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When people say “no desk” what they mean is “no space in the building to allocate a desk”.
by kenferry 4y ago
When people say “no desk” what they mean is “no space in the building to allocate a desk”.
- that_guy_iain 4y agoWhen people say "no space in the building to allocate a desk” they mean "No space to neatly put a desk." Companies have often shown repeatedly they can force desks into rooms when needed. Anyways, they can and will buy office space to put the desks when needed.
- sillysaurusx 4y agoLol. I can confirm that a motivated company can Tetris a lot more desks into a room than you’d expect. My first job… ah, memories.
- raisedbyninjas 4y agoLAN parties have been fitting a surprising number of people onto 8' folding tables for decades.
- b112 4y agoAn even duct tape them to places. https://www.reddit.com/r/gaming/comments/kvgtok/lan_party_gamer_ducttaped_to_ceiling_from_another/ https://www.reddit.com/r/gaming/comments/kvgtok/lan_party_ga...
- NovemberWhiskey 4y agoOTOH LAN parties do not generally persist long enough to need to worry about fire codes etc.
- olyjohn 4y agoI don't know how we didn't trip all the breakers. Running a crapload of CRTs, and multiple 500+ watt power supplies on one circuit?! Plus 2 projectors? I wonder how hot that breaker panel got lol.
- turtledove 4y agoPutting someone in a hallway might technically meet the requirement of having a desk, but not the spirit of having a desk.
- saalweachter 4y agoAnd while I know everyone is into breaking regulations, both fire codes (for density and exit corridors) and OSHA (for number of employees per toilet) limit the number of desks in an office.
- mc32 4y agoEnter: Open plan offices! I love how now they are justifiably out of fashion when just a few years ago only staid companies had cubicles or offices!
- mission_failed 4y agoA wild COVID variant has appeared!
- kennywinker 4y agoDon’t be silly, covid is over. Pay no attention to the 3,250 people hospitalized per day, or the 280 deaths, behind the curtain!
- NoGravitas 4y agoDisruption!
- zht 4y agowhat about occupancy/fire code limits?
- dymk 4y agoElon will plead to the fire marshal to arrest only him, and force his workers to come in anyways
- dylan604 4y agoAs if Musk would fall on his own sword let alone anyone else's. To much wasted time to be able to poke fun of Bezos or make some other bone headed tweet.
- dymk 4y agohttps://gizmodo.com/elon-musk-to-county-health-officials-arrest-me-1843403845 https://gizmodo.com/elon-musk-to-county-health-officials-arr...
- cduzz 4y agoFire codes and occupancy limits are set by how many people can evacuate the building in a set amount of time. I worked at a place in an antique building and they had to limit how many classrooms were allowed in the building because they had to stay under these limits. Also, yearly, there were fire drills where they'd verify they could get everyone out. So in tesla's case, they'd just fire all the people who leave their desks in a fire?
- cainxinth 4y agoI once spent a summer internship working at desk and computer they put in the nook next to soda and chip vending machines. Got to say hi to everyone at snack time.
- hdjjhhvvhga 4y agoOh man I'd definitely buy large headphones and a baseball cap with a huuuge bill!
- Symmetry 4y agoAnd am I the only person who has been in a startup going through a "two people per desk" period when growing rapidly?
- _jal 4y agoNope. And the desks were doors on sawhorses.
- b112 4y agoI wish! Our desks were made out of tinfoil and old ramen boxes.
- hvs 4y agoLuxury. We used less senior employees as desks.
- wonderwonder 4y agoI had to walk uphill both ways to my desk. With my smaller co-workers on my back.
- aeyes 4y agoSounds like a luxury still, I got to the "elbows touching" stage. You couldn't put a hand between my screen and the screens of my coworkers. For quiet time I'd go to the kitchen table... Summer was a challenge because the A/C couldn't keep up at all.
- UnpossibleJim 4y agoAre we considering Tesla a startup now?
- alasdair_ 4y agoFor a time, the Niantic office in Bellevue was a tiny room with four desks and five people. The manager would sit on a swivel chair in the middle and try to work on a laptop on his knee. Later we upgraded to a room with twelve people in it where you had to ask at least two other people to stand up and move their chairs out of the way if you needed to get up for any reason.
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- more_corn 4y agoThe Fremont factory has like a square mile of unused space. Not defending or apologizing, but they can find the room. That being said it’s not uncommon for Elon to declare shit that’s totally unreasonable and impossible and then leave it to other people to and something work.
- kochindustries 4y agoThis is Tesla, office workers will soon find themselves working in a tent.
- lr 4y agoWhy not WFT: Work From (a) Tesla? Of course, it would have to be, "at the office," (read, parking lot) otherwise the worker would get fired.
- sitkack 4y agoAnd since the Teslas are self driving, they can just roam the public roads while people work, an endless TS (Tesla Stream) cycling between two superchargers.
- steeleyespan 4y agoI remember when we were going to have FSD in 1 year, 10 years ago.
- johannes1234321 4y agoYou mean they can ride through the office building, pass the managers desk, who can check the work.
- sitkack 4y agoHave a Manager Booth halfway between the two charging stations for checkins, in addition to video calls. Biobreaks (exercise, waste removal, nutrition ingestion) can happen during charging if the Teslas remain unmodified. I just realized that the Tesla could eject the worker a couple miles before the charging station, calculating the workout and charge duration so that the employee would have to run at the correct rate to retrieve their car before it was done charging. The vehicle could self clean while empty on the way to the charging station. I can't think of any downsides to this. Exciting times for the future of work!
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- micromacrofoot 4y agothey'll buy big cafeteria-style tables and eliminate individual desks
- dylan604 4y agoThe ones that fold up to stack against the walls when the cafeteria needs to be used as the theater? The ones with the built in round, blue plastic seats? If not, you're thinking too nice.