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Wow! Look!! A stray meatball!! Let's interview it!
(Score: 1, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Monday November 30 2015, @03:14AM
at age 45. Bwahahahaha... ♬Take this job and shove it, I don't have to work no more♬
(Score: 1, Touché) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday December 02 2015, @02:49AM
Must be single or have no kids.
(Score: 5, Touché) by LoRdTAW on Thursday December 03 2015, @11:08PM
I'm betting he's on the new US retirement plan: replaced by an H1B, divorced after loosing job, living in a cardboard box and posted this from the library before buying 2 40's with the money he got from panhandling.
(Score: 1, Touché) by Anonymous Coward on Friday December 04 2015, @02:42PM
He should tighten it again, or he might lose it. ;-)
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday December 05 2015, @06:48PM
None of the above. I saved instead of partied, paid my mortgage off 15 years early, 4 kids, cars paid off, no outstanding loans or credit card balances. Still married but sent my wife to work after I retired, she didn't have to but it's nice to not have her nagging me 24/7. I started working at age 15 while still in high school, and worked hard for 30 years.
(Score: 2) by jasassin on Sunday December 06 2015, @02:19AM
What the fuck does this mean? Seriously, wtf?
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(Score: 3, Informative) by AndyTheAbsurd on Wednesday December 09 2015, @07:17PM
"Loose" (as a verb) is the opposite of "tighten". "Lose" is the opposite of "gain". However, common internet parlance has added another "o" to "lose". I hate it and wish people would learn to spell "lose" properly.
Please note my username before responding. You may have been trolled.
(Score: 2) by richtopia on Monday November 30 2015, @04:18AM
I had a cubicle, but the floor is getting refinished. In the meantime, I get to find a new flex desk every day and carry everything required to do my job in a backpack.
I know that cube farms have a bad rep, but the alternative can be worse. I liked having a desk with a lock and some level of privacy during my work.
(Score: 2) by urza9814 on Friday December 04 2015, @03:31PM
I had a cubicle when I first started this job. I'd damn near kill to get that back.
Right now I'm in...open plan I think? Is that the one where you're constantly fighting your coworkers just to get a chair that isn't broken and half a foot of desk space straddling a filing cabinet? It's built like giant 10 person cubicles, and then they try to stick 12-20 people in each. We do have semi-permanent assigned areas for each team, but you can't even leave a charging cable there overnight or it'll be gone by the time you get in the next day.
At least they're using full sized cube walls though? The only way this could get worse is if they did it with those half height things...
The way they do meetings around here is great too...I've been working on a laptop stand that'll attach to my belt so I can take notes while standing in a hallway. Because that's where about half of our meetings are.
And this is from a company near the top of the Fortune 500 list...
(Score: 2, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Monday November 30 2015, @09:23AM
All of the poll answers seem to assume some kind of office work.
(Score: 3, Funny) by isostatic on Monday November 30 2015, @12:07PM
Not all of them. "Other" is one for example.
(Score: 3, Touché) by Anonymous Coward on Monday November 30 2015, @04:52PM
A room where two or three people work (I don't know if there's a specific term for it; I'd just term it "normal office").
(Score: 1, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday December 02 2015, @02:50AM
jail cell?
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday December 03 2015, @04:12AM
The Champagne Room?
(Score: 2) by Runaway1956 on Monday November 30 2015, @06:15PM
I'm all over the plant. We have WIFI, but it's worthless. The - uhhh - "administrator" is a clueless fool who knows less about administering computers or networks than the average high school kid. He is the one to call tech support when things go wrong. Half the people in the plant are computer illiterate, and the rest of us just have to work around them. Even up front, in the offices, people who know what they are doing have to work around the IT clown.
Despite the fact that we have all the computers we could use, despite a pretty decent server, we are reduced to dead tree paper reports for almost everything.
I can't even get manuals put on the computer, or the network drive. The damned fool I work for has prints, manuals, everything you can imagine on his laptop, but he won't put any of it on the network drive. It gives him a sense of power and importance to be the only ___________ with an electronic copy of a print.
Environment? Call it caustic, I guess.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday December 01 2015, @11:31AM
Your place has the BOFH?
Wow. I always wondered where he actually worked.
(Score: 2) by Geotti on Tuesday December 01 2015, @04:33PM
Uhm... I wouldn't call the BOFH "a clueless fool who knows less about administering computers or networks than the average high school kid." You obviously didn't meet her yet.
(Score: 2) by aristarchus on Monday December 07 2015, @06:55AM
Wow. I always wondered where he actually worked.
Dost thou referest to the mighty BOFH of Registar fame, or our own lowly Runaway of some undeterminate year? If Runaway, I imagine, with no particular evidence, that the "plant" involves reducing live chickens to dead chicken parts and shipping them to various places, some of which are extremely unfriendly to homosexuals, because, you know, chickens are almost exclusively homosexual. And if you are in an industry that deals with the insides of chickens, it is almost an certainty that at some point you will end up finding attraction to either chickens (which is just sick), or to people of your own same gender, which according to the chicken-fuckers in Arkansas, is even more sick. But just think, do you want to eat a chicken that some one from Arkansas has had sex with? Check out "Chik-f-lay no more". Pervs.
(Score: 2) by Joe Desertrat on Thursday December 03 2015, @07:15PM
Despite the fact that we have all the computers we could use, despite a pretty decent server, we are reduced to dead tree paper reports for almost everything.
That drives me nuts. I had a boss who would print out a whole general ledger just to look at a single entry instead of printing it to screen and scrolling to it. Then he would make an entry to change it and print it again...
(Score: 2) by maxwell demon on Wednesday December 09 2015, @09:18PM
He didn't make the change on paper, scan it in and run an OCR program on it? :-)
The Tao of math: The numbers you can count are not the real numbers.
(Score: 2) by Joe Desertrat on Thursday December 10 2015, @02:35AM
He didn't make the change on paper, scan it in and run an OCR program on it? :-)
Whoah! That is way more computer than he was ever going to use!
(Score: 3, Interesting) by n1 on Monday November 30 2015, @07:48PM
Really, there is no regular working environment for me, outside, inside, residential, commercial, desk job, technical/supervisor, manual labour, home working, commuting, traveling.
Depends on who the client is, the project and what my role in it is.
(Score: 2) by Appalbarry on Monday November 30 2015, @11:34PM
We operate a commercial dog-walking business, so most of my day is spent in a truck, doing pick ups and drop offs, or on mountain trails hiking.
Consequently the bulk of my computer type work is done on a smart phone, with only bookkeeping done in the office. (Although all of the bookkeeping software companies are trying to convince me to move to cloud based services. Should I ever be that foolish I may wind up doing accounting on my phone as well.)
(Score: 1, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Friday December 04 2015, @03:58PM
> dog-walking business... doing pick ups
(Score: 1, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday December 01 2015, @11:35AM
"Hell, with fluro lighting"
FTFY
I work near the office hyena :-(
Nehahahaha! *snort* AHAHHAAHHAAHAHah *sniff* heynanahaha
It is basically the female version of Loud Howard with a hyena laugh and snorting
Everything is funny. Everything.
(Score: 4, Funny) by MadTinfoilHatter on Friday December 04 2015, @10:10AM
Hell, with fluro lighting
Seconded. Open plan offices wouldn't have to be terrible, but in my experience, they almost invariably are. If people had the courtecy to behave appropriately, it could wor, but...
I work near the office hyena :-(
...in practice there's always that one guy that makes the experience miserable. Here a a few of my experiences:
The man and the ringtone: A guy from marketing, who spends a lot of time on the phone, and receives a lot of calls, but "forgets" it at his desk whenever he leaves it. Naturally he's set his ringtone to max volume, and chosen the most annoying one in the universe. (The sound of an oridinary ringtone modified to sound like the battery is dying.)
The computer whisperer: At first this guy almost had me doubting my sanity, when I would hear mumbling in an otherwise quiet office in the morning. (Both of us usually came in fairly early.) Soon I noticed, though, that the voices would appear only when he was present, and after I started paying more attention to him, I noticed that he would engage id frequent mumbling/whispering conversations with his computer screen.
The gum chewer: The amount of gum he would go through in a day boggled my mind. That wouldn't in itself have been so bad if the asshat had only figured out that one can chew with one's mouth closed. That, and the fact that he sat right next to me.
The radio: Someone actually thougt that bringing a radio to an open plan office was an acceptable thing to do. If I hadn't been able to torpedo this initiative, I would literally have gone postal.
The office chair tap dancer: This guy is my current nemesis. Almost all the time he's seated in his chair, he spends tapping his feet against the floor, creating a tap-dance-resembling noise, except without the rythm. Sometimes he involves his hands as well going right into an improvised drum solo. In the open office. Out of all the people he's probably the most annoying so far, because he's in it for the long run. He can literally go on for hours, 5 days a week, 52 weeks a year. Sigh.
And as for the guy who invented the open plan office: Fuck him with a cactus and fuck his hamster. May he spend eternity in open plan Gehenna together with all the people who make the open plan into the misery it is.
(Score: 2) by DeathMonkey on Tuesday December 01 2015, @05:59PM
That's a lot of folks in Open Plan offices!
I would find that incredibly distracting....
(Score: 1, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday December 01 2015, @06:06PM
You have no idea how distracting it is. Worst. Environment. Ever.
While the goals and benefits of an open plan are real, and some companies actually realize them, the vast majority of companies use Open Plan to pack more people into the same square footage as a cost reduction move. It's crazy, but it's becoming the norm. Only smart companies are doing it right, and smart companies are rare.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday December 01 2015, @08:13PM
Where I work there's a big open bullpen filled with people who never talk to each other.
They use a chatroom for communicating.
Yes, they're all under 30--why did you ask?
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday December 02 2015, @04:06AM
Yeah, except that I don't want to be within line of sight of filthy normies if I can help it, so open office plans are necessarily bad to me.
(Score: 3, Interesting) by ikanreed on Thursday December 03 2015, @10:02PM
It is soul crushing.
If you have an open plan job, you should quit that job. There are scant exceptions, but my policy is to find out the layout, and refuse on that grounds if I'm job hunting. Cramming people into tight spaces with no privacy destroyed my productivity at a previous job. Like... 25% of what it had been. Do not accept this shit.
(Score: 3, Interesting) by Snotnose on Friday December 04 2015, @10:36AM
Back when I had a pesky job I was making upwards of 100k/yr. Smart companies gave me an office, iffy companies gave me a cube. Never been forced into an open plan but I can guarantee that that work environment would cut my productivity by at least 50%. I have had jobs where I spent most of my time in a lab. But in those cases I had enough equipment piled around that it effectively formed the walls of a virtual cube.
FWIW, I did mostly linux kernel work and device drivers for a variety of RTOS's.
My ducks are not in a row. I don't know where some of them are, and I'm pretty sure one of them is a turkey.
(Score: 2) by slinches on Wednesday December 02 2015, @04:52AM
We used to have individual 6'x8' cubes, but they decided that wasn't crowded enough so now we have 6'x12' cubes that two people share. Of course they arrange the desks so four people all face the same corner which means everyone is talking on their headsets directly at people who aren't in the conversation but are sitting no more than five feet away. At least the walls are high enough that I have to stand to glare at whoever is distracting me most at the moment.
Oh yeah, they also converted a couple of the conference rooms into added cube space at the same time. Now they're always so overbooked that most people gave up and just have meetings at their desks.
(Score: 1, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday December 02 2015, @01:28PM
I work in a simple all beige shoulder high walled 6'x6' cubicle cell 10 hours a day that is apart of a larger 300+ cubicle cell community of IT professionals. My cubicle cell is illuminated by ceiling mounted non-covered fluorescent lights 4' above my head. There is no access to sunlight. There are approximately 40 individual 20'x25' offices that surround the cubicles illuminated by floor to ceiling windows and personally selected lighting by their occupants. These offices remain 50-70% unused due to the fact that the assigned occupants cannot be found at any given time. Oh the overwhelming joys.
(Score: 4, Touché) by toygeek on Thursday December 03 2015, @01:36AM
They're probably out collecting TPS reports.
There is no Sig. Okay, maybe a short one. http://miscdotgeek.com
(Score: 3, Funny) by Hartree on Saturday December 05 2015, @05:30AM
I work in a 3 person shop chock full of machine tools, workbenches, parts cabinets and shelves. It's amazing we have space to change our minds, let alone repair all the things we do.