I thought yesterday's post would be the last one about work for a while.
It turns it isn't, because after nearly four1 three years at Microsoft, Layla will soon be getting a window office!
This, much like the stock price, is a Big Deal™. It usually takes five or six years to get a window—but Layla is moving to a building with loads of window space, and so the bar was lowered significantly.
I'll have to spend all of my time in her office now. All I've got is a door.
1 Right after writing that sentence, I asked Layla, "did you know you've been working at Microsoft for nearly four years?" And then she said, "err, almost three." ... yeah.
Wow, thats great! What did she do to get a window? Was it her intellect...or her charm?
window, fancy desk..whats next? a flat screen TV!
I saw the post and all I could think about was a really bad pun...windows.
Haha
I just got lucky - my team is moving to a building which was designed to maximize window offices and I get on. I even got to pick the one I wanted. Too bad we don't actually move offices until Dec. Oh, but the wait will be worth it.
Man, I'm so jealous! I was doubled up until just recently (I got my own office on my new team), but I'm still two people away from a window spot.
I have had 4 different desks since I have been at Cummins, and the closest I have been to a window is the skylight I currently have, 30 feet overhead. Not even our VP has a window. The real question is, what does the window look over? Even if I had a window, I would either see a day care center, a poverish residential area, a hole-in-the wall diner, or the other Cummins building across the street.
Wow really? Ouch.
Most of the buildings at MSFT are surrounded by tress. My building is sortof the exception—it's six stories surrounded by a car park on one side. And trees on the rest.