In addition, the plaintiffs charged, white employees earned more than black and Hispanic workers performing the same jobs, and those who complained faced punishments like being reassigned to dusty basement desks or to an office far from home.
The basement apartment, makeshift desk and tuna casserole were a bit much, but she made as persuasive a case as possible that certain experiences falling in love, childrearing, illness, the work inherent in a long marriage transcend wealth and class.
Meanwhile, in an office in the basement, at a desk where a computer monitor displays feeds from nine security cameras, Jason and Sunnie Kim were pondering how things had gone so wrong for a place that they and their son, Aaron, have owned for only four months.
But a week later, we spent a night in the dungeon: Room 100, a dark basement chamber with a desk jutting into its center.
Ricigliano's upstairs desk and basement drafting table are overwhelmed by the toys, dolls, pennants, hats, pens and Pez dispensers that have taken residence there.
The statue of the general is in the basement, across from the desk Mr. Seid uses as the commanding officer of the auxiliary police.
At one meeting last winter, Linda Coles, who started the business almost 30 years ago with a few charges in her father-in-law's basement, sat at her desk pulling lettuce, tomatoes and grilled chicken out of a bag.
That doesn't mean you have to be confined to a basement or even a desk job just because you're an introvert.
Find a safe location where you'll be able to store the bottle upright, such as inside a bathroom cabinet, in a basement, or behind a desk.
For your correspondent, the conversion began a year and a half ago, when he moved his office from rented space into his basement, purchased an adjustable standing desk and, shortly afterwards, a flat treadmill designed to work at low speeds underneath the desk while displaying miles walked.
