Posted on 07/14/2018 4:58:09 PM PDT by BenLurkin
You got that right. During a temporary location shuffle my group was consigned to an open office space. Without the sound dampening of cubicle walls phone conversations carried all over the floor.
What made it worse was the guy with no self control. He was a brilliant techie, but while on the phone he would often lose control and start shouting and pound his fists on the table. I think he woke someone up in the next county one day.
But at least all the managers got to keep their offices. :-)
I hated being a cube rat. Too many distractions.
Company I work for had an open space model then moved to high wall cubes now we’re in lower wall cubes. I think the reason people interact less is due to electronic media. It’s easier and faster to send an email than to engage in the chitchat just to ask a question.
I do not think that word means what you think it means.
And if I forget the answer, I can simply go back to the email, it's good because it's a written record.
Who wants to be able to see the hot office chicks all day, knowing if you so much as compliment their hair or dress, you’ll be in H.R. within the hour, and at unemployment the next day?
Open Office is a subtle form of intimidation. Like when layoffs are expected.
I work in a small office with 9 people in cubicles.
The office building itself has about 250 people in it.
Over the years I have had several people move away to other cubes or leave altogether because of chatty nerds by me. Always and I mean always it is about Marvel movies and video games and tv shows and the best and worst Star Wars films. Some cannot handle hearing nerd talk so change cubicles to the opposite side of the room.
I am lucky as there is no one directly to my side and I sit in a corner.
My mom has a photo similar to that from her first job as a secretary. Except there were only about 15 desks in the room. And the desks were bigger.
And they were surrounded by the higher-ups’ offices all around - with big windows. Like working in a fish bowl!
I am not IT—but I have one of those jobs that requires a lot of complex analysis and concentration.
My office was so loud that the only way I could concentrate was to put on headphones with heavy metal music.
But—once I discovered that little trick life has been good...
Bam bam bam (too bad I can’t hear about single mom Leticia’s son in trouble with the law again....) ;-)
Sounds like hell on earth to me.
"Hey, why isn't any work getting done?"
"Well, we were just talking about how unfeasible the design of TOS Connie is."
"Yeah, but NCC 1701-A is totally doable."
I dunno, I'm rather partial to mine.
Show off. ;-)
The beatings will stop when morale improves.
The original call center.
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