Okay…I come under the ‘sucks most’ category…
note the Elvis picture and broken window section…but note the Aeron chair, G5 PowerMac and G4 Powerbook…a mix of the sucks with the cool…to be hoenst I’m going to re-decorate this year so it’ll look a lot better eventually…
When doing my reports, I work out of my basement office. My dog is asleep under my desk right now, so that’s pretty cool.
When working in the feild, my office is usually a big, black burned out hole of a building which is kind of a cool place to work as long as it’s not your building. The caveat to that is working in the middle of a February night at -30 deg. C, ice everywhere, cold to the bone. That aint cool, it’s just damn cold.
All in all I think my workplace is alright.
J
Oh Yeah, and my bike trainer is ten feet away. No Excuses for me!!
Coolest, We have Foosball Tables, We have pool tables. We have a full service gym, no pool though. We have cable in every room and during the tour they pipe in OLN. They give me a van and pay for the gas for my commute. I could go on.
Thinking I was the master of Fung Shue (however you spell it) I designed and had built a custom workspace in our store. It is built into the wall of the office. I wanted minimal desk space so I had minimal area for crap to pile up. As much as possible, we are trying to go paperless. From an ergonomic standpoint, my workspace is pretty good. I can reach everything at least, but my chair sucks and I am too cheap to buy a new one.
One problem with my workspace (an advantage too I guess) is its proximity to the sales floor.
Something that just floors me is when people just stroll into my office when I am typing a million words a minute, waiting on a customer on line, answer an e-mail or working on a writing project, and they just interupt me. How rude is that?
but my chair sucks and I am too cheap to buy a new one.
For the last two years I have been using a green plastic lawn chair for my work desk. However, after long runs my back would hurt as soon as I sat down. This weekend I went to Walmart and got this sweet new “leather” desk chair with lumbar support for $49.95. It is a nice looking black chairs with rollers and it is very comfortable. You should go check one out for yourself…
Coolest, sort of. My school is just outside of Boulder, CO with a huge chunk of property, a view of the Flatirons and nobody to really bother me during the day. The only thing is that I have to teach two middle school P.E. classes outside of my academic subjects. This, quite possibly, could be my form of personal hell.
My basement has windows, one right over my desk. It’s my “cave” as well. I tell the kids, if they need me, they can find me in the “Batcave”.
J
Mine is cool. I don’t have a chair to complain about, everything is padded, and I get to run around barefoot.
Oh, and when I have a bad day I can stay late and hit things.
Your desk is sitting by that doorway and people want to talk to the cool guy.
jaretj
30 Espresso and cappuccino machines running non stop - free coffee, hot chocolate etc.
Brand new 50,000 sq ft facility - Saeco Team bike in my office (for display purposes) - loads of signed Saeco team jerseys on the walls and a couple of pics of Lance Time Trialing at the 2003 tour.
I’m happy - and continually buzzed.
Oh yeah - the job rocks too
Feb thru June/July
In the office looking out! Only two students but more often averages 4-6.
I share an office with 15 women and one other chap - they are all middle aged die hard moaners who are continually wandering why they are overweight and single but think nothing of shovelling untold calories down their chubby necks and watch tv. Topics of discussion today were water retention, spray on tans and what type of dog can you own that requires no walking.
No wonder I spend so much time on here !
ps thanks for keeping me sane
My office is my entire house now that I have wireless internet! Of course some days I play on the internet too much and have to force myself to go into the field and encounter actual humans 
My roaming office is a 04 Chevy Tahoe, also very cool IMO. I’m sure to get flamed by environmentalists, but I can put my bikes into the back w/ no disassembly.
Hey, y’all. I’ve been lurking long enough and figured this would be as good a place as any to pipe up and say, “Hi!” Can’t say my workplace is the greatest - a windowless office in front of a computer all day, for the most part. Nice thing is that I leave at 3 in the pm. My wife, on the other hand, works in what has to be one of the coolest places - a major arena. The capabilities of the building itself are amazing as far as what it’s able to accomodate, not to mention who one might see walking down the hallway at any given time.
At any rate, glad to be here. Looks like there’s a lot of helpful advice.
I am envious. I seriously considered doing your job for awhile after my divorce several years back. Was offered a position in the Caribbean as a dive instructor and boat captain. Pay wasn’t great but there was a free room at the resort. Just as well I didn’t go because that winter a hurricane seriously damaged the resort and dive operation.
How are the reefs? Did the tsunami do any damage to them?
Cerveloguy, bad damage to the reefs according to an article I read. Let me see if i can find it.
Tsunami May Have Damaged Coral Reefs
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By PAUL RECER, AP Science Writer
WASHINGTON - The tsunami that took a heavy toll in human life also battered Indian Ocean coral reefs that already were in distress from pollution and global warming, possibly causing damage that will require decades to recover, experts say.
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Scientists have yet to conduct a complete survey of damage to the coral reefs from the tsunami, but experts fear that some of the Earth’s most spectacular coral formations may carry scars from the killer wave for many years.
Tom Hourigan, a coral reef expert for the National Marine Fisheries Service, said that coral formations throughout the Indian Ocean were severely damaged by El Nino warming in 1997 and 1998 and were just beginning to recover when they were slammed by the tsunami last month.
“It is very likely that the tsunami would damage the coral and some of the worst damage would come from debris thrown up against the reefs,” said Hourigan.
He said the shallow reefs along hundreds of miles of beach in Indian Ocean would be victimized by a “one-two tsunami punch.”
First, the tsunami wave would rise as it entered shallow water and smash into the coral reef, said Hourigan. The force of the wave itself could damage the reef. But then would come the second punch. As the wave swept back into the ocean, it would carry tons of debris __ including cars, trees, refrigerators and furniture __ along with sludge and silt.
The heavy debris would hit the reefs like battering rams, bulldozing the fragile coral formations. The sludge can bury the coral, suffocating it.
“One of the biggest impacts will be from the debris pulled off the land onto the reefs,” said Hourigan. “We’ve been doing quite a bit of work in the western Hawaiian islands in removing debris. It is likely that a lot of debris coming off the land will be damaging to the reefs.”
He said in studies following typhoons in Guam showed that tin roofs blown onto coral caused significant damage when ordinary wave action used the tin to grind away at the reef.
Some minor damage is repaired by the coral fairly quickly, but major reef destruction can take decades to heal, he said.
Coral reefs also may suffer more diseases and even death from the silt and sand that chokes the tiny organisms that builds the reefs.
“Some entire reef … ecosystems could have been buried by sediments flushed into shallow environments,” said Russel E. Brainard, chief of the coral reef division of the National Oceanographic and Atmospheric Administration Pacific Islands Fisheries Science Center in Honolulu. For reefs normally washed by high tidal action, this sediment could be swept clean within weeks or months. But in reef areas protected from tidal waves or currents, the cleansing could take years or decades, Brainard said in an e-mail.
As tsunami waves retreat to the ocean, they also flushed off the land oils, paints and other hazardous chemicals, said Brainard.
“All of these chemicals are now in the near shore ecosystems interacting with all types of marine life,” he said. "These stressors could result in diseases to corals, algae, fish and other (organisms). The impacts could be long lived.
Brainard said that plastics, including such things as fishing nets, fish line and traps, are also washed into coral reefs and the near shore environment. Such plastics will last in the marine environment for years, even decades, he said.
The loss of coral reefs could severely reduce the amount of fish available to some small, oceanside rural communities in Asia and Africa that depend on the sea for food.
“The three-dimension structure of a coral reef is the most important factor in the richnesses you see on a reef,” said Hourigan. "Fish depend on it for hiding places, for the prey they feed on.
“A large amount of the protein that human communities need come from fishing on the coral reefs,” he said. If the reefs are severely damaged, then this could affect the fish population “and have an impact on those communities for a long period of time.”
Can’t show you mine without a patient’s consent. Chest split wide open, tubes full of blood under pressure running everywhere, bunch of people with masks on, dangerous anesthetic gases being used and wafting out of the wound, the potential to contract a life-threatening illness from the person you’re working on, no bathroom or meal breaks for sometimes over 12 hours, on call for emergencies 24 hours a day for at least 5 days a week, sometimes for a couple of weeks straight, potential for massive lawsuits at any time, and…oh, yeah, you end up with a dead person in the room every once in a while. After over two decades of it, I say it sucks about as bad as any office space out there.
There are worse conditions, though. Look at the soldiers and their work conditions…they also end up with dead people around sometimes, but, it could be them that dies on any given day.
Mine sucks. I work outdoors and shovel lots of shit (really). In the winter I freeze and in the summer I sweat my ass off. I get rained on or get sunburned. I get bitten by flies and mosquitos and stung by bees. I get bitten, kicked, chased and envenomated by the animals that I care for. Then I get to workout. But its things like this that keep me comming back.
I think I might have the worst. I remodel bathrooms and kitchens. My current bath is in a home built in 1863 .I love fixing older homes. Remember don’t bite your finger nails. You never know what that black stuff is under the nail.
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well, i hate to break it to everyone but i have the worst workplace.
i have a desk that is attached to the two desks on either side of me and the desk across from me.
3 cackling hens sit at each of these desks.
the lady on my left is a 43 year old 225lb alcoholic, divorced, gambling, mother that comes in every monday whining about going down to atlantic city and losing her ENTIRE paycheck. (not once… but, EVERY week)
the lady on my right is a 255lb girl that only talks about “her baby’s daaadddy” while she peruses her newest book “player’s and the women who love them”.
the lady across from me hates men because she’s about 45 now and still has yet to “find a man that will treat her right”. meanwhile all she does is bitch about everything you can possibly imagine.
this isn’t even my own desk. i share it with someone that works the night shift.
i come in every day to a different chair… i then have to remove this chair and search for the one that fits me best. this will usually take about 10-15 minutes to find.
the person that i share the workspace with insists on bringing every fricken trinket she can find in and littering my/our desk with it. i have all kinds of cards, pins, ornaments and god knows what else all over the place.
the temperature is never good. it’s either too damn hot or too damn cold.
the lady that sits behind me doesn’t know the english language very well. i constantly get "como se dice… "
it’s amazing i get ANY work done at all. go ahead… try and top this.