In which things are going downhill
Published at 9:27 pm on July 26th, 2006
Filed under: The Old Office.
Work is not good at the moment. We are supposed to be doing impossible things, in tiny amounts of time. Our contractors are getting angrier, and our management is refusing to manage. We’re sending warnings upwards, about things that don’t work, things that we don’t know work, and things that haven’t even been tried; the management isn’t listening, so later they can claim they didn’t even know. Our department is becoming less and less popular by the minute, because of the black hole it’s creating. The work is leaving me lightheaded, tired, and listless. Then again, that could equally be explained by the bad ventilation in the office.*
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Keyword noise: air conditioning, management, morale, stress, ventilation, workload.
In which things get hot and sticky at the office
Published at 9:03 pm on April 25th, 2006
Filed under: The Old Office.
It’s still only spring, and it’s becoming rather clear that our new office was rather badly planned. It’s a two-person office, with lots of computers in it,* no windows, no air conditioning, and a door which, we’re told, must remain closed. The only concession to ventilation is a small extractor fan – the only incoming air is from the corridor. The fan itself was an after-thought, installed after the office secretary started campaigning for us.
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Keyword noise: airflow, buildings, cooling, heat, office, overheating, temperature, ventilation, weather.
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