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[katyism.livejournal.com]

For those of us who are employed as drone monkeys in call centers or similar, what is your work room or area like? My underlying motivation in asking is to compare your workplace's layout, space, equipment, etc with my own. Post pictures if you like.




From my crappy camera phone, this is the best angle of the room I could get. There are about 15-20 of us in the room during regular daytime hours. There are little cubicle stalls along the first half of either wall, with 2 workstations apiece for the Windows team (me) to work on. In the center of the room is a big storage thingy with a workstation behind it for the supervisor on duty. In the back half of the room, on the left, is our Mission Critical workstations for the guys who post system outage notices and help with the more secure campus system problems.. (they don't have walls but there are only 3 workstations back there, they have tons of space) Along the left side of the back wall which you can't see, are 5 single-person cubicle stalls for the Mac team. It appears to me the PC side is overcrowded and needing more personal space for everyone. I hate how I don't have walls around my workstation.


This is the cubicle stall thing I sit at every day, it is pretty much identical to what all the PC consultants have, but the picture is of the workstation next to mine although my heinously huge mug o' caffeine is visible. No privacy... obviously anyone could see the screens of the person sitting beside them.

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[redqueenmeg.livejournal.com]

No privacy here either. Our desks are these big objects that look like + signs and each of us has a little corner of the plus sign. I have used mylar wrapping paper on the inside of my cube to make it look more individual and I have pictures of family, my cats, and my two colleges up, along with Chicago memorabilia (the city, not the show), a clock, my lucite award statue (ha!), my Marvin statue, a penguin candle, a statuette of a girl in a graduation gown (for getting my master's in May), a statuette of a witch, one of a goth girl, and one of a black cat. And my Harry Potter page a day calendar. And my 20-sided die so that I can roll perception + awareness vs. customer stupidity. And I have some dragons.

And a few stickers saying CTHULHU SAVES, HAIL ERIS, and BRAIN FOR RENT.

And one saying "...as sharp as a page of Oscar Wilde witticisms that's been rolled into a point, dipped in lemon juice, and jabbed into someone's eye!"

I would post pictures but we're not allowed cameras or camera phones in the building.

[tadiera.livejournal.com]

I need to get a d20 like that to go along with my skooshy d6 that sits on my monitor. :)

[redqueenmeg.livejournal.com]

Yeah, a friend of mine passed out the d20s for D&D's anniversary. They're quite handy. I should bring in the rest of mine.

I also have a flying pig, a monitor statue of Hermione Granger, and the Salamander of Pentacles sitting on my monitor.

And I have a lamp that looks like a movie camera and a sign that says COMPUTER WIZARDS NEVER DIE, THEY JUST LOSE THEIR MEMORY.

[tadiera.livejournal.com]

I do have a set of mini-dice that go everywhere with me (Ah, my geekdom prevails...), but I'd rather not leave them scattered on my desk. :P

[redqueenmeg.livejournal.com]

That's one nice thing about this place--you can leave stuff on your desk and it stays there. Unless it's a pen.

At the last place I worked, you even had to disconnect your headset when you went to the bathroom, and take the headset with you, or it would be taken.

[cyrenoe.livejournal.com]

Well, they wouldn't be taken. I just end up with enough papers, notepads, documents, etc scattered on my desk that dice are more likely to be lost or an annoyance than anything else. ;)

[redqueenmeg.livejournal.com]

Oh, I should note that there are usually at least 100 of us in the room at any given moment. We are in a building that used to be an airplane hangar so it's very dark and there are no windows. Which is why it drives me nuts when people ask me how the weather is where I am. I want to give them my zip code and tell them to look at weather.com.

heh

[edgeofentropy.livejournal.com]

I've been told my desk looks like the normandy invasion...lots of desk flair...there's one guy here with an impressive lego collection too