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When I was moved cross-country for my job, the tech guy gave me some nice noise cancelling head phones. I was moved from quiet remote work to an office filled w
by mattbgates 9y ago
When I was moved cross-country for my job, the tech guy gave me some nice noise cancelling head phones. I was moved from quiet remote work to an office filled with 50-100 people all in the same room, so it took some adjustment. Especially when you get people who feel the need that a conversation needs to be had right by your desk.. and somehow its an important conversation that you don't really care to hear about?
I need my music to focus and write code, but what bothers me is when the supervisor will start talking to me and I don't hear a word he says.
I've gone all day without headphones... no one said a word to me. Minute I put them on? Someone has something to say in the office. For the most part, however, they are always on and I'm always listening to music... classic rock or indie or techno usually.
- tedmiston 9y agoOne of my past offices made a headphone rule that if someone has headphones on, you only interrupt them through Slack vs walking up their desk besides the rare exception. Very helpful.
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- mattbgates 9y agoWe use Slack as our main form of communication. I was moved across the country because of the excuse that our "communication was lacking", so while I haven't really told people to message me through Slack - because I don't want to tell my supervisor that he needs to message me in order to talk to me - but it is just common courtesy to message someone through a LIVE instant message and ask, "Hey, I noticed XxXx, can I come over to your desk so we can discuss it?" Your office policy is one of common courtesy and I completely agree with it.