Upstairs and Downstairs...and Offsite.

Second day into the new job and I've already got something to post about.

Lets take the office upstairs. It's a human resources office, and there's a number of points to mention. Every single worker in the room is female. All of them.

I stopped and looked round, to be sure. In a room of perhaps 40 workers, they were all women.

There also seemed to be a little bit of variety in terms of what they were wearing. It varied from rather short skirts with tight blouses screaming out one message, to power suit (no normal suit (for men or women) has shoulders like that) and summer dresses. Footwear varied from slippers to Knee high+ boots. I say knee high+ because I wasn't going to ask her how much further her boots went up, under her skirt.

Not on my second day.

Around were hundreds of things. Planets, flowers, pictures....even Balloons!

Compare this with downstairs, in the tech room...

The mix is about 3/13, women to men. The clothes are uniform - either shirts, ties and suits or for those who might get their hands dirty, official company gear.

Around us are no flowers, coloured things or bits to soften the place. Instead we have boxes of bits. Things that have been ordered for sites from here to Kings Lyn. All smart, presentable.

And then...then you have the Offsite technical offices. Which are dark, gloomy and full of strange components in piles. Blinds drawn against the sun. Mugs that don't see soap once a month.

And where do you thing I felt at home?