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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 Tesen · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    I shared my office with 12 servers for about two years once, the office was always at a nice 60F (mmmm!). Eventually the machines kicked me out (bastards!) so I had to end up getting a proper office (which then got a false floor installed, new racks, cooling, insulation, electrical, fiber, more fiber and an industrial UPS). Shortly after that happened, the bloody machines kicked me out again. Out of a home, alone in the world I took my laptop and enjoyed the summer days outside using WiFi and my "office phone" forwarded to a local RT.

    I think it was late summer and a shock thunderstorm (I was under cover) and all the conference rooms full before I decided to acquire another space to park my bones (damn I was going to miss the titties! Or was I? lol). Rest assured this being a college, I made sure I had a ground floor view of the young ladies sunning themselves studying on the grass in front of my tinted (read: they could not see me drooling) office windows.

    I acquired an office mate (he was my best friend after all); with posted on the door "No servers allowed", had it locked and always had a DVD running while working (I wanted to post no servers allowed, unless you work at hooters - but my supervisorr frowned upon that, just like the bloody machines what a bastard!).

    It is amazing what your brain will filter out; I had people in my office that could not understand what I was saying most of the time, yet I could make them out perfectly.

    Tes