Office or cubicle?

[NewWaveChick1981]

Poll question: Office or cubicle?

Thank Jeebus I've never been relegated to a cubicle. I have had open-air desks before, but since about 1990, it's been an office for me. I shared an office with another coworker for a couple of years, but since then, I've been very lucky to have my own office with a door and everything. :) Hell, my current office is spectactular! I have two huge windows, hardwood floors, a nonworking but very attractive fireplace complete with mantle and hearth, and the office is about 25 ft. by 50 ft. :bounce: :toast: It's the biggest, nicest office I've ever had. I'm so glad this college believes in decorating offices nicely! :toast:

[grace0418]

1. I work in the ugliest, most depressing cube farm ever. It makes the cubes in

Office Space look modern and luxurious. Not only do I not have a window, but NO ONE in my section has one. I have to walk to another part of the building to look out a window. The walls are white (at least they were at some point), the cube walls are gray, the carpet is gray and the ceiling is accoustic tiles and flourescent lights. And everything is filthy. We supposedly have cleaning people but there's only so much they can do with carpet that's been around for 25 years or more. There's still a logo from the last company that was housed in this building in the carpet by the door, and my company has been here for at least 20 years.

My CEO decided to "brighten the place up" by bringing in all of his cast-off hideous artwork that he bought in the early eighties. That sure did the trick! :eyes:

[Deep13]

11. shit

sorry to hear it

[Deep13]

12. *oops* wrong place

[grace0418]

19. Thanks.

Hopefully I'll get out soon.

[malta blue]

18. Do you work in the same place I do???

It sure sounds like it...

[grace0418]

20. I'm sorry to hear that. I don't wish this job on anyone.

Do you live in Chicago?

[malta blue]

21. nope - upstate NY

your environment sounds exactly like mine. Everyone here is always sneezing and I asked them to look into the ventilation system to check for mold but that was about a year ago. But come to think of it....my co. headquarters are in Chicago.....

[Patiod]

22. Do you have dead mice? We had dead mice!

I worked in a small office cubicle with a bunch of heavy smokers. They couldn't smell ANYTHING. I kept saying "what smells? What is that awful smell?"

Finally I traced the smell to under the cubicle dividers. We moved them, and there was a mouse corpse.

Thank God I have a teeny weeny office with a door and an ENORMOUS window.

I still shudder thinking about that smoke-filled place with the dead mice.....

[grace0418]

37. Just living mice. Although I think they finally took care of those.

We do get fruit flies like crazy as soon as the temperature hits 32 degrees or higher. That's pretty awesome.

[racaulk]

26. Damn, I need to take a Prozac after having read your post.

That just sounds bleak, depressing, and just damned awful. I'm so sorry, and I hope you find a way to get out of there.

:hi:

[grace0418]

38. Thanks. Got any spare Prozac for me? LOL!

I am working on getting out of here. I just need to figure out what I want to do next. I'm going to have to be careful because I feel like I'm going to jump at the first job where the office has windows and was decorated more recently than 1985, no matter how much it pays or what the work is.

[fizzgig]

2. cube farm

at least it's not as bad as the old building. in our building now there are plenty of windows (through which we sometimes see deer and foxes) and plenty of light. in the old building there were no windows and it felt like i was living in a cave.

i am jealous of your office, nwc. :P

[LSK]

3. cube

[SacredCow]

4. Other....

A laboratory.

[SPKrazy]

5. Office, window and a door...

not a great view mind you, another wing of the building I'm in, but still a window... I've had plenty of offices without windows, and I've even been in less than a cubicle situation before which was nuts in my line of work...

:shrug:

[ThomCat]

6. Office.

No window, but I'm just a consultant. :shrug:

[ForrestGump]

7. Never been cubiclized

Most of my jobs haven't been sit-down, office-type jobs, but even in grad school I had my own office, as I did in my subsequent postdoc.

I can't imagine being in a cubicle.

[davsand]

8. Office with a door--but very small!

If you want to get out of the office you have to ask whoever is sitting in the guest chairs to stand up so you can get out.

We joke that we do not have windows because they are afraid we'll escape. Frankly, we don't have windows because we are too low on the food chain to merit windows...

Ya gotta love government!



Laura

[EFerrari]

9. Kitchen table decorated in six textures of the latest in cat hair.

:)

[Dora]

10. Office with three doors: I work in a glorified HALLWAY. n/t

[SteppingRazor]

13. Cube, but with very low walls, so we can all see each other n/t

[Deep13]

14. small office, door and one window

The window is nice for climate control, but the view outside is of a brick wall 10 ft. away.

[mainegreen]

15. Cube rat for part of the week, work at home with 3rd floor view over park and pond for other part.nt

[underpants]

16. Office

window
door

[cwydro]

17. Office with a door and window

small, but very light; HUGE window that goes from waist level to the ceiling, which is WAY WAY up. Renovated old historic building. Pretty cool. But I used to work at home and I miss that.

[Patiod]

24. It's all about the light

I'm in the same situation - tiny office but HUGE window

What's frustrating is that all the wiring is set up so that I'm facing AWAY from the view. But at least I can get up and stretch and check out what's happening about the Philadelphia Art Museum, and whether there are rowers out on the river. I can see the buses letting kids off for the King Tut exhibit a few blocks away....

[cwydro]

25. Wow, sounds like a great view.

same here; my puter faces away from the window. But I LOVE the light!

[deepthought42]

23. I have a desk. Thankfully not in one of the cubicles.

But it's at the front of the office. There's no one else within sight of me, which is nice, but gets lonely sometimes. My window faces a hallway. The window is large and often referred to as the "fishbowl".... :banghead:

Your office sounds nice...especially the fireplace! :)

[Jokerman]

27. My office used to be a radio studio.

Thick, soundproof door, acoustic paneling and twin pain windows between the rooms. I can make as much noise as I want and they can't even hear me in the next room.

The one major drawback is that it is an interior room with no windows to the outside.

[La Lioness Priyanka]

28. in the same company i have had cubicles and and office..the funny part is i got the cubicle

after a promotion!!

:P

[NewWaveChick1981]

29. Thanks, everyone!

:hi: Pretty much as I suspected. Big hugs to all of you who work in cubicles, especially the awful ones. :hug: :hug: :grouphug:

[achtung_circus]

30. Other.

About 50% in a cubicle with a spectacular window that blasts in the sunshine.

The other 50% is in my truck, my mobile office.

[bigwillq]

31. Open-air desk (and not even my own)

:(

Oh I so wish I at least had a cubicle.

I have one drawer. :cry:

[ohiosmith]

32. Get ready to be jealous.

For several years in the 80s I managed Royal Centre in downtown Vancouver. It's the tall building center right. Mine was a 500 sf corner office on the 27th floor with floor to ceiling windows on both sides. One view was of English Bay, the other the mountains.

[NewWaveChick1981]

33. You suck.

:rofl: :P :hi: Yep, jealous here. :) I have the college Commons for my window view. Not bad, but not English Bay or the mountains.

[ohiosmith]

34. I'm the one who is now jealous.

Now my view is of a surface parking lot across from a electrical transmission plant.

[grace0418]

39. That almost made me start crying. How wonderful for you!

Wow, that just sounds amazing. I absolutely love Vancouver. I don't know how I'd get any work done with views like that.

[huskerlaw]

35. Office with a door

and huge windows (3/4 wall) on 2 sides.

I'm moving to an even better office next week...one long wall of windows, and enough space for a desk, a table, multiple filing cabinets and bookshelves...and a couch! :woohoo:

[CottonBear]

36. Corner office w/ a door and two windows in a new office building

that my boss built for our firm. I got to pick my office and choose the paint color and I chose a pale peach color. (I am second in seniority so I got first dibs after the boss!) I still have to organize and decorate. I have a great view of big oak old trees, pines and cedars. (The trees are currently dumping what seems like tons of pollen into the air. My black car is yellow as are everyone else's cars too!)
:)

[Dervill Crow]

40. I have a window, but it looks out on a larger office.

I don't think that really counts as a window.

[Redstone]

41. Why do you suppose they call them cubicles, when they're not cubes (no roof)? Shouldn't they be

called Squaricles?

But no, I've never worked in one.

Redstone

[Crabby Appleton]

42. where I work they're called "sheep pens" not cubicles

[querelle]

43. Office With A Door & Windows

I'm on the 36th floor and look out on the roof of a neighboring building. When I'm bored, I watch the pigeons that nest there.

Q