The View from Your Work

[Viin]

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:



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

[Cyrrex]

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.

[NiX]

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.



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.

[01101010]

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

[Sky]

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. 

[Brogarn]

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...



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.

[Cyrrex]

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

[schild]

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

[Rasix]

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.  

[Brogarn]

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

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!

[Cyrrex]

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.

[Oban]

My usual view.

[schild]

That view changes with the day. 

What's it like living on an airship?

[Signe]

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.

[Yegolev]

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

[Nebu]

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

You work at Guantanamo?   

[Yegolev]

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

You work at Guantanamo?   

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

[Sky]

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

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.

[NiX]

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.

[Lantyssa]

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

[Merusk]

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. 

[Yoru]

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. 

[Selby]

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...

[Abagadro]

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

[Strazos]

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.

[Lum]

We call him "Total Justice".

[Trippy]

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

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!

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.

[Zephyr]

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.

[Xuri]

The view from my desk right now (I disguised the sucky image quality and fashionable curtains with a fancy artistic effect from paint.net):


The view out the window last winter when the blinds weren't in a constant state of "closed":

[Viin]

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.

Pics.

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.

Pics.

[Sky]

No windows. 

OSX? 

We call him "Total Justice".

Still love the freaky giant Lum.

there's this hot chick outside smoking.

Pixplz

[Lantyssa]

No windows. 

OSX? 

You mock my pain. 

[Selby]

[Signe]

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

[Surlyboi]

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...