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Tech's Top 10 Workspaces
theodp writes "Looking to escape your Initech-like surroundings with your next job? Valleywag has culled its picks for Tech's Top 10 Workspaces from Office Snapshots, where you'll find plenty of other Best-Places-to-Work contenders. So how does your Cubicle measure up to the competition?" Pixar, Netflix, and other places. Makes the Slashdot Fortress look like a hovel even though we replaced the dirt floors last month.
All these neat looking open spaces and cubicles are my worst nightmare. I've managed to spend my entire career having my own private offices and my worst nightmare is to ever have to work in an open space or a cubicle--listening to every asshole in the office, having everyone looking over my shoulder, etc. THAT was one of the big things what made the fictional "Initech" such a terrible place to work (remember Peter having to listen to "Welcome to Initech. Please Hold." over-and-over again all day? Nothing builds morale like private offices. Open spaces just turn everyone into Less Nessmans (if anyone still remembers that reference).
SJW: Someone who has run out of real oppression, and has to fake it.
Hey, I have a desk looking out of a window. This is apparently the office dream, to get an office or cubicle with a window.
The sun is shining through and the heat is getting absorbed by the monitors, which make noises as they expand. I burned my hand almost yesterday when I left my mouse sitting in the sunlight.
In addition, the screens are really hard to read when the light is shining through onto the desk.
And it's an open plan office room (4 people), so I can't rearrange.
If I pull the blind down, it just makes it worse, because the blind is white, it just acts as a giant back light. Yay.
No air conditioning either, because it's the UK. However I suspect that we'll demand that soon.