Does the sun shine through the window?
What was the process?
1: I don't know. I only saw the office for about a minute, while the current occupant politely made me feel unwelcome.
The window faces northeast, I think.
Now I feel unloved because my office is maybe 10 by 6.
I honestly can't remember. It was decent sized.
I had the choice of a slightly larger office but wanted the view I have from mine.
Logically you can't both face the window and have your computer screen cpletely hidden from the door, because they are on opposite walls. Maybe have your desk oriented diagonally so that you are sitting facing towards the top left of the map. That way anyone looking through the door will see your screen side-on, and you can still look through the window.
You could have your desk at the top right looking left; you'd have to turn to look out the window, though, and it might be unpleasant to have your back against the wall.
I'm running here, but could you use a largish mirror to reflect the window? Like at right angles to the existing window?
Oooh, I like 10 too. It would also amplify the light.
Standing desk atop a very slowly revolving podium. Add a fog machine and underneath lighting you can illuminate all at once when a student opens the door and live like a legend.
Now I'm thinking I put an L-shaped desk along wall AB. Computer desk faces the wall, planning desk faces wall CD. Wall CD has a mirror which splits the angle between me and the window, thus giving me the actual view which can't be physically realized by a body.
So you would have your desk on wall C-D directly under the window, with the mirror in front of you?
That would also work, but it's more likely to give me a reflection of the brick wall.
I prefer 15 for reducing neck turning, though.
Okay, 15 with four mirrors. One in corner C, along wall CD. One on wall AB, near corner A. The third along wall AD, to bounce the view to my eyes. Ok, three mirrors. Maybe the fourth on the ceiling.
I misread 15, I was thinking wall BC. Desk along BC, facing the door, with entire office in chrome and mirrors.
Does the window open enough for you to reach out and hang a mirror on the stupid divider thing?
What about having a grading desk along the window wall, so when you're doing paperwork you're facing the window, and a computer desk oriented parallel to CD so that your back to the window. You're not facing the window all the time, but part of the time you are, your screen is hidden from the door, and your two work stations are 180° apart so you have to turn purposefully to switch rather than craning your neck.
Sorry, parallel to BC. I wasn't looking at the diagram while I was writing.
No desk at all. Just beanbag chairs. Use a tablet. Get a disco ball, though.
21 is probably the way to go. Then where should I put the mirrors? I think corner C and along AB. It will be like a billiard table of light.
Balance chairs for everyone. Standing desks. Walking desks. Houseplants.
I felt stupid for being unable to figure out how heebie was assigning vertex names. Then I thought heebie had stupidly forgotten to write up the assignment she had in her head. Then I reloaded the page with images on, et voilà! Heebie clever, mossy stupid.
I bet that was fascinating for you all. Anyway, one long desk parallel to BA, mirrors on CD.
29: You think you're boring; I'm just delighted that everyone is engaging with my office layout.
Actually, I was subtly criticizing you for embedding an image, rather than painfully converting it into a description suitable for the garden of pure plaintext the internet ought to be.
31 Yeah, should have been able to do that in ASCII. For old times' sake.
32- I remember that puzzle from the Enchanter text game. Don't release the ancient spirit of evil, Heebie!
(Back briefly) I like the parallel desks in 21. Then you're not half-seeing the work you're not engaged with, and you get a deliberate change of view. Or what 21 said.
| | | | B----[window]C | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | A[door]------D
35 Gave me a bit of a start when I saw that in the Latest Comments bar.
The great thing about a mirror (other than making the place seem bigger and sunnier) is that you'll occasionally catch glimpses of yourself out of the corner of your eye and freak out just a little.
And we can write doppelganger fanfic.
Glad to see people are fixing your office problems! Mine is that I'm in an old building and the floor has a 3 degree slant. Pens literally roll off my desk. Nevertheless, there is nothing in academia like the drama created by office changes and who gets which office decisions. Tell us more about the process--was it pure seniority?
39: your office may have been holed below the waterline. Check the basement. In the short term, counterflooding will deal with the list; consider sending postgraduates down in diving suits to patch the holes. Or just holding their breath.
If you don't want visitors to see you reading Unfogged you could always rig up some strobe lights to go off when your door is opened.
A simple curtain or bed sheet could be used to turn half your office into a foyer.
Tell us more about the process--was it pure seniority?
More or less. The two best offices were intended to be probably president and vice president offices originally, and then the rest of us have support staff dinky offices.
I did get bumped to second-to-last for reasons that are varied.
The part that makes me annoyed is that the people with great windows have said "The building gets so hot, you have to keep your blinds drawn," and are asking for blinds to be put in. And judging on their current offices, they will in fact keep the blinds drawn the entire time.
once we figure out heebie's office, can I wear a leather suit to an interview? I feel like this question is office-adjacent.
Also 21 is right. Also a good trick for fidgeting AND back pain is putting your feet on a skateboard under your desk.
So grading desk along BC, computer desk in middle of room facing opposite it, all surfaces mirrored, dozens of skateboards.
47: A google image search for "woman leather suit" tells me the answer is "sorry what was the question?"
49 sounds like the setting for some weird futuristic sport in a 1970s science fiction film. Almost certainly played with badly rotoscoped laser guns while wearing leather suits.
I grow old, I grow old. I shall wear the bottoms of my gimp suit rolled.
It's a thin velvety black leather, to be fair--very drapey--but to be reverse fair um it's a still leather suit, C. I wore my other suit to the last round though! But maybe if you can't handle me at my leather suit you don't deserve me in my MODT smock.
Lawyers are known for their adventurous sense of style, right? Show them your chops.
Yeah tbh I maybe kind of need to come in full throttle like a leather suit talking about strategies for defending gang leaders convicted under urban warfare statutes, because I talk *exactly* the way you'd imagine I talk based on my persona here (or google kether donahue). It's like how you have to shank someone as soon as you get in prison or whatever.
I know next to nothing about getting hired but 55 last sounds right.
If you go with the leather suit, you need to also light up a cigarette in the middle of the interview.
Instead of a hanging sheet, you could use one of those standing screen room divider doohickeys.
46--it's ALWAYS about who gets windows! At least you got one, a window, even if it's not ideally placed. Good luck with your desk placement!