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What I Know About Being Sick at Work (2018)

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Re: What I Know About Being Sick at Work (2018)

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Post by raxxorrax »

neilv wrote: post #17
Jare wrote: post #8

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> they do the push-up/plank thing if you want to speak I don't know what that specific practice is, and I think I really really don't want to know.

In such a software development organization, at the end of each meeting, everyone immediately has a moment of mindfulness, then pops another pill, shotguns a Red Bull, crushes the empty can on their forehead, shouts "Yo! Bro !", and crashes through the loft meeting room window, down to the open-plan work tables below. If you want to make a culture fit, you have to break a few eggs.

I think there are too many people just looking to "break a few eggs", because these things just don't happen in reality, or do they?

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Post by komali2 »

gdulli wrote: post #110
komali2 wrote: post #107

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I'm not sure op is manufacturing outrage. I'm not outraged but I am mildly annoyed that someone would assume me and my buddies would turn an office into barracks because that's "just what young men do." More likely we'd turn it into the ultimate LAN party environment or something.

Being annoyed is a choice, though. Why do it if you don't have to?

I am only saying something because someone else claimed there's no reason to be annoyed.

I'm allowed to react to external input however I choose, and allowed to voice my emotions regarding such input.

Why say a reductive statement about all young men if you don't have to? Being annoying is a choice.

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Post by wool_gather »

delinka wrote: post #92
wool_gather wrote: post #88

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No. You're going to have to expand on that. Active noise cancelling means there is less sound reaching your ears . It works by -- quite literally -- cancelling the sound waves. Insert "now you're thinking" meme image: Sound can't hurt your ears If it doesn't exist

Active noise canceling adds sound pressure. It doesn’t stop outside sound, it adds an inverse sound to prevent your perception of sound.

You do not know of what you speak. It does not add sound pressure. Reducing sound pressure is the physical mechanism by which it operates. The inverse sound means that both sounds literally no longer exist.

> prevent your perception of sound.

No. It is destructively interfering with the wave. You don't perceive it because there is no more sound, not because of some perceptual trick.

(For any pedants looking on, I'm ignoring the fact that the cancellation may be imperfect. Unless there's actually constructive interference going on -- which is not what delinka is saying -- there is plain and simply less sound.)

Re: What I Know About Being Sick at Work (2018)

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Post by wool_gather »

sokoloff wrote: post #103
jchw wrote: post #96

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Of course it will affect air pressure, but in theory it should be literally cancelling the sound waves. All the literature I can find at a cursory glance suggests ANC headphones are better for your hearing.

ANC isn’t perfect. ANC leaves a noticeable low level of noise from imperfect sensing, processing, and cancellation. It’s quite easy to imagine that this could be detrimental (as compared to passive noise canceling). It’s probably not as good for your hearing as an equivalent level of passive NR. When I fly long trips, I notice that my hearing is slightly impaired for a day or so. There could be a lot of confounding f…

> leaves a noticeable low level of noise

That's not added sound, though, that's a portion of the original sound that just didn't get cancelled.

Re: What I Know About Being Sick at Work (2018)

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Post by temikus »

I did like this article a lot. I recently acquired asthma out of the blue and struggled a lot with asking people to accomodate. Need vs Request is especially hard. I’ve had breathing issues when we changed the office building but real estate said it’s too expensive to call in cleaners out of their usual once-a-year schedule, even when my manager chimed in. I was afraid to escalate past that because I didn’t want to be a hassle. As a result I had to suffer through it for 6 months before I changed teams and moved buildings. Looking back on it I should’ve made a statement and stuck with it because the 6 months of wheezing and subpar work because I was constantly suffering wasn’t worth it to me or my company.

Re: What I Know About Being Sick at Work (2018)

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Post by wool_gather »

astura wrote: post #108

I don't need accomodations at work, personally. However, I am a big advocate for making sure that the people who do feel included. Maybe it's because I'm a minority in other ways. I interviewed at a very large company and it was very nice when the recruiter asked me directly if I need accomodations for the interview. That's the good thing about large companies, they tend to put much more thought into that sort of thi…

> I don't need accomodations at work, personally. However, I am a big advocate for making sure

Yeah, this post reminded me of the adage about programming for accessibility: the need for assistance doesn't even need to be permanent; we're all "disabled", or going to be, at some point, and in different ways and degrees.

Having a culture of normality around people adjusting their environment as needed benefits everyone. (Including the business, in the end!)

Re: What I Know About Being Sick at Work (2018)

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Post by wool_gather »

eemil wrote: post #106
hdfbdtbcdg wrote: post #37

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Well. Using headphones all day damages our hearing... We work better without constant distractions. We are pretty expensive to employ and then use at 50% potential.

What you're saying is a bit misleading. Headphones do not inherently damage hearing. What's damaging, is listening to them at a high volume. This might occur if you're in a noisy environment, and use headphones with poor isolation, e.g. airpods, which need to overpower the ambient noise. You can absolutely listen to headphones all day, in a quiet environment or if they provide good isolation.

Right, it's not dangerous to your hearing at appropriate levels. Although as any audio engineer will tell you, having the sound source that close to your ears for a long time can be a bit psychologically tiring. It's still best to take a break every so often.

Re: What I Know About Being Sick at Work (2018)

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Post by roel_v »

astura wrote: post #97
coldtea wrote: post #72

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Well, like 22 year old men have certain tendencies that will prevail (e.g. a bro office culture), the same way a company of 22 year old females will have other tendencies that will prevail. People not understanding statistics doesn't mean there are not some dominant traits in each group, even if they are not shared by all members of the group -- nor that it is patronizing to mention them (as if someone making a gener…

>the same way a company of 22 year old females will have other tendencies that will prevail. ... Such as? Btw, the issue isn't really "the tendencies 22 year old men" so much as it is people hiring for friends and drinking buddies instead of hiring for employees and colleagues

Spontaneous pink baby sock knitting sessions? Dude stop trying to provoke people into writing things you can pick apart to feel offended about.

Re: What I Know About Being Sick at Work (2018)

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Post by [deleted] »

nickpeterson wrote: post #54
neilv wrote: post #17

Earlier quoted context omitted.

In such a software development organization, at the end of each meeting, everyone immediately has a moment of mindfulness, then pops another pill, shotguns a Red Bull, crushes the empty can on their forehead, shouts "Yo! Bro !", and crashes through the loft meeting room window, down to the open-plan work tables below. If you want to make a culture fit, you have to break a few eggs.

When an industry recruits 22 year old men, is it surprising when the workplace resembles a barracks?

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Re: What I Know About Being Sick at Work (2018)

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Post by adwn »

cannabis_sam wrote: post #90
llampx wrote: post #65

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What would the workplace resemble if they were hiring 22 year old females? Can you give an answer with a straight face that doesn't patronize 50+% of the world population?

Your position patronizes young adults. Most 22 year olds, regardless of gender, would not accept this unless their job depending on it, in which case it’s your employer abusing you. You should work with more 22 year olds, they are actually adults, you know...?

Did you intend to reply to nickpeterson directly? Because you replied to llampx, who isn't the one who brought up that statement about 22 year olds.
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