Modern Office Architecture
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So our company moved into a new building. In a far more inconvenient location, natch.
The building itself is kind of nice, except it follows the rules of Modern Office Architecture, which state: under NO circumstances should acoustic tiling exist on the ceiling of an office. And of course I sit underneath a HVAC pumping/whatever unit, which runs all the freakin' time.
It's almost as if this situation is the exact reason acoustical tiles were invented in the first place. Hmmmm!
But here's where we get into weirdo territory: this building is brand new. This floor has nice high ceilings and windows. The windows go close-enough to the ceiling that it's *actually impossible to install acoustic tiles without blocking the top two feet of the windows.
So the building was built with the assumption that nobody would ever use acoustic tiles now or in the future. Ever again.
Jesus.
It gives me a lot to muse about while I listen to the constant hum of the huge HVAC fan about 8' over my head.
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That is dumb. I have seen offices work around the window thing by angling the tiles nearest the window, it kinda works, although I suspect management won't like it. It's almost as if the architects have never had to sit in one of their shitty designs and work.
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Get a nice set of noise-cancelling headphones and you won't have to listen to it anymore. Or your annoying co-workers.
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It's almost as if the architects have never had to sit in one of their shitty designs and work.
"Almost"? It's always the case. Because there's no other explanation for this ongoing disaster that is the air-conditioning (or rather: the complete lack thereof1)) at my school.
1) And by that I mean: The CO2 scrubbing does not work, fresh air also isn't provided by the ceiling openings, the windows are supposed to be locked so you can't open them and the hallways don't have anything (not even windows you can open) so you can't even open a door to the hallway because in there it's worse
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Get a nice set of noise-cancelling headphones and you won't have to listen to it anymore. Or your annoying co-workers.
The plus is I moved far away from the irritating QA people.
Wearing headphones all day hurts my ears. Even really expensive comfortable ones, at least all the ones I've tried. So it's not really a solution for me.
The good news is this space is HUGE so I can just grab my laptop and work elsewhere if it gets too bad. There's also like 4-5 extra empty offices, but of course none of the developers are allowed to occupy them even on a temporary basis. Naturally. (One is for "hoteling". Which is a fancy word for, "we're not even ever planning to put anybody in that office, fuck you.)
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So the building was built with the assumption that nobody would ever use acoustic tiles now or in the future.
Sounds like the architect is another member of the Church of Civilized Discourse.
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If you are using acoustic tiles, you are clearly doing it wrong!
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The building itself is kind of nice, except it follows the rules of Modern Office Architecture, which state: under NO circumstances should acoustic tiling exist on the ceiling of an office. And of course I sit underneath a HVAC pumping/whatever unit, which runs all the freakin' time.
It's almost as if this situation is the exact reason acoustical tiles were invented in the first place. Hmmmm!
That's just because you're an antique who can't get with modern times. Oh no, another blakeyrant where "ITS NEW THEREFORE IT SUCKS!!!" Everything new is automatically better, and you're just a vocal minority who likes to complain. Good thing the sound of this PERFECTLY WORKING A/C will drown out your whining.
Also, on a serious note: They will install acoustic tiles. Well, they'll install tiles anyways. The tiles won't fit quite right, so they'll produce an inconsistent hum. Also, in the process of installing the tiles, they'll dent a panel in the A/C duct-work system. That panel will now vibrate. Constantly. Rattling forever. And "it just works", so it will never be fixed.
not that I'm speaking from experience or anything.
Filed under: I am. Completely. Fuck that old office.
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You forgot drilling through some form of important pipe (such as sewage for the upstairs bathrooms) while installing the tiles in a way that only becomes obvious after they have left. Resulting in raw sewage dripping on your desk every time somebody flushes the toilet.
Thankfully that one got fixed pretty sharpish, but still ruined a perfectly good chair.
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Thankfully that one got fixed pretty sharpish, but still ruined a perfectly good chair.
yeah, I've ruined more than one chair by bursting a pipe.
Filed under: Awkward to explain to the office manager
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We're moving in a few weeks, only two blocks away so no big difference for me. I was invited to check out the new office. One of the ideas the boss had was to rip out the existing drop-ceiling and just have an exposed painted concrete ceiling! That was shot down very quickly.
When you say acoustic tiles are you talking about the dense foam with the pyramids all over it?
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is terrible, largely driven by fads rather than evidence, terrible, bad, awful, terrible, and bad.
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When you say acoustic tiles are you talking about the dense foam with the pyramids all over it?
No, I'm talking about acoustic tiles.
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And by that I mean: The CO2 scrubbing does not work, fresh air also isn't provided by the ceiling openings, the windows are supposed to be locked so you can't open them and the hallways don't have anything (not even windows you can open) so you can't even open a door to the hallway because in there it's worse
Why do you even turn up each day? I'd tell them they can pay me to stay at home while they make the workplace safe.
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Wearing headphones all day hurts my ears. Even really expensive comfortable ones, at least all the ones I've tried. So it's not really a solution for me
Have you tried the kind that don't touch your ears? Google tells me they're called circumaural.
INB4 "I didn't ask for help!"
of course none of the developers are allowed to occupy them even on a temporary basis
Move in. Stare them down.
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PTO next week. Maybe week after.
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@ben_lubar said:
@blakeyrat said:
PTO
Parent-Teacher Orchestra?
Power Take-Off.Polish Tourist Organisation
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@another_sam said:
@ben_lubar said:
@blakeyrat said:
PTO
Parent-Teacher Orchestra?
Power Take-Off.Polish Tourist Organisation
Putin-Tainted Oranges
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NOREPRO
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Apparently my dhromebook is using this font:
Also, it seems that only a very small minority of Google's web fonts actually have good kerning.
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@reverendryan said:
@another_sam said:
@ben_lubar said:
@blakeyrat said:
PTO
Parent-Teacher Orchestra?
Power Take-Off.Polish Tourist Organisation
Putin-Tainted Oranges
Puffin Take Off
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@ben_lubar said:
@reverendryan said:
@another_sam said:
@ben_lubar said:
@blakeyrat said:
PTO
Parent-Teacher Orchestra?
Power Take-Off.Polish Tourist Organisation
Putin-Tainted Oranges
Puffin Take Off
Picasso Triggerfish Ownership
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@cheong said:
@ben_lubar said:
@reverendryan said:
@another_sam said:
@ben_lubar said:
@blakeyrat said:
PTO
Parent-Teacher Orchestra?
Power Take-Off.Polish Tourist Organisation
Putin-Tainted Oranges
Puffin Take Off
Picasso Triggerfish OwnershipINB4: Please Take this Off-thread.
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Also, it seems that only a very small minority of Google's web fonts actually have good kerning.
Good kerning causes increase boot time.
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Parent-Teacher Orchestra?
Yes.
Power Take-Off.
Also that one.
Polish Tourist Organisation
Sure why not.
Putin-Tainted Oranges
Thank you for turning my thread into complete shit after only 4 posts, fuck this site.
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Thank you for turning my thread into complete shit after only 4 posts, fuck this site.
https://what.thedailywtf.com/t/radio-wtf-presents-quantity-of-service/47426/51?u=lorne_kates
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Purple Tyrannosaurus Ovaries.
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Goddammit you fucking retards. I've told you a BILLION TIMES I don't care if people go off-topic! I don't now, nor have I ever! Jesus Christ, go to a surgeon and see if you can get that second neuron implanted, because the one ain't doing it.
I care that people make 46 posts in a row of unfunny bullshit. And guess what? The exact same lame joke posted 4 times in a row? That qualifies. The joke was made. Haha. MOVE FUCKING ON.
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Perpetually Trolled and Offended?
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In climate-control-related stories:
I worked in a building which had poor insulation and no indication that there was any heating or A/C. The winter was freezing and the summer was mordor, which in UK is quite a feat.
One winter day I answered one of my boss's typical skype calls and mentioned the temperature in the office. He said it was "the last thing on his mind". This was probably because he never came into the office. Of the 6 or 7 people who worked there, I probably spent more hours in that office than all the co-workers put together. He didn't seem to understand until somebody else came in and mentioned to him that he had seen me typing with gloves on (which had become normal to me).
I didn't try too hard looking for work because of the low workload. I took long lunches (in the relatively warm pub), I came in late, I left early, and nobody was there to notice. The one time he rang me at 9 and tried asking me accusingly "where have you been?" I pointed these things out, and having clearly had his bluff called he replied "only joking".
Apart from the terrible climate control and generally ignorant management, not too bad in comparison to some places I've worked, simply because of the low workload.
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Apart from the terrible climate control and generally ignorant management, not too bad in comparison to some places I've worked, simply because of the low workload.
I find boredom worse than stress.
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I've told you a BILLION TIMES I don't care if people go off-topic!
If DewSyfy was able to search in any sane way, I'd post the BILLION TIMES you've said otherwise.
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summer was mordor
I find boredom worse than stress.
We spent this past summer with no A/C. Every time we reported how hot it was in the office to the building manager (80°F by noon or so- this was Seattle's hottest summer on record) they'd send a lackey out who would "look" at the unit, then report the problem was that we have "too many computers" and leave despite the fact there was no cold air flowing from the vents. They finally got it fixed (blown fuse) right about the time the weather turned cooler.
Slow/boring days were the worst. If you're super busy you don't have time to think about how hot you are.
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I find boredom worse than stress.
I found things to do. I worked on my personal projects for one.
Slow/boring days were the worst of the worst.
FTFY.
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I would still rate @mikeTheLiar as worse than a hot boring day .
<no offense...
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It gives me a lot to muse about while I listen to the constant hum of the huge HVAC fan about 8' over my head.
Betcha that HVAC is a piece of Linux hardware.
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I would still rate @mikeTheLiar as worse than a hot boring day .
One day, @mikeTheLiar gave me the worst hot boring.
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I agree, the first two were "ha ha"
the other thirty? ehh...
And damn you Blakeyrat for making me notice that my office has no acoustic tiles and i can hear the fucking HVAC too
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And damn you Blakeyrat for making me notice that my office has no acoustic tiles and i can hear the fucking HVAC too
It's fucking epidemic.
The second building I worked in was this beautiful Art Deco masterpiece, erected in 1930, with an amazing lobby. But outside of the lobby? They'd removed all the ceilings and it was just concrete above your heads. And they'd scraped up all the gorgeous tile floor, so it was just concrete beneath your feet. And they took this beautiful work of art and turned it into a parking garage and it was miserable to work in.
At least this building was designed to look like a parking garage from day one. It still sucks to work in, but you don't get the additional sense of missing potential.
Bonus Discourse Bug:
I selected some text and hit "Reply". Nothing happened, so I selected it again and hit "Reply" a second time.
The reply box popped up, so I started typing. About two sentences in, the reply box completely erased my post. (Probably because the second "Reply" button click finally got acknowledged by the server and the broken front-end didn't bother to check if I'd already started typing or not.)
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Also, fucking Christ, did mobile Discourse somehow get even slower!?!
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I've been liking all the posts in /t/1000, so it's entirely possible that I did that.
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And they took this beautiful work of art and turned it into a parking garage
This reminds me of the Michigan Theater. Detroit is insane.