Thread 106550605

>With a break
???

>>106550605 (OP)
It’s true, every millennial took tennis breaks in 2019. It was a different time

>>106550672
Guys at my office were playing a few rounds of table tennis every hour or so.
They even had to move the table to a sound proof room because it was causing too much noise.

>Table tennis break
kek what kind of west coast shit are you talking about? That's the type of garbage that happens today, not in the 90s. 90s American work culture is akin to modern Asian work culture.

>>106550853
OP was talking about 2019 which was peak office table tennis right before covid ruined it.

>>106550605 (OP)
As opposed to what? Working from home?
Just look at this picture. Open offices are horrible.

>>106550957
How are people able to concentrate there? I don't have a problem with sharing a room with one or two other people, but that looks like hell.

>>106550957
But have you tried Libre Offices yet? Not that they look all that different.

>>106550957
There are open offices and open offices.
I worked in an office that was a square with an elevator/stairs in the middle and some sound proof meeting rooms breaking up the space.

It was open but there was still plenty of separation so it was really just your own team of 3 or 4 people and plenty of sunlight.

>>106550957
reminds me of how shit it was to try to get anything done in a classroom at school and where they basically had to put a dog cone around my desk

>>106550605 (OP)
What do you mean? 2016-2019 were by far my best years.

>>106551029
EVERY TIME!

>>106550957
Wait I just realised my last job was an open office. It was probably due to a lack of space more than anything though, but it wasn't as distracting as it looks to be honest.

>>106550605 (OP)
up until the 90s you didn't have anything to do in your cubicle besides work, so they kept you contained to stop chatting
chatting was pretty common before the internet and people could spend hours doing it
from the 00s onwards people are surfing the internet
they want privacy so their boss can't see them
therefore open space gets invented so somebody will always check your screen

nothing changed
they wanted you to suffer back then, and they still want you to suffer

>>106550605 (OP)
I'm not sure what's worse between atomized cogs in the machine with cubicles or the nightmarish profit-first reality of being forced on an open office with another five or so "persons" you absolutely despise and want nothing to do with. It wears your soul by the day either way, is that the point or just an element of labor for someone else's profit instead of your own immediate sustenance?

>>106551021
damn someone really brought cubicles into the classroom

Both options are shit, but I would gladly choose atomized cubicle so I can get some fucking work done than open office spaces where I have to pretend to always be a good little drone and spout company approved bullshit phrases constantly.

>>106550957
What's wrong with this? People worked on similar environments before computers even existed. Why do you need a secluded goon cave?

>>106551641
Terrible noise levels so you can't concentrate. It's like public school except instead of a class of 30 in a private room they're doing a class of 300 in the cafeteria.

>>106551641
Cubicles weren't even a 'goon cave', they were just a way for you to gain some personal space and concentration and even then just about anyone could barge in and demand whatever.
Open offices are the definition of the tragedy of the commons, because it doesn't belong to anyone then nobody has to take responsibility for issues like distractions or not getting work done. You can just point to some random corner of the shared workspace and deflect blame.

>>106550957
>>106550971
Looks kind of bad on one hand, it's kind of a sieve for people who will go higher or for people who will get fired
But on the other it's kinda cool, socialization seems to be encouraged so you can just chat up with someone all day, or even meet a gf or something
it's not like they have terribly much work to do

>>106551641
Zero privacy. You're being watched like a hawk from your managers in upper rooms that have seethru windows. Coworkers causally butt into and listen to your convos. It's just a shitty environment overall when all you want to do is think or produce.

things are deteriorating so fast that dreary situations of the past look like good opportunities today

>>106550605 (OP)
>Other White people
Mass immigration started occurring before Millenials, sweaty.
During the Millenial era, they preached 'tolerance' and accepting other races. They pushed it so hard, Whites let down their guard. Then when Whites extended the hand and got bit, they had 'minorities can't be racist' campaigns and started White privilege etc. to prevent White backlash. You're living a dream, if you think Millenials had it easy in that regard. They've gone to extreme efforts to conceal migrants on the census to back up the claim the 1968 Hart-Cellar Act wouldn't change demographics.