Working At Open-Plan Office Was So F_cking Annoying
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Who the f_ck said it can enhance colleagues communication of a company? F_ck that.
Just stand up and shout out "Who the f_ck said it can enhance colleagues communication of a company? F_ck that." :doh:
In code we trust !
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Who the f_ck said it can enhance colleagues communication of a company? F_ck that.
Bosses that likes to keep a more direct eye on their employees, and save the costs of walls and a bit of floor space.
Wrong is evil and must be defeated. - Jeff Ello[^]
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Who the f_ck said it can enhance colleagues communication of a company? F_ck that.
I can't understand why, after three hours, no-one had upvoted the OP's post. Can your managers see what you're doing?
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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Who the f_ck said it can enhance colleagues communication of a company? F_ck that.
open plan is designed to give a positive FINANCIAL outcome to the company, it is not designed for the comfort of the employees. What pisses me off is that I get paid more than the bloody managers and they still get to squirrel themselves away in an office. I have started calling the office "the kindergarten" it is slowly getting through to some people that having high volume discussion in mandarin over my head is not conducive to getting work done!
Never underestimate the power of human stupidity RAH
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Who the f_ck said it can enhance colleagues communication of a company? F_ck that.
I have earplugs for when the person who sits one desk away shouts(their normal conversation level is shouting, they do not appear to have a quiet mode). :(
“That which can be asserted without evidence, can be dismissed without evidence.”
― Christopher Hitchens
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Who the f_ck said it can enhance colleagues communication of a company? F_ck that.
Agreed. And I think it's hilarious to have an "open office" to improve communications, yet read the # of ear plugs / head phones suggestions. Here's your sign....
Charlie Gilley Stuck in a dysfunctional matrix from which I must escape... "Where liberty dwells, there is my country." B. Franklin, 1783 “They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.” BF, 1759
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Who the f_ck said it can enhance colleagues communication of a company? F_ck that.
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I've spent most of my long career in open plan. Even when I was the Manager. I think you get used to it and it can be a bit entertaining at time, but a damn nuisance when you need to nut out a problem...or there's obnoxious people close by. In which case its just ear plugs and music. Some people just have ear plugs but not plugged into anything.
Never mind ear plugs/head phones, I'd need one of these[^] monstrosities to block out all the visual noise from people moving around between my monitors and the wall.
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, waging all things in the balance of reason? Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful? --Zachris Topelius Training a telescope on one’s own belly button will only reveal lint. You like that? You go right on staring at it. I prefer looking at galaxies. -- Sarah Hoyt
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Only thing worst, your the only programmer in an open office call center and having the disgusting memory of watching a person using a collapsible back scratcher. The only solution was to leave, best move ever to keep my sanity.
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Bosses that likes to keep a more direct eye on their employees, and save the costs of walls and a bit of floor space.
Wrong is evil and must be defeated. - Jeff Ello[^]
Yeah, the babysitting office. At my ex company they "imporved on that"... Spent a fortune on function-less design. Threw out perfectly good office furniture to switch to perfectly useless IKEA counter tables, where you couldn't put anything other than your laptop and desk phone. In the cold/wet season we had to drop our umbrellas and extras under the desks on the floor. After 3 months from the "opening up", the CTO walked down to a buddy of mine and asked him nicely, "Would you mind switching places with X over there? I'm kind of tired looking at your face whole day.."
