I already wrote about the office building where I work just after I landed the job. What I had not known back then is that those who inhabit the buildings are under no circumstances allowed to open any windows for the fear that one of these ugly brown-tinted panes would break. The rumor has it that the company that produced them back in the day no longer exists.
Strangely enough, no windowpane was broken in the 1999 NATO bombing thus the orange-brown
ugliness lives on and on.
As for the interior, this was how our conference room looked when we got keys to it.
ugliness lives on and on.
As for the interior, this was how our conference room looked when we got keys to it.
Endless boxes of animal ear tags...
...period furniture that we decided to keep.
KEEP IT (soc-)REAL!!!
...and more ear-tags...
..complete with instructions how to staple them onto the poor cows' ears.
And endless boxes with blank farm logs for animal farmers to keep.
Every visit to every animal is to be duly noted and recorded.
Yeah, right.
Finally we got some tables. And they are HUGE. The boss, still waiting for his, temporarily relocated to our office.
Merely two weeks after we moved in, we got a pair of brand new PCs and a broken printer.
Our boss, the Minimalist, happy to get a table and a working wi-fi, moved into his office.
Yes, this is his office AFTER he moved in!
Girls will be girls, so we made ourselves at home in no time.
The ever-remaining thorn in our eye was our conference room.
No more procrastination, it was high time we dealt with it.
Dealt we did by having all the boxes with ear-tags moved and neatly stacked in the tiny room between our offices and the conference room which we decided to ignore for the time being.
In the Balkans no menial work gets done without at least a hint of a plumber's ass.
The conference table looked like it had arrived from a conference center in Dubai.
A total eye-sore amid the drab remnants of the socialist era but it does the job.
One month into the project, we're up and running!
We've come a long way, considering that we started from the sign above the door for "Civil Aviation Directorate of the Republic of Serbia" (our project is about animal welfare and food safety, mind you).
Yes, this is his office AFTER he moved in!
No more procrastination, it was high time we dealt with it.
Dealt we did by having all the boxes with ear-tags moved and neatly stacked in the tiny room between our offices and the conference room which we decided to ignore for the time being.
In the Balkans no menial work gets done without at least a hint of a plumber's ass.
The conference table looked like it had arrived from a conference center in Dubai.
A total eye-sore amid the drab remnants of the socialist era but it does the job.
We've come a long way, considering that we started from the sign above the door for "Civil Aviation Directorate of the Republic of Serbia" (our project is about animal welfare and food safety, mind you).
You should organise an ugliness-breaking day (just open all the windows at the same time!), so that all the window-panes, once broken, can get replaced with something less nauseating.
ReplyDeleteYou did a good job girls.
K. C-101