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      Seriously. Neurodivergent folks like myself stand an iota of a chance of being successful with a cubicle. Open floor plans are an assault on our senses and the wet dream of micromanagers. They are awful and the reason I exclusively work from home.

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      seriously all these boomers complaining about cubicles like they wouldnt be paradise, the audacity

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      Would have to agree. I WFH now, with occasional lab testing and site visits for clients. Last place I worked, I shared a “quad” cube with a filing cabinet/table in the middle while everyone faced into their corner. Main problems: I shared it with an intern who constantly asked questions and two admin ladies constantly talking in said quad with all the other admin ladies about little league baseball games and one’s ongoing ugly divorce…yikes lol

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      No shit. I now work from home, but my last cubicle was half that size and had no walls. That’s a god damn luxury cube!

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              Real question: You yourself call it “the edge,” so does it feel sustainable enough that you’d start a family and pass your way of life on to your kids? Is it stable enough that it can handle unplanned expenses? Just my opinion here, but if your lifestyle can’t accomodate creating the next generation is it actually better? I’m talking from a position of privilege, with a 9-5 that I enjoy and pays well, which maybe also isn’t realistic for the next generation, of course.

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      9-5 isn’t really a thing anymore.

      It’s more likely to be 8-5 or 9-6. You get an hour for lunch, but you’ll be so busy you usually skip it and work that extra hour for free.

  • TheSeveralJourneysOfReemus@lemmy.world
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    This is the story of a man named Stanley. Stanley worked for a company in a big building where he was employee number 427. Employee Number 427’s job was simple: he sat at his desk in room 427, and he pushed buttons on a keyboard. Orders came to him through a monitor on his desk, telling him what buttons to push, how long to push them, and in what order. This is what Employee 427 did every day of every month and every year, and although others might have considered it soul-rending, Stanley relished every moment that the orders came in, as though he had been made exactly for this job. And Stanley was happy. And then one day, something very peculiar happened. Something that would forever change Stanley. Something he would never quite forget. He had been at his desk for nearly an hour when he realized that not one single order had arrived on the monitor for him to follow. No-one had showed up to give him instructions, call a meeting, or even say Hi. Never in all his years at the company had this happened - this complete isolation. Something was very clearly wrong. Shocked, frozen solid, Stanley found himself unable to move for the longest time. But as he came to his wits and regained his senses, he got up from his desk and stepped out of his office."

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    Fast paced = we have understaffed and expect you to do more than your share of the work. Exciting = as people with better prospects leave our untenable work environment you will be expected to take on their responsibilities with no extra pay.

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    It gets fast-paced and exciting when the boss has An Idea on a Friday afternoon that must be completed before the end of the week.