What's it like to work in an office? I've never worked in one, or anything like one. But I actually imagine under the right conditions (not overworked, allowed to keep to yourself) it can be quite comfy. I wouldn't mind a job that lets me sit on my ass all day, so long as the above mentioned requirements are met.
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This song has a very "office-like" atmosphere, I think.
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the cubicle style office doesn't really exist anymore they are more open these days with banks of desks and working in an office job is 5/10
I've seriously never been to an office like picture. Is that an American office.
>the cubicle style office doesn't really exist anymore they are more open these days with banks of desks
Why? I'd think that cubicles allow people to be less focused on each other, and more focused on their work.
The closed private cubicles office design is being phased out for an open office design. You will be out in the open and exposed to your coworkers. No hiding your pron bro. Expect normies to comment on your work constantly with lots of small talk.
Holy shit that looks horrific. It's like an elementary school classroom, but for adults.
Its boosts (((creativity))) and (((team building))) they want you talk to your coworkers. It makes it easier to filter out robots. The time of comfy private cubes has passed.
God, all the colors. That room absolutely reeks of S O Y
that is state of most offices in 2018
i never worked in cubicles but i wish i could land a comfy office job with half decent pay that still uses them
i hate interaction of all kinds
Yeah, open-plan offices are basically standard now. You can cram more people in the same space, and it's much easier to monitor them to make sure everyone is working. Some offices go a step further and don't even assign you a workstation. Instead everyone gets a laptop, and an assortment of furniture in the room that you can use however you feel like. In my view it's insane, but since there are a lot of low-level office setting jobs nowadays, especially with the huge coding boom, this kind of sweatshop-style does make sense.
The fuckers up top get to live comfy while we slave away in shitty work conditions and they don't spend shit on us
I'm a programmer so I've worked in a few offices. The big ones are a little tougher but once you get to know a few people around you it does get comfy and you get in the zone of getting up, eating breakfast on the train, going for lunch with co-workers, pub on friday, occasional social events and lots of saying hi and nodding at people entering and leaving.
Usually for me, everyone has a bit of a chat in the morning, and then little conversations break out every few hours. The social aspect is the best part. Generally everyone gets along because it's easier then arguing and if you're not feeling just jam in some headphones and get your head down.
Overall it's a good lifestyle that makes you a little more social with people you wouldn't really talk to outside work and you appreciate your own time more when your off. 7.5/10 life.
I've worked in a few it's pretty cool. You can dick around on your phone or computer for most of the day if you get your work done early. Beats manual labor
I did a intern ship in an office. It was horrible and full of normies I though about suicide all the time I was there
yeah i hate this retarded new style too cubicles are better
If it's really true that they're getting rid of cubicles, that's stupid. It's just harder to focus..
Do most offices now still have a somewhat formal dress code, or are t-shirts and jeans common now? I've always been partial to dress shirts and neckties, I wish I worked a job that warranted wearing them.
I suppose it depends on the job you do. I work in a fed government office (not saying which acronym but it's not a law enforcement branch) and have actually worked in both styles. Open office is good to help pass the time since you can talk to people around you while working and pass the time. Closed cube is better for the days you really want to just fuck around and get to the end of the day by any means necessary.
are most office workers s*yboys?
>What's it like to work in an office?
If its an Open Space TM then its a nightmare. Just imagine around 100 people in the same space, almost nothing separate you from each other. People talk with each other, make a phone calls, discuss work related topics, joke, laugh, eat (kitchen is too small)... all at the same time. You can hear keyboard *takatakatakataka* all the time, you can hear *pings* from messengers. Now imagine you need to think in such environment, to be creative, to troubleshoot something, to learn. When I started 5 years ago, I thought I won't gonna make it. But I did, I got used to this, but now I have break down again, I just can't stand it. Its even worse when you are "the working one" and you don't slack around. Most of the noise is made by useless, lazy motherfuckers and you rage by just looking at them. Now, lets add to this "modern" design of the office, gray carpets, while walls, black chairs. No plants, no pictures, no posters, you can't bring your own because its a fire hazard. Its depressing as fuck. And the air conditioning. At first I though its cool thing (heh), but now, after 2 hours of work my eyes are dry as a sand. And not only eyes, my skin too. And there is more, and more and more... Why I'm doing this?
you summed up the hell hole of working in an office, good job
> Eat
> Sleep
> Work
> Repeat
Sounds aweful
i hate this. sat opposite a dumb big titty redhead. sometimes she asked how come i didnt talk to her, like chitchat bullshit. glad i quit
CIA? I assume you're one of the shills that are forced to post here about stuff like blacked?
God damn the open office meme sounds like literal hell. I just want to do my work in peace and go home, I bet the next fad will be even more cancerous. It'll be multiple people working on the same computer or something.
>meeting
Why in the FUCK must they also ruin office jobs?They were at least decent back then with cubicles and conference rooms.When will this fucking socialization obssession fuck off?Was there a time in history where we were more obssessed about socialising then now?Truly hell.
Not CIA...lone hint is part of Treasury.
I think what happened was that they realised most people are actually shit at their jobs but good at bullshitting, and so decided to prioritise bullshitting.
The open office design makes it easier for your work to be noticed and critiqued by coworkers.
What the fuck?I thought mr golden noseberg wanted his little wagies to focus on being as productive as they can.How does bullshitting benefit him and the elite?
Because it breaks down and weeds out free thinking individuals.
Is that supposed to be an open office too or the break room?
Why are there colors everywhere? Why are there paintings on the ceiling? So it's true, office workers are all basedboys now. Not a necktie in sight.
This is just a stick image, meetings i fact looks much worse. Imagine being locked in small, glass-walled room, with not enough space for everyone to sit, so half of you stand. Its getting warmer and warmer, because air conditioning suck in such small place. At the same time, just next to your small hell hole you are sweating in, there is a nice big, conference room, occupied by one person. The person is higher on the leader than you so you can't do shit about it. Now lets get back to t he meeting itself. More than half of the people don't need to be there, they just sit quietly. Rest of the "team" tries to solve some issue but there is always this one special guy who needs to show he have some other idea and always is right. Some of the people have no idea whats going on at all, but still want to take a part into the discussion so the management notices them. After an hour of arguing all you want is pepsi, or to jump out, and when you finally leave... the wave of fresh air is magnificent, event if its dry and air conditioned. Oh and the meeting achieved nothing, explained nothing, solved nothing, and in the end you will do stuff the way you planned before the meeting.
These pictures make me feel so uncomfortable for some reason.OP's pic related is as comfy as an office job can get.
Most corporations are horribly unproductive, and by extension most office settings are horribly unproductive. If an office does not directly generate value (like it's an office for a manufacturing firm or something) then the money is made by squeezing the grunts who do the work somewhere else. If an office does directly generate value, like in compsci or finance or whatever, they still work people to death and pay them as little as they can get away with.
>Hire em as low on the totem pole as you can or as tempfags if you can get away with it
>Pay em like shit on salary if you do actually hire them
>Hire 10x times more people than you need
>Give them enough work to require them to commit more than 40 hrs a week
>Wait for burnout to set in and they quit
>Collect bonus checks for productivity goals met
>Lather, rinse, repeat
The right hand side is the kitchen area. The left hand side, given the nature of the furniture which is totally unoptimised for eating, is probably an open-plan "free roam" office where people have no assigned seats and you just sit however you like with a laptop.
>OP's pic related is as comfy as an office job can get
I think that style of office died in the early 2000's, which coincidentally was the comfiest time to be an office worker.
>Windows 2000/Windows XP
>slightly yellowed computer towers and CRT monitors
>semi formal dress code
From what I've seen posted in this thread, offices in 2018 have completely lost their professional atmosphere.
I really hope people will look back on this decade as a series failed experiments.
For some reason, I always wanted to work in an office when I was a child. To me, it was the epitome of what being an adult meant. But in 2018, office workers are encouraged to act like children, and office decor is accordingly child like. Basedboys have destroyed my dream.
It's super amazing! You get to code all day! :3
Can't wait for this dystopia to end.
>meeting
That room actually looks really nice. Connect to a large screen and show whatever you have to show about work. Everybody else can sit, stand, lay down or do whatever they feel like. Perfect room for a casual or a creative meeting, much better than a standard round table
>sounds aweful
Welcome to the adulthood, kid. Keeping that attitude will seriously get you nowhere. In a nutshell, it can look like that, especially if you're feeling down. But in reality, it's much more to that. You have some time to explore your hobbies, to socialize with whomever you want, or just chill out like you used to in school days. Only this time around you know that your actions carry consequences.. and you have money to eat chips for breakfast.
It's cool. My company also uses an open space instead of cubicles. That way, you don't have to do those awkward stands next to your colleagues in their cubicles, but rather be just like yo from wherever you are. Generally, it's a better atmosphere for work, and like it's been said somewhere else in the thread, you just pop in some headphones and turn up the music.
You don't even have to socialize that much, it usually doesn't involve a lot of talking beside the usual small talk (what you had for breakfast, how was your sleep etc.), or work-related stuff.
In their effort to make everything more "inclusive" and friendly, they're actually made the world more of a dystopia than it ever was before. People can't keep to themselves anymore.
To me, that kind of office work sounds like hell. Having a few laughs with colleagues in the open space, everyone being relaxed and friendly, no hard feelings anywhere... Simply put, really good.
>like you used to in school days
This is the problem with actual office environments.The whole atmosphere is fucking childish.Cubicles looked as mature as it can get.
Do they realize it?Can things just fucking get back to normal yet?
>not overworked
>office
kek
>likes working in offices that look like preschools
>"Welcome to the adulthood, kid."
Lol. Why can't we go back to pic related?
Not trying to be a dick, but what's wrong with the immature atmosphere?
I don't look at it as childish but rather relaxed. The productivity is still there - if your work shows results and if you perform your tasks well - promotion/raise. Fuck it all up, slack and/or be a dick - you'll get fired. HR still exists, and I believe they're taking this way in order to get people to feel more comfortable in work environment.
I mean, think about it - nearly a third of your life is spent on work. Do you want to spend it in positive or strict atmoshpere?
Sorry for misunderstanding, "adulthood" as in work/sleep/repeat mindset, not the actual workplace. :)
>what's wrong with the immature atmosphere?
I like the idea of having my own cubicle, or at most sharing it with one other person (we each get one side, our backs are to each other). Having everyone in one place with no dividers reminds me too much of a school classroom, that's one of the reasons why I hated school so much. It's a sensory overload.
>Windows 2000
That OS always seemed the most revolutionary to me, just because of its name. Windows 2000, Windows TWO THOUSAND. It's the new millennium, we're going into the future.
If only 2018 could have been the future we all imagined.
Understandable.
I also feel socially awkward, but working in such environment tests me in a positive way to get out of my comfort zone and grow. The way my office looks is one huge open space, with teams divided into small groups, and each team has their own comfy corner and has everyone else within a chair's roll.
A cubicle doesn't necessarily mean 'strict'.The whole forced socialization seems more strict lol.You cannot just mind your own shit without everyone being around.
>Do you want to spend it in positive or strict atmoshpere?
Forced socialization isn't a positive atmosphere from my point of view. Largely being left alone in my cubicle to get work done by myself sounds more positive.
>tfw 18 years later everything is absolute shit
Who would've thought?
>How does bullshitting benefit him and the elite?
Firstly, bullshit artists are good at appearing productive, while taking credit for the work of their underlings. They're also really good at shifting blame for their screwups onto other people.
Secondly, bullshitters don't question authority. They're "yes men". They don't call their boss out on their bullshit.
Thirdly, elites aren't good at thinking long term. As long as the money keeps coming, the bullshit artists will keep getting raises and promotions.
In other words, bullshitters are parasites. They trick the host company into thinking they're generating value while they shovel into their pockets.
I'm not a bullshitter. At my last job, I built things within 3 the company was faking for years. Word got around that in the business community that we were delivering quality products and the revenue of the company doubled in less than a year.
The bullshitter I reported to worked to actively discredit me to his boss. It worked. In the end all of the hard work I put into my job to deliver an honest quality product only succeeded in putting money into the hand's of dishonest, unscrupulous people.
Luckily I have more than a year's worth of salary saved up. My next goal is starting my own business because 90% of jobs are simply not worth it.
I just wonder if we're going to bounce back at some point and everything will start to get good again.
>inb4 "nostalgia goggles! people hated things back then too!"
Not to the extent things are in 2018. Back then, hell even just 10 years ago more people seemed genuinely content.
>In the end all of the hard work I put into my job to deliver an honest quality product only succeeded in putting money into the hand's of dishonest, unscrupulous people.
I was always afraid of getting fucked over like that in a company.How can those fucking leeches even live with themselves?Are they completely non-selfaware?
Once you've fucked over a few people it easily becomes second nature. There are all kinds of mental gymnastics they can do to justify themselves, as well.
>Are they completely non-selfaware?
Most normalfags completely lack self awareness. They're perfectly fine fucking other people over just to improve their own life by a small amount. Actually, saying their perfectly fine with it isn't entirely accurate. In reality, they don't even think about it.
I wish it was like that but no. I'm gonna attempt to talk my boss into private offices when we move
>Its boosts (((creativity))) and (((team building)))
if only. that's corporate speak that doesn't really happen. open plan offices are the worst for not only for robots, but to everyone else as well, since they're noisy and full of distractions. they provide no way to having private, uninterrupted time for you and your team, you can't close the door as there aren't any. instead of building teams, prepare yourself for endless gossip and talking and hearing everyone talk about everything but about the job itself. enjoy having to listen to shitty music blasted from shitty laptop speakers too.
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>enjoy having to listen to shitty music blasted from shitty laptop speakers too.
What the hell? That's such an obvious distraction, for the person wanting to listen to it as well as the people around them. Why is that allowed?
>How can those fucking leeches even live with themselves?Are they completely non-selfaware?
Some of them believe their own bullshit, and believe they're doing good for the community by providing (low-paying) jobs.
If there's one advice I have to give on how to succeed in the corporate world, it's the following: "Think like a used car salesman"
The corporate world is rife with these sociopaths who run on the coat-tails of productive people. They don't have the technical skills they claim to have but they're good at lying
The worst thing about is is this strategy works. The guy I mentioned in my previous post was making 6 times my salary. He would come in for 2-3 hours and crack jokes with the the C-level executives then go home. His strategy also involved finding a convenient scapegoat whenever the shitty projects he rammed through failed in a spectacular fashion.
That looks like literal Hell. Thank God I have my own private office and couch to lay on and get paid 80k a year to post all day on my phone.
mmm damn that sounds pretty good
to be honest most people don't seem to mind, specially if someone else from the team picks the music, i guess it helps to bond. in fact i don't mind playing music for myself, but only using earbuds, never speakers. also, wearing buds makes you look like you're busy, "in the zone".
i hope so, jeans and plain white shirts is the only thing i want to wear. formal clothes make me feel old and shitty(er)
>tfw I'll never realize my dream of being in an office like this
>tfw I'll never fall into the deep depression that I desire to have in an office like this
>tfw some cow won't show me pictures of her family on vacation while I'm in the break room trying to eat my lunch and pass the time
disgust
the impossible cubicle from that pic (the one with no door) looks like a good place to hide and play some comfy game boy games. i know the pic is from tron
It honestly is pretty comfy. You have your desk arranged the way you like it and people walk by and make small time from time to time. I like it.
Shame the new job I'm taking is more open like though. Less cozy without the walls.
comfy as fuck user
>tfw want to sleep in on life
Lmao that cubicle meme shit is a dead meme. Only call center job offices use cubicles.
Office work is pretty rewarding depending on what your doing.
IT. Security is. I feel like the NSA does. Privacy does not exist. Everything you do. Post. And sites you visit is all monitored.
Unless you work for a small ass company.
How could you survive more than months in this ? Muh "creativity" eh
this pic makes me feel uneasy
Tfw it security has no office THOT / roastie for me to fuck. Its NOT FAIR I WANT TO DICK AN OFFICE THOT WHORE!
>That looks like literal Hell.
It is
Fuck cuckcenter monkey work. It's suicide fuel no matter what type of calls you take
It's because nobody produces anything anymore and the office environment is increasingly run by women. What do you think the people in these pictures are doing? Likely building another cancerous or unneeded social media app or at worst working for Buzzfeed for something. Everything's fucked
i fucking hated it. granted i worked for 3 years, every single week without vacation, but it sucks
>have to wake up early every day (i'm a night owl, usually sleep 4am-noon)
>have to sit in a chair the entire time the sun is out
>artificial lights (compact, florescent light bulbs rich in blue light) that are stressful on the body
i just quit my job because it was so bad. i hope i never have to do it again, i can program from my room
>and get paid 80k a year to post all day on my phone.
how?
>how?
Connections. The people who get ahead in the corporate world are 115 IQ with a used car salesman personality.
Also, the higher paying office jobs typically involve far less work than lower paying jobs. My boss made about 240k and did jack shit apart from brown nosing the executives. I wouldn't even hire that guy to manage a washroom.
>Connections
so how do i get those if i am 25 years old and graduated uni already? i am freelancing for work
Working in an office sounds pretty okay, sit on your ass for 8 hours and what, occasionally send out an email/answer a phonecall and spend the remaining 6 hours excluding lunch just browsing and idling until you suddenly have to reply back to the email you sent? Sounds like an okay deal.
What are the best careers for robots? I'm not very good at interviews
>Working in an office sounds pretty okay, sit on your ass for 8 hours and what, occasionally send out an email/answer a phonecall and spend the remaining 6 hours excluding lunch just browsing and idling until you suddenly have to reply back to the email you sent? Sounds like an okay deal.
Yeah that's what they want you to think.
Most office jobs are 10 hrs per day in an office with little downtime. Then when you get home, you're still fielding phone calls/emails/putting out fires.
This is especially true if you're one of the hard workers. You'll soon realize that the only reward for hard work is more work/responsibility, and a 2% raise (ie inflation renders it flat) at your next performance review.
>You'll soon realize that the only reward for hard work is more work/responsibility, and a 2% raise (ie inflation renders it flat) at your next performance review.
fucking this so hard
>You'll soon realize that the only reward for hard work is more work/responsibility
I had to quit my first real job because I made this mistake. I became so senior that I became jealous of my retarded subordinates who did fuck all day but got paid only slightly less than me. Work just enough to not get fired kids.
Disgusting. Corps will pay on a karmic level for undermining thoughtful, hard-working people.
Another thing I want to point out is that unless you intend to go for a Master's degree of some kind, you will find it very difficult to get promoted into a director level position.
Climbing the corporate ladder is often about
1) Having the right credentials from the right schools (ie an M7 MBA)
2) Ass kissing and office politics
You're actual ability to produce results matters very little. Impression management and looking like a polished business professional is the most important thing.
Good lord that looks like hell
Thanks wagies,
even office work looks pig disgusting, time to make money at home in my pajamas.
Why shouldn't there be color? Do you want to work in an all white/greyed out depressing wrong?
>not a necktie in sight
So? You want to wake up everyday for the next 40 years of your life and have to spend an hour getting dressed to work at a fucking computer or throw on whatever you want and be comfy at your job? You're using laptops and shit not meeting with the prime minister of japan