and Maintenance costs.
IT, is such a competitive field. The salaries of IT professionals are considered to be the best in the industry. So, i guess, the companies have to look for ways and means to offset high costs of employee salaries.
One of the easy target, seating spaces. Yahoooo.!!!! Cost Effective way to cut costs.!!!
Companies have devised a floor plans which include a few Docking Rooms. Which serve as a touch and go kind of dock yards for floating employees, floating consultants.  Earlier docking stations were limited to laptops. But now consultants are equated to laptops and have progressed to having docking rooms.
In my childhood, musical chairs was one of the favourite party time game for kids. Arrange a small set of chairs , play the music . Round and Round the kids would run around the chairs. When the music stopped abruptly, the few , the quickest, would get a chair to sit and the unlucky ones would be out of the game. This continued until only 1 chair and 2 participants remained.
Never in my wildest dreams did i think, that my musical chairs skillset would be put to test, in my sojourn as an IT professional.
The consultants rush through their daily morning chores trying to beat the clock and get the prized catch of a Docking Room for the Day.
Many a days, u can see me huffing and puffing scurrying up and down the stairs of the office complex building, in the hope of finding a docking room. I wouldnt begrudge anyone, if they mistook me for a cockroach. Because i go up and down and up and down.
If im unlucky in finding a docking room for the day(I guess iam not so skilled at musical chairs afterall !!!!, Pop goes my ego bubble), you can find me skulking in the cafetaria, or around the alleyways looking for a place to sit and work.
Works well, because there is the wireless , so u could connect to the Office network from anywhere in the building(Even bathrooms i suppose, never tried that though).
Iam not alone, mind you, there are scores of eager consultants seated in the alleyways happily working, sitting on the floor. Kudos to their diligence.
The  Enterprises beat the airlines to catering to the Standing population.
Lo Behold, Airlines have decided to follow suit and introduce Standing only flights!!!!
Welcome to the New Age of Space Saving Strategies!!!!