That's not a cube. That's a wall.
Well, two sides were just a little higher than the desk, and the third was higher with the storage unit and whatever.
Aren't they something. They're like butterflies, or little pieces of wrapping paper blowing around.
Kaylee ,'Shindig'
Natter 57 Varieties
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
Jesse - Mar 21, 2008 11:30:57 am PDT #6581 of 10001
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
Glamcookie - Mar 21, 2008 11:31:29 am PDT #6582 of 10001
I know my own heart and understand my fellow man. But I am made unlike anyone I have ever met. I dare to say I am like no one in the whole world. - Anne Lister
we have soji screens to function as doors
Cool! We kid about putting up shower curtains.
Daisy Jane - Mar 21, 2008 11:33:50 am PDT #6583 of 10001
"This bar smells like kerosene and stripper tears."
While we've been in temp space people have come up with some interesting improvized cubes. I've seen shower curtains, funky colored fabric, screens, bookshelves, pvc pipe with tabbed curtains, even one of those metal foldy tent things decorated with fairy lights.
Theodosia - Mar 21, 2008 11:41:25 am PDT #6584 of 10001
'we all walk this earth feeling we are frauds. The trick is to be grateful and hope the caper doesn't end any time soon"
Sounds like there are smart and valid reasons to go with an ARM, if the circumstances are right.
I was truly shocked by how much money I would have qualified for in a mortgage and that was nearly 8 years ago now. Happily, I lucked into a house where I wanted to live for a price that let me get a mortgage that I could reasonably hope to pay even if I lost my job, at least for a while (as I'm now proving).
Memo to self: Real Estate, not for the foolish.
§ ita § - Mar 21, 2008 11:43:00 am PDT #6585 of 10001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Okay, next job? I want interesting seating arrangements. Where in the cover letter does that go?
Matt the Bruins fan - Mar 21, 2008 11:47:11 am PDT #6586 of 10001
"I remember when they eventually introduced that drug kingpin who murdered people and smuggled drugs inside snakes and I was like 'Finally. A normal person.'” —RahvinDragand
Have I mentioned how sick I am of the gale force winds this winter? Cause I am, most sincerely. I know Boston is a windy city - windier than Chicago I've heard, but this winter it's seemed even more so. Do other area-istas feel the same, or is it just my tolerance that's decreasing.
Frank, the second time I went to Boston ('98 or '99, I think), I was walking downtown with some friends when the wind whipped my scarf away from me and made it take off into the night sky like a kite, never to be seen again.
I've occupied my current corner office (great view, lousy insulation) for most of the past 19 years, except for one span in the late 90s when I gave it up to photo managers and shared a room with the Linotronic and work sink.
meara - Mar 21, 2008 11:48:39 am PDT #6587 of 10001
Yeah, it's sad that you can't really base a job decision on the little things that would make you so much happier day-to-day in a job. Like having a good cube/office/window or whatever. Good coffee. Nice lunch options. Coworkers that are good to talk to about non-work stuff. Stuff like that.
sarameg - Mar 21, 2008 11:50:03 am PDT #6588 of 10001
Not across from the mens room. Not sharing a wall with the standpipe (my god, when they flush that thing, it is like being inside a jet engine. )
Lee - Mar 21, 2008 11:50:14 am PDT #6589 of 10001
The feeling you get when your brain finally lets your heart get in its pants.
Darn you able to leavers!!!
Seriously. I was all excited about how it finally got to be after lunch time on Friday, but then I got to the people are leaving posts.
§ ita § - Mar 21, 2008 11:54:27 am PDT #6590 of 10001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Nice lunch options.
You can bet your allowance that came into play in my last job hunt. Okay, sure, it's nowhere near practical and I didn't get the gig with the good lunch, but I do get wistful every now and again.
One of the times when I was jobhunting with no urgency I asked an interviewer about the work-from-home policy. I was told sharply by my recruiter (guess word got back fast) to never do that again. Enh. That's me working from a position not of desperation. The distance that job was from home, and the headaches I was having? It was a huge deal, not something that we could work out once I'd been there a while and they'd come to trust me. It shouldn't be seen as a sign of laziness or evasiveness, though.