There's a set of offices and cubes that face the entrance courtyard to my building. I'm in one of the offices, but the cubes are much closer as the walkway swoops around. Three of them look directly out on anyone approaching the front door -- and vice-versa.
As they are also SW-facing, I've been trying to keep their blinds down, both because of the heat and because, well, the cubes are empty at the moment. Which, frankly, makes the office look bad and creates a poor impression on visiting clients. Since I have an interest in the company and the office, it seems the least I can do.
Problem is, someone keeps pulling up the blinds on one of the cubes. Not sure who. Not sure why. It's nobody actually working there, but, presumably, someone likes letting the natural light into the space beyond. Problem is, heat aside, the cube looks ... well ... deserted. A monitor sitting on the counter, with its cable wrapped around its base.
So, for the last week or so, I've been sprucing it up. Moving the cable down toward the floor. Adding a keyboard. A coffee cup. Some papers on the desk at an appropriate angle to the monitor. Today, a mouse and mouse pad.
Now, from outside, it just looks like someone very neat sits there. Which is fine by me.
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Remember that episode of M*A*S*H where they totally invented an officer whose 'signature' would explain appropriations of Army materiel, then 'killed' him and had a funeral for him when an investigation was begun? You could be onto something like that.
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