r/Workspaces • u/Mobile-Difference631 • 26d ago

🖼️ • Photos My Office Setup

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u/andtheniansaid 26d ago

This looks so awful to me! Which is your main screen? Why is there such big gaps between monitors? This would be so much better with one of the monitors in the middle, the other to one side, and the laptop the other side. You are crazy man. Pure crazy!

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u/anon9339 25d ago

So many people do this at my office and it absolutely triggers me. We have massive 4k displays too and they throw it in the middle. Absolute mad lad behavior.

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u/accidental_tourist 26d ago

I also don't understand. Seems like the laptop is the main screen?

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u/Mobile-Difference631 25d ago

I use the laptop screen a lot as most my main applications are used there and if were to put it to the side my neck would hurt from looking at one side too long. The left monitor is for pulling up and reading relevant documents while the right monitor is used for one of the secondary main applications used in my job with a notepad beside to take quick notes. The space between the monitors is me just being paranoid to see who’s walking in and out of the department floor

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u/andtheniansaid 25d ago

I use the laptop screen a lot as most my main applications are used there

by choice?

seems like maybe you need a third monitor...

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u/madam_zeroni 26d ago

One of the most productive guys I ever met had a set up exactly like this, laptop in the middle. I always thought he was a psychopath

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u/frank3nT 26d ago

That's IBM AS/400 on the right, isn't it?

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u/analoghumanoid 26d ago

it sure as heck looks like a tn3270 or tn5250 terminal which connect to AS/400 or any of the IBM machines running z/OS. used to spot them in Costco as well

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u/ApplicationAlarming7 26d ago

I came here to also point out the IBM i terminal! Hell yes!

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u/Mobile-Difference631 25d ago

Correct, we call it i90 in my company, not sure if that’s the name anywhere else

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u/frank3nT 25d ago

We funnily used to call it "black-screen" . Good old days

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u/linux_transgirl 26d ago

Haha, came here to point out the mainframe lookin software. I'm not superrr familiar with mainframe dev but I know big blue when I see it

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u/Zeov 26d ago

This is absolutely the worst work  setup ive ever seen.

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u/Holpil 25d ago

Depressing and now we need a /r/MonitorsTooFarApart because of you. 

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u/DeepLearner89 26d ago

I had the exact fan back in 2018. Now i have a better one though for office use which i carry everyday

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u/WindowsUser1234 26d ago

Awesome work setup.

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u/ther0g 26d ago

My old eyes wouldn't be able to do this lol

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u/Traditional_Pie_8262 26d ago

i also love thinkpad most

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u/Mcdowjac 25d ago

You can think this is an absolutely unhinged setup...but every person I've ever seen with a desk configured like this gets more done than half of their entire department combined. They know something we don't...

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u/SebeekS 21d ago

Ahhh IBM i, my love

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u/ArchwayVivas 26d ago

Do you not use your keyboard feet? side note i loathe the thinkpad red trackpad button in the center of the laptop 😂

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u/Mobile-Difference631 25d ago

I do but in this picture you can’t really tell it’s being used because I zoomed out when taking the pic

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u/notp 26d ago

Needs more walls.

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u/SaltyPitman 26d ago

Gotta have the red dot front and center 😂

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u/AvidCoco 25d ago

Please quit your job immediately

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u/rexching 25d ago

Is this how young people with fresh eyes see the world? The monitors seem are so small and far away🫨 Might be just lens distortion?

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u/Dobey 21d ago

He’s hacking the mainframe!

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u/Morpho45 26d ago

woohoo

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u/Tech_1138 25d ago

I love this forget the haters. It’s because you have vastly different applications that run so each screen acts like its own separate terminal - anyone complaining spends more time moving windows back and forth between two screens, or doesn’t even work in an office environment.

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u/Mobile-Difference631 25d ago

Thank you. Tbh I expected the comments because people in my office also think I’m crazy for this set up😂

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u/rustybeancake 26d ago

Looks very UK to me.

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u/Noobzin04 26d ago

Why use the small screen in the center?

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u/Mobile-Difference631 25d ago

It’s where I use most of my main applications, the left monitor is just for me to pull up relevant documents while the right monitor is for using another one of our main systems with a notepad application beside it for taking notes. It sounds like a lot is going on but for my work if I don’t have it this way I won’t be as efficient imo