Reply to: Grey offices

[darmstadt]

Currently here with funky colored windows:




But possibly moving to the strange shaped building later this year:

[expat]

Why are nearly all offices grey inside? Some are even grey on the outside! So many companies talk about wanting people to be creative, innovative, 'inspired', and so on, and then they ask people to work inside a grey box with grey walls, grey cupboards, grey hardware, grey ceilings, grey telephones, grey managermen, grey suits, grey everything.

Shouldn't they be colourful instead?

Worked in a public sector office once where there was an initiative to make it more colourful. They trialled it by painting one of the grey filing cabinets orange. Somehow its grey essence still seemed to seep out subliminally.

[d000hg]

That's more laziness, coupled with an ingrained fear of meeting people from online forums IRL

[eek]

ftfy

Well he doesn't want to meet CUK's in person. I'm tempted to organise a meetup in Durham so that he can refuse to attend that...

[NickFitz]

Magnolia here, but it's a long converted barn with big windows all down the side and at both ends. The view is mainly trees forming a windbreak, though if I faced the other way I'd be able to see out across the fields

[Mich the Tester]

If I'm working, I don't want to chat, I want to piss around on CUK.

But yes your deduction is sound

ftfy

[hyperD]

Sounds like a perfect working environment to me.

Have you considered a monastery?

[eek]

You obviously weren't creative enough to call the orange wall 'the orange wall'.

surely its a wall with a bright future.

i'll wait and see who is old enough to remember the slogan....

[d000hg]

If I'm working, I don't want to chat, I want to get work done.

But yes your deduction is sound

[Mich the Tester]

Sounds like a perfect working environment to me.

Doogie, this morning you've suggested there should be more computerisation of restaurants and that offices should be dull and devoid of social interaction. Anyone could be forgiven for thinking you're not really very keen on people.

[d000hg]

...an atmosphere so void of any social interaction that you could hear a pin drop.

Sounds like a perfect working environment to me.

[hyperD]

I'm in a very nice office with a lovely view of a lake outside surrounded by lovely ladies. Unlike the last clientco office which was a grey concrete tuliphole from the sixties, with an atmosphere so void of any social interaction that you could hear a pin drop.

[Mich the Tester]

The childishness came from the contractors

You obviously weren't creative enough to call the orange wall 'the orange wall'.

[Dallas]

Good start to paint a wall orange, but then giving it a childish name like 'easy wall' sounds like management guff.

The childishness came from the contractors

[Pondlife]

Mellow Yellow at client site today.