Sad Prairie Dog Noises, or how I came to love the cubicle farm
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@Tsaukpaetra said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
@Gribnit said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
@Zecc said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
@LaoC Some of those are quite good, but turtle.heads.emerging isn't that rude.
Yes it is. A turtle head is the affectionate name for a fecal bolus that is, as it were, sniffing the outside air and looking for its shadow.
We called it "prairie dogging" for the action thereof...
It's unfortunate that this meaning took over from the phenomenon observed in cubicle farms when someone yells a loud curse word, knocks a monitor off the desk, falls backwards in an office chair, or anything else that causes everyone else to pop up to see what's going on....
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@da-Doctah said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
cubicle farms
Do those really exist anymore? I think they've all been transformed to open-space offices (saves money on those pesky walls!), but OTOH cubicles have never been very popular around here so maybe they're still in use elsewhere...
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@remi These days user demand is all for organic free range cubicles.
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@remi said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
@da-Doctah said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
cubicle farms
Do those really exist anymore? I think they've all been transformed to open-space offices (saves money on those pesky walls!), but OTOH cubicles have never been very popular around here so maybe they're still in use elsewhere...
Yes. I have a cubicle (though I rarely go into the office). Of course, the walls are tall enough (~6ft) that most people can't see over them.
But since this is the funny stuff thread:
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@remi I've only ever worked one place that was not a cubicle farm. If I weren't working from home now, I'd be in a cubicle.
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@HardwareGeek said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
@remi I've only ever worked one place that was not a cubicle farm. If I weren't working from home now, I'd be in a cubicle.
The last couple places I've worked, our "cubes" are 6in separators between you and the person across from you. There's no separator to the sides. And now we can't even personalize our desks because we no longer have one. Sharing Is Caring - right????
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@dcon Sheesh. Even the open-space office I worked in had foot-and-a-half(?) high separators on three sides so you weren't staring at the person across from you all day. And hot-desking? No. When I walked in the first day and saw it was open-space, I almost turned around and walked out. If it had been hot-desking, I might have followed through on that. (It was my second time contracting for that company. My first time, we'd all been in private or semi-private offices (for the first time in my career), and I'd been really looking forward to returning to that. I was very disappointed.)
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@HardwareGeek said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
hot-desking
From what I've been hearing, everyone in Silly Valley seems to be going to that. Because COVID ya know! We actually have more people than desks now and are still hiring - but no talk of more buildings because COVID-ya-know.
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@dcon said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
@HardwareGeek said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
hot-desking
From what I've been hearing, everyone in Silly Valley seems to be going to that. Because COVID ya know! We actually have more people than desks now and are still hiring - but no talk of more buildings because COVID-ya-know.
Even without COVID, my first thought on "hot-desking" would be I'm not typing on somebody else's keyboard everyday, fuck that.
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@topspin said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
I'm not typing on somebody else's keyboard everyday
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@topspin said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
I'm not typing on somebody else's keyboard everyday
Of course not.
It's no more their keyboard than it is yours.
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@dcon said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
@HardwareGeek said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
hot-desking
From what I've been hearing, everyone in Silly Valley seems to be going to that. Because COVID ya know! We actually have more people than desks now and are still hiring - but no talk of more buildings because COVID-ya-know.
My company is looking to reduce its real estate footprint and my group may be losing some space. Not sure what's going to happen.
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@PleegWat said in Sad Prairie Dog Noises, or how I came to love the cubicle farm:
@topspin said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
I'm not typing on somebody else's keyboard everyday
Of course not.
It's no more their keyboard than it is yours.
I bring my own, but for extra fun it is substitution-cipher encrypted:
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@JBert said in Sad Prairie Dog Noises, or how I came to love the cubicle farm:
@PleegWat said in Sad Prairie Dog Noises, or how I came to love the cubicle farm:
@topspin said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
I'm not typing on somebody else's keyboard everyday
Of course not.
It's no more their keyboard than it is yours.
I bring my own, but for extra fun it is substitution-cipher encrypted:
Only letters?
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@da-Doctah said in Sad Prairie Dog Noises, or how I came to love the cubicle farm:
Point of order! Those appear to be otters, not prairie dogs.
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@abarker said in Sad Prairie Dog Noises, or how I came to love the cubicle farm:
@da-Doctah said in Sad Prairie Dog Noises, or how I came to love the cubicle farm:
Point of order! Those appear to be otters, not prairie dogs.
Seconded. It belongs on anotter thread which can be found
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@PleegWat said in Sad Prairie Dog Noises, or how I came to love the cubicle farm:
@JBert said in Sad Prairie Dog Noises, or how I came to love the cubicle farm:
@PleegWat said in Sad Prairie Dog Noises, or how I came to love the cubicle farm:
@topspin said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
I'm not typing on somebody else's keyboard everyday
Of course not.
It's no more their keyboard than it is yours.
I bring my own, but for extra fun it is substitution-cipher encrypted:
Only letters?
I know that "classic" Dvorak shuffles the number row as well, but this particular layout's extra goal was to move the fewest letters from their place in QWERTY so that Ctrl+X shortcut muscle memory (for any letter) is least often broken while still trying to make frequently used letters easy to reach.
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@JBert said in Sad Prairie Dog Noises, or how I came to love the cubicle farm:
@PleegWat said in Sad Prairie Dog Noises, or how I came to love the cubicle farm:
@topspin said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
I'm not typing on somebody else's keyboard everyday
Of course not.
It's no more their keyboard than it is yours.
I bring my own, but for extra fun it is substitution-cipher encrypted:
I assume that means only the labels are swapped? (Because who looks at the labels anyway...)
: Guess not.
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@JBert I had a keyboard I did that to. The top row said "ALEXROCKS" instead of "QWERTY..."
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@M_Adams said in Sad Prairie Dog Noises, or how I came to love the cubicle farm:
It belongs on anotter thread
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@HardwareGeek said in Sad Prairie Dog Noises, or how I came to love the cubicle farm:
@M_Adams said in Sad Prairie Dog Noises, or how I came to love the cubicle farm:
It belongs on anotter thread
🤗🤫
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@remi said in Sad Prairie Dog Noises, or how I came to love the cubicle farm:
Do those really exist anymore? I think they've all been transformed to open-space offices
My desk at work is in a sort of hybrid space. The room is split into bays by high dividers (up to about 5' classic cubicle divider, then a clear perspex divider on top of that for another few feet), and there are several desks per bay with either a few low or no dividers between those (that varies). In my bay are the software team, the next one has the science team (our local users), and the one after that is the hardware team. Approximately. (People get moved around depending on the vagaries of funding cycles.) Some desks are designated for hot desking and visitors.
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@topspin said in Sad Prairie Dog Noises, or how I came to love the cubicle farm:
I'm not typing on somebody else's keyboard everyday, fuck that.
You could… swap keyboards? USB keyboards are easy to move around.
Like that you wouldn't have to burn someone else's preferred input device as a hazard to human health. You could save that for special occasions.
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@abarker said in Sad Prairie Dog Noises, or how I came to love the cubicle farm:
@da-Doctah said in Sad Prairie Dog Noises, or how I came to love the cubicle farm:
Point of order! Those appear to be otters, not prairie dogs.
True. But they're cute, and they do illustrate the principle better than any animated GIF of actual prairie dogs that I already had on my hard drive.
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@topspin said in Sad Prairie Dog Noises, or how I came to love the cubicle farm:
@JBert said in Sad Prairie Dog Noises, or how I came to love the cubicle farm:
@PleegWat said in Sad Prairie Dog Noises, or how I came to love the cubicle farm:
@topspin said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
I'm not typing on somebody else's keyboard everyday
Of course not.
It's no more their keyboard than it is yours.
I bring my own, but for extra fun it is substitution-cipher encrypted:
I assume that means only the labels are swapped? (Because who looks at the labels anyway...)
: Guess not.Wbn if the keys swapped about while typing a bit. Ideally, individual keys would build up an annoyance level for a while first.
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@boomzilla said in Sad Prairie Dog Noises, or how I came to love the cubicle farm:
@remi said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
@da-Doctah said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
cubicle farms
Do those really exist anymore? I think they've all been transformed to open-space offices (saves money on those pesky walls!), but OTOH cubicles have never been very popular around here so maybe they're still in use elsewhere...
Yes. I have a cubicle (though I rarely go into the office). Of course, the walls are tall enough (~6ft) that most people can't see over them.
But since this is the funny stuff thread:
Are There More Bacteria on Computer Keyboards Than Toilet Seats?
