view from my new office
Sep. 23rd, 2006 07:56 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
tagrynWell, pretty close to what it will look like when we move in on Monday if the weather is clear. Fairly nice view of the top half of the Washington Monument*, should be able to see more (perhaps even the top of the Capital building) once the trees lose their leaves.
New, clean building! Hoody-hoo! I don't have a window view - those are reserved by seniority, of which I have none - but am next to the window ones, so should still get a fair amount of ambient light. I'm also not going to be on the outermost cubicle, which suits me just fine, since it means less distraction from the foot traffic flow as it goes by.
On the downside, I'm taking a wait-and-see as to how bad the lack of privacy will turn out to be. We're moving from contained cubicles to ones based on the Open Office concept which is currently the hot trend among people who design work spaces. Rumor has it one of the folks from outside our workgroup who I'm situated next to is addicted to taking every external call on her speakerphone. That could get old very quickly, if it turns out to be true.
* - and it may be the paranoid in me, but I'm glad there's a big hill between us and the Mall, given it is the most likely Ground Zero for any nuke attack on D.C.
New, clean building! Hoody-hoo! I don't have a window view - those are reserved by seniority, of which I have none - but am next to the window ones, so should still get a fair amount of ambient light. I'm also not going to be on the outermost cubicle, which suits me just fine, since it means less distraction from the foot traffic flow as it goes by.
On the downside, I'm taking a wait-and-see as to how bad the lack of privacy will turn out to be. We're moving from contained cubicles to ones based on the Open Office concept which is currently the hot trend among people who design work spaces. Rumor has it one of the folks from outside our workgroup who I'm situated next to is addicted to taking every external call on her speakerphone. That could get old very quickly, if it turns out to be true.
* - and it may be the paranoid in me, but I'm glad there's a big hill between us and the Mall, given it is the most likely Ground Zero for any nuke attack on D.C.
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Date: 2006-09-24 07:46 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2006-09-24 09:42 pm (UTC)The laptops have pretty strong encryption on them AFAIK & the respondent data from interviews is downloaded then scrubbed every night, so the loss is more gov't property going missing than a repeat of the VA incident. There's a definite paranoid about that happening, which is a good thing to have among the data's guardians.