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Once a guy chose not to go to office, instead he went to Starbucks -- so he could finish an important document (not some side project, but the kind of document

• reubenswartz 9y ago
  I used to do that to write important blocks of code when I needed a few hours when no one would interrupt. This was before I had a cell phone and before coffee shops sold wifi with a side of coffee. ;-)
• nerdponx 9y ago
  I've done this. Leave the (open floor plan) office early and go to the library around the corner to get real work done.
• dkarl 9y ago
  That reminds me of my second job in the industry. My boss was very chatty and would keep me on the phone for hours every day if I let him, so I kept making up things so I could work without interruption. Funny thing, he was extremely lonely, had no life and loved to talk about mine, so I could tell him "my girlfriend is angry at me, it's really bad, I need to take care of it right now." I'd hang up, code for a few hours, and then call him back and make up a story about the fight I had with my girlfriend. That worked much better than telling him I needed some time to, you know, do all the stuff we talked about on the phone all day.
• danek 9y ago
  I've had to do this a lot. It's kind of fun to skip work to get work done, but it also annoys me because it makes it apparent that you can't get useful work done at work, and that makes me feel useless when I do go to work.
• valuearb 9y ago
  The real benefit of open floor plans, increased business for starbucks.