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You are fortunate that the problems with modern software shops happen to align with the types of problems you can deal with. For example, there aren't plenty o
by ken 7y ago
You are fortunate that the problems with modern software shops happen to align with the types of problems you can deal with.
For example, there aren't plenty of companies with quiet offices searching for developers. When I tell my manager "The noise in this new open floorplan office is killing my productivity", they say "OK, well, that's not going to change", and then we spend the rest of the hour rearranging deck chairs on the Titanic. (Or they remind me of how they're spending money on me, in other ways I don't care about at all.) If I said "Hey fix your shit" they'd say "Every other software company in town has open floorplans too now -- good luck with that".
- michaelbuckbee 7y agoWhat about remote? It's kind of an offshoot of that (quiet place for productivity).
- notyourday 7y agoIf a company does not have a culture of addressing developers quality of worklife issues (developer: the noises are killing my productivity. manager: well, we aren't changing our office setup to accommodate people who want it to be quiet ) then it is extremely unlikely that the company would allow remote.
- loco5niner 7y agoYep, this is exactly my situation. However, I'm seeing signs that part-time remote is going to happen in the next couple of years.
- octodog 7y agoSurely there are other options your manager and you can look at that fall between having an open floorplan and not having one. Get them to buy you noise cancelling headphones or something.
- loco5niner 7y agoNoise cancelling headphones don't work for this type of work and gave me tinnitus (ringing in the ears).
- abraxas 7y agoVisual noise is as bad as audible noise. What's next, horse blinders?
- ThrowawayR2 7y agoThat's actually been done already: https://www.dezeen.com/2018/10/17/panasonics-wearable-blinkers-concentrate-open-plan-offices-technology/ https://www.dezeen.com/2018/10/17/panasonics-wearable-blinke...
- joncrane 7y agoI have fantasized about draping a thick black curtain around my workstation to try to focus. Do you think that would fly?
- WrtCdEvrydy 7y agoWe had a guy who used his lifted desk to build a little box for himself (out of carboard)
- abraxas 7y agoImprov cubicle... yeah. These are sad times when cubicles are a hallmark of the good old times.
- joncrane 7y agoHow did the management feel about this?
- WrtCdEvrydy 7y agoLet's say 'not well'