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> 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
by 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 agoIs it exhausting being better than everyone else?
- reginaldjcooper 13y agoYou 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 agoI'm sorry to hear that. I don't think that makes all such businesses evil, but now better understand your thoughts regarding them.