The office of the future sucks!

[KurtNYC]

So we just moved into a new office building where we could finally unify all of our local ~3000 employees under on roof. This building opened for business 3 months ago.

We are 20 years into the PC world and yet the desk heights are still 36" -- about 3 inches too high for your keyboard or typing on a notebook. You can't push your monitor far enough back because there is a little shelf in the way.

There is very little drawer space since "everything is on computer" (except all the stuff that gets printed out these days, hello). There are no fax machines since "you can do that directly from the system" -- except for documents you mark up during discussions. There are no typewriters which would produce FedEx labels people could read accurately.

The pantry has trash cans embedded in the wall and not near where people are making up their coffee. So people drip all the way across the floor and around a blind corner just to throw things away.

But the worst is they have flat panel TVs everywhere that blare CNN all freakin day long. Many of these are close enough to co-workers that they have to hear that crap constantly. I guess our employer wants us to think about the Scott Peterson trial constantly.

[sui generis]

1. would have to hurl myself from the triple glazed safety glass window /nt

[4morewars]

4. Except you can't open them.......n/t

[bif]

2. You mean, the office of today suckes!

I hate cubes. Period. I'll never get used to it.

[LSparkle]

3. When we moved ...

I noticed that in the office kitchen, the paper towel roll is right over ... A TOASTER OVEN! Yeah, great, drip water on the electric appliance, watch the light show ... And to think some people earn the big bucks to design these spaces!

[crispini]

5. Get that universal tv-turner-offer gadget

and go around stealthily turning them off. You'd be an unknown hero.

[KurtNYC]

6. I'd feel like Robert DeNiro's character in the movie Brazil

The outlaw repair man.

"ducts"

[crispini]

7. Best. Movie. Ever.

Hee! the outlaw tv-turner-offer......

[RPM]

8. the office of the present sucks.... n/t

[BigMcLargehuge]

9. I don't get the desk height thing either

and keyboard drawers almost universally do not accomodate ergonomic boards!

[BrewerJohn]

10. Those TVs would mysteriously acquire rock-sized holes

through them if I worked there. Seriously.
I mean, there are limits.
And everyone has to work late now and then, right?
Oops, you say the alarm system logs all our exits, so you
know who was last to leave last night?
Crap.