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How Would You Design Your Dream Office?

Posted by ScuttleMonkey on from the a-step-up-from-the-broom-closet dept.

An anonymous reader writes "My company is building a new office. As the local IT Guy, I've been asked to design my new office from the ground up. If you were given the opportunity to design your dream office, what features would you include? What things would you try to avoid? I get to determine absolutely everything. The catch? I have to share my office space with all the network equipment. Just 4 standard racks, and all your basic telephone and network wiring. Can anyone help me get started? I have no idea where to even begin."

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  1. Re:First investment by ILongForDarkness · · Score: 5, Interesting
    No not at all ;) Actually the last three posts I got in reply mentioned unions, and fair enough. I read a article recently (can't remember where, though I subscribe to TechRepublic and the Code Project so I wouldn't be supprised if it was one of them) about this kind of thing. The arguement was that IT people want to be treated as "professionals" not lowly hourly workers, so are more likely to take a salary position, and put up with working 50+ hr weeks even though in most places even salary employees are entitled to get paid for their time if it is over 44hrs. Anyways, it was well reasoned, and does point out some of the silly things people in the field do.

    I might be a rarity, I'm an hourly IT worker. I bill for my time if I get called back in, at least 4hrs plus travel expenses. My reasoning is: getting to work once a day I pay for, if you want me back you pay for it. So far my boss has lived with that. I'm a one of though, so have some leverage. Funny, the finance department said they didn't have enough work for a second IT guy, so instead pay me OT and travel expenses out the wazoo :) As for avoiding salary my reasoning is: if my first 40 hours was worth 75k to you, then my next 40 hours is worth at least another 75k to you. A factory gets a rush job they bill the customer more, and pay their employees extra. A factory machine goes down, they pay the millwrights OT to get it up and running asap. Same should go with IT. I don't mind putting the hours in, but I'll be damned before I'll burn my gas and spend my evening working for free.