The company I work for recently
moved into bigger quarters.
The new space is in
a big skyscraper office building -- I haven't
yet determined if it's a Mies or a bad imitation of
a Mies building.
The company's former office space (where I was for the
past 18 months...) was in two floors of an old building,
above a down-scale retail shop.
My office in the "old building" was a fairly
large room with big windows looking out on the street
life of the city, and with three people: me with my desk
in one corner, a senior person with his desk in another
corner, and another senior person with his desk in the
center of the room, so his back was to the wall.
I liked it. And the kitchen was 20 feet away, and
the bathroom was 30 feet away -- all *within* our
office area.
In the new place, I occupy a 6 feet by 6 feel "cubicle"
built of those 4-1/2 foot high modular partitions.
The kitchen is at least 60 feet away, and the
bathroom is out on the corridor *outside* our
security doors.
What a difference in "quality of life"!
My problem is not with the 6 feet by 6 feet. I am a kind of
"squirrel", so I like to have my stuff around me.
My problem is with the vast impersonality of the space,
as exhibited by such details as that I have to
go outside the office to go to the bathroom
(and what a *dark* bathroom it is! The bathroom in the
old building was very small, but it was *light* -- with
windows, even, and it was *inside* the office space).
I'll probably have more to write about this
change in my life. But, for now, some positive fantasies
I used to have in the old space have been "shot down".
I'm trying to make the best of it.
--
Ah! If only there had been some kind of "computer
revolution" in the sense of decisive improvements in the
quality of life!
+\brad mccormick
--
Let your light so shine before men,
that they may see your good works.... (Matt 5:16)
Prove all things; hold fast that which is good. (1 Thes 5:21)
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