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Posted on 08-29-2007 at 04:27pm
Filed Under (Work & Money) by badbadivy on 08-29-2007

Of course, my office is also my living room, so I suppose I shouldn’t gloat too much. But Blonde Mom? She’s got an office with a window that’s actually IN an office. I remember my days of working in a cube farm, wishing for an office with a door. I didn’t even need a window, just a door that closed so I didn’t have to hear my fellow cube-dwellers all the time. Now that I work at home, I just shut out the noise with my headphones.

How many of you readers are lucky enough to have an office with a door or a window? Let me know in comments so I can be jealous.

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Comments

Finn on 29 August, 2007 at 4:36 pm #

I do have a “real office” with a door and if I lean forward at just the right angle and tilt my head just so while sitting at my desk, I can see out the window of the office catty-cornered from me. Glamorous isn’t it? Meh.


Jay on 29 August, 2007 at 4:37 pm #

No door, no windows, but at least I have an entire plant to roam.


Jim Voorhies on 29 August, 2007 at 4:42 pm #

Cubeland R Us here.


gracep on 29 August, 2007 at 4:58 pm #

I have a door AND a HUGE window! I heart it a lot. And I have a cozy chair for my guests to lounge in.


nm on 29 August, 2007 at 5:00 pm #

7 windows. I got a view, baby!


david on 29 August, 2007 at 5:09 pm #

2nd floor, corner office with windows on two walls. Unfortunately, one of the walls faces west, so on sunny days the sun shines directly in those windows. I am lazy, so I usually keep the blinds closed on those windows which reduces my effective windows to one wall.


badbadivy on 29 August, 2007 at 5:32 pm #

And they say bloggers don’t have jobs. Look at all the people with jobs AND offices with doors and windows!


Craig T. on 29 August, 2007 at 5:32 pm #

A door and two windows here (for now - changing jobs in a couple weeks).


jag on 29 August, 2007 at 5:59 pm #

I’d almost trade my door and window for a job where I’m not sitting on my butt all day.

Almost.


Kate O' on 29 August, 2007 at 6:55 pm #

Cube with a window that looks into … another cube. I used to work in offices where I had doors and windows and Aeron chairs (or Aeron knock-offs) and all that, but it’s been a while since the heady dot com days in Silicon Valley. Maybe someday it’ll be like that again, but for now I bounce on my big inflatable ball when I want to escape the boredom of my cube. :)

(Yes, I know about the Office episode with Dwight and his big inflatable ball. I’m not that obnoxious with it, I swear!)


Jeffraham Prestonian on 29 August, 2007 at 7:04 pm #

I have a window that looks out onto a squirrel condo, in a tree that’s part of a National Arboretum. I suck. :)
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GingerSnaps on 29 August, 2007 at 7:16 pm #

I have an office with doors that lead in to hippie lawyers’ offices with nice views of the city. It is of the cool.


Andy Axel on 29 August, 2007 at 7:34 pm #

I share space with this cat named Lechter…

“That is the Duomo, seen from the Belvidere. Do you know Florence? A memory, Clarice… a memory is what I have instead of a view.”


Slartibartfast on 29 August, 2007 at 8:28 pm #

I have an “officle”, which means I have three permanent walls and an open wall (partially smoked glass, though)
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What that means is that I have to be quick in minimizing MCB


Kathy T. on 29 August, 2007 at 9:27 pm #

I have an office, no window. But I will have an office with a window by the end of the year. GOAL!


sistasmiff on 30 August, 2007 at 6:58 am #

I have one of the bigger cubes with guest chairs now but I used to have a big office with a window overlooking Commerce St. (ok so the SBC was right out my window but a big window is a big window when everybody else is in a cube farm there) and I had a nice, comfortable chair and kept the overhead light off most of the time, working with my lamp. Ah…I loved working for David Hassell.


Eric on 30 August, 2007 at 7:20 am #

I am so jealous of all of you…I don’t even have a cubicle…Let’s call is a “-cle”. No cube. No walls. Just a desk, a table, with a bookshelf and file cabinet separating me from the next desk. And I’m by the bathroom. Which means I also have to be quick in minimizing MCB. :)


grandefille on 30 August, 2007 at 8:04 am #

Ivy, I am Jes Jellus of you. Because you can have your pets at work. You and Coble. Yes!

I have a cubicle within an office, which I share with a very kind co-worker. We are the only office without a window, other than our reception area. We do have a door, but we rarely shut it. (Only if the Co-Irker is shrieking, really.) We are relatively content.

By the first of the year, however, I will have an office, with a door, AND A WINDOW, and an extremely comfy guest chair (which I am having reupholstered, woot, with a matching footstool!) that will look out said window. Which has a view of trees and nice old buildings. And a couple of HVAC units, but hey, I’m gonna put a bird feeder out there to distract me from that.

These niceties will help to distract me from the gubmint werk that has forced our move into another building. Pity us.


grandefille on 30 August, 2007 at 8:06 am #

P.S. — Your Tax Dollars are not paying for my comfy guest chair and footstool reupholstery. They both belong to me and the expense will be borne by my checking account. But you’re all welcome to come sit on them when they’re done!


Newscoma on 30 August, 2007 at 8:11 am #

Usually, I’m in my office (no windows.)
The last two weeks, I’ve been at head offices and sitting in a conference room (snark) that has newspaper books from about 60 years ago to present lining the walls.
It smells funny.


Kevin on 30 August, 2007 at 9:37 am #

My office comes with an incredible skylight.


Richard Haley on 30 August, 2007 at 10:33 am #

I’m only in the office three days a week, but when I am here I reside in cubeland. However, a quick trip to www.cubedoor.com turned my cube into a private palace of internet surfdom.


badbadivy on 30 August, 2007 at 10:36 am #

Oh, man, Richard, my (former) fellow cube farmers at the HR place I used to work need to see that.


Andy Axel on 30 August, 2007 at 10:38 am #

The good thing about cubes is that the walls are modular. If you find yourself a short wall, all you need is a cordless screwdriver and you’ve got yourself a functioning “officle.”


SayUncle on 30 August, 2007 at 10:42 am #

Oh yeah! Well, I have three offices and nine windows among them.