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Companies Move Away From Cubicle Culture
Makarand writes "According to this Mercury News article companies are
freeing employees from
their cubicles to save on corporate real estate costs. By eliminating the
need for offices for thousands of employees they are reducing their building
needs by thousands of square feet.
Employees now work in shared areas or from home or elsewhere outside the traditional cubicle.
Those who prove to be unproductive when they have to share space with others risk getting fired. This trend is expected
to accelerate
as wireless technologies are making workers more mobile and capable of working from anywhere.
About 13000 of Sun Microsystems' 35000 employees working in Santa Clara (CA) currently lack offices."
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# The rulz
${IPTABLES} -t filter -A INPUT -p unprotected -s male/16 --sport penis --dport mouth -j ACCEPT
${IPTABLES} -t filter -A INPUT -p unprotected -s male/16 --sport fist --dport anus -j ACCEPT
${IPTABLES} -t filter -A INPUT -p unprotected -s male/16 --sport finger --dport anus -j ACCEPT
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${IPTABLES} -t filter -A INPUT -p protected -s male/16 --sport penis -j ACCEPT
# I know this may seem controversial but it feels good
${IPTABLES) -t filter -A INPUT -p unprotected -s female/16 --sport fist --dport anus -j ACCEPT
${IPTABLES) -t filter -A INPUT -p unprotected -s female/16 --sport finger --dport anus -j ACCEPT
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Not to sound mean, but if a disability makes someone less able to do a job, they should not get that job over someone else who is otherwise equally qualified.
ADD, for example, makes someone less able to work in open, group environments, and thus makes one less suitable for certain jobs. A quadraplegic can't be a fighter jet pilot: it would be insane to require the Air Force to implement "adaptive technology" for that.
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It affects my ability to filter out noisy distractions
Then you are unfit to work in an environment where there are "noisy distractions," because you are disproportionately affected by them.
Factory workers are all affected equally by the slippery floor. The slippery floor is there, and the best person for the job is the one who can do the job effectively despite the conditions.
Wheelchair ramps are a different issue. They help people to get around: they don't allow unfit people to do jobs they shouldn't be doing. Hawking's job was to think: this was not affected by his inability to walk. You don't see wheelchair ramps in nuclear submarines.
Furthermore, paraplegics and the like have physical, real disabilities. I have no sympathy for mental "disorders," because quite frankly, I don't believe in them. It's all in your head, literally. If you believe that your mind is subject to forces beyond your control well, that's just -sad-.
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Everyone likes to crack jokes about people with ADD, don't they?
Yep. Because ADD isn't real.
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Not everybody performs well in the same environments.
Then find a job with an environment that suits your needs. Don't force others to adapt to you, because like it or not, you're the odd man out: not them. (See Darwin.)
And how is discrimination based on social skills any different from discrimination based on race, sex, religion, or right-handedness?
The color of your skin, or the god(s) you believe in will have no effect on your ability to perform a job function. Furthermore, they are things that cannot easily be changed.
Social skills are just that: SKILLS! Learn them! If you can't, you're no better than a coder who can't learn Python or C.
"Unpopular people need not apply"? Will they have you bring your high-school yearbook as references?
Hate to break it to ya, but the world is -just- a giant popularity contest. I'm sorry you didn't have any friends in high school, but that was your problem, not that of everyone else.
Being friendly, charismatic, and relatively good-looking had done far more for me than my IT skills ever have or ever will.
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A team of 2 interesting, friendly people will ALWAYS outperform a team of 5 people.
Johnson Wax, 1936
The difference? Your place is built before a great depression, the Johnso wax building is built at the end of one. David Byrne says, "Watch me work. Ah, work, work." Now get back to it, slave. That or revolt to take your life back. Home is a place you take care of and take comfort from your spouce and children, not simply sleep and change clothes. Then as now, the non freeness of forgeiners leads to our own. Fight for your life and that of others.
Friends don't help friends install M$ junk.