many offices have already been converted

The plural of anecdote isn’t data.

If it was, we’d not have smoke detectors. After all, most people have gone through 12,000 days without a house fire, so there’s no value.

work with headphones in. So I wouldn’t contribute to the collaboration that is claimed to take place.

In the new cramped environment with low visual privacy and especially no audio privacy, we all just end up with earpods in. We need the noise isolation to f’n THINK!

So the boss oozes his way over and ‘hums’ and ‘haws’ trying to get our attention before waving and doing that “hey pull out your earbuds so I can talk” gesture that resembles yokels trying to pick up someone in an elevator or on the bus and not.getting.it .

Because he doesn’t.

So that is the life of people I left at the old job, and it’s repeated a thousand times over.

Learn to also say on the phone “this environment has no audio privacy. Can you book meeting and a conference room? Thanks”, if you get too many desk calls.

… and HVAC and power with the internal wall change and sound-insulation.

I seriously wonder why I even have to go to the office the other three days.

You don’t; and you know this already.

I quit my union job when the new hotshot manager started mandating RTO into a newly compressed, hot, bright, loud environment; being able to actually see asses in chairs was his jam, despite the work impact. What a tool.

Found a job with another unionized IT shop, paid for it with a 3% pay cut but got an extra week of vacation (net loss: 3 days pay/yr) and a really great crew and 100% remote written into the contract. Thanks, ya tool.

We were always going to pay for their failures; this one, or the next.

There’s a lot of value in a sleeping area that can get really really dark.

I’m ever so grateful for electrical tape.

I don’t think it’s Facebook’s business, nor in its best interest or ours to store those messages, either way.

Read the article again and again, and then eventually understand the meta-issue here.

Good bot

Ms Smith goes to Washington?

Have you heard of the CLOUD act?

The right destroys privacy for either their control of the poors or for religious morality police.

The left destroys privacy to root out fascism.

They are not the same[.gif].

I was born decades ago and 2 months early; in the glass box for weeeeks to beat the 11% survival-at-all stats.

Having said that, IT’S STILL NOT FACEBOOK’S BUSINESS as a conveyor and not a filter.