Close to Home by John McPherson for December 21, 2021

“… of another employee.”

Some views better than others!

But I still haven’t found the view that I’m looking for.

busiest window washers in the business

Help Wanted sign on the door reads: “Peeping-Tom’s for Hire”

The architect often got distracted – thus his plans for this building meandered.

Surely, there’s more than one set of doors…

…and don’t call me Shirley!

That would be kind of a fun building. As long as you didn’t have to go from one end to the other.

Thereby lessening productivity

Not .everyone….

Yeah a screwy view

A very similar building was constructed in 1947:https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:MIT_Baker_House_Dormitory_%2834321178075%29.jpg

Might make a good border wall?

Makes me think of that massive ribbon looking Christmas candy. I never could bring myself to figger out how to eat it.

Why do I have an urge to go buy ribbon candy?

Most of the employees seem to have a view of other employees, just like in the cubicle setup.

I’ve spent the last 14 years working in a basement office. None of those views look that bad to me. A little natural light and a glimpse of the weather would be a vast improvement.

I saw a building that seemed to have the same goal but it was made as an ‘X’. Now that I think of it, I saw an apartment building shaped as an ‘H’ (actually a few ’H’s attached to each other) that also created a lot of windows spaces.

That design isn’t unusual for residential buildings.

Yes, but a view of what ?

“Johnson… take this report to HR on the other side of the building…

… um, well actually not the other side, it’s this side of the building, but just the part that’s on the other side…

… wait… it’s this side of the building, but the part of this side that looks like it’s over on that side!”

… just take this report to HR!.”

But some of those views are of the rest of the building. That’s a window, not a view.

of other employees

This would even be more fun: https://www.architectweekly.com/2013/03/the-fingerprint-building.html

The company that really cares for it’s employees…..

It looks like the building that Illinois Central College uses. A serpentine design with courtyards. Easy to get lost in till you learned the lay of the land.

Sometimes it’s just a view of someone else having a view…

Even if that view is another window.

The building is designed so every employee will have a window not necessarily a view!

How much longer is Bleeb on vacation?

I like it! Though I would have preferences.

So that’s where they make Christmas ribbon candy!

“It won’t be an good view but everyone will have one”