• RandomUserName123 [none/use name]@hexbear.net
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      1 year ago

      Open office I worked at constantly had music playing(“Just put on headphones”, management being too dumb/selfcentered to understand that that raises the noise floor and makes it so people have to talk louder) and people constantly calling.

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        1 year ago

        “Just put on headphones”

        This is what the people who want to play music should do, though. The problem is, if the management is one of them.

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      Exactly. I wouldn’t mind that at all. Instead I have open space with one desk close to one another and people around me have meetings all day long and they just talk to somebody constantly. There are not enough conference rooms for everyone, so there’s nothing one could do about it. It annoys me so much that I prefer to stay at home to work, even though I would definitely prefer office if it just wasn’t so noisy and annoying.

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    1 year ago

    I’m pretty sure that’s code for “understaffed and lots of unpaid overtime”.

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    Where can I apply for such companies? I’d rather have this office than the open office crap we get these days.

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      Right? It was a real meme talking shit about cubicles as white collar prisons. How horribly horribly wrong they were. It’s open offices that are the 9th stage of hell as far as I’m concerned.

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        1 year ago

        First word of every letter?

        Also I believe this is because some text fields are accidentally recognized as name inputs? It seems to happen automatically for my friends sometimes.

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      Boomers have done it for years as a lazy erratic way to emphasize words, seemingly because of all the accumulated lead setting in, and boomer heroes like Trump do it all the time, normalizing it further.

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    With that chair? No, thanks. My back is hurting just by looking at it. Nothing like laying on the couch at home while working.

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      1 year ago

      Neo’s desk isn’t as bad as the “open office” shit that came afterward, where it’s even more oppressively surveilled and creepy asshole bosses have that much more means to make every moment a panopticon of misery.

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    In my experience every tech job takes place in a former industrial building that has been converted to office space by real estate speculants.

    Apparently you need to see exposed brick to code effectively.