Many years ago I worked in an office building than ran almost exactly southwest to northeast.?ÿ In my head, it ran north to south.?ÿ In my co-worker in the next office's head, it ran east to west.?ÿ We quickly learned not to tell anyone to go a certain direction in the building to reach a specific office.?ÿ It was simpler to step to the door and point towards some other portal then explain to turn left or right at that point.
I was transferred TDY for a few months once and crammed into a "prairie dog farm" of office cubicles.?ÿ My main function was the creation of easement documents.?ÿ This included plotting existing easements and, with the help of field data files, making the new easements parallel existing easements in the area.
The cubicles were just large enough to place a desk against one wall.?ÿ Mine faced south and it caused me all sorts of heartache.?ÿ The simple solution was to reverse the desk and have it face north...no can do.?ÿ The pre-wired power and computer hookups were fixed in the floor and the cables weren't long enough for the 'flip'.
I pulled the desk as far as I could away from the south wall so I could sit on the south side of the desk and face north.?ÿ The trouble was that I had to actually climb over the desk to get to the chair.?ÿ I endured, it really wasn't a problem unless someone yelled 'fire'.
Since I was on TDY the office manager wasn't actually in my T.O. he had little say about my day to day activities.?ÿ Every time he would "suggest" I do something different I would tell him "I'll be gone soon enough".?ÿ The day I cleaned out my stuff he told me he was glad I was leaving.
I told him we finally agreed on something.?ÿ 😉
PS - I left the desk in its modified position.
Our downtown streets are nearly parallel and perpendicular to the river, which mostly flows SE. This is a region where most roads follow the PLSS lines.?ÿ Just like your building, people here don't always agree on the directions.
I've always seen that and have wondered if it also came out of you dark & stormy too similar to jager? I have finally matured & stick with whiskey or vodka only where possible. These days I'm just fine with a couple glasses of nice bold red for dinner too
