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Walls are good.
Doors help as well.
I have both: four walls, a window, and a door which is only closed to keep noise down (either mine while Herself is sleeping, or when I'm trying to concentrate and she is swearing at the TV...)
Cubes don't work for me: too much noise, too many people walking past, too easy to interrupt the thought processes.
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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I have three colleagues that talk CONSTANTLY, and loud. They are administratives - they have brief bursts of work then nothing for days - and they totally break concentration, especially on hard algorythmic problems.
When they have nothing to say they go on for days repeating every few seconds a selection sentences of the last B-movie or Internet phenomenon they watched. Plus one of them has the abhorrent habit of repeating hte last word he heard, so if someone is answering the pohne he usually repeat the last word of each sentence.
Plus the technocal assistance, which is made mostly on the phone, is in the same and only open space with the developers and administrative employees... Total chaos. I bought boxes of earplugs... and if the boss sees me using earplugs I risk disciplinary troubles. 
GCS d--- s-/++ a- C++++ U+++ P- L- E-- W++ N++ o+ K- w+++ O? M-- V? PS+ PE- Y+ PGP t++ 5? X R++ tv-- b+ DI+++ D++ G e++>+++ h--- ++>+++ y+++* Weapons extension: ma- k++ F+2 X
If you think 'goto' is evil, try writing an Assembly program without JMP. -- TNCaver
"When you have eliminated the JavaScript, whatever remains must be an empty page." -- Mike Hankey
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Likewise.
Open plan office and the guy directly behind me spends most of his day in "motor-mouth" mode, either telling anyone who will listen how to do their job and why his way is better, or on the phone doing the same, plus he has the annoying habit of laughing at his own (so-called) jokes.
Thank God our boss allows us to have headphones 
Sometimes, it just is, OK!
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Wow! If I remember correctly this is the same workspace where the employees are allowed to access no more than approximately 7 specific websites. Am I wrong? But watching the telly is fine as the capo is into sports??
Life is too shor
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You remember perfectly. No, the capo is absent almost 4 days a week and he has his own office... carved at the extremes of the room there are offices with glass walls. No noise passes through and he can watch each and every one of us simply turning up his head. Usually when he's "in office" he sleeps or spends 3-4 hours at the nearby cafè then takes leave.
megaadam wrote: But watching the telly is fine as the capo is into sports??
They don't watch the TV in office but talk about the match of the previous evening. 8 hours straight. Violent thoughts arise...
GCS d--- s-/++ a- C++++ U+++ P- L- E-- W++ N++ o+ K- w+++ O? M-- V? PS+ PE- Y+ PGP t++ 5? X R++ tv-- b+ DI+++ D++ G e++>+++ h--- ++>+++ y+++* Weapons extension: ma- k++ F+2 X
If you think 'goto' is evil, try writing an Assembly program without JMP. -- TNCaver
"When you have eliminated the JavaScript, whatever remains must be an empty page." -- Mike Hankey
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And ban the people who try to hold conversations from opposite ends of the office, by shouting. There are usually six or more of these moronic, long distance yaks going on at the same time.
I may not last forever but the mess I leave behind certainly will.
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Herbie Mountjoy wrote: And ban the people who try to hold conversations from opposite ends of the office, by shouting
Ban? Yes, from the planet.
GCS d--- s-/++ a- C++++ U+++ P- L- E-- W++ N++ o+ K- w+++ O? M-- V? PS+ PE- Y+ PGP t++ 5? X R++ tv-- b+ DI+++ D++ G e++>+++ h--- ++>+++ y+++* Weapons extension: ma- k++ F+2 X
If you think 'goto' is evil, try writing an Assembly program without JMP. -- TNCaver
"When you have eliminated the JavaScript, whatever remains must be an empty page." -- Mike Hankey
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A bright, open, inviting stairway rather than the dark, cramped, hidden one we have now.
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We do have a big, open stairway but most of the staff scuttle up and down the fire escape in the centre of the building for some reason. It retains farts for days.
This is a stairway[^] (third picture).
Some men are born mediocre, some men achieve mediocrity, and some men have mediocrity thrust upon them.
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No; that won't work for me.
When I was in college I worked in a place that had been a stately old house -- it even had narrow servants' stairways and all. It had a curved main stairway and carrying heavy equipment (LasetJet III, etc.) was problematic. Nowadays I'd just get dizzy going around the curves.
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We have The Spiral Staircase of Death. It's the shortest route from the downstairs cafeteria to the engineering wing second floor. It's also an easy way to die, if you get more than one person on it at a time (hence the name).
Software Zen: delete this;
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And a fire pole to go the other way?
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Sadly, no fire pole. The closest thing to that is the gate in railing of the catwalk over the manufacturing area. It's used to lift equipment from the second floor of the engineering wing down to the first floor of manufacturing. You could jump, but the landing would be a bit harsh.
Software Zen: delete this;
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If the stairway were more inviting, it would be easier to push those people down it?
Oh, sorry didn't see the new branch.
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I be all like "outa my way, slowpokes!" 
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A place of work would be a good start. 
veni bibi saltavi
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C'mon Nagy, resignation is not expected from bright minds.
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I have a face-to-face coming up, you never know.
veni bibi saltavi
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Workplace? I'd settle for an income.
The difficult may take time, the impossible a little longer.
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Or at least development cheerleaders?
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I have them but apparently they would rather be called employees.
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Hanging space for cycling gear to dry out during the day
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I leave mine hanging up in the locker room. Unfortunately there isn't any air circulation, so it's still damp when I ride home  .
Software Zen: delete this;
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Bonuses for the non-production staff. My suggestion is take 1% (or whatever) from the bonuses they give the production staff and give it to the people who allow production to make money.
We are treated as an after thought. Production will get subs for lunch, we get: "Oh, production is done with the lunch, you can come and get what you want if anything is left."
Mongo: Mongo only pawn... in game of life.
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