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Tech Jobs Be Like (media.mas.to)
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[-] [email protected] 86 points 2 years ago

I prefer this over an open space office. Thank you.

[-] [email protected] 44 points 2 years ago

Same, but after working from home for the past few years there's no way I'd take a job at an office.

[-] [email protected] 35 points 2 years ago

WFH > Office cubicle > Open plan chaos

[-] [email protected] 22 points 2 years ago

Open office is basically the company treating its employees with all the consideration they would afford to cattle.

[-] [email protected] 6 points 2 years ago

Sweat shop.

[-] [email protected] 12 points 2 years ago

Yeah, this is not the worst office arrangement.

[-] [email protected] 8 points 2 years ago

Yes I long for the days of a 6 foot tall cubicle.

[-] [email protected] 11 points 2 years 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.

[-] [email protected] 6 points 2 years 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.

[-] [email protected] 10 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

Right! I was like wait you guys get cubicles?!

[-] [email protected] 6 points 2 years ago

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.

[-] [email protected] 6 points 2 years ago

Yeah, at least you can sleep without anyone knowing

[-] [email protected] 36 points 2 years ago

I'm pretty sure that's code for "understaffed and lots of unpaid overtime".

[-] [email protected] 7 points 2 years ago

unpaid overtime is such a mind boggling concept to me, if you don't pay me i'm.. not working? like, that's how employment works

[-] [email protected] 3 points 2 years ago
[-] [email protected] 29 points 2 years ago

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

[-] [email protected] 7 points 2 years ago

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.

[-] [email protected] 25 points 2 years ago

Willing

Why do people capitalize Random words in their sentences these days?

[-] [email protected] 14 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

My Favorite Is People That Capitalize The First ~~Word~~ Letter Of Every ~~Letter~~ Word For No Reason.

[-] [email protected] 10 points 2 years 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.

[-] [email protected] 5 points 2 years ago

I think I was so focused on making sure to capitalize correctly that I got scrambled.

[-] [email protected] 5 points 2 years ago

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.

[-] [email protected] 16 points 2 years ago

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

[-] [email protected] 13 points 2 years ago
[-] [email protected] 15 points 2 years 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.

[-] [email protected] 12 points 2 years ago

Why is the desk at bar height. I hate it

[-] [email protected] 11 points 2 years ago

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.

[-] [email protected] 10 points 2 years ago

High ~~paced~~ blood pressure, from all the sedentary work

[-] [email protected] 9 points 2 years ago

Fucking 9-5 HR people needs to understand what 9-5 is.

[-] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago

I'm not sure I've ever worked a 9-5 honestly. Always 8-5, 8:30-5:30, or random other 9 hour (or more, worked 3/12.5 once) days. If we can't get rid of the 40 hour week I guess I'd prefer 4 10s, but 4 8s would be better.

[-] [email protected] 5 points 2 years ago

Don't forget to put those new cover sheets on your TPS reports.

[-] [email protected] 3 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

My only real qualm is the chair could be nicer. Still nicer than a lot of the chairs where I work.

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