I once seen a blue banker’s lamp at Staples, but when I tried to buy it an extremely rude stockboy took it away because it was the only display copy. It might have something to do with the green color of the banker’s lamp.
It’s interesting to know why the predominant color of the accountant/editor eyeshades is green. I still don’t understand why they wear weird little bands or garters on their sleeves. Now I understood their purpose – it’s to cut down on the glare. This made me remember a stereotypical picture of an accountant or an editor: in cartoons they seem to wear those funny little green visors. Yeah, it might say “Red Carpet With Joan and Melissa Rivers” on it, but the cap really cut the glare down.
Short of building The Tent of Doom over my cube I found some relief by wearing a promotional baseball cap that found it’s way onto my desk. Tesla unleash such an evil invention upon us? Anyway, even after jumping through a few hoops to get the lamp directly over my cubicle turned off and talking most of my co-workers into turning theirs off (everyone seems to like it better without them), there’s still way too much glare from remaining lamps. One of the things that I hate the most about my job is overhead fluorescent lights.
