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My company moved engineering into the same open office as sales and customer support, we can collaborate with everyone all the time!

Definitely a negative to productivity on my individual work because it's so much noisier in here.

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Yes, they put our desks right next to finance, with that one person who is our "laugh really loud, laugh at everything and I mean _everything_" person.

We should make an audio output for our build scripts to play a really loud woodchipper sound. "Sorry, can't be helped, part of the process, the machine has to grind the source code up into small bits to fit into the CPU."

At least that way you can hear the sales staff selling features that have not been developed yet.

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