The view from your cube... (or not!)
July 22, 2010 - 7:46pm
As inspired by this "Ask an Engineer"...
Does your office ROCK? Wanna show it off? Or does it suck and you want to commiserate? Post the view from your cube (or non-cube/worksite/research lab, if that is the case)!
I'll start... as I mentioned in the blog I totally work in a "cube farm"... but a nice one!
Here is my cube
I somehow snagged one of the larger cubes (muahaha) but no windows :( Very low walls so you can stand up and have a 'gopher' conversation, which makes it a bit more social and open seeming but you have to be very careful about how loud your conversations/calls are. I have three walls, the one not pictured is shelving and a cabinet with a whiteboard thingy.
Here is the floor (13th floor), as you can see it's just a lot of cubes for most of the floor!
Here is "the bistro" - informal sitting/eating area. Nice view of the mountains, city in the distance. Comfy chairs, a plant, a little TV that we use to watch the world cup :P. Communal fridge, coffee machine, blah blah blah
This is what "passive aggressive notes" look like in the green economy... I call this 'greenier than thou'.
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Some of our recycle bins, one of our green initiatives. They are quite nice! We also have one specifically for recycling the 1L milk cartons they bring in for coffee (they previously had the little single-serve cups -- lots of waste!). Employees are encouraged to bring their own reuseable dishes and cutlery, so there is a sink to wash that. There is a filtered water spout instead of water bottles/water cooler, and there are jugs to bring to meetings instead of providing bottled water.
The view from one of our decks, there are... uh... three decks on the floor? Maybe four? They are pretty big, but they don't get used much because it's raining all the dang time! I go out there to "stretch my eyes".
So anyway, that is my cube-land-home. I really like it!
Where do YOU work? :)
(take care not to take photos of logos, etc!)
July 26, 2010 - 8:18am
#2
Angela, I think that I know where you work! I believe that many years ago I paid a visit to a rather similar-looking office.
Anyway, I have to be a bit careful about what I post here, but I can share a few photos. I work for a managed services company which takes care of computer stuffs. I won't go too much into my job description, but I get to work with some mission critical services.
http://i32.tinypic.com/av3inp.jpg
My desk!
http://i32.tinypic.com/xe3cxk.jpg
Usually we have this monitoring our servers, but this was Christmas Eve so we watched Die Hard, a great holiday film!
http://i31.tinypic.com/23urjiq.jpg
When stuff breaks, I end up here and spend a great deal of time scratching my head.
I am not an engineer, but I have to make sure the series of tubes all flow nicely. :)
July 26, 2010 - 10:22am
#3
My little corner of the working world is in a basement but apart from the lack of natural light I like it a lot. The dual monitors help with that a lot. I usually have a web browser open on the left and my code on the right (I'm a software developer).The office as a whole is pretty bland, but it's small (which I like) and my co-workers are all friendly.
Here's our lounge table. The Scott Pilgrim books are mine, I'm trying to get my co-workers to read them with a small amount of success.
There's also a really nice sofa there, but it I couldn't take pictures due to people sitting on it :)
July 26, 2010 - 3:07pm
#4
Might as well give it a go.
My desk. If you look closely, you can see the Wasted Talent comic http://www.wastedtalent.ca/comic/coal-inside. On the desk to the left is my work PPE. On the right edge is my cycling PPE. Littered around the desk are broken remains of tube leaks. I use a buckstay clip as a bookend. I have my own coffee maker beside the keyboard. But yes, I work in a cube.
My office. Yes, I am trailer trash. The thing in the top right is the coal conveyor.
The power station. What the coal conveyor feeds.
Different angle of the boiler house. This one shows the desulphurization plant.
Taken from halfway up the boiler house. My trailer is the block in the top right - beside the horseshoe shaped building.
We also have signs on site, but they aren't passive-aggressive. They are more commanding, but people listen to them.
The steam drum - not an area of mine, but worth a mention. If that ruptures on full load, the explosion would be smaller if you lit a stick of dynamite that size. I'm terrified of these plants.
This is one of the areas I'm looking after. There are over 2500 welds going on in here-usually a pretty big crew in here.
The furnace - not an area of mine. They are replacing the full thing. Hard to see the new panels for all the scaffolding.
The crane on site. It's late and I can't be bothered to try to stitch these pictures together. In this configuration, it can lift 110 tons at 130 metres from the base. This crane gave me headaches - whenever it was lifting, the crews I had working below had to stop.
I had pictures I took from the top of the chimney, but can't seem to find them. They showed the site (and the neighboring county) quite well. If I find them, I'll post them.
And that's where I work.
July 26, 2010 - 4:56pm
#5
And now for a university research lab (small-ish university) Apologies for the poor camera quality.
http://i898.photobucket.com/albums/ac184/bozwayne/Workplace/043.jpg
My little desk, yeah labcoat and all, but no one takes me seriously if I wear it.
http://i898.photobucket.com/albums/ac184/bozwayne/Workplace/030.jpg
The vacuum chamber holding my experiment and all the necessary equipment for readings.
http://i898.photobucket.com/albums/ac184/bozwayne/Workplace/045.jpg
Proof that the chamber is happy and not leaking.
http://i898.photobucket.com/albums/ac184/bozwayne/Workplace/042.jpg
A slightly older experiment, to avoid the word 'abandoned' we'll call it stagnant.
http://i898.photobucket.com/albums/ac184/bozwayne/Workplace/031.jpg
The first view of outside reached by leaving the lab and moving to the end of the hall.
July 26, 2010 - 9:56pm
#6
I'm infinitely jealous of these workspaces. Especially the half cubes.
I work at a software development place that likes the "open office" concept. Which means we each get a desk in pods of 4. I'd love the walls to hang up notes and such, and block out bits out sound / movement.
Right now I'm on vacation, so no photos from me quite yet.
July 28, 2010 - 9:17am
#7
Well Here is my third worldish office. I'm a software developer and CS undergraduate (or something like that. For me, conversion between argentine and north-american education systems is as difficult as metric to imperial). I work in a very small sotware development company in Buenos Aires' downtown (or as we call it: "pleno centro").
Anyway, here are two pictures.... dang, sorry, one picture, because apparently I'm stupid and only uploaded this one:
It's actually a meeting room that I took over. It's got nice natural light half of the day (at least now that it's winter, maybe it's different in the summer, haven't been here too long). The chair sucks, it's the worst I ever had to work with, but besides that the place is ok, I have lots of space and light and air. Outside the window there is a patio wich is not the nicer one, but it's a good place to catch some air (I don't say "fresh air" because that's rare in the "centro")
Of course, the most important detail in the picture is the mate, in the lower right. There are 4 to 8 people in this office and there are 4 mate sets (thermos + mate), although I'm the only one who keeps it in his bakcpack. Actually it's the same set from my avatar, and that was a beach in México.
Well I thought I had a picture looking to the other side, I'll try to post it later.
July 29, 2010 - 3:50pm
#8
I'll hop aboard!
I don't have a cube. My office isn't actually friendly to the corporate policy thanks to our company Fellow who selected this place because it can't facilitate cubes.
Next up, Das Werkbench
My office is nice because we're actually occupying space rented out by a near by graduate campus. As such, we have a really nice park area as our yard.
August 3, 2010 - 12:35pm
#9
Very nice, everyone!! I'm enjoying looking into everyone's "worlds"... :)
Roman, I'll have to ask my coworker if I can take a photo of his mate cup, it's become an unofficial 3pm passtime for us :)
August 18, 2010 - 11:06am
#10
Hallo. I'm a computer engineer working in several different places (gotta love consulting). I'm working in two main places right now:
First, my cube at the office. If you look at the left, I have WastedTalent set up for easy viewing.
After that, I've got my work out in the field... The dinosaur was a good touch
And then at a hydro facility:
Sticky
August 18, 2010 - 11:32am
#11
Aaa it's a dinosaur! :)
Where is this? Looks very deserty...
August 23, 2010 - 12:47am
#12
I want a dinosaur where I work!!! That's the coolest thing I've ever seen XD
August 20, 2010 - 11:52am
#13
It's at a natural gas power station in Florida. Google "Power Plant Dinosaur Florida". :)
~Sticky
http://yfrog.com/8bmg5779j
(I cannot work out how to make the picture show...)
I'm a student, so my ‘cube’ is in my front room. I love having a designated working space - I have all my stationary to hand! (And I love stationary!) I make lots of crafty bits so that's all in the silver filling cabinet, with work documents in files on the brown shelves to the right.
I’ve only just started to learn bass and can’t play anything but it’s next to my desk for when I get bored with work.
Although my work space looks childish, I love colours and photos and they help keep me cheery when I’m working on tough assignments. =D
Another benefit of home working -got the hamster on the fold down dining table. Although he is nocturnal it’s nice having company when he wonders around in the day. =] He’s called Nox and is a Roborovski dwarf hamster. In the lounge is Wingardium Leviosa, Taiga and Toruh (Lumos died a few months ago) Nox and Wing are both male so are in separate cages but Taiga and Toruh live together. =]
Also, got good kitchen use and my technical engineer (aka boyfriend) has his work space upstairs so is always around when things crash... =/