Imagine being able to walk down the hall to your office lunchroom and be able to catch your favourite author talk for an hour while you munch down your tuna sandwich.
The dream is a reality for some. Several major west coast companies (ie Google Microsoft, Starbucks, Yahoo, etc.) have been including author speaking events as part of their perks package for employees. Sounds good to me!
While we’re still getting lots of entries daily in our Harry Potter poetry contest, BookNinja has posted some of the entries they have in their office/work Haiku contest
My personal favourite thus far….
Orthopedic chair
essentially useless since
I slouch, chin in hand.
Office move day is creeping closer all the time.
The ongoing construction activity in Victoria has made things challenging, as well as a some poor weather compounding the issues. There seems to be something of a boom going on, everytime you turn around another condo development is getting built. But things look good for AbeBooks to move shortly (I don’t dare say the date lest I jinx things). We’ve been looking forward to moving for sometime now, and there has been a lot of planning. Perhaps once we are settled in we can post a few pictures on Flickr.
And speaking of moving. We are planning to move this ol’ blog to a new location. It will finally get a location on the abebooks.com domain. Reading Copy will give up the WordPress hosted domain and switch to the self-hosted solution. It should give us more flexibility in terms of design and features. We’ll post more on that as we get a bit closer to ensure the transition is as smooth as possible.
Like death and taxes, it seems the cubicle is an inevitability of life. For anyone who has spent any time working in an office environment, they have come up against this dreaded cube.
It has been mocked in movies, books and Dilbert comics, and there are even action figures based on the cubicle world.
The inventor of the cubicle is somewhat contrite about his creation, but rightfully so? The initial vision was good, but the implementation in the real world falls short.
The traditional, oft-ridiculed cubefarms don’t really exist in this office, there is a much more open floor with a few partitions scattered about. It makes for a more dynamic and bustling atmosphere (and yes noisy at times, but that’s what headphones are for). We’re moving offices soon, so the topic of partions and cubes and desks has started to come up on a regular basis. Whatever the final fixtures and furniture decisions are, I hope it’s a green choice.