Admin will NOT respond to a verbal request. So, you apply via a mail. Admin store the mail.
You keep on mailing, they keep on storing.
At any meeting in the future, YOUR feet will not touch, you will not be allowed back to your desk, and you will be escorted from the premises.....................

Moral: Don't p1$$ of the Admin unless you have a VERY strong case, or, are wearing extremely robust and flameproof undies..........