Describe your workplace

[SaveABug]

I have my own little office, with a door, and have decorated it with an unbelievably eclectic group of pictures and plants.

I have worked in many different places. My first job consisted of saying "thank you" and "come back" a lot.

[travisleit01]

1. Views of the Rocky Mountains...

and the Denver Front Range. My whole west wall of my office is windows - great view! We just moved down to this office a month ago and it's great.

[SaveABug]

3. Now that sounds intriguing

I would be looking out the windows every minute. How does one get work done?

[maxanne]

2. hmmm....

so many workplaces...

My day job has 2 locations. At the main office, I share space with 2 other organizers. Right now it's chaos because there are 2 extra folks squeezed in - and one of them is using my desk, because I'm there infrequently. It's only temporary - once Hightower's Rolling Thunder tour comes to town, they extra folk will leave.

My other office for that job is at home. It's messy, and in serious need of some organizing.

My writing job is done in my home office.

My DUI instructor job is done at one of 4 locations. Right now, I'm teaching a class in Ossipee, NH - a place my mother used to refer to as "incest village."

I have 3 jobs right now.

[SaveABug]

5. Sounds like a great way to spend your days

I'm envious!

[ScreamingMeemie]

4. I have...a basement...albeit a finished basement...if you call 70's style

finished. It is cold down here. Even in summer. I wear sweatpants and robes to work. Over in the corner is a huge stereo that we salvaged from my grandmother's. You know the type if you grew up in the 70's, big, no giant, credenza type. I use it as a filing cabinet...because I am cheap. Next to my desk-it's even a real desk-is a pile of clothes waiting to be folded. I've waited for them to fold themselves but they're not buying it. All over my workplace floor are booby traps...little legos and army guys that my son strategically places so when I get up I find one imbedded through my sock, into my foot. You laugh now, but once I got an infection from this. Basically it is a lovely workplace, but don't come visit. I'd be embarassed, because I sound very professional on the phone. Oy, if they only knew.

[WilliamPitt]

6. My workplace

has a bed, a desk with my laptop and a printer, a bureau with all my clothes, two full bookcases, a TV and a stereo, a framed rendition of the constitution, a framed rendition of the Declaration of Independence, a framed picture of Mohammed Ali, and a big upside down American flag upon which I scrawled, "For in the final analysis, we all inhabit this small planet; we all breathe the same air; we all cherish our children's future, and we are all mortal. - JFK" with a black magic marker. There are candles and it smells only slightly of cigarettes and scotch.

In other words, it is the room I also live in. I need to get out more.

[SaveABug]

7. In other words, it is the room I also live in. I need to get out more.

Why? I wouldn't think so!

[maxanne]

8. my home office

has barnboard walls, and a bank of windows facing south. I look out over a golf course at the mountains. Great passive solar in the winter - horrifying sweatbox in the summer. I have a picture over my desk of a beach, with a purplish cloudy sky, painted by legendary Portland,ME artist Rachael Eastman. I have 3 bookcases, a small filing cabinet, a giant wooden teachers desk from the 1940's, and in the corner are the signs left over from my campaign for NH House last year. On my BB is a collage of "Old man of the mountains" pictures a photographer friend put together the day his face fell off. There are other pictures, postcards, and cartoons on the board. I also have a bumper sticker of two kids looking in their diapers, and the girl is saying, "oh, so that explains the difference in our salaries."

[Kat 333]

9. My workpace

is, currently, in the home of a sweet lady named Gwen. We spend most time in her room. It's large, very bright, w/skylights and sliding glass doors. Looking out you see lots of pasture, her three horses, mountains behind that. There are two beds. One was her husband's who died last year (twin beds, side by side, so that they could each position them however they were most comfortable). On his bed is a monkey he had bought when their son was first born, his favorite shirt, slippers, and robe folded neatly by the pillow. Next to hers is enclosed shelves open in the front with rubber gloves, briefs, bed pads, blood pressure scope, cuff, and other daily necessities. A large dresser with a stereo, cds, and three pictures of her grandsons. Next to that a tv which, if turned on, is showing westerns. In the final stages of cancer she is no longer able to ambulate so there is also a wheelchair. On the wall beside her bed
are squares of cork board. Each day I bring her a picture, cartoon, quote, dried lavender, or flower ... something that makes me think of her and add it to the board. Her blue eyes light up each time we add more squares. When starting it .. she said she would never live long enough to see the first nine filled.

[REP]

10. Ever See "Dilbert"?

I work for the same company Scott Adams did. It isn't a comic strip; it's a fucking documentary.

[leftofthedial]

11. basement room

"finished" circa 1972.

An office surplus work table with brick and board shelves serves as a desk, but it is so cluttered with stacks of paper, file folders and other detritus that you can barely see the simulated wood grain vinyl surface.

Lots of bookshelves, lots of books--way too many of them on technical and computer-related topics, but a goodly number on things I care about line the wall behind and beside the desk and two other walls. File cabinets sit everywhere they can fit, full of the shit I don't ever look at but I'm afraid to throw away.

A small keyboard and keyboard amp sit at an "L" to the desk. My swivel chair lets me indulge any and every urge to play that overtakes me. I can't wait to get my portable MOTU Firewire recording rig set up so I can bring it home from the studio and indulge my Muse more fully.

Stacks and stacks and stacks of CDs that I'm supposed to listen to, evaluate, and make decisions about sit waiting like a pile of boulders I'll have to break up with a sledge hammer tomorrow. Or maybe next week. If I'm very very lucky, there will be sweet gooey chocolate suprises in the middle of a few of them and maybe someday even a bona fide gemstone in one. If I'm not lucky, they will just be boulders. But I won't know until I crack them open, will I? Two big CD shelf units are full of CDs I do listen to because I already know the treats that await within them.

A Mac SE and a Perfoma, still functional, but sitting there looking more and more like a museum exhibit or an abandoned toy with each passing day. The still-in-regular-use G3, iBook and Powerbook share more usable space with the all-in-one printer gizmo.

Two framed ink drawings of the construction of Coors Field, a Fender Stratocaster poster autographed by Eric Clapton, and a college art school project of my sister's--a drawing of plants in a greenhouse window-- hang on the pastel yellow walls.

A surplus Pitney and Bowes mail sorting station sits against the wall, so loaded with equally surplus electronic and music equipment that it too looks like some sort of museum exhibit being born. The leftofthedial Subterranean Museum of The Obscure.

[Roon]

12. A dirty dashboard..

overflowing ashtray, grimy steering wheel, and a floor littered with empty styrofoam coffee cups.

[newyawker99]

27. Congrats Roon!! 900 posts

:toast:

[radfringe]

13. let's seee

the roof is caving in, been leaking like a sieve for 2 years and it's become a nesting place for birds and other critters. You can hear them run overhead through the ceilings... rumor has it that it will be repaired sometime after labor day, but they did not say which labor day

rugs are torn and stained, walls have holes, office doors don't lock,
lights flicker, furniture is falling apart and repaired with bubble-gum and toilet paper

bathroom stall doors fall off the hinges, and if you are real lucky there is toilet paper available (I bring my own roll)

the "cafeteria" (and I use the term very loosely) is a hodgepodge of ducktaped chairs and tables just around the corner from a secondary storage area so we are surrounded by boxes. The vending machines work on occassion, but at your own risk.

Phones are screwed up, and we are more often than not disconnected from the main computer servers.

Meanwhile, the main offices in St. Louis have been completely renovated including new carpeting, furniture and they have just built a gym for employee use. We, here in PA, can use the Gym too, but we have to go to St. Louis to do it.

St. Louis employees get 2 $400 bonuses a year, we get 1 amounting to $150 less taxes, plus a christmas bonus of $25(less taxes). St. Louis has 401k, with employer contributitions. We have a 2 year notice posted above the time clock saying that we will have a 401k available "soon" - NO EMPLOYER CONTRIBUTION

Sucks big time... I hate my job

[dudeness]

14. a fire station

where i spend 48 hours a week..turning out..reading..hopefully contributing to DU...its really the last male bastion..satellite tv..etc..

[RebelOne]

15. A cubby hole with a computer

And lots of Bush-bashing posters on the walls.

[Squeech]

16. I work in a cubicle farm on the 21st floor

There are printouts and scrawled notes and old newspapers lavishly strewn about my work surfaces. There is a coffee cup that looks like a science project. At the moment I have copies of the two non-technical Richard Feynman books next to the monitor.

One thing that's somewhat peculiar about this office is, any one of the five project managers can grab any one of us programmers for a project. So I don't know who my boss is going to be on any given day.

It's not quite my idea of a good time, but there's not much Dilbert-level stupidity here. There are certainly much worse ways of making a living.

[Kamika]

17. hostess

I stand (or sit when theres no customers and post here hehe), and show them to their tables and smile like an idiot. And i even take orders from our "vip's"

I swear i would have gone nuts if dad wouldnt have gotten internet to this laptop

[CO Liberal]

18. I Share an Office With Two Other Writers

The windows look out onto the parking lot and the next building. If the office was on the west side of the building, we'd have a view of Pikes Peak.

[LWolf]

19. 20'X40' trailer

2 windows. One looks at a trailer about 6 feet away, one looks at a blacktop corridor and another row of trailers.

4 old pieced-together computers. One adult desk, 30 student desks. Bookshelves, white board, maps, etc. I have my indoor garden, and have provided about 1500 books to the classroom library myself, so it's a pretty rich environment. Every square inch of wall is covered with something.

Then there is the staff lounge, which is a 15 X 8 ft space in a trailer to squeeze a staff of about 30 into, if you just count the teachers. A "work room" with a copy machine, cutting board, laminator, etc. in about 10 X 10 worth of trailer. A 20 X 15 portion of trailer for teaching supplies, open only between 3:15 and 3:45 pm daily. And a 20 X 8ft metal container next to my garage to hold everything else.

[GOPisEvil]

20. For now, I have an office...

...4 walls, a door, lovely view of the parking lot.

Soon, that will change to a cube farm in another building. So, I am lapping this luxury up while I can.

[LuLu550]

21. my own office

I work in a public school in a non-teaching job, doing PR, adult ed and a bunch of other things. I'm a 12-month employee so I work through the summer and get a few weeks off here and there.
I have my own office with a window that looks out onto a country road with houses and trees on the other side, but mostly I see the bush that is planted in front of my window. I can smell cow and buffalo manure wafting into my window right now.
My office used to be the boys room.
I have a huuuuuuge semi-circular desk that looks like the bridge of the Enterprise. When I first got it, I demanded that people entering my office ask permission to "come aboard."
I am also a free-lance writer and have a small home office at a second floor window at the front of my house. I can see my little village street below and the big trees on my front lawn. When people come to my front door, I hide and speak in funny voices out the window.
I must keep myself amused.:7
LuLu

[MercutioATC]

22. A large, dimly-lit room with no windows...

bathed in the glow of radar scopes and computer monitors with a constant undercurrent of low, murmuring voices.

[CRK7376]

23. A concrete

bunker in a mountain somewhere overseas.

[MissMillie]

24. It's a dorm room

I work at a college. Two months ago, they moved us out of our offices so they could rennovate the building. We were moved to the dorms. I have my own closet, my own bathroom. It's VERY quiet, and very beige.

[XNASA]

25. 26th floor office/cube with a view of the Chicago Skyline

I say office/cube because it's a mix of both. It doesn't have it's own door but offers lots of privacy and I'm not surrounded by partitions that block me off. It's an open floor space, but my desk is next to a window with a southern exposure.

Out my window I look down the south branch of the Chicago River. I can see the Sears Tower, just 4 blocks away.

A have a few workspaces including a Studio, that I manage so I'm not trapped at my desk. In fact, I'm not at my desk a whole lot.

Very new, very modern. Very IKEA-ish. It's a nice place to work. And outside on the street is about every kind of restaurant you can imagine.

[GOPisEvil]

30. *POUT*

You get the Chicago River and Sears Tower, I get the parking lot . I got hosed.

[annonymous]

26. I'm a receptionist

My work area is a cubicle with a counter in front.

[BigMcLargehuge]

28. in "The Tower"

see it in all its glory here: http://www.spymac.com/gallery/showphoto.php?photo=27566&papass=&sort=1&thecat=500

I've rearranged The Tower slightly since this picture, but the general feel is the same.

I am awaiting the arrival of a friend's new G5 so I can buy his leftover G4 tower.

[MaryBear]

29. What's a workplace?

[Nikia]

31. I love my lab/office

It is the biggest in the plant and I have a nice view where I can see ducks in the pond. I have lots of exciting equipment and could probably host a decent party in it (if I weren't afraid of getting canned for that.) I always make it a point to show new employees my lab and tell them about everything. The only problem is that the used computer that they gave me to replace my dead one won't play my cds.

[TrogL]

32. waaaaaaaay too many monitors

Five monitors on my desk, to keep an eye on various systems. Rest of the office is whiteboards covered in data flow diagrams and bookcases of tech manuals.

[TheBigGuy]

33. 15 foot ceilings and a big tall window overlooking a parklike landscape

the room is sort of a small semi-bullpen I share with five others plus the secreatary (we have systems furniture).

The building was built in the 1930s. The view is most pleasant and I have a window seat.

Quality of work life is excellent.