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[–] 99 points 7 months ago (4 children)

That's bigger than any workspace I've ever had in my entire 20+ years of working. It has a window and drawers and some modicum of privacy? How did this office drone get so lucky as to avoid the last few decades of open plan double-hot-desked bullshit?

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  • [–] 56 points 7 months ago

    When I was told I needed to come in for meetings I started booking the conference room. After my third time, I was asked why I was booking it.
    "If it's so important that I come in to the office to attend these meetings, clearly I need the privacy and collaboration space of the conference room for it, otherwise I could just take the calls at my home office, right?"
    I now don't need to come in unless it's an "all hands" meeting.

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  • [–] 55 points 7 months ago (1 child)

    Cubicles are long gone. Current offices offer far less desk space, and you're probably hot desking too

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  • [–] 12 points 7 months ago

    My workplace has hot desking, but that's caused by the fact most employees are working remotely now and they've reduced rented office space in half since COVID. Haven't been there in at least 2 years.

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  • [–] 40 points 7 months ago (1 child)

    You got a window and a cubicle? Damn.

    I hate open office plans, whoever came up with those should burn in hell.

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  • [–] 33 points 7 months ago (7 children)

    Today I learned the term "hot desking". I'm certain Marx would have hated it for us.

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  • [–] 24 points 7 months ago (6 children)

    Just looked it up and I loathe it.

    For those wondering:

    The term hot desking is a slang term that refers to the practice of assigning office-based employees limited and random desk space instead of providing each employee with a permanent desk

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  • [–] 28 points 7 months ago* (5 children)

    Ah you guys dont have this yet? It makes the office even more horrible, because now you dont even have a fixed seat. You have to find somewhere free to sit. :)

    Every morning starts with messing around with monitors, adapters, cables, chair settings trying to find a comfortable setting, monitor placement to not get ceiling light reflecting into your eyes...

    Also unless you are early, you will get one of the worst seats, so...

    And if you were enjoying sitting next to some person, forget it. No more fixed relationships. Random colleagues every day next to you.

    Yeah its just amazing in general. The modern office.

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  • [–] 5 points 7 months ago (1 child)

    Jeez, that sounds absolutely horrible. What's the mental gymnastics of the managers this time that they try to justify all of this?

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  • [–] 3 points 7 months ago

    "Fostering inter teams relations"

    "Google or Spotify or whatever does it, so are we"

    In truth I believe it's to push teams having one person wfh per day, while others sit wherever. This way, you can save seats, therefore rent, while allowing "wfh" and being an "authentic spearheading company onwards to building the future of humanity's tomorrow."

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  • [–] 2 points 7 months ago

    And if you're a 24/7 workplace then you're either standing there like an jackass while the shift before you finishes up and hates you the entire time, or hating the jackass standing over you while you're trying to finish up

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  • [–] 24 points 7 months ago

    It's all just part of the torment nexus

    Er sorry, I meant hustle grindset

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  • [+] 22 points 7 months ago (1 child)
  • [–] 14 points 7 months ago

    Ugh . With your back to the entrance. Gross

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  • [–] 13 points 7 months ago

    I wish I had a cubicle

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  • [–] 9 points 7 months ago

    Holy shit, you got a window?!

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  • [–] 3 points 7 months ago

    I appreciate that my office is a glorified motor pool and printer house.

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  • [+] -10 points 7 months ago (12 children)

    Only in US people waste 3 hours of their time for nothing...

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  • [–] 28 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (2 children)

    I lived in Madrid, Spain, for a good while. I had three options:

    Do a 1.5 hours commute in public transportation,

    do a 30 mins commute by car but leaving home 30 mins earlier than by public transportation to avoid all the traffic (and then leave work around 1 hour later than my shift ended to do the same on the way back).

    Or pay a rent that was higher than my paycheck lo live somewhere closer to my workplace.

    It's not just the US.

    I'd agree tho that only in the US people have this mentality about working being more important than anything else.

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  • [–] 8 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (2 children)

    My commute is 2-4h (back and forth) depending on whether I'm driving, taking train or cycling. Train is fastest, and cycling slowest. Of course I don't travel this distance every day, since I'm mostly working from home

    If you're working in a large city but don't want to, or can't afford to actually live in the city, you're gonna have a long commute

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  • [–] 0 points 7 months ago

    I take fat shits in the office

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