So what’s in your office?

It’s a stunning day here in Reading and sitting here with the doors open, sunshine pouring into my office and the sound of birds twittering away has made me reflect on how lucky I am to be in this particular office at this moment 🙂 couple of summers ago mrsconsequence temped in an office which had no windows or ventilation all summer… i can’t imagine that!

A large pair of French doors – the other side of which – looking out at a well cared for and pleasant garden

Where my wife and unemployed daughter are busy sunning themselves and sipping wine whilst I have to listen to yet ANOTHER stupid yank on a conference call 👿
2 ‘kin hours and he still hasn’t come up for breath

my office is quite boring, but as the day goes on it gets hotter and hotter, I used to work with someone who’s office was sitting on a sun terrace in spain answering the phone every so often working off a lap top. i used to hate them!

I would love to have a job where i can work outside on nice days and inside on horrible days….but i think that is more wishful thinking

My office (also in Reading) contains various bored pepole who wish they were outside. We’ve a good view of A&E and even that’s failing ot entertain

Uplink – here’s to conferance calls:

A swedish man emptying my parts washer, and a half eaten roast chicken.

ok here goes:

2 of those office standard L shaped desks + 2 3-drawer units
lazerprinter/photocopier thingy
my computer
my netbook (shhhhh)
4 blue swivel chairs
coat stand
filing cabinet
medication cabinet
2 seater leather sofa
ensuite (toilet, shower and sink)
double patio doors opening onto the garden

the room is twice the size of the MD’s office, i’ve got twice as many desks as him and my own ensuite haha. i really can’t complain!

*rolls the chair back to soak up some sun through the doors again*

2 24″ monitors floating near my face, a fresh coffee on the side, a nice big yukka plant and sunshine creeping into my batcave… going to call it early today again and go for a ride at 3.

[smug]Even better at the end of May when I relocate to Morzine[/smug]

At the moment?

About 6 tables, a 25ft bar where I can get an espresso or cold beer (later!), and view of the Mediterranean.

If only I could finish this ‘king report 👿

looking forward to jedi’s “office” photos! 😀

Several computers, desks, a German bloke and a Kiwi bloke.

Despair, broken dreams, abandoned hope and a giant ticking clock.

Despair, broken dreams, abandoned hope and a giant ticking clock.

Brilliant.

4 desks, 3 pcs, NO windows/sunshine/birdsong

1 Irish bloke
1 English girl

2 broken printers
1 networked printer that none of us can print to (but others can – we don’t know who they are and they don’t know where our printer is 🙄 )
1 giant sharps bin

PILES AND PILES of crap – mostly generated by me*

*not real crap – I’ve been warned about that before

2 computers
lots of books
stereo system
fender strat
sg2000
marshall stack
spanish guitar
drawing board
lots of dvd’s
rc mini
rc impreza
boxes full of various bike bits
comfy chair
signed football
large Tie fighter
various model tanks and cars
lots and lots of CD’s

all squeezed into not much more than 7′ by 8’4″

A Hello Kitty coaster
A Barbie note pad
A piece of ‘Citrine’ (stone that wards off stuff…. like work)
A document on integrating social media
A finished bid document waiting for trustee approval
A very unloved Graze box

My wife seductivly eating a Creme Egg!

There’s nobody called Matt in here, but sucklingmatt just post a pic of my office.
Or somewhere equally as dull.

[edit]a Kiwi bloke – yeah I’ve got one of those too.

The Swede has now left, leaving a shiny parts washer, and scratched floor paint 👿 👿

Well a few servers, used to be more but I virtulised them all last year, still make an annoying ‘hmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm’ noise all day.

Kitchen worktop that is my desk that goes around the room. A load of printer cartridges, some IT spares / junk and currently my project for the Easter break is to convert the stack of VHS videos into digital format and setup a media server so they can be streamed to the classrooms on request.

I am now an expert in keeping clean, stop smoking, first aid, disabled children and body bugs!

However the highlight of my office is the ‘cool’ wall of pictures of my lovely daughter, my wife and my cheeky nephews.

I can glance across the ICT suite and see the blue skys outside but thats it for windows but to be fair monitors and light don’t mix well so comes with the job.

I can also see my road bike sat there waiting to be riden hard on the way home in the sun!

One tea break and an hour and half to go!!

blackberry, laptop, IP phone

all on my desk facing out of a floor to ceiling window looking onto the river. i’m 7 floors up so got a nice view of some yorkshire hills too.

i don’t want to turn around, because lurking behind me are 10ft high built in filing cupboards full of stuff that i really should be dealing with.

Nobody in the office and thats why in 2 mins all I’ll be able to see are the inside of my eyelids, I tend to fade away at this time of day, everyday

This is in our server room behind a locked door 😉

A very unloved Graze box

This is what you should use that for:

There are two wings on each floor of the building in which I work. I work on the second floor.

In my wing there are 88 desks, mostly populated, and 9 directors’ offices, half occupied.

There’s way too much stuff here for me to inventory for you lot..!

some of the random tat on the walls of my office

22 desks
10 computers
3 drawing boards
4 drawing chests
a freezer full of coffee and ice lollys
and 4 Scots guys

Six computers on six desks;
11 drawers worth of filing cabinets;
Lots of shelves, covered in stuff we never use;
A robot arm (broken).

Most of this could get thrown away and nobody would notice – my shelves are almost empty and I can’t remember when I last took anything out og my filing cabinet drawers.

1 desk/vivarium
2 bearded dragons
1 sofa, very large
1 baby, sleeping
tonnes of books.. paint.. ornaments.. bits of random looking stationary..
1 laptop
a furry blanket
an umbrella plant
a few flies
lots of sun
nice music
me

I’ll start with the good things!

My Bike!
Roland Drum Kit
Mini Photo Studio
Server & 3 PC’s
5 Printers
Photocopier
Fax Machine
Shredder (Not TMNT)
10 Filing Cabinets
5 Fans
Hifi
100’s of strange shaped knives
& 100’s of other things that shouldn’t be in the office
No windows, no fresh air, no sunshine.

My desk, this morning.

i have 4 lengths of steel and one of aluminium.

one of the bits of box section steel is painted a very fetching bluey colour. no-one knows who’s they are. i guess as i’ve been here longest then they are passed to me?

i wonder if there is a policy for ‘inheriting steel sections/ aluminium extrusions in the office environment’?

Like cougar’s, only smaller, with a fax machine, and swathes and swathes of samples of materials and textiles, with phone buried underneath them.

View from the office windows. Probably won’t be here much longer due to a lack of work coming in.