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Humans are stereotyping / categorizing machines, we can't help it.
Abstracting. Humans like to abstract things into manageable portions.
Same difference, no?
Office noise bothers some people more than others
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#252Earlier quoted context omitted.
Presumably you could make your own gum (coat regular sugar-free gum?) using the same nicotine solution that vapers use.
Coating regular gum would probably not work. The nicotine is embedded in the gum base itself. That's why the instructions for using nicotine gum say to chew just long enough for you to feel the tingle that nicotine creates against your oral mucosa, then tuck it between your gum and cheek for 30ish minutes or until the tingling stops. Then you give it another couple chews, just enough to expose more of the nicotine to…
You can make your own gum.
https://www.wikihow.com/Make-Chewing-Gum
There doesn't seem to be any known interaction with gum base.
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#253I am curious about this. Do people who work in the open plan office, feel bothered by clicky mechanical keyboard sounds (cherry mx blue, greeen etc)?
Yes, mechanical keyboards are noisy and inappropriate for a shared office.
Blue and green switches are inappropriate for a shared office, but if you get brown switches and install sound dampeners then they can be as quiet as a normal keyboard.
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#254I currently work for a startup and all three of us are hotdesking. We're constantly moved to new spaces in the hotdesking space because a new company is leaving/moving in. I've sat beside recruiters, property managers and salespeople. There's no "quiet" room. The meeting rooms cost a few hundred and need to be pre-booked. My home environment isn't a quiet refuge either. Beside a busy street, more flatmates than their…
I feel you. I recently changed jobs from an office environment at max capacity and open to the extreme, to one at 1/3 capacity and a lot of nooks and crannies designed for those who need a little space. It's amazing how much less fatiguing the latter environment is.
I even rather like an ambient social environment like a coffee shop. But I’m pretty sure working in close quarters with inside or recruiters would drive me crazy.
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#255There are two mutually exclusive groups of people: "Concentrators(1)" and "Communicators(2)". Concentrators must have conditions that allow one to form and hold complex ideas, and act upon them. This is almost always some degree of a quiet environment, without visual or auditory distractions. the opposite of the ideal conditions of Communicators. Communicators must interact with others to do their job. (1) Typical of…
Ah yes, it's so simple when we can describe everything in terms of false dichotomies.
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#256People put with noise far more than they have to. Here are a few of my experiences: - moved into an office where a very noisy dot-matrix printer printed out every opening and closing of a door in the building. Nobody ever looked at the printouts. I unplugged it and put it in a dumpster. Nobody ever complained. - working for an oil company, my boss was sitting next to a big HP plotter that was horribly noisy - he wore…
I worked in a place where my team of 8 was right next to a door that loudly clanged shut whenever one of the 150 people in the company used it, and they did 90% of the time as most of the desks were closer to that door. Well, it was kind of annoying, I had to constantly re-prop the door, and we weren't allowed to put signage or a door stop...maybe due to fire hazards or regulations? The main issue: Upper management d…
Usually door closers have a setting to slow down just before the door really closes, it can be adjusted to slow down the door further.
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#257I've never particularly minded general office noises of the kind that can be cancelled out easily, but what gets me is when coworkers start to become stressed and physically vent this in a way that makes noise - particularly when I can hear a mouse click getting louder and more violent, echoing off every surface in the office. Somehow my brain interprets this as an attack (evoking a fight-or-flight response that othe…
> particularly when I hear a mouse click getting louder and more violent. What really gets to me is loud and furious typing. Otherwise most office noise doesn’t bother me. But that’s mostly because I’m surrounded by colleagues who I get along with.
Then get a mechanical keyboard and type louder. That's how you assert dominance.
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#258Earlier quoted context omitted.
Nicotine gum is as expensive as cigarettes, if not more. I spend about $30/year for my vape supplies. I buy juice by the liter and the coils are the only other consumable and those are about $2 apiece every few months.
Presumably you could make your own gum (coat regular sugar-free gum?) using the same nicotine solution that vapers use.
I know how to make gum and it would be a hassle and a half for this purpose. I'm fine with unflavored juice composed of compounds that have been used for inhalation purposes for decades.
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#259Recommendations on noise cancelling headphones?
I wanted headphones that didn't rely on electronic noise cancelling. I ended up with Sennheiser HD 280 Pros. Found them at Guitar Center, they had a really nice testing setup. They had the best combination of noise blocking and good sound, without being way over budget.
Re: Office noise bothers some people more than others
#260There are two mutually exclusive groups of people: "Concentrators(1)" and "Communicators(2)". Concentrators must have conditions that allow one to form and hold complex ideas, and act upon them. This is almost always some degree of a quiet environment, without visual or auditory distractions. the opposite of the ideal conditions of Communicators. Communicators must interact with others to do their job. (1) Typical of…
I don't know which group suits me. When I'm concentrated I don't care about my surrounding.
He said they're mutually exclusive. So, clearly you do not exist.