What's your work place like?

Two*True

When I read your posts I have little mental images of each Nestie and her work/desk/home or wherever she is posting from. So I wonder how close to correct I am?  What's your work space like?

 

Mine? My office is fairly large I guess...11x 15 ish.  The walls are a really light yellow and the carpet is typical multicolor office carpet. The door has my name and title on it and my desk takes up one entire wall.  I hate where my desk is placed but it's not the type I can move around.  I have two large window that take up one wall and give me lots of sun light (when NY has sun).  Right now the windows are open in the attemp to get some heat in here as I'm always freezing. I have a few wedding pictures in frames and a multicolor rubberband ball.

cookiemonster03

I have a pretty big low-walled cube in the back of an office with two cubes and a front desk (that is never occupied).  We have a wall of filing cabinets. There's a full-wall window behind me. The carpet is office grey and the walls are white. The nice offices next door have, you know, offices with doors and are yellow. Sigh.

I need a new job. With a door.

I have two monitors and a wedding photo on my desk amid all my junk (aka work)

Mrs._F

My office takes up a few floors of a high rise, and for the most part is pretty open, and though mostly tan, pretty pleasant. 

I have a tan cube with an L shaped desk.  The side walls are low, and the back is high (faces a high traffic area).  I'm outside of the president's corner office, and behind me is a little sitting area with arm chairs and a coffee table our "living room" with a large window that looks out at the Zakim bridge.

I have some pictures from travels tacked up, two framed pictures of me and C, and a little ipod dock.  My desk is always neat.

This isn't my exact view, but this is the bridge:

ctbride08

My space is fairly small....maybe 8x10?  With a big L-shaped desk that runs the full length of one wall and about half of the rest (my monitor is in the crook of the L).  Behind me are floor to ceiling windows from which I can see almost the entire city.  They dont open - they'd be too afraid someone would jump.  I have a name plate hanging outside and i treasure that thing b/c it was like pulling teeth to get a new one with my married name.  The carpet is a dark blue/gray speckled; typical office carpeting.

My walls have lots of shelves filled with account policy binders.  I also have a calendar and my various licenses and diplomas hung.  The rest of my spaces is taken up by a chair for visitors and file cabinets full of files and misc. documents (arranged neatly and alphabetically, of course).  On my desk there are a couple picture frames, a set of law books, a phone, pen organizer, a plant, and currently a ton of papers all spread out, but those will be picked up by the end of the day - i can never ever leave with a piece of paper out on my desk.  At the moment one corner of my office is taken up by a huge stack of policies that's driving me crazy...i actually came into work this weekend to chip away at the stack b/c it was givign me heartburn.

so how close is this to what you pictured?? lol

2brides

I work in a hospital - more specificially one of the clinics in the hospital. It is NOT a clean sterile place. LOL.

 My office is small - 8x10, MAYBE. I have modular furniture with an L shaped desk. How my computer is set up, my back it to the door (UGH) My desk is always a mess of papers, pens, binders, more paper, and junk.  I have a large filing cabinet on my other wall, a small table with my very own printer (big deal around here!) and 2 standard waiting room type chairs and a tiny Ikea table with a light on it that doesn't work. I have some "art" on the walls - 1) fun watercolory print that says, "May Your life me like a wildflower - growing freely in the beauty and joy of each day." 2) a print from the Velveteen Rabbit "When a child loves you for a long long time then you become real." 3) a series of tiny prints of little flowers in various colors from Ikea 4) a cork board filled with pictures of the boys and an HRC sticker.  I also have a wedding picture framed and framed pictures of the boys on the filing cabinet.   The previous occupant asked the painters to do something different so my nasty off-white walls have a really cute wavy pink border at the top. I love it. I don't have a window.

The carpet is beyond nasty - I am the only space in the clinic with carpet and there is no vaccuum to be had. I think it is a heath hazard. I finally got them to agree to pull up the carpet and tile the floor. I just need to get them to bring a dumpster so I can clean out my office - yes, it'll take a dumpster. I am purging  5.5 years worth of stuff.

 So, while my office is pretty gross and dreary, I am thankful to have my own office. I am the only social worker (aside from my manager) to have my own office.

seattlekari

My office is in an old wing of the hospital...read: light gray paint and specked tile floors....BUT I have my own private bathroom!!!  My desk is L-shaped in one corner facing the door.  One wall is mostly covered with shelving holding all the binders and things for my research study patients.  In the middle of that wall is a table for me to meet with patients (and/or stack more crap when I'm busy like I am right now).  On my desk and the shelf above I have several pics of my daughter, my girl and me and the first photo of us taken with our kids from Easter of this year (getting 2 toddlers to smile and look at the camera at the same time...priceless!!!)  Behind me are windows that look out on the south part of downtown Seattle and on a clear day I have a killer view of Mt. Rainier.  If my desk faced that way I wouldn't get a darn thing done...

Two*True

ctbride08:

so how close is this to what you pictured?? lol

Pretty much.  I knew you were in a tall building so I figured you'd have a nice view. You also seem like the type that would have your diplomas on the wall and it makes sense for your work environment (not so much mine). :-)

ETA: I hope this didn't come off wrong.  I know education is important to you so it makes sense you are proud of your degrees. And in your field I'm sure it gives you credibility. KWIM?

thiswillbe

My office is probably 15x18 or so. Three of the walls are office white, and one wall is glass (looks out over my staff's cubicles) with a solid white door. I don't have any windows. I have an L-shaped desk with a monster of a printer (that I am of course very grateful to have, even though it takes up a good chunk of desk space), my computer, and phone. Above one length of the desk there is a shelf (it's a hutch from the old modular furniture that came with us when we moved to this new building).

Sylvia and I reorganized all the furniture when I inherited this office, so my computer screen faces the interior of the office and my body faces my door/glass wall. I have 2 big armchairs as guest chairs on the opposite side of my desk, against the glass wall.

On the other wall there is a big table with some tiny and consequentially very nonfunctional filing cabinets on wheels underneath, and another little hutch.

I currently have piles of paper everywhere. I am to the point where I really need to do something about the filing situation, because most of the papers could be filed if I had anywhere to file them. Even though I know (more or less) what is in each pile, I think I look disorganized to people who come in to my office.

I don't have anything up on the walls other than a whiteboard (inherited) and some boring black and white government-issue calendars (2009 and 2010). I don't have any personal photos or art up on the walls or on my desk. Not really on purpose, I've just been too busy to worry about it. Everyone always comments about my walls being bare, though, so maybe eventually I'll do something about it.

berriesnpie

My office is kinda bland corporate meets hippie chick. It's medium-sized, big enough for my desk, four chairs, 2 bookshelves and wooden stool from Ghana. We're on the ground floor, so the window behind me is frosted on the bottom to block the lovely view of an alley. Opposite the outside window is the door, next to a window to the hall. My desk faces the door and is completely covered with papers. A total mess. Photos from travels up on the walls, and a map and big pieces of  fabric. I've got coupley pictures and photos of friends on the windowsill and shelf.

leapgirl8

It's an interior (so, windowless) office in one of those awful government buildings built in the 60s that was basically just poured concrete, trying to look like Brutalist architecture and failing to achieve even that poor standard. Cheap but serviceable wooden furniture. 

It's a fairly large space, although I'm bad at guessing distance so I won't even try. I have a largish rectangle desk and a small bookshelf right next to it to form an L. I keep my phone on the top of the bookshelf and keep my most frequently-consulted books (FOIA guide, CFR, etc.) on that bookshelf so they're close at hand. Then I have a useless credenza against the other wall and I keep my more current/active files there. Finally I have a large, wide wooden file cabinet against the wall nearest the door. Two drawers have files in it, one is empty and one has my gym clothes and extra shoes in it. 

Despite how absolutely dreary it all sounds, I have a lot of fun, bright stuff in my office and I actually really like it I have a HUGE poster print of Jaspers Johns' Map (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Jasper_Johns's_'Map',_1961.jpg) that covers most of one wall, and a very large brown and white painting that my aunt made hanging on the opposite wall. I also have a large white Jumping Point calendar near the door. On top of the file cabinet I have a weird collection of stuff - a (real) taxidermied badger my grandpa trapped and stuffed in the 1930s, a foot-tall white marble version of Winged Victory, a cast of my teeth that my dentist took last year and gave me (he was going to throw it away), a tiny chess set, and a huge origami ball made out of 30 pieces of paper that my friend Joanna made me in red, yellow, and blue to match Map. Then on my desk I have a little collection of toys - a teeny origami ball made out of 30 teeny pieces of paper; sushi erasers; dessert erasers; a small yoyo; and gold glitter silly putty. So it's a very cheerful place, despite the beige walls and boring furniture

 

rikkiandjulie

I work at a Photography Studio. However, I typically log in from our rooms at Julie's parents house.

It's an average sized bedroom. Her mom has a large bed that has the head board, and built in dresser thing does anyone follow? It's totally 1980! We also have our large TV on top of a bookshelf! With our WII and other electronics below it. Raph's crate sits to the left of the bed. We have a closet full of our clothes, and other goodies. We have a baby gate on our door, so that our dog doesn't get out when we sleep. Julie's mom has 6 cats. . . .  it's cramped but comfortable. I'll see if i can find a picture of the bed, it's seriously amusing to me that her mom still has it!

bluedaisyus

my office is huge. i actually have the largest of three, the other two are meant to be one-person and mine has two desks, but the other desk has been empty for over a year.

the walls are off-white and the floor is generic green/tan/maroon speckled office carpeting. i have a u-shaped grey modular desk with two overhead bins, my computer, a fish tank, and piles of paper everywhere that i'm continually trying to clean up. there are quite a few filing cabinets along the walls, and a round table in the middle of the room that we rarely use--my boss has one in his office, too, so we use that when we have meetings and the one in my office is generally just used when staff come in to wait for appointments or when i do new employee orientations.

our area used to be part of the school infirmary so we all have our own small private bathrooms, and i have one-way glass looking in that i have a big calendar hung on to block people from being able to just see in. there's a whole wall of windows in my office that lets in a lot of light and look out onto a big field and the recreation building. i keep trying to figure out how i could rearrange my desk so i can actually see out of them when i'm working but so far nothing has worked with my computer, so they're behind me.