For a couple of years, I worked in a room full of cubicles, and a low ceiling, so the noise control was pretty much nonexistent. There were a handful of people

For a couple of years, I worked in a room full of cubicles, and a low ceiling, so the noise control was pretty much nonexistent. There were a handful of people whose lunches consisted of bags of cut up carrots and celery. They at their lunches at random times, so I was treated to roughly 1.5 hours per day of intermittent loud munching. Eventually I joined a different work team. Today, my site has a decent enough cafeteria, and those of us who bring bag lunches just go over there to eat. It's also a good time to talk to the different engineering disciplines outside of their silos.