May 22, 2015 at 6:57 am
Jack Corbett (5/22/2015)
jasona.work (5/22/2015)
Ah, the Friday before a 3-day weekend here in the US...Everyone smart took the day off, everyone who couldn't take the day off is trying to figure out how to leave early...
Darn, I'm not smart.
Actually my employer does an early release day for holidays, so the office is closing at 2pm. It's nice especially for those who plan on going away for the weekend, you can beat the worst traffic.
Yeah, I'm not smart either...
Worse, here where I work, there's sort of a "two-teired" system...
Tier one folks can be told to leave ~1hr early
Tier two folks (also known as contractors) have to stick around the entire 8hrs...
May 22, 2015 at 7:03 am
Jack Corbett (5/22/2015)
Question, how many of you work in an open work space? If you do, what are your thoughts?My employer just finished a renovation and I'm moving into an open work space environment, and I'm not real existed about it.
Ignoring my need to make existential jokes...
Around here, our cubes keep getting shorter and smaller. I'm sure the open work space is coming soon. But I hope it will hold off long enough for me to have an optional plan, like working from home.
May 22, 2015 at 7:26 am
Jack Corbett (5/22/2015)
Question, how many of you work in an open work space? If you do, what are your thoughts?
Hate it with a passion. Noisy, crowded, anyone moving is a distraction.
I had, recently, to put posters up on the dividers around my desk, because someone in their wisdom decided that glass dividers between desks is a brilliant idea. Now I can not only see what the people across from me are working on, I can see what the people next to them are working on because of the bloody reflections in the glass dividers.
The posters help, I spent a fortune on noice-cancelling headphones and they still don't cut all the noise out, so now I listen to looped tracks of breakers, waterfalls and thunderstorms.
Will upload before and after pictures when I get home.
Gail Shaw
Microsoft Certified Master: SQL Server, MVP, M.Sc (Comp Sci)
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May 22, 2015 at 7:26 am
We've recently moved from an aircraft hangar of an open plan office to a much smaller open plan office. There's definitely differences between the two. The smaller place is just the systems delivery team and is much more relaxed, much quieter and, oddly, it feels like we're actually part of a larger team. The hangar had everybody in it from the call centre to accounts. it always felt like there was somebody looking over your shoulder and we were pretty isolated on our desk. On the other hand, cubes are a rarity on this side of the pond and I'm not sure how much I'd like that.
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May 22, 2015 at 7:28 am
Grant Fritchey (5/22/2015)
Maybe it would grow on me over time, but in short bursts it's painful.
It usually gets more painful over time, not less.
Gail Shaw
Microsoft Certified Master: SQL Server, MVP, M.Sc (Comp Sci)
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May 22, 2015 at 7:37 am
GilaMonster (5/22/2015)
Jack Corbett (5/22/2015)
Question, how many of you work in an open work space? If you do, what are your thoughts?Hate it with a passion. Noisy, crowded, anyone moving is a distraction.
I had, recently, to put posters up on the dividers around my desk, because someone in their wisdom decided that glass dividers between desks is a brilliant idea. Now I can not only see what the people across from me are working on, I can see what the people next to them are working on because of the bloody reflections in the glass dividers.
The posters help, I spent a fortune on noice-cancelling headphones and they still don't cut all the noise out, so now I listen to looped tracks of breakers, waterfalls and thunderstorms.
Will upload before and after pictures when I get home.
Sounds just like what we are moving into except most of the glass is frosted.
We do have white noise generators so it shouldn't be too bad as far as noise, but being able to see everyone is crazy.
I'll let you know what I think.
Jack Corbett
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May 22, 2015 at 7:53 am
GilaMonster (5/22/2015)
Yes, excellent idea, just go and change max server memory from ~28 GB with SQL using all of it down to 4GB and back up because that 95% figure in Task Manager is scary.
Yeah - that one is so far off the rails of the crazy train its scary.
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May 22, 2015 at 8:33 am
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GilaMonster (5/22/2015)
Yes, excellent idea, just go and change max server memory from ~28 GB with SQL using all of it down to 4GB and back up because that 95% figure in Task Manager is scary.Any suggestions on changing "DON'T FIX IT IF IT AIN'T BROKEN!" into a really strongly abusive statement and preferably combine it with "STOP MEDDLING"? I think that might be the way of getting the message through.
😎
I need a 'Stop flailing around at random' message to get through.
I just tried. Let's see how it goes (not holding my breath though).
Wayne
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May 22, 2015 at 8:40 am
Jack Corbett (5/22/2015)
Question, how many of you work in an open work space? If you do, what are your thoughts?My employer just finished a renovation and I'm moving into an open work space environment, and I'm not real existed about it.
I've been in densely populated open space and sparsely populated open space, small open spaces and large ones, personal office with brick walls and good sound insulation, personal office with awful cheap and nasty partition walls and poor soundproofing, in fact a wide range of stuff; by far the least satisfactory for me is the one-man cage with cheap nasty walls and door, not enough space, and vast windows onto corridor and adjacent offices. I like small not too dense (two or three people, 150 square feet per person) spaces with decent walls and doors. Cubicles with low (5ft or lower) partitions, no decent wall to mount a 12' by 4' whiteboard on, and insufficent space for enough people to have quicjk group discusions in are almost as bad as the one man glass cages. Open plan with tall cupboards and other furniture scattered about to break up the space and a few partitions here and there to restrict visbility is actually pretty good to work in provided one has somewhere to hang a whiteboard and there's plenty of space per person, but it's not popular with the accountants because it pushes up the square feet per person so it's expensive.
Best sort of place to work: refurbished medieval fortress - it's mostly small not too dense areas (if used properly instead of treating rooms as sardine cans) and 5 foot thick walls with entrances through pairs of heavy wooden doors (with an almost five foot gap between them) are excellent sound insulation. I was in one of those back in the early 70s, it was very pleasant workspace, the best I've ever had.
Tom
May 22, 2015 at 8:44 am
Jack Corbett (5/22/2015)
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Question, how many of you work in an open work space? If you do, what are your thoughts?
My employer just finished a renovation and I'm moving into an open work space environment, and I'm not real existed about it.
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I am not a fan when it gets loud - when it does get loud I sometimes sit here with fingers in my ears while trying to concentrate.
If that isn't enough I then feel really violated when everyone else's paperwork, notes, pens, pencils and burger king wrappers end up on my table.
May 22, 2015 at 8:49 am
Jack Corbett (5/22/2015)
Question, how many of you work in an open work space? If you do, what are your thoughts?My employer just finished a renovation and I'm moving into an open work space environment, and I'm not real existed about it.
Do not like them. I have clients that use them and it just doesn't work.
You know the saying about fences and neighbors? Well same thing applies in the work space.
Jason...AKA CirqueDeSQLeil
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May 22, 2015 at 8:51 am
Jack Corbett (5/22/2015)
Question, how many of you work in an open work space? If you do, what are your thoughts?My employer just finished a renovation and I'm moving into an open work space environment, and I'm not real existed about it.
I've worked in open spaces most of my career because it seems to the new trend in technology based companies in my area.
I was fine working in open spaces when I worked purely digital marketing. I hate working in open spaces when I'm doing development.
I would love to have some type of partition or something that did not divide me too much from my team. Right now, the noise, the eyes on my screen and so forth are very distracting, especially when working with hundreds-of-millions of records.
May 22, 2015 at 9:21 am
Jack Corbett (5/22/2015)
We do have white noise generators
Huh?
May 22, 2015 at 9:23 am
BL0B_EATER (5/22/2015)
If that isn't enough I then feel really violated when everyone else's paperwork, notes, pens, pencils and burger king wrappers end up on my table.
I remember coming back from 3 days leave to find a pile of other people's stuff on my desk (a hat, an empty keyboard box, a couple pens and some scrap paper). I think I made my displeasure clear enough when I picked the pile up and dropped it on the floor behind my desk.
Gail Shaw
Microsoft Certified Master: SQL Server, MVP, M.Sc (Comp Sci)
SQL In The Wild: Discussions on DB performance with occasional diversions into recoverability
May 22, 2015 at 9:27 am
Woot, my latest editorial's published in this week's Database weekly!
Gail Shaw
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