> How many times during past 3 years have you pumped into someone at work and just offhandedly started to discuss what you are working on and actually helped on

> How many times during past 3 years have you pumped into someone at work and just offhandedly started to discuss what you are working on and actually helped one of you out? Literally never. This has never happened to me. Whereas firing a message into group chat has yielded results all the time, and also effective collaboration on account of we're both at our computers, all the tools are right there, and moving information around precisely is easy. I've also discovered I don't actually hate pair programming, I just hate trying to crowd a workstation when two-way screen sharing is possible and I can throw multiple 4K monitors at the problem. On the other hand I definitely quit the second job I ever had after 2 years because I could not deal with the noise in the open plan office, or someone scratching the hell out of a porcelain bowl with a fork every single day right behind me for what seemed like 1.5 hours.