Just reading these words hurts. I’ll never forget visiting Fitbit’s offices. They had these extra narrow desks - imagine a regular office desk but without the extra width for that rolly-drawer. They were strung out in long rows, smack up against each other side to side. And the rows were also arranged back to back. When everyone was sitting down, the legs of their chairs would interfere, and they had nowhere to put their backpacks except down in that mess of chair legs. The place was a constant high volume din, and if it wasn’t you’d be listening to the people in either side of you breathing. Need to get up and leave? Prepare to tiptoe through that entire mess for 10-20 desks until you reach an aisle.
that sounds like a fire hazard
flu season was probably a nightmare
fuck that
Are there stats on how many more sick days people in the office take? I don't really catch anything except from the kids, and I'm almost never sick enough to not at least send a couple emails.
I was just there to give a presentation and walked through the place once. It gave me such heebie jeebies even from just that… I can’t imagine what it must have been like for people working there.
TIL Fitbit absolutely hates their employees.
The "open office" mindset that supposedly "increases collaboration, reducing errors" blah blah blah.
Because of this nonsense, I reserve meeting rooms every day so I have somewhere to work that's quiet.
this reminded me of a quote from a tv show i'm watching. "Hell is just the product of a morbid human imagination, The bad news is whatever humans can imagine they can usually create"
The "open office" mindset that supposedly "increases collaboration, reducing errors" blah blah blah.
Because of this nonsense, I reserve meeting rooms every day so I have somewhere to work that's quiet.
Just reading these words hurts. I’ll never forget visiting Fitbit’s offices. They had these extra narrow desks - imagine a regular office desk but without the extra width for that rolly-drawer. They were strung out in long rows, smack up against each other side to side. And the rows were also arranged back to back. When everyone was sitting down, the legs of their chairs would interfere, and they had nowhere to put their backpacks except down in that mess of chair legs. The place was a constant high volume din, and if it wasn’t you’d be listening to the people in either side of you breathing. Need to get up and leave? Prepare to tiptoe through that entire mess for 10-20 desks until you reach an aisle.
Are there stats on how many more sick days people in the office take? I don't really catch anything except from the kids, and I'm almost never sick enough to not at least send a couple emails.
I was just there to give a presentation and walked through the place once. It gave me such heebie jeebies even from just that… I can’t imagine what it must have been like for people working there.
TIL Fitbit absolutely hates their employees.
The "open office" mindset that supposedly "increases collaboration, reducing errors" blah blah blah.
Because of this nonsense, I reserve meeting rooms every day so I have somewhere to work that's quiet.
this reminded me of a quote from a tv show i'm watching. "Hell is just the product of a morbid human imagination, The bad news is whatever humans can imagine they can usually create"
The "open office" mindset that supposedly "increases collaboration, reducing errors" blah blah blah.
Because of this nonsense, I reserve meeting rooms every day so I have somewhere to work that's quiet.