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I'd love a cubical, at work we only had open spaces the last 15 years or so. It's so loud and distracting, I hate it. But the upper management always has their own individual office where they can just close the door.
The one up side to the open floor plan at work is it makes throwing nerf darts at co workers across the office easier.
Nothing is better when you’re frustrated than beaming a dart at your buddy, or starting a dart war.
Is this sarcasm?
... No? Have you never worked in a fun work environment? Nerf fights in offices are not that uncommon.
I can’t find any (good) videos of it, but I do have a video of a drunk co worker trying to play golf with fake poop.
The problem is that's not actually fun.
Nah, it’s actually pretty fun. Try having fun some time.
Thanks for the suggestion.
I worked in that office when I was three, it was called kindergarden.
I’m sorry to hear about your poor working environment. Can I offer you a dart in these trying times?
That sounds like the exact opposite of fun to me. People shooting shit at me. Can we play D&D or something instead? I mean I don't particularly want to hang out at work to do something "fun," but if I have to...
If you don’t want to be involved then people won’t throw darts at you. It’s only people that want to be involved (sans the odd failed throw). Everyone in our office at least enjoys them.
There’s only one person who doesn’t like them, but she has her own office and is a massive hypocrite so she can fuck off.
Until a dart hits me by mistake when I'm trying to focus on something. Not to mention the distractions.
You get used to it. I've gotten to that point that a dart to the back of the head, or hitting my monitor doesn't even make me flinch, and I don't lose my train of though. I'll wrap up what I was working on, then fire back.
Why should I have to get used to it? It's a job, not a fucking arcade.
That would make me explode. We had guys flying those mini quadcopters at the office, oh my god it was so annoying.
Hence the nerf.
I shot one with a slingshot and a nerf ball before it could get into the copy room...highlight of my career.
When you’re not involved it sucks, but when you are it’s amazing. I’ve gotten really good at ignoring them, but it took years.
Now a quad copter in the office sounds awful. How tall are your ceilings?
Jast average hight, but they had those mini quad copters like this:
Yes, and the people who don't want to be involved have to just sit there and try to work through that chaos. It's rude behavior.