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Good. Apple is one of my favorite companies. I just absolutely love what they're doing and have done in terms of personal privacy. I'm really disheartened tha
by codyb 9y ago
Good.
Apple is one of my favorite companies. I just absolutely love what they're doing and have done in terms of personal privacy.
I'm really disheartened that they've moved to an open office layout. It's a surefire way to lose huge amounts of productivity from their engineers.
Open office layouts are a travesty. They make literally no fucking sense. As engineers we're expected to maintain abstractions in our minds which can span hundreds if not thousands of lines of code.
So why would you put us in the middle of a fucking zoo?
I can hear sports TV while I try to work. I can hear my friends/coworkers shoot the shit about the new South Park or Game of Thrones episode while I work. I can hear people talk about their weekend plans while I work. I can hear my coworkers planning projects I'm not involved in as I work.
And here I am, expectected, as a full stack engineer, to abstract complex data flows while all of this is going on.
To produce, while all of this is going on.
And do not forget that even if every single person was a deaf mute, their mere presence can knock me out of the zone.
I remember college. I remember working on projects and losing track of time. Because back then I had a room where I could work without distraction. Boy, how wonderful, to be so absorbed as to forget how much time has passed.
I literally have never felt that in an open office layout. It sucks. I love what I do. Why take that pleasure away from us?
It burns me out.
- maxxxxx 9y agoI work in cubicles but the noise is also driving me crazy. There is always some conversation going on somewhere. In the office I am having more and more trouble holding on to a complex thought and in the evening I am totally exhausted. On the other hand working from home feels like paradise. It's quiet and I can look out the window when I need a break. Because of the office environment I am now looking for a new job, either remote or an office. Open space has turned work from being interesting to plain misery and exhaustion for me.
- vslira 9y agoI know this may sound like a poor substitute to private corporate space, but I can't praise enough the combination of noise reducing earplugs and active noise cancelling over earphones. This combo plus somafm and a pomodoro timer app can instantly boost my productivity
- maxxxxx 9y agoI can't stand wearing earplugs or headphones over a long time. I wish I could but it bothers me too much.
- CydeWeys 9y agoWearing earplugs for long periods of time is seriously uncomfortable, plus it doesn't do good things for your ears (it can cause wax plugs to build up). I'm only willing to wear them when I'm really desperate for sleep and I'm in a loud place, or to prevent hearing damage. Neither is an everyday occurrence.
- dmoy 9y agoOn the other hand, you can get amazingly well fit ear buds for a hundred or so, and the stuff the doctor uses to irritate your ears costs like $8 over the counter.... My biggest gripe is I can't combine it with over the ear stuff for too long cus it presses my glasses against my head too hard.
- cm2012 9y agoLasik is totally worth it btw.
- R_haterade 9y agoOur company is setting to renovate their offices. I guess I'll know whether it's time to start polishing my resume when they announce what the new configuration will look like.
- hungerstrike 9y ago> I just absolutely love what they're doing and have done in terms of personal privacy. Pffft. They're doing it to hurt their enemies, not to help their customers. Apple is the worst company for those who love freedom and they're not on your side. I can't wait until their time is over and the damage that they have done to our industry has been reversed.
- tyrw 9y ago> Apple is the worst company for those who love freedom I'm not really pro or anti Apple, but I'm having a tough time coming up with what you might mean by this. Can you elaborate?
- j7ake 9y agoClosed source and making it difficult to use non apple products and non apple software limits your freedom.
- hungerstrike 9y agoThey clearly limit users at every turn that could lead to the user leaving their platforms. Especially on iOS. I'm so happy they weren't able to do the same thing to PCs! If they had their way, the Macintosh OS would have been your only graphical/WIMP OS.
- gcb0 9y agofirst you're silly for loving a company. second, S. Jobs always optimised the work force for throughout put and lower cost. see https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/High-Tech_Employee_Antitrust_Litigation https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/High-Tech_Employee_Antitrust... if expensive and entitled employees leave and cheap one remains, it's a win in their books. Just like the salary collusion crime helped them keep salaries down in place of not being able to hire the best way from their competitors.