Our offices were recently remodeled. Here is the window one poor sap got left with.

Or a really narrow set of horizontal blinds, that way he can more easily adjust how bright he wants his sliver of daylight to be.

Hey hey, now THAT's thinking outside the mailing tube.

Little dim in here... twist twist twist twist twist twist ahh, much better.

Oh man this is the first time I've upvoted a comment in this sub. That is hysterical. (The CSS, that is)

That would be a real slim shade

The Shred of Dignity

Or a full set of curtains that he can then lavishly open to reveal his sliver?

Embrasure:

In military architecture, an embrasure is the opening in a crenellation or battlement between the two raised solid portions or merlons, sometimes called a crenel or crenelle. In domestic architecture this refers to the outward splay of a window or arrow slit on the inside.

A loophole, arrow loop or arrow slit passes through a solid wall and was originally for use by [archers](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bow_(weapon)). The purpose of embrasures is to allow weapons to be fired out from the fortification while the firer remains under cover. The splay of the wall on the inside provides room for the soldier and his equipment, and allows them to get as close to the wall face and arrow slit itself as possible. Excellent examples of deep embrasures with arrow slits are to be seen at Aigues-Mortes and Château de Coucy, both in France.

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Get one of these, mount it on a tripod next to the window.

Also good when the rabble gets roused.

I read a lot of fantasy books, and I've never heard them called 'embrasures'.

TIL.

...from a catapult.

As an architect, it's possible that the architect (if there was one) screwed up. But the way these buildouts work, the contractor goes into the empty space, and one of the first things they do is to mark out where the walls are going on the floor. At that point, it's totally obvious that this wall was going to align very close to the edge of the window. That's before any studs are put in or any wiring is done, etc. At this stage of construction, these are little more than chalk lines on the subfloor. It's generally very easy to shift the walls a few inches so that this office would either get a bit more window, or no window at all.

There's a fair chance that there wasn't an architect involved, or, if there was, the owner went with the cheapest bozo they could find to "stamp some plans" for permits and didn't have anyone with a brain overseeing the construction, resulting in the contractor just plowing ahead despite the obvious mess that was being created.

This is actually quite common. Most office buildings are just a shell. If you need 7 same sized offices on a wall with only 5 windows someone is getting screwed. My old office, only the corner offices had full windows.

Having worked in construction for over a decade I have no doubt the general contractor brought this issue up a dozen or more times and the decision not to move that wall 4 inches to the left was made to the bafflement of everyone by someone making 9 times the salary of the site superintendent.

This happens all the time. Sometimes the specifications of remodel do not fit the original build....

Through that window

Lol prob a rookie .....do you even read prints Bro?

This should be the top comment.

Me too. Mushrooms unite!

There are literally zero windows in every building I've ever worked in in my adult life.

I would take a pay cut for a window at this point.

I worked in an office with no windows for six years. I would have killed a coworker for this much lighting from outside. :/

OP

Done and done, thx

It's still more of a view than I get at my desk. :(

I'm glad you wrote "virtually eliminates". Defenestration still possible ... Just a hell of a lot more unpleasant.

Especially on days he has a blistering headache.

But how does the part of the window behind the wall get cleaned? :[

Why is that?

Sure there is! The windows are 11 feet apart, the new cubical walls are 10.7 feet apart!

Do you ever hear that echoing sound of a fart bouncing off the bottom of a toilet bowl?

That's exactly the kind of windows the local county jail has. You can see them when you drive by on the expressway.

It's really not though...

Not so much. It seems like sort of taunt.

WWU has some pretty funky architecture to begin with.

It would be very rare for an office remodel to include changing out the windows. What happens is the area is wrecked out, possibly down to just what is structurally Required to hold the building up: carpet gone, walls gone, suspended ceiling gone, cubicals gone. Then you have an empty area that can be rebuilt in any fashion you like, by landing a new floor, new walls, a new ceiling and so on.

The prints given to the general contractor would indicate where the walls should go, and usually you'd notice the problem and talk the customer into moving that wall so it didn't leave some poor guy with a window slice. Sometimes though the suit who is in charge of the construction for the customer will not allow what seems like a reasonable change for some reason, like needing certain clearances for furniture or equipment, or because he's an idiot who's not qualified to have his job and is terrified of making a change that ends up wrong and exposes him as useless.

Damn, Microsoft...

Sorry I never replied, I totally abandoned this account. Looks like a normal building, this is exactly what happened.