Caught In The Whirlwind
The Rearranged Desk
Today has been extremely busy and I've just now found a moment to catch my breath. Lots of things happening today at work, from one of our servers going down rendering our online bill payment system inoperable for an hour to a security audit and the usual program tweaks I need to do.
One of the good things though is that I've redone my desk setup a bit. Ok, some background is required here. At my office everyone has a laptop and a docking station. They're not bad laptops but they're not great either. Pretty cheap Dell Latitude D510's. I've never had a monitor at my desk since I've always used a laptop with it's LCD screen which was going fine for a while. But recently I've started getting back aches and such, partly from staring down at the screen (since it's a laptop on the desk). I could have used one of the CRTs we have hanging around but they really mess with my eyes after a while. I can't go back from CRTs now.
So I brought in a 17" LCD (located a spare one…work never would have bought one for me…tough times and all that) to use at my desk and set up with my laptop in a dual monitor configuration. This has made me realize two things. First, the colors on my laptop LCD are so dim and horrible looking. I have no idea how I managed to survive with them for this long. And second, having dual monitors really, really helps my productivity. I like having the second one over there to stash the tickets that I'm working on or any information I need to glance at (like database tables and such) while I'm doing my work on my main monitor.
And it's helping my back out a lot so far it seems. So this has been working out rather well.
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about 2 years ago
When I started my current job I was blown away that I had TWO 17" monitors… and almost everyone had two monitors. We actually have employees who choose to only have 1 monitor and I think they must be aliens. But they have larger monitors, or widescreen monitors.It's really cheap of companies to scrimp on hardware that unquestionably increases productivity in their workers… especially when obviously they don't pay retail prices. What's a couple hundred dollars per worker for your employees to be happier and get more work done? It seems like a no brainer to me.
about 2 years ago
It's a smaller company. Part of it is me not asking and part of it is the resources deal. Nobody else around here does dual monitors or has an LCD. The main deal is that I'm picky. I can't stand looking at a CRT monitor for any period of time…