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The Worst Workspaces In Tech
nicholas.m.carlson writes help you feel better about your hovel. Vallywag recently compiled a list of the top ten places to work, but the resulting submissions and exploration also provided them with an interesting look at some of the worst places to work. "What makes them so bad? Some offend with exposed fluorescent lights, gray cubicles and a dystopian corporate sheen. But others, with their pseudo-hip graffiti, kindergarten toys and plastic decorations — all in a desperate attempt to seem 'Internet-y' — come off even worse."
Aperture Science. Despite the nice, clean looking test chambers, the rest of the facility is quite a dump.
There's also an AI who flooded the place with a deadly neurotoxin...
GLaDOS for President 2016! "Well here we are again. It's always such a pleasure." -- GLaDOS, 2011
We're number one! We're number one!
Oh wait, wrong list.
As a college dropout (A's in CS, fsck philosophy)
Ah yes, the telltale sign of a well rounded person.
My least favorite workspace is the Visual Basic 5.0 workspace. The interface is cluttered, the grids pacing is too small, and the menu system sucks.
*rimshot*
These are the worst workplaces? Maybe in California. I've worked in much worse. My current employer (whose CEO is among the top ten best-compensated in the US) has me working in a building in which every time it rains, the roof runs. (Not leaks, the water runs down in streams.) They keep trying to find bigger buckets.
We do have our own cubicles--made of what appears to be moldy cardboard—and they match the carpet exactly. We have nothing like a kitchenette or breakroom. If you want coffee, you have to go get water in the restrooms. Of course, the sinks are always overflowing because some stupid jerk empties the remainder of his breakfast mush, ramen, smelly fish stew, or whatever into them every day.
The lighting is typical 1950s era: harsh overhead fluorescents that would quickly blind you if you tried to work with a monitor under them. So we ask to have them turned off. They are glad to do this, because it saves on electricity bills. The drawback is that this leaves our environment utterly troglodytic ; the advantage is that we can't see our environment).
It could be worse, of course—I could have been working in the building that sank. No, it didn't sink completely—it's just sort of The Leaning Tower of Dallas. (Actually, it's in Irving, but who's heard of Irving?) The good thing is that they managed to get most of the people out (a triumph of organizational genius, considering that the sinking occurred in a mere decade), the bad news is they moved them in with us. Our warren of cubical cells is now so overcrowded that collision is a serious factor in deciding whether or not to go to the bathroom to make coffee.
Great men are almost always bad men--Lord Acton's Corollary
>oh yeah, they have a fsckin' basketball court.
So does the San Jose County Jail.
-fb Everything not expressly forbidden is now mandatory.
The hot chick on the phone automatically eliminates it from the list.
I swear to God...I swear to God! That is NOT how you treat your human!
Most of the CS people I know are 'well-rounded.'
Conan O'Brien's visit to Intel HQ last year was absolutely hilarious.
http://www.istartedsomething.com/20070506/conan-intel-video/
Although, looking back, there were pieces that were really sad, such as pillars on the wall in the middle of a huge cubicle farm that made me think of parking garages.
agressiv
Sounds like you got used like a bitch.