Couldn't you put blinds on the windows to keep the sun out on hot day?
I once lucked into a faculty office by virtue of being the most faculty-like staff person. It was in a converted tobacco warehouse and there was beautiful brick and giant timbers and 14' ceilings.
I need to ask more, but my impression is that the HVAC on that side of the building just can't keep up with the accumulated heat? If I had to guess, probably August-October is pretty bad, and then the rest of the year is fine.
(Probably June-July is bad too, but even if I'm on campus, I'm not trying to wear work clothes.)
Texas, sure, but this just makes me think that working from home is another world. Especially doing so at my current job while living in a city, where the only choices are home or a stuffy, poorly-lit cubicle.
I've had this home office setup with my personal and work computer side-by-side for most of a year now. (Actually since covid, but it was almost a year ago that I got a new desk and set up the guest bedroom better to be more office-like.) In recent weeks I've noticed productivity problems, so yesterday I moved my personal computer elsewhere, so I wouldn't be so tempted to do not-work stuff while working. While it helped, it also resulted in me coming here to Unfogged more on my work computer. Because this is black text on a white background, I've usually felt fine here on work computers, way back when I actually went to the office regularly. Every so often, though, I'm reminded that I shouldn't. For example, while I had this post up in one tab, I followed the link in this comment in another. Whoops.
Re: OP, sounds nice, heebie. If those are really the only factors, I guess I'd take option 3, but it's hard to imagine any of them just due to how alien they all are.
Teaching remotely is definitely worse than teaching in person.
Spacious and rectangular.
Spactangular.
Same length as mine, slightly wider
Spactangularer.
I really do feel weirdly embarrassed by #3. The old reverse-snobbery thing.
I mean it has to be option 3, surely. You don't want option 2 because of the heat issue - a nice office that gets unbearably hot every summer is not a nice office. So it's down to 1 or 3 and clearly 3 sounds nicer. Trust me when I say that you will rapidly become comfortable with the grandeur.
And also if you don't take it then one of your colleagues will and then *they'll* have to deal with crippling grandeur-induced embarrassment, so really you'd be flinging yourself on that grenade. They should thank you.
I feel myself pulled to Office #2, and I can't tell if it's just because I adore that colleague and he's got it laid out so serenely and peacefully that I imagine it to be some calming chapel of chill. Whereas #1 and #3 have less chill in their decorating schemes.
I really see the appeal of moving into a beloved colleague's office. I guess it's the wrong time of year to really check it out, but have you experienced directly the heat office 2? What does your colleague think about the temperature in that office?
#3. You'll feel more motivated to redecorate the office in your own style if you don't feel attached to the way it is presently, as with #2.
Speaking of windows and universities, they are putting a whole new glass addition on the front of Hillman Library and I'm not sure I like it. It takes away from Hillman's deep commitment to being ugly.
15: In the University Up North that I attended for undergrad the library was so ugly that it was called the UGLI.
I'm slightly embarrassed by the grandeur.
heebie, I think it's time to overcome this and realize that you deserve all that grandeur and more.
16: No way! That was the same joke as at my school!
(Which I totally had forgotten about until your comment.)
Go presidential! (#3). And if you have tenure, you can let them see your screen. Drink up those windows.
21: Yes! The University of Michigan. Known in Columbus, Ohio as "that university up north" because the rivalry between the football teams is so intense that good Buckeyes won't even say "University of Michigan".
(reposted from Standpipe's blog)
15: In the University Up North that I attended for undergrad the library was so ugly that it was called the UGLI.
It ain't got no alibi.
If this was a scenario I was GMing, office 3 would definitely be cursed. Have you done a quick Spot Trap check?
It's true that the current resident is currently doing extremely poorly!
I may contribute to a stressful environment, yes. (Actually he has cancer.)
Heebie can't help that she's smokin'. That's just how God made her.
Yesterday I visited an elderly aunt that I hadn't seen in decades. She was married to my dad's brother, but he died over thirty years ago and she had grown kids from a prior marriage so we lost touch. Obviously, you don't go meeting white people without wondering what their politics are, but the visit went well enough. She texted the next day about her son, who is running for office (not MP) in the U.K. with a link to his campaign. I was thinking, this is where it hits. But no. He's Labour.
That's just how God made her.
IYKWIMAITYD
"Apparently it gets pretty hot, though, in that side of things."
Wow, I'm jealous! I switched departments the same year my new department left its old mold-ridden quarters for offices in a building that nursing has partly vacated, so I went from 100 square feet + window in a run-down building to 110 square feet but no window in a different run-down building. The extra 10 square feet is nice but I miss having a window. At least this building's elevator breaks down less frequently, and sometimes the nurses let us use their nicer communal spaces. I'm also fairly certain all of the buildings previously mentioned have mold problems.
In short, definitely office #3.
Heebie can't help that she's smokin'. That's just how God made her.
Offend both women and the French with your "JOAN OF ARC HAD A SMOKIN HOT BODY" baseball cap
Ladies! Offend both men and the Czechs with your "JAN HUS HAD A SMOKIN HOT BODY" T-shirt
I'm not sure why, but I'm taken with your description of #2. Get a strong desk fan for September - that gets me through the summer in my insufficiently cooled office.