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Re: Operations: where are you going to sit?
- From: mdevney
- Date: Tue Dec 05 20:12:39 2000
On 5 Dec 2000, Sean Donelan wrote:
> Key features for a NOC:
> 1) Good chairs
> 2) Quiet
> 3) Adequate ice maker
> 4) Lots of bookshelves, file cabinets, and personal storage
> 5) Lots of phone lines (including conference and analog)
> 6) Some direct phone(s) (not through PBX, i.e. Red Phones)
> 7) Multiple PCs/Workstations per operator
> 8) Private tunes (cd player & headset)
> 9) CNN and The Weather Channel (really ESPN)
> 10) Drapes across the glass window
To which I would add from my own years in a NOC:
- Low light (especially halogens -- flourescents are a killer)
- Ready access to sodas, company-paid pref. (coffee is nice, but soda is
necessary.)
- Wide aisles, so people can -run- in an emergency
- Binder containing phone numbers for telco contacts, management up to and
including CEO, etc.
- Kooshes or similar toys for slow grave shifts.
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