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This is another +1 for WFH. Many office environments have terrible lighting, and there's very little you can do about it.
by michaelteter 2y ago
This is another +1 for WFH. Many office environments have terrible lighting, and there's very little you can do about it.
- bunderbunder 2y agoThe over-bright lighting, monitor glare, and eye strain are a favorite conversation topic at my workplace since RTO.
- toddmorey 2y agoI remember standing up on office chairs to twist the florescent tube bulbs above my desk just enough to turn them off. That light was just awful. It helped a lot until maintenance would come in at night and "fix" the light and I'd have to do it all over.
- therealdrag0 2y agoSame. Though mine got left off for a long time which was great.
- xdennis 2y agoCould be worse. I worked in an old building in London which I think used to be a warehouse. It was renovated but the lighting was very low and they said they couldn't install stronger diffused lighting because of the local code. They eventually added hanging spotlights. Very bright and very narrow. But they would always end up shining right into someone's eyes. Every once in a while someone got annoyed by one and would rotate it in some other direction, only to piss someone else off.
- y-c-o-m-b 2y agoI did the same thing and it was good for a long time, then one day I came in to find the maintenance people replacing it - thinking it was broken - instead of just twisting it back. I guess they weren't too bright (lol).
- thanatos519 2y agoAmen. I wear a ballcap at the office.
- Twirrim 2y agoOurs are absolutely atrocious. I forgot just how bad it got until they did a big office move a couple of months ago. Previous to that I'd been way out on the edge with large windows behind me (with some shading film on them). My move now put me in the centre of the floor with barely a window in visible range, stuck under these godawful, far too bright lights. The first day in that space reminded me just how much I'd hated that aspect of things before the pandemic.
- mjcohen 2y agoMy eyes are sensitive to glare, so in my last job I took to wearing the visor I wore outside also inside. Got some weird looks but it was a lot easier on my eyes.
- benoliver999 2y agoOh god they just replaced our horrible fluorescent tubes with dazzling white LED. From bad to worse.
- sysworld 2y agoI have a friend who setup lighting in there garage where he works on servers, he was really proud of his new lights, when I came in, I was shocked to see he picked the worst lights possible, blinding blue/white, flickering, shining directly into your face. I don't know how he does it, but I can't stand it. Also, at work we have fluorescent tubes, it's so bad. Sometimes when I work weekends (by my self), I'll leave them off when I get in, just use natural light. It's so much nicer. Also helps that the building "A/C" is off too. I quote it because it's a sad excuse for A/C which barely cools, just makes a huge amount of noise for doing nothing.
- matsemann 2y agoHad a coworker that could notice the flickering from the bulbs (fluorescent?). I can't see it, but for those who can it's apparently really jarring.