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Demolition crew finished tearing down the wing of the old hospital where
my office was located. While I'm glad that we have a shiny new
building, I really miss my old office. I build and maintain the
computers for the radiology department, including the full-sized towers
that the rads use for diagnostic reading. These take up a decent amount
of space to properly work on.
In my old office, my desk was really a 10-foot-long workbench, with
plenty of space for imaging and configuring large workstations, and
plenty of space to store spare parts. And I could set up a 24" and a 30"
monitor to properly test everything out.
When we moved, I downsized to a 6-foot-by-6-foot cubicle, with a 4-foot
folding table to work on in a storage room. They decided to hire two
middle managers for our department, which meant that the storage/work
room had to be converted to an office. So did the secondary storage
room. I now have to build my workstations in the 18" of space I can
squeeze in on the left wing of my cubicle desk, with the tower under the
desk arranged to leave just enough space between it and my own tower so
that I can squeeze my feet in. If I need to install memory, or change a
video card, I need to pull the tower out into the aisle so I have enough
room to lay it down and open it up. This also requires me to completely
move myself and my chair out into the aisle as well.
And I get to use a single 19" monitor, which, combined with my own twin
monitors, takes up every inch of desk space that I have.
Oh - and speaking of feet - if I need to stretch my legs a bit, I cannot
back my chair up without whacking the wall behind me, which is the front
wall of my co-worker's little green hamster box. And if I want to get
out of my cubicle, I have to push myself and my chair all the way out
into the aisleway so that I can swing my legs out. Their are
8-foot-by-8-foot cubes in the building, but those are in Finance and in
Medical Records. The designers from Corporate said that we get the tiny
boxes, and we get two rooms, and we'll like it.
And the only storage we have for spare equipment now is one
10-foot-by-10-foot room, plus a couple of rooms in the facility we have
in the next city over.
Whee. But, at least I still have a job. The initial planning stages
for the new building didn't even include the IT department. Someone down
South thought that they'd just have the IT department from the hospital
2 hours away handle all of our support. Now, that includes two
hospitals, five outpatient centers, 8 hospital-owned doctor practices,
and five EMS stations, spread across two counties and six cities.
So, after my boss pointed out how that probably wouldn't work so well
and that we really needed all 21 of us in our department, they
grudgingly carved out some space in the basement.
--
Paul Braun
Certified Music Junkie
Valparaiso, IN
"It's such a fine line between stupid, and clever." - David St. Hubbins
"Music washes from the soul the dust of everyday life" - Harlan Howard
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