The most depressed offices in the world

    Wired magazine held an interesting contest among the readers for the most depressing block . All people could send their photos with a brief description. It is simply amazing how Americans can work in such conditions.

    According to the results of the vote, David Hannels, an IT specialist from the University of Alabama, was recognized as the most unfortunate among office poor people. His “workplace,” if you can call this rat corner, was made as an extension to a massive closet with a file cabinet in a conference room with no windows next to a poorly ventilated toilet and microwave. Behind the wall is a parking lot with noisy cars. The lamp on the ceiling does not work. The stepmother who visited David was so depressed that she brought him a floor lamp, if only the guy would not be completely blind.



    2. When there are not enough workplaces in the office, normal firms send employees to a remote mode of work. But not every leader does this. Some believe that computer locations can always be found. This unfortunate person in the photo below didn’t even have a table. He pulled a cabinet from the document room and set the monitor on top of it.



    3. The depressing look of the young man in the photo speaks for itself, despite his thumbs raised. Just look at the size of his table, as well as the space under the table where theoretically you need to put your legs.



    4. Sales and marketing must work side by side. The leadership of this company took the slogan too literally. As a result, two men share an already not very spacious cube with each other. A weak one-for-two fluorescent lamp and inverted cardboard boxes add color. There is no telephone, no windows either.



    5. In Minnesota, winters are very cold, and the owner of this cube recalls this fact every time someone enters the room. The door is literally a meter behind him.



    6. You might think that all of the office spaces in these photographs are temporary. Like, a man was put on a day or two, and he immediately begins to complain. Maybe so, but there is nothing more permanent than temporary. The photo below shows the workplace of a computer technician, for whom he has been working for a whole year. Right in the corner, on the aisle, like a dog kennel. People are constantly walking behind and conversations do not subside (the guy probably already knows all the office rumors). Recently, his table began to be used for making coffee.



    7. If you are on the marina of San Francisco, take a tour of the USS Pampanito submarine during World War II. When you see this tiny corner, measured in centimeters, you won’t even realize that it was also someone’s cube.



    8. This guy returned from the meeting and found that all the furniture was gone. He sat in the only remaining chair and spent an entire hour there in woeful thought, until someone told him that his office was simply moved to another place.



    9. The huge corporation, which is engaged in sea transportation and turns millions of dollars, did not find anything better than to build a workplace for a contract hired contractor in a 15-meter steel cargo container. To simply turn on the light in the morning, he pulls a 30-meter cable to the power substation. In winter, he connects a small portable heater, so as not to die from the cold in this iron crypt. There is nothing even to talk about the quality of GSM and WiFi reception.



    10. In the photo below is a typical anthill of the cheapest and smallest cubes you can think of.



    11. When you look at this shot, the thought comes that the author is just a bad photographer, but he assures that the photograph accurately conveys the lighting that is in his office. More precisely, which is almost not there.


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