NOISY OFFICE

thanx for the offer, but i don't think i wanna call attention to my affiliation with this here website -- stodgy engineers tend to frown upon that...

that'd be swell


day 2: work life is gooooooooooooooood!
whatta relief...

Ok, welcome to peace and quiet!

Ooh, enjoy RP! Glad it worked out for you.

tyvm!!

i've had to go back to the old floor a few times today.
its a great feeling knowing i don't have to live there anymore...

Even on a day when there are few people in the office, if I cut a big nasty fart, someone will show up to see me.

Silence is golden. Enjoy.

another added (albeit temporary) benefit of the move --
the boss won't be moving until monday, so guess who has more A2k goof-off time?

mwuh-HAHAHAHAHA!!

So this interests me... as someone who has been partners in an office, so that my business partner looks at dressage sites when she has nothing else going on and I look at a2k, no big deal.

I cringe at being sneaky re just typing.

I am guessing your employers might not completely mind it, but that there may be questions re computer use re taxes, or... what? I haven't worked for a large company for many years, and even then, I was in at the start of a large company but not its evolution, by choice.

I gather a bunch of us a2k folk post from work...

Oh, perish the very thought!

somehow I doubt your immediate sincerity. How do you spell sincerity?

I am not so naive that I think people don't post from work but I have trouble now being me and envisioning someone frowning on my posting. (ggrrrrrrrrrrrrr).

I have been lucky in my work life in that if you got the work done, and the work often took, oh, 45-60 hrs a week, with the odd 35's... as long as we produced, in most of our cases as project managers, which mostly meant we did it, in a small firm... then we could do what the hell we wanted at lunch, however long lunch was, given that we would stay late some nights. This was true in my lab research life and in my beginning landscape architecture practice life. Do the work, whenever, and hurry up. And have a good lunch...once in a while.

I do remember a time clock in one firm though. Part of why I left that last lab. Not that I didn't work past the time clock, but that I hated the atmosphere. Drove me to art, gddamnit.

I post from work, too.
Not a big deal.
It gives me a break from time to time.

my employer only cares about one thing -- getting the work done on time.
if someone's work is suffering because they're posting on the web, it would be a major problem.
at another place i worked, they fired someone who surfed all day instead of doing his work, so obviously you don't overdo it.
i also have limitations here with internet access -- which is actually a good thing

i am happy to report that my side of the floor is actually like this now.
it's so quiet these days that i rarely listen to music -- there's no need to drown anyone out...