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Since this started in the 'take a picture once a day' thread, I thought it'd be cool to see what everyone else sees outside their office window. Show us!

Here's mine:

(http://dl-client.getdropbox.com/u/42220/Photos/Misc/office_view.jpg)

Exciting, eh? At least I get a little bit of the Rockies!

I have no view at work.  I am in an open office space, and there aren't even any windows (we're in the basement).  So a pre-emptive fuck you to all you people who are about to post lovely photographs.

My view! The perspective is totally off in the picture. The CN tower is much bigger when I look at it and the box/flag doesn't take up as much space as it seems.

(http://files.getdropbox.com/u/41161/ROM-26-Work-021.jpg)

I'm jealous of the SLIGHT sign of the Rockies. I would kill to work in Van or an area of Alberta that would net me some mountain view.

Holy shit, I have 24 Iron Mountain boxes stacked up in my office as we speak. Eerie.

(http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3497/3716738875_0fbe5fe879_o.jpg)

Also, just busting your chops about the city stuff, Nixel. Toronto is one of the few I'd live in.

Just noticed my fiancee put a gauzy bow on my viking's head.  :oh_i_see:

To the front of me is just a monitor and a cubicle wall. I thought what is behind me would be more interesting, plus I could bitch a little...

(https://files.getdropbox.com/u/854620/viewfromwork.jpg)

What's beyond those blinds is a golf course and nice trees. It's rather gorgeous outside, but if I hadn't just walked outside a minute ago, I wouldn't really know that. See that fucker sitting there on the right? The back of the head? Ya, that's the asshole who got a window seat but keeps the blinds closed. That's the most open I've seen them yet. Fucker.

Why don't you walk over there and open them up?  He your boss or something?

Walk over, open them, and when he says something, punch him right in the face.

Office view would be a nice white blank wall.  4 walls and no windows.  Thus, I tend to work from home a lot.  That view changes with the day.  :grin:

He whines about it being too bright. I've been down this path and it's an annoying one.

Also, sorry for it being rotated. Didn't realize that happened. Fixed it!

When the whiney prick who gets to sit next to the window with the golf course view whines about his view, then I am going to have to go with Schild on this one.  Simply punch him in the face.  Then ask him again if he minds having the blinds opened.

My usual view.

What's it like living on an airship?

My view depends on which room I'm cleaning at the moment.  It's all golf course, though.  I don't play golf.  I don't even like looking at golf.  I spend a lot of time waiting for a golf ball to break a window but it never happens.  I wish it would so I could stop waiting.

Taking pictures inside the complex without authorization is forbidden.  I'll see about posting something later.

You work at Guantanamo?   :ye_gods:

Maybe, depends on if Gitmo is going to be closed in October or not.  Really, though, I work for assholes.

Complain to HR/Management that he is causing a hostile workplace and depressing you with the gloom. Then ask to be switched with him so you can get the windows and he can sit in the relative gloom, or better yet, stick him in a corner because of his 'condition'.

Or take a page from my book and just break the blinds when nobody's looking.

Hostile isn't the way you want to go. Go with lighting. I'm sure, assuming your company is anywhere conscious of health and safety, you could pull something in that regard. It's becoming a huge cost to companies. Tie that shit to depression or look up the adverse of effects of fluorescent lights and demand the window spot because of your migraines/headaches or inability to concentrate.

Edit: To add.. everything.

No windows.  It's a mostly private office created by making a maze of bookshelves to my little cubby.

I'll post a lovely view of my corner tomorrow.   Class-A office space means only people with titles get windows... even if they're only in the office one day a month.  :oh_i_see:

I'm on holiday for a few weeks, so I suppose the view from my front balcony would count as my home office. Oh, yeah, and I just took this at midnight.  :awesome_for_real:

(https://files.getdropbox.com/u/436028/14072009_iceland_balcony_view.jpg)

My new office has a prime view of the hazardous waste disposal site & storage facility.  Combined with all the trees and the old shed storage going on, it's pretty neat.  I'll have to take a picture tomorrow...

This photo will make it rather easy to cyberstalk me, so please don't.

(http://i6.photobucket.com/albums/y222/Abagadro/PIC-0048.jpg)

Eh, I just get a view out some glass doors on the ground level.

Not much to look at, unless there's this hot chick outside smoking. Then, I tend to take a glance outside.

We call him "Total Justice".

(http://photos-e.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-snc1/hs006.snc1/4166_101712621257_579456257_2547092_4796888_n.jpg)

If I was sitting there I would have them shut too, at least when the sun was shining in. If I happen to be awake in the morning and am on my computer, there are times I can't really see what's on the screen because of the sun shining through the window, even with the curtain drawn (I need thicker curtains).

When I was at Adobe most of us in my department setup our cubicles as "caves" to cut out as much overhead light as possible. We were working on Sun workstations that had large but low brightness screens and they didn't have any anti-glare coating on them so every bit of extraneous light got bounced off. In my cubicle I "disabled" 2 of the 3 overhead fluorescent light tubes in each panel and I had large pieces of art board mounted horizontally on the top cubicle wall edges (ours were full height walls) over my monitors to block out even more of the light. In the most extreme case somebody brought in one of those patio umbrellas and set it up in her cubicle.

No picture, but it is one of the better views in Boulder.  Second floor window with an unobstructed view of the Flatirons.  One of the VPs has this tiny office next to us and has been in it for ages as it is supposed to be the "best" view in Boulder.  Thankfully there is a height restriction on buildings downtown.

The view from my desk right now (I disguised the sucky image quality and fashionable curtains with a fancy artistic effect from paint.net):
(http://www.xoduz.org/files/bilder/office_view_02b.jpg)

The view out the window last winter when the blinds weren't in a constant state of "closed":
(http://www.xoduz.org/files/bilder/office_view_01.jpg)

Pics.


Pics.

OSX?  :drill:
Still love the freaky giant Lum.
Pixplz

You mock my pain.  :cry:

(http://www.slyagent.com/DSC02703.JPG)

Is that some sort of gigantic garage or something, Selby?  It looks really tall but not Airplane-y.

I can't show you the view from where I work anymore, I'd probably violate an NDA.

But, here's a shot from my old office...
(http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3133/2439151798_23202112fa_b.jpg)

There are times when I'd love to live in a city like that, but I just don't think I could.  I like trees too much.  And a 15 minute commute to work.

Our studio is in the basement, and I, too have a lovely view of off-white walls.  So I'll also substitute a photo of my back yard, with added bonus of my five-year-old:

(http://www.its2.uidaho.edu/webcast/images/DSC_0793_small.jpg)

(For you city types, that's wheat)

Hey, I see a tree down there!

And I'll take my tree-filled back yard and work view and a 4 minute commute :) Going home to relax on my patio for lunch is amazing. Not to mention a house that cost 1/10th of what Grimwell paid for his "deal"  :ye_gods:

Has he hung around since that one day?

I work from home most of the time but I dock at the mothership in NJ once every quarter for meetings and such. This is what I get to look at this week:

(http://www.filedump.net/dumped/img03171247676556.jpg)

Yes, well it's all relative to the market you are in, etc.

Honestly, when I moved out here for the job I figured I'd be renting for the rest of my life. Then the crash put something in my target range and I chose to win.

Ideally, it would be a cabin surrounded by woods with a nearby creek and a phat pipe of interweb wired in, but hey... we take what we have to some times.

(http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2149/2203214089_bdd09b18c4.jpg)

Edit: Fixed it for you - NiX

I could live without internet.

Can't do pics, as my phone is an ancient piece of shit.

Also, doing so would only be "somewhat" creepy, I think.

It's on a hill and I'm on the 2nd floor.  I think they keep items back there and prepare them to truck them out.  I'm really not sure what's back there, it's not huge, but a semi truck would probably clear it.

Life without broadband internet is a dubious definition.

When I worked there, I was a 10 minute commute away and central park was directly across the street from my house. Trees and a short commute.

I will bring my camera, but so far a lot of freaky Tokyo signs.  I think the orange elephant wants me to buy health insurance.  Or maybe videos of Japanese puppets touching each other.  I'm not sure, my Japanese is still shaky. 

If it's in Kanji there exists the possibility of both...

If it's the orange elephant I'm thinking of, he's telling you to stay healthy.

Sadly my office doesn't have a window.  But at least my commute is only 10 minutes.

While it lacks a window, my commute is only 15 minutes of back roads and I'm in a great location.

Of course I'm looking to buy again and that is going to make the commute at least 30 to 45 minutes.  I'm conflicted.

Forgot to take an actual picture. So here's the street view, just from the street angle instead of my floor:

(http://dl-client.getdropbox.com/u/39720/f13/my_view.png)

The cross street up-ahead? 6th Street. (http://www.6street.com/)

The important question is "Do you have a bed in your office so you don't have to walk far to crash when shitfaced?"

I'm in a prestigious corner cubicle these days, so I have a few windows to pick from, but this is the one that doesn't require me to turn around:

(http://dl-client.getdropbox.com/u/40386/Misc/IMG_1935.jpg)

Last time we changed offices, they asked myself and the other supervisor if we wanted the window seats. We both responded no quite quickly. Window seats facing a sunny side equal 10 degree temperature shifts throughout the day, a complete inability to see what's on your monitor,  and all the bitching by those not sitting right next to the window about why you won't open the blinds for them.

(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v251/NicWolf/P200709_res.jpg)

Yeah, our building is painted vomit yellow. It's awesome.

Your desk is on the street. Are you homeless and is your "building" a shelter?

Window opens into the street.

I see two bums had a pissing match outside your office.

Sorry, have been stuck in the field the past week.  Lovely Saudi Auroria.

I do have to lean to the right to get the full view.  The window on my left has a nice view of the mall and all the smelly hippies.

(http://i32.photobucket.com/albums/d38/chronos42/view.jpg)

Partial view from my work.

(http://i12.photobucket.com/albums/a235/rattra/DSCF0116.jpg)

The Maze Slide doesn't seem complex.

Needs more wenches.

(http://files.getdropbox.com/u/82469/IMG_0436.JPG)

From the front porch. Woo!

Here's my view of an actual parking lot and 267 (aka the Dulles Toll Road) which pretends to be parking lot.

From my office towards the old city and my favourite lunch restaurant (the Ratskeller).
(http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3475/3263484872_60a3876a9f_b.jpg)

This thread was a pretty good idea. Definitely got some cool pictures out of it.

The drama over the window is at an end. We've compromised. He's got the vertical blinds turned so that the light doesn't affect his monitor but we can still see outside a bit.

Pretty sure I won't be allowed to take work pictures when I start my new job in a few weeks.

However, assuming I get the place, I'll have to take a few pictures of and from the place I will be staying in for the better part of a year.

Bah! You can always take pictures. I've taken so many pre-jump pictures on flightlines.

Is that in Villingen ?

Yus. My office is on the opposite side of the ring road to that tower.

Moar pictures! Good to know you're still alive and able to take pictures. Though it looks like you've lost your legs and can't take pictures above 3 feet.

The middle east makes arizona look like a theme park. What a shithole.

Hiya NiX! I'm still around, legs and all. I'll make a seperate thread here in Serious Biz at some point and put up some pictures that are worth looking at.

This isn't exactly taken from my office (which is a couple of hundred yards behind it) but it is my walk/run to work.


This is the first part of the same commute

Here we go:
(http://dl.getdropbox.com/u/39720/f13/office.png)