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."

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Irrelevant Pictures and Inaccuracies

[linumax]

I noticed some of the pictures seem very very random.

From the comments:

I have worked at Microsoft in Redmond for the last 7 years. Of the Microsoft photos, only one of them looks like an actual Microsoft workspace in Redmond; the one in which there are several people crowded around what looks like a coffee table. And even that one is not a typical office or conference room. It looks like a makeshift conference room. At least two of the photos are of the Orlando, FL convention center where Microsoft has an annual event. In reality none of the photos are typical of Redmond, where most employees have single-occupancy private offices.

Re:Where is Slashdot?

[calebt3]

Here

D[h]ell

[Ex-MislTech]

In 2006 when I started at Dell we had one 15" tube monitor.

We did not have cubes, we had this abomination called a pod.

The pod walls are 18 inches higher than the surface of your desk.

The person sitting across from you can be heard just as
clearly on your phone as you can.

Dell would not pay for noise canceling headsets.

Dell uses a Compaq ie. HP mainframe to run their ticket system.

Now that is some damn irony.

It took me multiple weeks of begging to receive my very own
company purchased pen and notepad.

They monitor to "the second" how long you go to bathroom and
it is part of your evaluations.

Emails to customers are expected to be done between calls,
or while waiting for reboots, or when there are no calls.

You have to get permission to work overtime to get aforementioned
emails done outside your 8 hr shift.

Yet...they constant ask you to work overtime to take more calls.

On overnight shift they ask you take "platinum calls" ie. MCSE
required when you don't have even an MCSA.

To be honest that is a contract violation.

This is not for Desktop or Workstation Support, this is for
Server Support.

So for me D[h]ell will always be #1 worst place to work period.