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My company is in the process of moving to a bigger space a few blocks down the street. There's been a lot of packing and move-logistics foo over the last few days, making it harder to continue to get work done. (I was chided for doing a build finishing at 11:50 against a noon shut-down.)
I saw the new space today for the first time since it was a vast unfinished area. It's kind of funky, but should be fairly nice in most ways when it's finished. (There are still unfinished bits, because no construction project is ever done on time.) There are a couple things that elicited the (silent) reaction of "heaven please save us from designers", but oh well. Most notable in this category is running a checkered carpet at an angle in rectangular rooms, giving the impression that the walls are at angles other than 90 degrees. Non-rectangular rooms would not be out of place in this company, but that's not what the advance diagrams showed.
The work spaces are smaller than I had been given to understand, by about two feet in both directions. I hope things fit the way I want them to, but I suspect they won't. We'll see.
More people than I initially expected will be affected by my need for a darker work area; I hope that doesn't pose a problem. Or we might hang curtains or something. Must consult "office"-mate and the aesthetics police. (Our "office" has walls on three sides, high but not to the ceiling, and is open on the fourth side. Only people at the director level rate real walls and doors.) They chose white light throughout; I find yellow to be much easier on the eyes. We'll fix that in my immediate area, though there's nothing I can do about public areas. It's mostly indirect light, at least, and I didn't notice a pronounced fluorescent flicker today.
I feel bad for our IT people, who are going to be working all weekend (I suspect) to get everything back up before Monday morning. I guess you know about that sort of thing when you take an IT job, but it still sounds like a hassle. I hope they get some time away next week to compensate -- but not on Monday. :-)
I saw the new space today for the first time since it was a vast unfinished area. It's kind of funky, but should be fairly nice in most ways when it's finished. (There are still unfinished bits, because no construction project is ever done on time.) There are a couple things that elicited the (silent) reaction of "heaven please save us from designers", but oh well. Most notable in this category is running a checkered carpet at an angle in rectangular rooms, giving the impression that the walls are at angles other than 90 degrees. Non-rectangular rooms would not be out of place in this company, but that's not what the advance diagrams showed.
The work spaces are smaller than I had been given to understand, by about two feet in both directions. I hope things fit the way I want them to, but I suspect they won't. We'll see.
More people than I initially expected will be affected by my need for a darker work area; I hope that doesn't pose a problem. Or we might hang curtains or something. Must consult "office"-mate and the aesthetics police. (Our "office" has walls on three sides, high but not to the ceiling, and is open on the fourth side. Only people at the director level rate real walls and doors.) They chose white light throughout; I find yellow to be much easier on the eyes. We'll fix that in my immediate area, though there's nothing I can do about public areas. It's mostly indirect light, at least, and I didn't notice a pronounced fluorescent flicker today.
I feel bad for our IT people, who are going to be working all weekend (I suspect) to get everything back up before Monday morning. I guess you know about that sort of thing when you take an IT job, but it still sounds like a hassle. I hope they get some time away next week to compensate -- but not on Monday. :-)