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0 pointsnknighthb12y ago0 comments

> 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?

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raverbashing12y 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!

nknighthbOP12y 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.

_qhtn12y ago

Is it exhausting being better than everyone else?

reginaldjcooper12y 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.

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dspeyer12y 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.

viraptor12y 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?

nknighthbOP12y ago

I don't. There is no implication of being "in the break room". You've badly misread something.

viraptor12y 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?

nknighthbOP12y 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.

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raverbashing12y 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!

nknighthbOP12y 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.

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.

_qhtn12y ago

Is it exhausting being better than everyone else?

reginaldjcooper12y ago

</sarcasm>

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dspeyer12y ago

viraptor12y 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?

nknighthbOP12y ago

I don't. There is no implication of being "in the break room". You've badly misread something.

viraptor12y ago

nknighthbOP12y 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.

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