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Cubes are a luxury. Now all you get is a 1.5m tall panel in front of you, if you're lucky, and rows with 4-6 coworkers next to you and the same number behind yo

by oblio 4y ago

Cubes are a luxury. Now all you get is a 1.5m tall panel in front of you, if you're lucky, and rows with 4-6 coworkers next to you and the same number behind you, and probably 30+ people in the same open space. I would have killed for actual cubicles at my past... 5 jobs.

mulmen 4y ago
Yeah. At the beginning of my career I had full height cubes. Now I don't even have an assigned desk. It's all first-come-first-serve "hotel" desks with short partitions on the desk itself in an otherwise open workspace. Strangely we also have lockers for personal items, like I am going to pack up and redeploy my pencil cup and succulents every day.
- amalcon 4y ago
  Those lockers are great for ergonomic keyboards, but I don't think I've ever heard of someone using one for anything else.
- WWLink 4y ago
  > It's all first-come-first-serve "hotel" desks with short partitions on the desk itself in an otherwise open workspace. Honestly I hate those 'partitions'. Why bother? They're so stupid and pointless. It's ironic because they actually hinder collaboration and pair programming since they're never removable lol. If we're going to all sit together at a big table we might as well see each other lol.
  - oblio 4y ago
    I like them because I don't like people seeing my screen all the time. I like the sensation of privacy.
  - sokoloff 4y ago
    They are usually removable by loosening some clamping bolts that are hidden somewhere. Where there’s a will and tools, there’s a way…
    - oblio 4y ago
      Many companies don't look kindly to unauthorized changes to their office infrastructure, even more so for agile desks. And even if the relevant people are ok with you, you might piss off a power hungry middle manager that doesn't like someone standing out (had that happen to me).
    - mulmen 4y ago
      As a peer please don’t fuck with our shared environment. You’re just going to make it worse.
midasuni 4y ago
Do you have a dedicated desk? When I stopped office work in 2012 that had pretty much gone. First come first serve
- oblio 4y ago
  I used to have one up until the last company, in 2020. But I did have an episode of about 1 year of flex desk before that.

by oblio 4y ago

mulmen 4y ago

Yeah. At the beginning of my career I had full height cubes. Now I don't even have an assigned desk. It's all first-come-first-serve "hotel" desks with short partitions on the desk itself in an otherwise open workspace. Strangely we also have lockers for personal items, like I am going to pack up and redeploy my pencil cup and succulents every day.

amalcon 4y ago
Those lockers are great for ergonomic keyboards, but I don't think I've ever heard of someone using one for anything else.
WWLink 4y ago
> It's all first-come-first-serve "hotel" desks with short partitions on the desk itself in an otherwise open workspace. Honestly I hate those 'partitions'. Why bother? They're so stupid and pointless. It's ironic because they actually hinder collaboration and pair programming since they're never removable lol. If we're going to all sit together at a big table we might as well see each other lol.
- oblio 4y ago
  I like them because I don't like people seeing my screen all the time. I like the sensation of privacy.
- sokoloff 4y ago
  They are usually removable by loosening some clamping bolts that are hidden somewhere. Where there’s a will and tools, there’s a way…
  - oblio 4y ago
    Many companies don't look kindly to unauthorized changes to their office infrastructure, even more so for agile desks. And even if the relevant people are ok with you, you might piss off a power hungry middle manager that doesn't like someone standing out (had that happen to me).
  - mulmen 4y ago
    As a peer please don’t fuck with our shared environment. You’re just going to make it worse.

midasuni 4y ago

Do you have a dedicated desk? When I stopped office work in 2012 that had pretty much gone. First come first serve

oblio 4y ago
I used to have one up until the last company, in 2020. But I did have an episode of about 1 year of flex desk before that.