<story><title>I went to the office for the first time. I fucking hated it</title><url>https://www.reddit.com/r/cscareerquestions/comments/oosru6/i_went_to_the_office_for_the_first_time_i_fucking/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>CephalopodMD</author><text>I just want my own office. That&amp;#x27;s all. I&amp;#x27;d be pretty okay with going in if I had my own office with 4 walls.&lt;p&gt;First job of my career, they told me I would have an office of my own. First day I come back do for full time (I had interned there too with my own office), they tell me they&amp;#x27;re switching buildings to go open office in about a month&amp;#x27;s time. I got a precious few weeks with a personal office, and then it was all gone. I hated this change of scenery mmediately, but I guess I got used to it after a few years.&lt;p&gt;Working from home took me back to that zen. I didn&amp;#x27;t even know how much I missed it - how much I needed my own space to feel productive.&lt;p&gt;I&amp;#x27;ve since changed jobs, and I kinda dread having to go to the open office nightmare once this is all over. The facilities are way nicer than my last job, but it&amp;#x27;s still an open office.&lt;p&gt;Open. Office. As. Implemented. In. Our. Industry. Is. Stupid.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>thevagrant</author><text>1. An office with four walls, a door that can be closed is helpful but as a _minimum_ I&amp;#x27;d also want:&lt;p&gt;2. Pristine bathrooms&lt;p&gt;3. Clean kitchen and good supply of tea&amp;#x2F;coffee (with ample space for those to store or prepare their food hygenically).&lt;p&gt;The amount of places I&amp;#x27;ve worked that can&amp;#x27;t provide 2 and 3 is saddening. Nothing worse than being stuck in a dirty smelly place, hanging around to get points for presenteeism.&lt;p&gt;No I&amp;#x27;m gonna get on a rant.&lt;p&gt;Why is it that my home network is superior to the crappy wifi at the office?&lt;p&gt;Why with my limited salary can I setup a better desk with much better screens &amp;#x2F; computing equipment than my employer provides?</text></comment>
<story><title>I went to the office for the first time. I fucking hated it</title><url>https://www.reddit.com/r/cscareerquestions/comments/oosru6/i_went_to_the_office_for_the_first_time_i_fucking/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>CephalopodMD</author><text>I just want my own office. That&amp;#x27;s all. I&amp;#x27;d be pretty okay with going in if I had my own office with 4 walls.&lt;p&gt;First job of my career, they told me I would have an office of my own. First day I come back do for full time (I had interned there too with my own office), they tell me they&amp;#x27;re switching buildings to go open office in about a month&amp;#x27;s time. I got a precious few weeks with a personal office, and then it was all gone. I hated this change of scenery mmediately, but I guess I got used to it after a few years.&lt;p&gt;Working from home took me back to that zen. I didn&amp;#x27;t even know how much I missed it - how much I needed my own space to feel productive.&lt;p&gt;I&amp;#x27;ve since changed jobs, and I kinda dread having to go to the open office nightmare once this is all over. The facilities are way nicer than my last job, but it&amp;#x27;s still an open office.&lt;p&gt;Open. Office. As. Implemented. In. Our. Industry. Is. Stupid.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>zmmmmm</author><text>100%&lt;p&gt;My organisation just opted into open area hot desks instead of offices. One day in there and interrutped about 5 times in 30 minutes by people who otherwise would have pinged me on slack and allowed me to reply in a manner more respectful of my workload. They see this as a big advantage of the open area &amp;quot;instead of making meetings you can just go over and quickly chat to someone!&amp;quot;&lt;p&gt;When you think about what software people do when they are most productive it is almost a deep trance-like state, I would compare it to meditation. Imagine proposing that people go and do their meditation out in the corridor where everybody is walking past and talking to each other, getting coffee and randomly interrupting you. It&amp;#x27;s insane anybody ever thought it was a good idea.&lt;p&gt;Unfortunately closed offices are a huge status symbol now and asking for one is akin to declaring you think you&amp;#x27;re more important than everyone else in the office.</text></comment>