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> it can also mean pizza and beer at 3:00 on Fridays Which means my last chance to accomplish critical tasks before the weekend is hosed, because there's a bun

> it can also mean pizza and beer at 3:00 on Fridays Which means my last chance to accomplish critical tasks before the weekend is hosed, because there's a bunch of noisy, unproductive, drunk idiots around who won't answer questions and keep trying to push their idiot-sauce onto me. > ping-pong in the break room whenever you need a break So whoever sits near the break room can't get anything done because there's always noisy, unproductive, screaming idiots hitting a ball around. > getting lumped in with the type of company you mention As if the type you mentioned is superior?

raverbashing 13y ago
So whoever drinks beer, eats pizza or plays ping pong is a "noisy idiot"? Yes, break rooms should have proper acoustical isolation, or be adequately placed apart. Beyond that, noise cancelling headphones does wonders!
- nknighthb 13y ago
  > So whoever drinks beer, eats pizza or plays ping pong is a "noisy idiot"? If you want to interpret it that way, fine. I really don't care. You interfere with my work and try to shove an addictive, brain-freezing drug on me (no matter how many times I tell you my family history says stay the fuck away). Yes, you're noisy idiots. If you like, I can come up with different, even more insulting descriptions that I think fit even better. > Yes, break rooms should have proper acoustical isolation, or be adequately placed apart. They don't. Welcome to the real world. > Beyond that, noise cancelling headphones does wonders! I shouldn't have to isolate myself from an environment intended for doing work in order to do work. It's an office. If it's not for getting work done, why am I in it? Why can't I just work from home? Why is the business spending money on it in the first place? Get rid of it and use the savings to pay me more.
  - trentmb 13y ago
    Is it exhausting being better than everyone else?
    - reginaldjcooper 13y ago
      You have no idea. Not only do these plebs keep paying a few hundred a month for beers and pizza instead of giving it to me, they are constantly playing ping-pong in the same goddamn building. I don't want to work there so much that I am offended by the job description. </sarcasm> I actually don't want to work somewhere like that and I also have a family history, but it's not necessary to call it idiot-juice and act like these businesses have done me personal harm and these people are all stupid for enjoying it.
      - nknighthb 13y ago
        > act like these businesses have done me personal harm Two of them have done me serious personal harm. I can quantify the financial harm (it's somewhere north of $200,000 at this point). I can't quantify the psychological harm, nor, at this point, can I quantify the stress-related physiological harm.
        reginaldjcooper 13y ago
        I'm sorry to hear that. I don't think that makes all such businesses evil, but now better understand your thoughts regarding them.
viraptor 13y ago
> So whoever sits near the break room can't get anything done Why do you want to do anything in the break room, apart from... you know, having a break / fun while away from the keyboard?
- nknighthb 13y ago
  I don't. There is no implication of being "in the break room". You've badly misread something.
  - viraptor 13y ago
    Ok, near the break room, not in the break room. So why not ask to be moved somewhere else? I do understand that it can be annoying, sure. But I think you're making the problem bigger than it actually is. Or maybe really just not happy with the whole company environment in that case?
    - nknighthb 13y ago
      > So why not ask to be moved somewhere else? What kind of utopia do you live in? Just getting out of a cubicle on the wrong side of the building with three extremely loud people took months. > I think you're making the problem bigger than it actually is. I'm so happy that you are omniscient and know exactly what it was like and can authoritatively state how big a problem it is. You make my life complete. Please continue to tell me which other things I just imagined to have destroyed my psyche, since you are obviously so qualified to dictate what I have or have not experienced in my life.
dspeyer 13y ago
I've often had "break for pizza and similar from 4-5 on fridays and then go back to work" as a pattern (I tend to get in at 11, so I'm not leaving at 5 anyway). Some chaotic interaction with co-workers tends to be a good thing.

raverbashing 13y ago

So whoever drinks beer, eats pizza or plays ping pong is a "noisy idiot"? Yes, break rooms should have proper acoustical isolation, or be adequately placed apart. Beyond that, noise cancelling headphones does wonders!

nknighthb 13y ago
> So whoever drinks beer, eats pizza or plays ping pong is a "noisy idiot"? If you want to interpret it that way, fine. I really don't care. You interfere with my work and try to shove an addictive, brain-freezing drug on me (no matter how many times I tell you my family history says stay the fuck away). Yes, you're noisy idiots. If you like, I can come up with different, even more insulting descriptions that I think fit even better. > Yes, break rooms should have proper acoustical isolation, or be adequately placed apart. They don't. Welcome to the real world. > Beyond that, noise cancelling headphones does wonders! I shouldn't have to isolate myself from an environment intended for doing work in order to do work. It's an office. If it's not for getting work done, why am I in it? Why can't I just work from home? Why is the business spending money on it in the first place? Get rid of it and use the savings to pay me more.
- trentmb 13y ago
  Is it exhausting being better than everyone else?
  - reginaldjcooper 13y ago
    You have no idea. Not only do these plebs keep paying a few hundred a month for beers and pizza instead of giving it to me, they are constantly playing ping-pong in the same goddamn building. I don't want to work there so much that I am offended by the job description. </sarcasm> I actually don't want to work somewhere like that and I also have a family history, but it's not necessary to call it idiot-juice and act like these businesses have done me personal harm and these people are all stupid for enjoying it.
    - nknighthb 13y ago
      > act like these businesses have done me personal harm Two of them have done me serious personal harm. I can quantify the financial harm (it's somewhere north of $200,000 at this point). I can't quantify the psychological harm, nor, at this point, can I quantify the stress-related physiological harm.
      - reginaldjcooper 13y ago
        I'm sorry to hear that. I don't think that makes all such businesses evil, but now better understand your thoughts regarding them.

viraptor 13y ago

> So whoever sits near the break room can't get anything done Why do you want to do anything in the break room, apart from... you know, having a break / fun while away from the keyboard?

nknighthb 13y ago
I don't. There is no implication of being "in the break room". You've badly misread something.
- viraptor 13y ago
  Ok, near the break room, not in the break room. So why not ask to be moved somewhere else? I do understand that it can be annoying, sure. But I think you're making the problem bigger than it actually is. Or maybe really just not happy with the whole company environment in that case?
  - nknighthb 13y ago
    > So why not ask to be moved somewhere else? What kind of utopia do you live in? Just getting out of a cubicle on the wrong side of the building with three extremely loud people took months. > I think you're making the problem bigger than it actually is. I'm so happy that you are omniscient and know exactly what it was like and can authoritatively state how big a problem it is. You make my life complete. Please continue to tell me which other things I just imagined to have destroyed my psyche, since you are obviously so qualified to dictate what I have or have not experienced in my life.

dspeyer 13y ago

I've often had "break for pizza and similar from 4-5 on fridays and then go back to work" as a pattern (I tend to get in at 11, so I'm not leaving at 5 anyway). Some chaotic interaction with co-workers tends to be a good thing.