I never realized how much office environment mattered until I took my current position.

The office I work in is old and run-down, with white painted walls, threadbare red carpet, fluorescent lighting (no natural light at all), institutional furniture, and a skeleton staff that look more like zombies than people. Honestly, it would be more at home in a warehouse or a prison than midtown Manhattan.

I know that I'm the one who was pushing so hard to get out of a cube culture and into my own office but not this. This is literally what my version of hell looks like.

I'd give up a door and walls any day to get my old cubes at Comverse or Pohly back - at least they had plants, natural light, and people around.