> So whoever drinks beer, eats pizza or plays ping pong is a "noisy idiot"?
If you want to interpret it that way, fine. I really don't care. You interfere with my work and try to shove an addictive, brain-freezing drug on me (no matter how many times I tell you my family history says stay the fuck away). Yes, you're noisy idiots. If you like, I can come up with different, even more insulting descriptions that I think fit even better.
> Yes, break rooms should have proper acoustical isolation, or be adequately placed apart.
They don't. Welcome to the real world.
> Beyond that, noise cancelling headphones does wonders!
I shouldn't have to isolate myself from an environment intended for doing work in order to do work.
It's an office. If it's not for getting work done, why am I in it? Why can't I just work from home? Why is the business spending money on it in the first place? Get rid of it and use the savings to pay me more.
You have no idea. Not only do these plebs keep paying a few hundred a month for beers and pizza instead of giving it to me, they are constantly playing ping-pong in the same goddamn building. I don't want to work there so much that I am offended by the job description.
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I actually don't want to work somewhere like that and I also have a family history, but it's not necessary to call it idiot-juice and act like these businesses have done me personal harm and these people are all stupid for enjoying it.
> act like these businesses have done me personal harm
Two of them have done me serious personal harm. I can quantify the financial harm (it's somewhere north of $200,000 at this point). I can't quantify the psychological harm, nor, at this point, can I quantify the stress-related physiological harm.
If you want to interpret it that way, fine. I really don't care. You interfere with my work and try to shove an addictive, brain-freezing drug on me (no matter how many times I tell you my family history says stay the fuck away). Yes, you're noisy idiots. If you like, I can come up with different, even more insulting descriptions that I think fit even better.
> Yes, break rooms should have proper acoustical isolation, or be adequately placed apart.
They don't. Welcome to the real world.
> Beyond that, noise cancelling headphones does wonders!
I shouldn't have to isolate myself from an environment intended for doing work in order to do work.
It's an office. If it's not for getting work done, why am I in it? Why can't I just work from home? Why is the business spending money on it in the first place? Get rid of it and use the savings to pay me more.