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our deepest sympathies on that - not on the perfect job, but the s&m bit..:sigh:
You get my vote for best reply of the day. :laugh:
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Hi, How important is the working atmosphere at your work place to you? Does these factors decide whether you quit your job or not? 1. Good air conditioning 2. Comfortable chairs and desk 3. PC with good configuration 4. Availability of good food at work or nearby. 5. Access to internet without restrictions 6. Hygienic surroundings. 7. Spacious work place 8. Descent pay 9. Opportunity to learn new technology related to work 10.Friendly colleagues I feel all the above would be close to a perfect job. But unfortunately I do not have most them at my work place. Any comments on this? Regards, Blumen
I have all but #9.
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Hi, How important is the working atmosphere at your work place to you? Does these factors decide whether you quit your job or not? 1. Good air conditioning 2. Comfortable chairs and desk 3. PC with good configuration 4. Availability of good food at work or nearby. 5. Access to internet without restrictions 6. Hygienic surroundings. 7. Spacious work place 8. Descent pay 9. Opportunity to learn new technology related to work 10.Friendly colleagues I feel all the above would be close to a perfect job. But unfortunately I do not have most them at my work place. Any comments on this? Regards, Blumen
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Hi, How important is the working atmosphere at your work place to you? Does these factors decide whether you quit your job or not? 1. Good air conditioning 2. Comfortable chairs and desk 3. PC with good configuration 4. Availability of good food at work or nearby. 5. Access to internet without restrictions 6. Hygienic surroundings. 7. Spacious work place 8. Descent pay 9. Opportunity to learn new technology related to work 10.Friendly colleagues I feel all the above would be close to a perfect job. But unfortunately I do not have most them at my work place. Any comments on this? Regards, Blumen
1. Important, but not critical. You can always bring your own fan. 2. I think this is essential for coders. 3. Required. I just had to pull tooth and nail to get my RAM upgraded, and I work for a computer manufacturing company. Go figure. 4. Could care less. I live two miles from home and usually go home for lunch. We do have an onsite cafeteria that is pretty good. I get scrambled eggs with fresh veggies each morning. 5. I used to work for a company that 'selectivly' watched some people and not others. I got busted for going to CNN. If I want to take 10 minutes to read the news, so what? So I find this important. 6. I don't need it ultra-clean but obviously bad hygeine can lead to sickness. My boss chews tobacco which seem a bit unhygeinic to me, but it's allowed. 7. If you work with multiple towers, required. I hate kicking towers each time I move my chair. 8. You have to pay the bills. However, if you love what you do, you can work for less and get better satisfaction. 9. We don't really have that here that I know of but I can get reimbursed for training, classes etc which is nice. 10. I don't have friends at work because of the age difference, but no one is really unfriendly. I usually sit with my headphones on most of the day. Someone mentioned a quiet workplace which I have to say is important. I work in a line of cubicles with soccer moms who need to discuss American Idol, Gray's Anatomy, and their kids at least 2 hours a day.
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11. Admin rights on your system
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Hi, How important is the working atmosphere at your work place to you? Does these factors decide whether you quit your job or not? 1. Good air conditioning 2. Comfortable chairs and desk 3. PC with good configuration 4. Availability of good food at work or nearby. 5. Access to internet without restrictions 6. Hygienic surroundings. 7. Spacious work place 8. Descent pay 9. Opportunity to learn new technology related to work 10.Friendly colleagues I feel all the above would be close to a perfect job. But unfortunately I do not have most them at my work place. Any comments on this? Regards, Blumen
Surely only people like parachutists, skiers and bobsleigh teams need "descent pay"?
Phil
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Hi, How important is the working atmosphere at your work place to you? Does these factors decide whether you quit your job or not? 1. Good air conditioning 2. Comfortable chairs and desk 3. PC with good configuration 4. Availability of good food at work or nearby. 5. Access to internet without restrictions 6. Hygienic surroundings. 7. Spacious work place 8. Descent pay 9. Opportunity to learn new technology related to work 10.Friendly colleagues I feel all the above would be close to a perfect job. But unfortunately I do not have most them at my work place. Any comments on this? Regards, Blumen
blumenhause wrote:
1. Good air conditioning
Wind gusting at 40 mph with 50C temperatures.
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2. Comfortable chairs and desk
Real men find rocks comfortable enough.
blumenhause wrote:
3. PC with good configuration
We don't need no stinkin' computers.
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4. Availability of good food at work or nearby.
Plentiful game; if I can stun it with a rock, I can cook it in daylight under a broken shard of beer bottle.
blumenhause wrote:
5. Access to internet without restrictions
I'm the admin; I'll download anything I want.
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6. Hygienic surroundings.
Absolutely! Nothing can live here, even bacteria.
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7. Spacious work place
Is 200 to 500 miles of open desert spacious enough for you?
blumenhause wrote:
8. Descent pay
Not sure what descent pay is, but we get to keep whatever we find if we have to descend into an old mine shaft. For regular work, though, we get paid decent by local standards.
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9. Opportunity to learn new technology related to work
I'm always learning something new, though the technology used in this business is at least twenty years old.
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10.Friendly colleagues
They're friendly enough after I get a few beers in them, but I don't sit with my back to a door on Monday mornings...
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11. Admin rights on your system
"Why don't you tie a kerosene-soaked rag around your ankles so the ants won't climb up and eat your candy ass..." - Dale Earnhardt, 1997
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11. Admin rights on your system
You are definitely sore about that, aren't you? :)
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Hi, How important is the working atmosphere at your work place to you? Does these factors decide whether you quit your job or not? 1. Good air conditioning 2. Comfortable chairs and desk 3. PC with good configuration 4. Availability of good food at work or nearby. 5. Access to internet without restrictions 6. Hygienic surroundings. 7. Spacious work place 8. Descent pay 9. Opportunity to learn new technology related to work 10.Friendly colleagues I feel all the above would be close to a perfect job. But unfortunately I do not have most them at my work place. Any comments on this? Regards, Blumen
Right now, I have: 4. Availability of good food at work or nearby. 10.Friendly colleagues Here's the rest: 1. Good air conditioning (no, it's usually freezing one minute, hot the next) 2. Comfortable chairs and desk (no, 1942 surplus) 3. PC with good configuration (no, we're not admins on our own machines) 5. Access to internet without restrictions (no, severely locked down) 6. Hygienic surroundings. (they try to keep it clean but the "animals" here do their best to task the cleaning staff). 7. Spacious work place (average at best) 8. Descent pay (Less than I've made elsewhere) 9. Opportunity to learn new technology related to work
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[edit]This is what I think things should be like, not necessarily what my workplace is like[/edit] 1. Yes 2. Yes 3. Yes 4. If you mean food at the office, yes. If you mean company policies allowing food to be consumed at the desk, NO! 5. Without restrictions? Surely pr0n and warez sites should be blocked? 6. Yes 7. Yes 8. Yes! 9. Yes 10. Yes
blumenhause wrote:
But unfortunately I do not have most them at my work place. Any comments on this?
I think this[^] will be of some help. :) -- modified at 7:15 Wednesday 9th May, 2007
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byalmightybobVikram A Punathambekar wrote:
5. Without restrictions? Surely pr0n and warez sites should be blocked?
Not really. The employees at my workplace have enough professionalism to keep this kind of thing at home. Web site visits are recorded, but logs are never looked at unless there is a good reason for doing so... Of course, this is a small company (~50 employees) and much of our work requires unfettered access to the internet for research purposes.
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11. Admin rights on your system
"Why don't you tie a kerosene-soaked rag around your ankles so the ants won't climb up and eat your candy ass..." - Dale Earnhardt, 1997
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"...the staggering layers of obscenity in your statement make it a work of art on so many levels." - Jason Jystad, 10/26/2001John Simmons / outlaw programmer wrote:
11. Admin rights on your system
this is a real sore point with you at the moment isn't it?! :)
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12. Convenient workout facilities. Ideally (like where I work), in the building itself.
Software Zen:
delete this;I guess I lucked out. When my company's DoD contract expired last year (they actually missed the paperwork deadline by 2 months :wtf:) I *decided* to find another job. I wound up getting a job that allows me to work from home 2 days a week, got me an MSDN subscription and scores a yes on all 10 items listed. I can even say "yes" to the proposed item 11 (beer on tap) on the days I work from home. :)
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We've got it really, really nice where I work. When we built our current building 7-8 years ago, they planned for and built a fitness room and locker facilities. We've got club-quality equipment, with a two treadmills, two elliptical machines, a stepper, a stationary bike, and a rower. We also have a nice Universal-style gym and a set of free weights and benches. The space is nice and roomy as well. We've had people using the all of the equipment, and there's floor space left over for a line-dancing class. On top of that, our location is ideal. We've got 8-10 running routes around our building, ranging from flat to hilly, roads or trails, and from 3 to 8 miles. I can commute to work on my bicycle (I live 12 miles away) and stay on bike paths most of the way, if I want. These are major inducements for me. Every time the crap starts running too fast and deep, I try to remember why I'm here: to run and work out at lunch :-D.
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I guess I lucked out. When my company's DoD contract expired last year (they actually missed the paperwork deadline by 2 months :wtf:) I *decided* to find another job. I wound up getting a job that allows me to work from home 2 days a week, got me an MSDN subscription and scores a yes on all 10 items listed. I can even say "yes" to the proposed item 11 (beer on tap) on the days I work from home. :)
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More monitors is always a good thing. I have two 19's right now and I am trying to get either a 21 inch to add or a third 19. The quality of one monitor has to be good, the other two don't matter. I now will not work for a company unless I have at least two monitors. My 2cents worth!
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Think viewing area. I find that VStudio requires alot of space as well as anything else I might have open for development. With one monitor you are stuck tabbing around between windows, where with two monitors you can easily spread your workspace out. When I am debugging, I like to have the editor window open in one monitor and my stacktrace, immediate, watch ect. opened in the other window. So it is all about not having to flip around between windows to view them. Also, I like to keep my mail, rss and music programs in one and my code window in the other. Aaron
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