Back when I was a contract programmer, I'd eventually kissed enough ass to be offerred a salaried position at the company, complete with benefits and all that. Yay! Around this same time, they were redoing some of the office, removing a big moveable-shelf contraption and putting in some more cubicles. Because of the way the space worked out, these new cubicles were a little bigger than the current "regular" cube, though still smaller than a manager's cube. My manager confided in me that he wasn't positive, but he was pretty sure that these new cubes were for the recent hires, of which I was one.
Well, my paperwork went through, and I was an employee (Yay!) but other than that, not much changed. I still sat in the same cubicle as before, and my job didn't change, either, other than that I was salaried and not hourly.
A week or two later, I noticed that people were moving into those nice, larger-than-normal cubes. All except one were now occupied. Another week passed, then another. Then one day, someone was in there. I kinda knew the guy, as he and I had started around the same time as contractors, so I was a little pissed off that he'd gotten the last new cube, but I stopped by all friendly-like to make small talk and find out what the deal was.
I looked around in faux-amazement and said something like "Hey, I like the new place!" He said yeah, since he was a new employee, he'd moved up, blah blah blah. He didn't know that I also had been moved up. But whatever, I didn't get the cube. I was still annoyed, but now mostly toward my manager, because if he'd never said anything in the first place, I wouldn't have had any idea. Also, these new cubicles were right in the middle of the floor, in pretty much the noisiest place, with people walking by on all sides all the time. My current cube was way off to the side, much quieter, plus I had a window. I was actually better off where I was, once I thought about it.
Also, the guy was fired three months later after they found a bunch of kiddie porn on his computer. His work computer. Fucking moron. Apparently he didn't realize that people were now walking past his cube all the time, and it didn't take long for someone to notice his "extracurricular viewing habits".
Mundane But True!