Have you guys heard about neighborhood? Meaning there is no fixed spot (desk/cube) for you. It always goes with “fist come, first serve”. I personally feel this is really disgusting. I have my personal keyboard, mouse and of course laptop. Because of this fxxking neighborhood rule, I need to take all my stuffs (everything above and cables, monitor adaptors… dadadada…) with me and keep a clean table which can serve next person (maybe me, maybe not). The worst part is when you come in the office and see somebody sitting at “your” spot (of course not yours), the only thing you can do is moving to another one and get used to it for the day :( So sad about it. I heard there are some companies going with the same thing. Really? I just hate this so much. ————-——————————————————— Update But a ‘seemed’ good thing(not good for me) is it is rarely possible for your boss to track you with his eyes…haha
I cannot comprehend whoever comes up with this rule. sounds cruel. I hope my company never goes down the same path.
Is MSFT moving to open plan with that huge campus rebuild that they're planning?
Open office - yes. Neighborhood policy? fuck no or I’ll need to leetcode my way out.
Never even heard of it until you mentioned this. This is so sad.
BofA has done this for contractors for a while now.
I have this at my company too, they call it an open seating. Guess what, on Monday it gets difficult to find a spot if I am late to office, and then have to sit in a damn open meeting spots. And yes, I hate it when someone occupies my desk that I have my monitors on, and then on seeing me s/he pretends to get up and move to another spot, but obviously I have to show courtesy and let her/him use my spot as if it doesn't bother me. And I end up just doing stuff on my laptop that day without the monitors. Super frustrating!
I want to figure out how these bullshit ideas came out. They want to save money for space?
Your bosses from Hoboken ;) come up with these ideas as apparently we did not know how to work before the joined us ;)
Walmart Labs? Wow you need to bail. Moronic decision.
You! Are! Right!
Some companies have hotel desks but that’s generally for people who come visit offices from other offices/remote. But this is a whole new level. Wow. I have a nice dual monitor setup and a bunch of toys and legos sitting on my desk,’imagine someone taking my desk. Fuck you.
You just realized this ? This is a terrible.idea especially for engineers who need multiple monitors. It is impossible to find people now . With no name tag / assigned spots you every days is like hide and seek.
Nope. Just now posted it out.
Welcome to the club ...
Never heard of this before! Absolutely dumb idea. I would be personally disappointed to see someone use my desk, especially when different people have different hygiene standards. Hope you move out of this culture!
I think AmEx has this in their Phoenix offices, although there is a website where you can reserve a seat for the next two weeks. You'd have to check-in before 9:30 else the seat is released into the general pool, but you can check-in from home before you start for office
Even for engineers ?
Especially for engineers 😂
Funny thing is people do not clean up at the end of the day. I come to work with cleaning wipes ;). Also every day it is fun to calibrate monitors, take out ergonomic equipment and set every thing up only to pack and take home for the next day ;). Btw I also carry extra HDMI cables , dvi cables , multiple papers, ergonomic mouse, my ergonomic keyboard and my back rest and a foot rest. Every day I am a fucking wework on legs ;)
This sounds like a marine bootcamp except you don’t get yelled at. This is like running a test: setup and teardown per test....
Yup perpetual test of endurance! Repeats every day to test your motivation to work at Labs ;)
I worked at a company that did this but it was because coming to the office was mostly optional and many worked primarily from home. As such, they didn't need a desk for every person.
I think it works for startups trying to save money on renting office space. It doesn't really work in large companies where the culture generally has been to expect the coding grunts to be at their desk by 9.
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Not a real right person. So fucking disgusting about it.
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