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Sander Rossel wrote: For now we share the building with aforementioned bank
As long as you don't have dress code it's a plus. It's always nice to see them getting irritated by the lack of aforementioned.
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We're on different floors, so it's not such a big deal
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Sander Rossel wrote: For now we share the building with aforementioned bank (not sure if that's a con actually...).
A bank is involved: of course it's a con!
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OriginalGriff wrote: A bank is involved: of course it's a con! Not if the job's done by a pro.
/ravi
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Sander Rossel wrote: We went to a more open space office plan.
Quick, resign now, with your sanity intact. Or get earplugs.
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+1. I did the second one.
GCS d--- s-/++ a- C++++ U+++ P- L- E-- W++ N++ o+ K- w+++ O? M-- V? PS+ PE- Y+ PGP t++ 5? X R++ tv-- b+ DI+++ D++ G e++>+++ h--- ++>+++ y+++* Weapons extension: ma- k++ F+2 X
If you think 'goto' is evil, try writing an Assembly program without JMP. -- TNCaver
"When you have eliminated the JavaScript, whatever remains must be an empty page." -- Mike Hankey
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Indivara wrote: with your sanity intact Don't make assumptions
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All the pros sound nice.
We're moving in November to a shiny new building in a more prestigious location. Translation: traffic will be more of a nightmare than it is now.
Like someone else said, headphones. The big, over the ear kind. Also, try to get a spot at the periphery of the seating with your back to the wall. Jack your monitors up as high as comfortable. If all that fails, cardboard is your friend.
Open seating was designed by millennials who have FOMO. Give me some frickin' cube walls to isolate myself and so I can hang a white board to think with.
Yeah I'm a geezer.
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What would be the one, reasonable, change that could be made to your place of work to make it better?
Particularly looking forward to Griff's response to this?
I've asked the question, but don't have a ready answer for myself.
Some men are born mediocre, some men achieve mediocrity, and some men have mediocrity thrust upon them.
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I could go back to Windows 7? It's tempting...
And I could get someone to replace the "leather" back to my chair with real leather, rather than having it on my "To Do" list for me to do (I did the seat pad a year ago, but the back is now cracking up)
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Close it.
The language is JavaScript. that of Mordor, which I will not utter here
This is Javascript. If you put big wheels and a racing stripe on a golf cart, it's still a f***ing golf cart.
"I don't know, extraterrestrial?"
"You mean like from space?"
"No, from Canada."
If software development were a circus, we would all be the clowns.
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WALLS. Open spaces SUCK. Especially if it's choke-full of soccerfags soccer enthusiasts and there are at least 4 matches per week.
GCS d--- s-/++ a- C++++ U+++ P- L- E-- W++ N++ o+ K- w+++ O? M-- V? PS+ PE- Y+ PGP t++ 5? X R++ tv-- b+ DI+++ D++ G e++>+++ h--- ++>+++ y+++* Weapons extension: ma- k++ F+2 X
If you think 'goto' is evil, try writing an Assembly program without JMP. -- TNCaver
"When you have eliminated the JavaScript, whatever remains must be an empty page." -- Mike Hankey
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Walls was what I was thinking too.
Although not because of Soccer.
Currently trying not to listen to a conversation two pods of desks over about potatoes.
Some men are born mediocre, some men achieve mediocrity, and some men have mediocrity thrust upon them.
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European potatoes or African potatoes?
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Fried, roast, or boiled.
Some men are born mediocre, some men achieve mediocrity, and some men have mediocrity thrust upon them.
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What? Well, I don't kno....aaaaaaaaaaargh.
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Walls are good.
Doors help as well.
I have both: four walls, a window, and a door which is only closed to keep noise down (either mine while Herself is sleeping, or when I'm trying to concentrate and she is swearing at the TV...)
Cubes don't work for me: too much noise, too many people walking past, too easy to interrupt the thought processes.
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I have three colleagues that talk CONSTANTLY, and loud. They are administratives - they have brief bursts of work then nothing for days - and they totally break concentration, especially on hard algorythmic problems.
When they have nothing to say they go on for days repeating every few seconds a selection sentences of the last B-movie or Internet phenomenon they watched. Plus one of them has the abhorrent habit of repeating hte last word he heard, so if someone is answering the pohne he usually repeat the last word of each sentence.
Plus the technocal assistance, which is made mostly on the phone, is in the same and only open space with the developers and administrative employees... Total chaos. I bought boxes of earplugs... and if the boss sees me using earplugs I risk disciplinary troubles.
GCS d--- s-/++ a- C++++ U+++ P- L- E-- W++ N++ o+ K- w+++ O? M-- V? PS+ PE- Y+ PGP t++ 5? X R++ tv-- b+ DI+++ D++ G e++>+++ h--- ++>+++ y+++* Weapons extension: ma- k++ F+2 X
If you think 'goto' is evil, try writing an Assembly program without JMP. -- TNCaver
"When you have eliminated the JavaScript, whatever remains must be an empty page." -- Mike Hankey
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Likewise.
Open plan office and the guy directly behind me spends most of his day in "motor-mouth" mode, either telling anyone who will listen how to do their job and why his way is better, or on the phone doing the same, plus he has the annoying habit of laughing at his own (so-called) jokes.
Thank God our boss allows us to have headphones
Sometimes, it just is, OK!
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Wow! If I remember correctly this is the same workspace where the employees are allowed to access no more than approximately 7 specific websites. Am I wrong? But watching the telly is fine as the capo is into sports??
Life is too shor
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You remember perfectly. No, the capo is absent almost 4 days a week and he has his own office... carved at the extremes of the room there are offices with glass walls. No noise passes through and he can watch each and every one of us simply turning up his head. Usually when he's "in office" he sleeps or spends 3-4 hours at the nearby cafè then takes leave.
megaadam wrote: But watching the telly is fine as the capo is into sports?? They don't watch the TV in office but talk about the match of the previous evening. 8 hours straight. Violent thoughts arise...
GCS d--- s-/++ a- C++++ U+++ P- L- E-- W++ N++ o+ K- w+++ O? M-- V? PS+ PE- Y+ PGP t++ 5? X R++ tv-- b+ DI+++ D++ G e++>+++ h--- ++>+++ y+++* Weapons extension: ma- k++ F+2 X
If you think 'goto' is evil, try writing an Assembly program without JMP. -- TNCaver
"When you have eliminated the JavaScript, whatever remains must be an empty page." -- Mike Hankey
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And ban the people who try to hold conversations from opposite ends of the office, by shouting. There are usually six or more of these moronic, long distance yaks going on at the same time.
I may not last forever but the mess I leave behind certainly will.
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Herbie Mountjoy wrote: And ban the people who try to hold conversations from opposite ends of the office, by shouting
Ban? Yes, from the planet.
GCS d--- s-/++ a- C++++ U+++ P- L- E-- W++ N++ o+ K- w+++ O? M-- V? PS+ PE- Y+ PGP t++ 5? X R++ tv-- b+ DI+++ D++ G e++>+++ h--- ++>+++ y+++* Weapons extension: ma- k++ F+2 X
If you think 'goto' is evil, try writing an Assembly program without JMP. -- TNCaver
"When you have eliminated the JavaScript, whatever remains must be an empty page." -- Mike Hankey
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