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Posted: Fri Jan 25, 2008 8:41 am

I got a new office exactly one year ago.

The seat is comfortable, fully adjustable, but the steering wheel gets in the way. the gear lever kind of restricts access to the filing on the next seat or on the office floorwell. And it doesn't have a table for my coffee.

In the last 12 months my office has taken me 47,000 km (25,000 miles) around the country.

Next week my office is getting a new gearbox.

Posted: Fri Jan 25, 2008 4:10 pm

^^ A mobile office! You have the best office of everyone, imagine the ever changing views Laughing

I used to have to drive a lot at my last job (60k+mi in the last 2 years), I miss not having to stay cooped up in the office all day, but my baby is happy it doesn't have to drive all over God's creation.

Posted: Fri Jan 25, 2008 5:08 pm

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NOBODY is moving into my office. That's right. It will sit vacant, along with several other offices.

Oh, so you work in Government, too. Haven't seen you around. I think we all need some type of secret handshake or gang flash like the Masons.

Remember "Alt & Tab" is your friend!

Plus, there's always Powerball.

Posted: Fri Jan 25, 2008 5:37 pm

Oh I'm a big fan of the ALT+TAB

And no, I don't work with the government - though I USED to temp for the State of Illinois!

I worked in a call center in a basement that they couldn't heat because it was next to a computer lab.

I found out the co-worker next to me (named "Pumpkin") was an ex-con and daughter-in-law of my boss.

I had to teach the OTHER woman there about why her computer kept "breaking" (she kept minimizing her windows and complaining they had "disappeared").

I once convinced them to invest in some new technology and when the vendor came to talk to us about it, he confided in me that the State of Illinois was SO far behind technology wise, that he usually used it as an example of a truly awful system when selling to other people.

There are STILL typewriters at most of the desks in the government center Rolling Eyes

Posted: Fri Jan 25, 2008 8:51 pm

Peanut, that sounds like the office Tom Hanks had in JOE vs THE VOLCANO.
There's one woman here in the Govt, a mental health worker running a half way house, who filed a job action (unfortunately I was the gvt rep-she re'd herself) so they moved her into a new office/new job. When everyone else got new furniture, they came in, looked at her new office and said she couldn't get any furniture because the mold was too bad. Local OSHA (hah!) came in and said to mngmnt 'whew, you just made it'. So they turned the AC down to 60 degrees and then it got stuck. The typewriter she had was broken (she is doing vital statistics-registering births/deaths on index cards) and finally they found her one that worked but it was missing the letter 'O'. 3 years her case is still pending and she calls me still to shoot the shit when she takes too much or not enough of her meds.
But, hey, yah can't beat the benefits!