I work in hell!

My desk in the new office is among 20 desks in an open space. A large space.
It is made of wood. Nice milk chocolate color and good quality of wood (imported and cut from the same tree!!).
The chairs are usual office chairs, in grey.

Within the first two days, we were told to keep it down. We are not allowed to talk to each other, even if it is business related!
Talk about dictatorship! Actually hand signal that!!

Then within the first week, we were told that we should keep our desks clean. Not as in no dirty mess, but as in nothing on it but the pc/laptop and one-two paper trays.
I’m someone who likes messy desks. I can operate only if my desk is messy! (A messy desk is a sign of genius!)
I also have so many junk on my desk: souvenirs & gifts from ex-colleagues and friends that I received over the last four years.
But since it’s a new office, I decided to pile the junk and take it home. I even cleared all the paper mess, and filed everything.

I was very pleased with myself that I was finally able to control the mess and that now I have one of the tidiest desks!
And then came the shock.

We are not allowed to keep ANYTHING on the desks but the pc/laptop and the two CLEAR trays. That means, we can’t keep the staplers, the hole punchers, the calculators or the tissue boxes!!!
I can live without any of the stationary. BUT THE TISSUE BOX IS IMPORTANT! I have an allergy (most probably from work) and I need my tissue at easy reach. Defiant, I still have it on my desk!

I mean, seriously, what’s next?
No cups on the desk?
You want to drink something, put it under your desk, attach a feeding tube, and insert it (in you know where)??
How about uniforms? Maybe ones that are striped in white and black and a number across the chest!!


So the office is new and it cost an arm and a leg.
But it really looks like someone with one hemisphere of a brain designed the office. With the color and taste areas in the other missing hemisphere!!

We have beige carpets which collect more stains than a white shirt worn by a kid running around in a theme park!
The conference tables are oval, white & grey marble, seen and used in kitchens.
We have a couple of “designer” items that must have come from an old attic where old, broken, and ugly thing were stored!
We have two nightclub corner seats in patterned red.
Next to them is a wall with a blue pattern using the company’s logo.

It’s a nightmare of an office, so keeping the minimal look on desks just doesn’t agree with the crowded and clashing colors.

The nightmare intensified yesterday when we received the pin boards.
Each desk gets one.
This is how it looks: (and remember it's repeated on every desk!)

















Now we can’t have tissue boxes on our desk but we have to have these eyesores!
Ok, I’ll be positive.
The pin boards will be effective as I’ll gladly cover them with paper!!

My stomach turned though when I was told that this pattern will be used for the curtains!!

This is the insult that added to my injury of moving from Emirates Towers to DIFC. Emirates Towers where the good looking men from all races and nationalities walk around and smile at you! Aaaaaaaaaaaah!!


It’s time to look for another job!!
And it has to be in the Emirates Towers!