Tag: office space
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Evacuation Desperation
At work, we are in the middle of a critical (to me…) stage in the project – training development. It’s now the training team’s time to shine, and because all of the prior activities (build, data loading, testing) have over-run their time, we’re being really squeezed on how much time we have left to deliver everything they made us promise we would have done by now. So it’s long hours, unrealistic deadlines, and frayed tempers. Luckily this is all old hat to a seasoned project resource such as myself, so this is the perfect time to put into play the… Read more
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New Adventures in Cubeland
I just started a new job. This is for the same company, just on a new project (my fifth SAP implementation…), and meant another office move. Up to now, every change of project has meant a change of continent (Belgium > Singapore > U.S.A > Belgium > U.S.A) so I was relieved this time to only move to a new building on the same ‘campus’ (as they like to call it, to make you feel like you’re back in college). But what a difference. This new location is more of a change than any of the previous moves. I was previously… Read more
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Dress Code: Indifference
When I left Europe last year, as part of my move-induced personal property purge, I threw out seven or eight suits that had seen better days. A couple of these had worn out years previously, I just couldn’t bear to part with them (hey, these were all Paul Smith, and I was very attached to them). But the others all seemed to wear out around the same time (regardless of how long I’d had them for), and all in the same place (the arse). It took me a while to figure this out, but I think it was caused by… Read more
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“I have one word for you…plastic.”
Outside of my office block there are a couple of uncomfortable-looking, ugly, grey concrete benches that seem to have been provided for the sole purpose of giving the smokers somewhere to sit during their frequent company-sanctioned absences from work. Not being a smoker, I’ve never taken advantage of them, but now that the weather has warmed up a little, I thought I’d go and sun myself after lunch (and get skin-cancer at the same time I get lung-cancer from passive smoking…). As I sat down, however, I make a startling discovery – they are not concrete at all! They are… Read more