Year In Pictures
Jan. 5th, 2010 12:52 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
plonqChristmas isn't officially over until I take down the cheap, plastic, USB-powered Christmas tree in my office.
I don't know what I expected to find when I returned to the office for the first time in a couple of weeks. Based on past experiences, I would not have been entirely surprised to find a smouldering crater where the office used to be, full of people picking through the ruin and saying things like, "I know you're busy looking for survivors, but if you happen to unearth a copy if this work order, could you send me a note to my Blackberry?" or "This is bullshit! I refuse life another cinder block without my ergonomic desk lamp."
I was not surprised to find one of the elevators out of service - especially not the East elevator. I would tack "as usual" to the end of that, but in fairness to the elevator it is begrudgingly in service just slightly more than it is out of service. I have been stuck between floors in that elevator a couple of times for a minute or so here and there, but unlike some of my co-workers I've never had the the elevator emit alarming humming sounds and fill with smoke while it was stuck.
The elevator lobby on our floor has been looking more and more ratty as time passes. Entropy has not been kind to this lobby. The walls and elevator doors were not covered with graffiti, but it would not have looked out of place. One of its saving graces was that at least one, and often two of the lights in the lobby are out of order at any given time, so it is usually too dingy to properly appreciate the squalor. It has never been something that couldn't be readily fixed with some filler, paint, wall paper or a flame thrower.
Apparently the building managers noticed that it was getting a little unkempt as well, so they decided to spruce it up a bit over the Christmas holidays. I guess they did not have access to a flame thrower, nor paint, filler or wallpaper. Instead they decided to clad the entire lobby in brushed stainless steel. I assume it's stainless. I guess we will find out when it starts to rust.
What a marvellous idea! Brushed steel walls require no maintenance at all because they don't show marks, or scuffs, or fingerprints all over it!
I don't know what I expected to find when I returned to the office for the first time in a couple of weeks. Based on past experiences, I would not have been entirely surprised to find a smouldering crater where the office used to be, full of people picking through the ruin and saying things like, "I know you're busy looking for survivors, but if you happen to unearth a copy if this work order, could you send me a note to my Blackberry?" or "This is bullshit! I refuse life another cinder block without my ergonomic desk lamp."
I was not surprised to find one of the elevators out of service - especially not the East elevator. I would tack "as usual" to the end of that, but in fairness to the elevator it is begrudgingly in service just slightly more than it is out of service. I have been stuck between floors in that elevator a couple of times for a minute or so here and there, but unlike some of my co-workers I've never had the the elevator emit alarming humming sounds and fill with smoke while it was stuck.
The elevator lobby on our floor has been looking more and more ratty as time passes. Entropy has not been kind to this lobby. The walls and elevator doors were not covered with graffiti, but it would not have looked out of place. One of its saving graces was that at least one, and often two of the lights in the lobby are out of order at any given time, so it is usually too dingy to properly appreciate the squalor. It has never been something that couldn't be readily fixed with some filler, paint, wall paper or a flame thrower.
Apparently the building managers noticed that it was getting a little unkempt as well, so they decided to spruce it up a bit over the Christmas holidays. I guess they did not have access to a flame thrower, nor paint, filler or wallpaper. Instead they decided to clad the entire lobby in brushed stainless steel. I assume it's stainless. I guess we will find out when it starts to rust.
What a marvellous idea! Brushed steel walls require no maintenance at all because they don't show marks, or scuffs, or fingerprints all over it!
