Remember "paper weights". A low tech device designed to prevent just such
an occurrence.
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From: Ed Weick [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: January 7, 2001 10:38 AM
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Subject: Re: 6 feet by 6 feet
Arthur:
> Its interesting the things that define "quality of workplace". Many
years
> ago we moved from an older office building, where the windows open, to one
> with sealed windows. Need I say more?
A sealed building is much safer, believe me! Many years ago, when I was a
very young civil servant, I worked in a beautiful old building with windows
that you could throw wide open. In summer, when it got hot, that is what I
did. On one very hot and very windy day I was given a document marked "Top
Secret" or some such thing to read, a very important document which, I was
given to understand, could have started World War III (or at least IIb) if
it had fallen into the wrong hands. My window was wide open and the wind
was blowing full blast. Someone opened my door. Out the window the
document went. We spent the rest of the day out on the street looking for
it. To no avail! It must have fallen into the wrong hands and caused
something very bad to happen. Perhaps the Viet Nam war.
Not too long after that we moved into a sealed building. Though the air was
foul and the light was bad, I thanked my lucky stars!
Ed
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>
> 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)
>
> <![%THINK;[SGML+APL]]> Brad McCormick, Ed.D. / [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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