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Do you just pump white noise through the pa or something? I've never heard of this.
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Usually it's a bunch of specific speakers/equipment running in the drop ceiling. Ours works quite well and you definitely notice that it's off if you come in on the weekend. I'm fine with an office of ~5 IT folks who are mostly working on the same stuff. I am absolutely not fine with a giant open floor plan. I have a lot of trouble focusing and tuning things out, to the point where I can't listen to podcasts or anything like that while working. I'd be immensely unproductive and frustrated.
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# ? Aug 18, 2018 18:51 |
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LochNessMonster posted:The chairs on that pic ar comfy as gently caress. The guy with his back to us definitely has the chair too low though, that and the desk need to go up MC Fruit Stripe posted:Do you just pump white noise through the pa or something? I've never heard of this. I think it's these sort of things - https://cambridgesound.com/products/qt-emitters/
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# ? Aug 18, 2018 20:12 |
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LochNessMonster posted:The chairs on that pic ar comfy as gently caress. Not pictured, 2 more pods of three desks to the right of the camera, a long bar to the left that usually has a jigsaw puzzle and snacks, and a big team room to the left of that. Also not pictured are several breakout rooms where your always on the phone motherfucker should be. The most recent experiment they're trying is an overgrown phone booth. It has a shelf, a chair, four walls, a roof and a floor to contain phone call noise all on a smaller footprint than our tiniest breakout room. If you can get one installed, I recommend chaining your salesman inside it and padlocking it shut.
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# ? Aug 18, 2018 20:57 |
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These guys are awesome, there's a showroom a few doors down from our office https://www.frameryacoustics.com/en/
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# ? Aug 18, 2018 21:12 |
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i used to work in the facilities teams office, the head of facilities thought she was my boss and took it upon herself to micro manage me into doing anything that she thought should be my work (it generally didnt go too well for her) i also had a store room but it was 300m away and needed a special key which was never available so it was a PITA i now have an office/workshop/storage/kitchen/meeting area for 1 + my assistant. Also no one really knows where it is because the signage outside says 'bricklaying' haha. The icing on the cake is the building was supposed to be shutdown but the CEO trumped head of facilities to let me have it. When that got agreed I felt like some kind of political genius to make that happen. How no one has question why IT have possibly the best office on site is some minor miracle. (that might just be my opinion though..)
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# ? Aug 18, 2018 21:42 |
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I really want a Steelcase Leap for home, where is a good place to find one gently used? I won't be able to afford a $1k chair for a loooooong time.
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# ? Aug 18, 2018 21:54 |
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I eventually found one used just trolling Craigslist daily for a month or two.
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# ? Aug 19, 2018 00:32 |
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Continuously hassle your local office furniture resellers, too. I've gotten good deals on stuff by not giving a poo poo how mad I make them
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# ? Aug 19, 2018 03:13 |
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Corsair Pool Boy posted:I really want a Steelcase Leap for home, where is a good place to find one gently used? I won't be able to afford a $1k chair for a loooooong time. I got mine from Craigslist. Took, like, three or four days of watching, but I live in a tech hub with startups shutting down on the regs.
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# ? Aug 19, 2018 05:50 |
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Matt Zerella posted:I... I think I got a job at an honest to god good MSP? Everyone is chill, they use a pretty good software stack, they have cool clients, the snacks are actually good, they encourage taking time off to prevent burn out. I mean, it's only been 3 days here so I'm sure things might change a bit but I feel like I might have landed in a good spot and it's really put my anxiety at ease. Take advantage of any benefits like cert reimbursement, PTO for training. Schedule the test for certs so you study instead of procrastinating
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# ? Aug 19, 2018 07:43 |
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This picture basically approximates hell and gives me anxiety just looking at it.
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# ? Aug 20, 2018 15:54 |
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How loving cold is it in that office? One dude has on a jacket, one a hoodies, two dudes with sweaters....
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# ? Aug 20, 2018 16:01 |
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Bob Morales posted:How loving cold is it in that office? One dude has on a jacket, one a hoodies, two dudes with sweaters.... The picture is just fiction (marketing), just like the idea that "open offices are cool and good for you". No they aren't, open offices in any capacity or format suck balls. What they are, is cheap. That is definitely true. They kill productivity and will to live.
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# ? Aug 20, 2018 18:31 |
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I don't mind if everyone is quiet and considerate. All of our developers were in one at a previous job and I liked it. But then someone would come in to talk to one of us and BLABH ALBHABLABLAHBLAHBALBH
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# ? Aug 20, 2018 18:35 |
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Volguus posted:They kill productivity and will to live. I have neither so open offices don't really bother me.
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# ? Aug 20, 2018 18:35 |
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Bob Morales posted:I don't mind if everyone is quiet and considerate. All of our developers were in one at a previous job and I liked it. But then someone would come in to talk to one of us and BLABH ALBHABLABLAHBLAHBALBH The potential for somebody to roll in and become a Weapon of Mass Disturbance is way too high, and putting an entire team in the blast radius is reckless.
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# ? Aug 20, 2018 18:38 |
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Volguus posted:The picture is just fiction (marketing), just like the idea that "open offices are cool and good for you". No they aren't, open offices in any capacity or format suck balls. What they are, is cheap. That is definitely true. They kill productivity and will to live. Love the articles recently that are like "did corp culture get the open format office wrong??"
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# ? Aug 20, 2018 18:40 |
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Back when I worked in an open office, I intentionally would walk outside when I took a call because I know how much my voice carries. It's tough not to be a disturbance even when you don't mean to be one.
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mewse posted:Love the articles recently that are like "did corp culture get the open format office wrong??" I don't think they got it wrong, revenue and profits are at an all time high. Low salaries, you can employ more drones, fire some old ones and move on. And, as we can see, it works.
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# ? Aug 20, 2018 18:42 |
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My office used to be in the server room in the basement. PRO: it was quiet and no one ever came down unless there was a catastrophe. If I fell asleep for an hour at my desk on a slow day no one would notice. CON: it was cold. I'd be wearing a jacket in July and shivering like a chihuahua all day. Also listening to a dozen servers hum for 8 hours a day was probably not great for my long term hearing. Now I've been moved upstairs to a real office but with one of those glass doors so people are always peering in so I call it a wash.
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Vargatron posted:Back when I worked in an open office, I intentionally would walk outside when I took a call because I know how much my voice carries. It's tough not to be a disturbance even when you don't mean to be one. I read an article recently which said it's improper to ask a potential employee if you'll have an office. That is wrong. Where you sit is 2nd in importance only to how big your paycheck will be.
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# ? Aug 20, 2018 18:57 |
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I'm looking at this security group called NTWSADMINS and I keep reading it as Ntw Sadmins. Re: working space chat, I have asked in the past what the workspaces are like while interviewing (bonus if they actually show me) and I made the mistake of not asking for my current job, assuming the rather private cubicle farms we walked past were typical but nope, lovely desks with dividers in dead end rows for the entire IT staff (private offices for management of course).
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# ? Aug 20, 2018 19:21 |
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MC Fruit Stripe posted:On the flip side though, walking outside when you take a call is 1) an unreasonable request and 2) doesn't make life miserable for everyone which means there's no reason to change things. Malicious compliance dictates you take that call at your desk without a care in the world. I always desperately want to ask an employer about the actual workspace in an interview. Never seems appropriate, but then your desk is a folding table and chair in the middle of a room full of other people and fuuuuuuuuuuck. If open floor plans weren't a productivity and morale killer, then the ImPoRtAnT PeOpLe wouldn't all demand separate offices, usually in an entirely separate part of the building.
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# ? Aug 20, 2018 19:28 |
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The making GBS threads facilities at a potential employer are also important
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# ? Aug 20, 2018 19:31 |
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MC Fruit Stripe posted:On the flip side though, walking outside when you take a call is 1) an unreasonable request and 2) doesn't make life miserable for everyone which means there's no reason to change things. Malicious compliance dictates you take that call at your desk without a care in the world. Counterpoint: I don't want anybody to hear my conversations.
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# ? Aug 20, 2018 19:53 |
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Thanks Ants posted:The making GBS threads facilities at a potential employer are also important Always take a bathroom break during an interview so you can see what the making GBS threads situation is gonna be.
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# ? Aug 20, 2018 20:37 |
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very stable genius posted:Always take a bathroom break during an interview so you can see what the making GBS threads situation is gonna be. What a great idea! Single ply is killing me at work
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# ? Aug 20, 2018 20:58 |
Sepist posted:What a great idea! Single ply is killing me at work here in IT we're on our own floor & building. There's better TP where non IT staff is at. Same poo poo with coffee for a while.
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# ? Aug 20, 2018 21:09 |
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Single ply
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# ? Aug 20, 2018 21:11 |
oh yeah we were not given tissues for our floor for about 8 months too.
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# ? Aug 20, 2018 21:15 |
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We used to get nice TP, now it's single ply everywhere and it's terrible.
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# ? Aug 20, 2018 21:19 |
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Sepist posted:What a great idea! Single ply is killing me at work Can I ask my interviewer if the company culture is pro courtesy flush? I am tired of my companies super nice, clean bathrooms smelling like rotten corpses because people won't flush their first salvo.
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Sickening posted:Can I ask my interviewer if the company culture is pro courtesy flush? I am tired of my companies super nice, clean bathrooms smelling like rotten corpses because people won't flush their first salvo. I have also started avoiding the bathrooms between 12PM-2PM, the last time I walked in at about 12:45 and my eyes started watering it was so loving bad.
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# ? Aug 20, 2018 21:28 |
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Where in the hell so you guys work? My current projects employer has automatic flushers, intake ventilation and you own stall is essentially a small room. There’s also an air purifier that emits a fragrance each time the door is opened.
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# ? Aug 20, 2018 21:55 |
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Tab8715 posted:Where in the hell so you guys work? My current projects employer has automatic flushers, intake ventilation and you own stall is essentially a small room. we have none of that, the bathrooms are typical public restrooms, we have 3 + handicap stall; we have a lot of people with poor dietary habits and as a result have awful horrible bathroom excretions.
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# ? Aug 20, 2018 21:57 |
I'll never work in a MSP again if only for how terrible the bathrooms smelled. I'm glad I'm a man due to that consideration too.
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# ? Aug 20, 2018 22:04 |
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AlternateAccount posted:I always desperately want to ask an employer about the actual workspace in an interview. Never seems appropriate, but then your desk is a folding table and chair in the middle of a room full of other people and fuuuuuuuuuuck. We've definitely lost a few people over the years in no small part because there wasn't a cube for them and they were stuck on these crappy rolling tables between the end of cube rows. It's like 1/4 the size of a cube, the table is lower, no drawers for personal belongings, etc. Tab8715 posted:Where in the hell so you guys work? My current projects employer has automatic flushers, intake ventilation and you own stall is essentially a small room. This sounds suspiciously like a country that doesn't have freedom Submarine Sandpaper posted:I'll never work in a MSP again if only for how terrible the bathrooms smelled. I'm glad I'm a man due to that consideration too. Until recently when women joined the after-hours teams, the women's bathrooms were preferred among some of the guys here. We have way, way more men than women here, and their bathrooms are usually stink free and clean. Halfway through the weekend the floor under the urinals is sticky with dried urine and at least one of the two men's room toilets is clogged and deadly. e: it's bad enough that I've started pooping at home off the clock. Work is better than these facilities sometimes.
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# ? Aug 20, 2018 22:27 |
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I think I might have told this before but, it's funny and we're on bathroom chat! Long ago in an office far far away, when I actually enjoyed my job and had just been brought into a new position as a junior admin, I worked out of our clients office, 3 floors a few hundred people, nothing too crazy. There were decent facilities on each floor that you could actually use at pretty much any time. Well, today the one on the floor I worked on was full, so I decided to go up a floor instead of down (downstairs was usually empty so pretty private) so I could chat with a few people after finishing my business. I go into the bathroom, saddle up to a urinal and start doing my business. Another guy walks in, lines up with the urinal next to me, I hear him undo his belt and then the belt buckle hits the tile. Yeah, dude just drops it all to the floor and does his business; I never again dared go up to the 3rd floor, there be monsters. Just really weird for a lot of reasons, also I just realized that story sounds way better in person than typing it out.
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Making the case to move off of Spiceworks, free is not a requirement, but is a nice to have. Looking at osticket and freshdesk, any others out there that people really like?
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