We used to keep the light off in the tech bullpen. There were no windows but enough lights from the screens to keep people from tripping over themselves walking to their desks. Fucking director level POS hated it. When he didn’t have anything to do he’d come back there and loudly exclaim “I don’t see how y’all can work in the dark!”
It’s almost like different people work different ways and have different levels of comfort. I can deal with either just fine but damn, don’t just loudly pronounce shit and change the environment immediately. That absolutely stops pretty much everyone from working because they want to bitch about how it’s different now.
I think it was 50/50 not giving a shit about the comfort of others and wanting attention because he was as useless as a bag of used microplastics.
I have a backlit keyboard, but the light is always off. If you can’t type by feel and you work on a computer then what the hell are you doing? I will never understand how people can’t work on a light up screen in the dark.
I used to work in an IT call center like that. It wasn’t even dark it was just dim because no one wanted the light over their desk turned on. There was enough light from the kitchenette area and the walkways to easily see. We got a new manager that hated that we all wanted the lights off so she used like 3 people who complained about it (and were in a corner of the room with the lights on so… stfu) as a pretext to do a poll to keep the rest of the lights turned on. She came back saying there was “a lot of” support for turning the lights on so now it was required but refused to release the results. Immediately lost all respect from the room. She would have eventually anyway because she was a shit manager but that was like right out of the gate.
Coworkers like 75% spectrum. Office is DARK
When we have meetings, boss comes in and opens the blinds. We scurry around like roaches
We used to keep the light off in the tech bullpen. There were no windows but enough lights from the screens to keep people from tripping over themselves walking to their desks. Fucking director level POS hated it. When he didn’t have anything to do he’d come back there and loudly exclaim “I don’t see how y’all can work in the dark!”
It’s almost like different people work different ways and have different levels of comfort. I can deal with either just fine but damn, don’t just loudly pronounce shit and change the environment immediately. That absolutely stops pretty much everyone from working because they want to bitch about how it’s different now.
I think it was 50/50 not giving a shit about the comfort of others and wanting attention because he was as useless as a bag of used microplastics.
Lol people see me in the dark with a laptop and backlit keyboard and are like "how can you see / read in the dark?
Like wtf it’s backlit. IDC what’s happening in this - until recently - otherwise uninhabited room.
I have a backlit keyboard, but the light is always off. If you can’t type by feel and you work on a computer then what the hell are you doing? I will never understand how people can’t work on a light up screen in the dark.
I used to work in an IT call center like that. It wasn’t even dark it was just dim because no one wanted the light over their desk turned on. There was enough light from the kitchenette area and the walkways to easily see. We got a new manager that hated that we all wanted the lights off so she used like 3 people who complained about it (and were in a corner of the room with the lights on so… stfu) as a pretext to do a poll to keep the rest of the lights turned on. She came back saying there was “a lot of” support for turning the lights on so now it was required but refused to release the results. Immediately lost all respect from the room. She would have eventually anyway because she was a shit manager but that was like right out of the gate.
She showed her true colours immediately. Didn’t care about the people in the team.
We did that as interns. Our official response was the light was causing interference with the testing and needed to be off.