#47. Windowless Rooms
Apr 8th, 2008 by Kelly
You know what’s fun about working in a windowless room? Absolutely nothing. Picture a small office, about 10 feet by 15 feet, holding four people, and we are all going slowly insane. That is because this is my ‘office’ and there are no goddamn windows in it. What the hell, building architects? You went to school a long time and earn far more money than me and yet you can’t figure out how to divide your building space up so that you’re not making tenants completely miserable? Better yet, what the hell my cheap-ass bosses who thought a decent working environment would never allow their staff to see daylight…. Ever.
I suppose there is a little bit of mystery to working, or god forbid living, in a windowless room. You don’t know if it’s raining. You don’t know if you’re working long past sunset. Hell, if zombies/bears/the apocalypse comes by, you may be safer because of your lack of windows. And on that day windowless people will laugh. But not until then. Until then we’ll be forced to have to ask other people, or sneak into other rooms, to figure out whether or not we need umbrellas to go outside.
Amazing. And as someone who does have windows in his office but whose windows face a brick wall, I’d add a little specificity to that windows policy. It’s not the boon you might think it should be. Damn building planners.
Yeah, a brick wall is not much of an improvement. At least you can tell whether it’s day or night.
I worked for over a year at a place where the owners had COVERED UP THE WINDOWS TO MAKE THE DAMN PLACE WINDOWLESS! I would occasionally suggest to my co-worker, “Well, maybe if we got full-spectrum bulbs instead, then I wouldn’t feel the vitamin E draining out of my body quite so much, stuff like that.” To which he’d respond with, “It doesn’t really bother anybody.” Yes it does!
We had a window in the men’s room that faced a brick wall. It may not have been much, Dave, but it was a hell of a lot beter than nothing at all.
i actually like windowless rooms. wouldn’t want to be trapped in one all day, but the sensory deprivation aspect of it is very comforting at time.
Actually, it’s illegal (I think in all 50 states) to have a living space without a window, because it’s extremely unhealthy.
Workspaces though. C’mon, we pay you to work, not look out the window!!
well i have a window, 2 actually, they look out into another room, this other room has windows all of which are far far out of view from my office. office? did i say office? i’m sorry i meant fishbowl….yes i work in a fishbowl, all my coworkers walk past staring in at me tapping on the glass….i feel so badly for goldfish now…..