# The view from your (work) window. **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [September 24, 2012, 10:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-view-from-your-work-window/635721 "2012-09-24T22:34:20Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Battle\_Pope](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/4bbf92/32.png) [@Battle\_Pope](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Battle_Pope)\ **Post date:** [September 24, 2012, 10:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-view-from-your-work-window/635721/1 "2012-09-24T22:34:20Z")
Put this one down to idle curiosity, but when I get to my desk for the work day I have this as my view: ([http://i226.photobucket.com/albums/dd313/Ash51a/4280A3FE-A32E-4930-AB6D-1A7CBBF4047A-675-000000A6EA6EA6FA\_zps1f5c310f.jpg](http://i226.photobucket.com/albums/dd313/Ash51a/4280A3FE-A32E-4930-AB6D-1A7CBBF4047A-675-000000A6EA6EA6FA_zps1f5c310f.jpg)) [right](http://i226.photobucket.com/albums/dd313/Ash51a/F642567F-7395-49CD-AEA3-62BD621B3B9C-675-000000A6E2F4A60A_zps8366fde0.jpg). It’s rather pleseant, I grew up at the foot of that little mountain on the far right and the building I work in is near the flight path for the local rescue helicopter so I get to watch it come & go (aviation nut). What’s your view? ---
**Author:** ![Sattua](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sattua/32/11906_2.png) [@Sattua](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sattua)\ **Post date:** [September 24, 2012, 10:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-view-from-your-work-window/635721/2 "2012-09-24T22:41:25Z")
I stay home with our daughter now. Back when I did work, I had a cubicle to the front and right, and a pea-soup-green wall to the left. The VP’s office was behind me. Any other questions? ---
**Author:** ![FairyChatMom](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fairychatmom/32/21906_2.png) [@FairyChatMom](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FairyChatMom)\ **Post date:** [September 24, 2012, 10:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-view-from-your-work-window/635721/3 "2012-09-24T22:46:54Z")
If I took a picture out my window, you’d see lots of green. I’m on the second floor and our building backs up to a stand of trees. There is a back yard to the left, but I have to be right against the window to see it. I like seeing the trees with a bit of sky above. It’s especially nice after years of being surrounded by cubicle walls. ---
**Author:** ![Rachellelogram](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rachellelogram/32/8689_2.png) [@Rachellelogram](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rachellelogram)\ **Post date:** [September 24, 2012, 10:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-view-from-your-work-window/635721/4 "2012-09-24T22:58:57Z")
Cubicle walls on three sides, the cubicle behind me on the fourth. ---
**Author:** ![maggenpye](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/ecc23a/32.png) [@maggenpye](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/maggenpye)\ **Post date:** [September 24, 2012, 11:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-view-from-your-work-window/635721/5 "2012-09-24T23:03:05Z")
High windows, so, sky. Ooh! A plane! Honestly never seen one fly past before. ---
**Author:** ![Musicat](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/musicat/32/20189_2.png) [@Musicat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Musicat)\ **Post date:** [September 24, 2012, 11:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-view-from-your-work-window/635721/6 "2012-09-24T23:09:52Z")
[This,](http://www.doorbell.net/junk/DSC09632.JPG) taken 10 minutes ago. ---
**Author:** ![Alpine](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/alpine/32/17813_2.png) [@Alpine](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Alpine)\ **Post date:** [September 24, 2012, 11:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-view-from-your-work-window/635721/7 "2012-09-24T23:55:14Z")
No windows. Our room used to be the break room. I put up a lot of photos. ---
**Author:** ![PatriotGrrrl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/9dc877/32.png) [@PatriotGrrrl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PatriotGrrrl)\ **Post date:** [September 25, 2012, 12:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-view-from-your-work-window/635721/8 "2012-09-25T00:07:29Z")
[This.](http://i.imgur.com/IftTI.jpg) The windows are much taller than this - its an old “mill building” type place - but they don’t open all the way. I’m not complaining - I know how lucky I am to have windows that open at all! ---
**Author:** ![Dr.Girlfriend](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dr.girlfriend/32/193_2.png) [@Dr.Girlfriend](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dr.Girlfriend)\ **Post date:** [September 25, 2012, 12:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-view-from-your-work-window/635721/9 "2012-09-25T00:41:31Z")
There’s just a warehouse across the street that I can see from my window, but there’s a car detailing place down the street so all kinds of cool cars cruise up and down the street past my window. Makes up for the lack of view otherwise. ---
**Author:** ![JackieLikesVariety](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jackielikesvariety/32/296_2.png) [@JackieLikesVariety](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JackieLikesVariety)\ **Post date:** [September 25, 2012, 12:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-view-from-your-work-window/635721/10 "2012-09-25T00:42:54Z")
no windows as my department is in a basement. love the lake photo, is that Lake Michigan? ---
**Author:** ![GuanoLad](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guanolad/32/42_2.png) [@GuanoLad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GuanoLad)\ **Post date:** [September 25, 2012, 12:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-view-from-your-work-window/635721/11 "2012-09-25T00:46:01Z")
A tennis court. Though my desk doesn’t face the window. ---
**Author:** ![Asimovian](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/asimovian/32/172_2.png) [@Asimovian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Asimovian)\ **Post date:** [September 25, 2012, 12:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-view-from-your-work-window/635721/12 "2012-09-25T00:49:19Z")
I don’t have windows in my actual office space (I have an internal office). However, our firm is on a high floor, and [you never know what you’ll see](http://www.flickr.com/photos/asimovian/8009979399/in/set-72157631590350478/) from the windows. ---
**Author:** ![Ferret\_Herder](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/e47774/32.png) [@Ferret\_Herder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ferret_Herder)\ **Post date:** [September 25, 2012, 1:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-view-from-your-work-window/635721/13 "2012-09-25T01:06:06Z")
No windows in my small office suite. ---
**Author:** ![Sahirrnee](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sahirrnee/32/13937_2.png) [@Sahirrnee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sahirrnee)\ **Post date:** [September 25, 2012, 1:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-view-from-your-work-window/635721/14 "2012-09-25T01:27:09Z")
My work window is my bedroom window. Butterfly bush, butterflies, and pampas grass right outside my window. Look further and see the yard, my truck, and the houses across the street and all the vehicles. The neighbor has 6, across the street has 11, at last count. I prefer to watch the butterflies. ---
**Author:** ![Spiderman](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/spiderman/32/230_2.png) [@Spiderman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spiderman)\ **Post date:** [September 25, 2012, 1:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-view-from-your-work-window/635721/15 "2012-09-25T01:57:52Z")
> [@Musicat](#): > > [This,](http://www.doorbell.net/junk/DSC09632.JPG) taken 10 minutes ago. No fair! We don’t like you anymore. I get visitor parking & the other side of the U-shaped building & even that’s hard to see from my desk now with the recent relocation of the 5-drawer file cabinet. ☹ ---
**Author:** ![Qadgop\_the\_Mercotan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/qadgop_the_mercotan/32/83_2.png) [@Qadgop\_the\_Mercotan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Qadgop_the_Mercotan)\ **Post date:** [September 25, 2012, 1:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-view-from-your-work-window/635721/16 "2012-09-25T01:58:50Z")
> [@Ferret\_Herder](#): > > No windows in my small office suite. None in mine either. I asked the warden for a skylight, or maybe a periscope, but he won’t spring for one. ---
**Author:** ![Ferret\_Herder](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/e47774/32.png) [@Ferret\_Herder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ferret_Herder)\ **Post date:** [September 25, 2012, 2:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-view-from-your-work-window/635721/17 "2012-09-25T02:14:02Z")
> [@Qadgop\_the\_Mercotan](#): > > None in mine either. > > I asked the warden for a skylight, or maybe a periscope, but he won’t spring for one. Admittedly in ophthalmology, the ability to control how much light enters the room is highly sought-after, so it makes my job easier in some respects. Plus I know quite a few people here who have basement offices and thus no natural light at all. I can get to a window if I head down the hall a little. ---
**Author:** ![Colibri](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/colibri/32/1841_2.png) [@Colibri](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Colibri)\ **Post date:** [September 25, 2012, 2:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-view-from-your-work-window/635721/18 "2012-09-25T02:21:06Z")
When I work from home (which is most of the time), it’s the left side of [this view](http://www.multipanama.com/images/content/cinta-costera-panama.jpg). (My apartment building is just about in the middle of the scene, a few blocks back.) From my office, it’s close to [this view.](http://media-cdn.tripadvisor.com/media/photo-s/02/30/76/85/amador-causeway-calzada.jpg) ---
**Author:** ![Quartz](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/quartz/32/267_2.png) [@Quartz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Quartz)\ **Post date:** [September 25, 2012, 2:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-view-from-your-work-window/635721/19 "2012-09-25T02:39:37Z")
Right now, it’s pitch dark, so I can’t see a thing, but I work on an industrial estate anyway, so there’s nothing exciting. However, we do have a clear sea view which means that we can get amazing dawns and rainbows. ---
**Author:** ![Cunctator](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/43a26b/32.png) [@Cunctator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cunctator)\ **Post date:** [September 25, 2012, 3:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-view-from-your-work-window/635721/20 "2012-09-25T03:33:54Z")
From my normal office the view isn’t very interesting: just the side of the neighbouring building. However I’m working off-site at the moment, and the view is considerably [more pleasant](http://www.gatewaytower.com.au/) (scroll to the third photo in the montage). [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-view-from-your-work-window/635721.md?page=2)