I haven't been to this mailbox for days and then find this vibrant
discussion about work places.
I guess my workplace is the most unusual among FWs, because I work in a
limestone cave. It was originally an ice-room when my house was built in
1815. (The ice used to be imported from a freshwater lake near Boston,
Mass.) It is a vaulted room burrowed out of a limestone cliff which rises
immediately behind my house. It has no windows but I can actually look
straight through the hallway of the house to the front door, which I leave
permanently open in the spring and summer, so I can look up from the
keyboard and see plants, birds and butterflies any time I want. It has an
even temperature, snug in the winter, and coolish in the summer. Tea-making
facilities and toilets are within yards.
That's my place of work. It's perfect. All the more so, because after a
lifetime of working for others, I now work for myself and can fart, pick my
nose, put my feet up, play a CD -- or even my fiddle -- whenever I want to.
I recommend it.
Keith
At 17:08 06/01/01 -0500, you wrote:
>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]
> 914.238.0788 / 27 Poillon Rd, Chappaqua NY 10514-3403 USA
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