Working Daze by John Zakour and Scott Roberts for March 10, 2023

They did that to keep an eye on you

Once at Microsoft two of us went out and bought up sheet-rock and paint, and boarded up a co-worker’s office doorway completely while he was on vacation (we had dismounted the door). That sort of thing happened on a fairly regular basis. Another colleague came back to find her office painted entirely pink and full of pink decorations. She was into pink and loved it. I really wish I’d though of doing this one.

We gave a guy an office just to keep him out of our hair.

He could have had an office like Les Nessman’s office with a “door” and everything.

There is a story of an IBM employee who had finally reached that stuff of having an office with a window. A few weeks later some workers came to the office and quite meticulously removed a section of carpet 12 inches wide around all sides of the office floor. The employee inquired and was told “You rate the office, but only an area rug.”

Not always a “privileged” option. Outside light on screens not a particularly good thing. Corner office of top floor (7th) in building near a Great Lake, was subject to seagulls hovering on the updraft at the window, peering in, Covered-back bookcases are good substitutes for always-closed blinds.

With Rita, one has to specify a window to where.

I like it Sal

I once had an office with a door, but because I wasn’t up high enough on the food chain, they removed the doorknob so that it wouldn’t stay shut when I closed it…

What a pane…

(≖_ʖ ≖)

Les Nesman would like to have a word. ;-)

He was framed.

During the dedication of our new Training Center some corporate dweep asked me for a tape measure. He determined that the supervisors’ offices were too big and couldn’t have windows because of some corporate rule. They gutted the entire floor, putting the offices in the center and us cubicle rats surrounding them. I got a window seat overlooking Niantic Bay. Originally there was a cubicle wall between me and the window but that blocked the heat so I had it removed.

Really a funny company. It’s actually really nice.

He’s the Les Nessman of MMM.

It is curtains for Sal.

I worked in SF at the foot of Broadway for over 10 years. I had a corner cube with views of the bay, including the Bay Bridge, and Coit Tower. Also there was the insane traffic at the corner before they replaced the stop sign with a light.

Maybe he can close the curtains

Wow, what a pane that is!

Apparently in the research station at the South Pole, they put up window frames on the solid metal walls, with picture of lovely sunny valleys and mountains, with curtains round them. So it feels like you are in a Swiss chalet or similar on a lovely summer’s day, rather than a metal box with in windows in super-cold night conditions.