I'd prefer this over the open-floor plan with shared desks we get currently
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I like our open space plan, personally. It's full of plants and green, which makes it less clinical, full kf sound dampening, which makes it less oppressively noisy and also full of people I get along with well, which makes quick across-the-desks banter more fun.
At least this one is clean and tidy. My colleagues like to "decorate" with old dusty circuit boards, cables and stacks of paper
Some people consider "may you have an exciting life" a curse
Holy shit, they get a LAMP?!
The ability to control your own lighting, that's how I know this image is AI
Maybe the building starts sailing through the city like the opener to that one Monty Python film. 🤷♂️
I was so confused the first time I popped in that VHS, thought I'd gotten a mislabeled cassette.
The crimson financial assurance I think it was? Probably my fave python bit
ok but those are the same cisco phones they have at CTU in 24, I wouldn't get too complacent
One monitor? You monsters.
Fast paced = we have understaffed and expect you to do more than your share of the work. Exciting = as people with better prospects leave our untenable work environment you will be expected to take on their responsibilities with no extra pay.
A genuine cubicle like that would be a luxury
I don't know. My first job was in a cubicle and it was in the middle of a large floor. There wasn't any natural light and the cubicles spread in all directions for what felt like forever. Like, its nice to have your personal space but it sucks to have the hours blend together because you're in a liminal space where you can't tell if you're alive or dead.
I had a QA position at a game company and there weren't any windows on the open dev floor, only the break room and lobby. On top of that, they kept us testers in a freezing/sweaty separate room. Crunch dinners in that cramped hell were so fragrant.
It was interesting, but never again.
Oof, that's rough. Makes me appreciate the law here in germany that employees work stations in an office must be exposed to daylight. Cubicles like you described wouldn't be allowed here.
Then you get the other perfect combination. Window right above your screen, facing west without any blinds or curtains. And you spend half the day with the sun in your face.
Seriously.
Open-plan office dwellers everywhere: "Tell me more about this 'cubicle'. Walls, you say?"
It gets fast-paced and exciting when the boss has An Idea on a Friday afternoon that must be completed before the end of the week.
And the idea?
✨AI✨
Yeah but the dpi on the mouse is crazy high and no one knows how to slow the pointer down
That is a management cubicle.
This is the cubicle you are applying for: (chair not included)
Those walls are awful tall there, cant even see your monitor over it!
they can see your monitor fine with all the "security" software they put on the system.
I'd take a confessional booth over an open office floor.
This is just corp-speak for “we will burn you the fuck out”
Sure, that's how it starts but then all of a sudden you're a Jesus allegory.
People with no self respect are the ones doing 9-5. Anyone worked a 9-5 know how shit people are .
Would rather sell drugs than doing 9-5
May I ask what you do for a living?
Was a 9-5. Now I live life on the edge 😉
What does that even mean?
Means he's unemployed. "Living at the edge of his benefits check"
Go to your 9-5 bro. There's a reason you work in a fast oacwd environment
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