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That was a very, very stupid thing to do. https://latterdaysaintmag.com/the-parable-of-chestertons-fen...
When disagreeing, please reply to the argument instead of calling names. "That is idiotic; 1 + 1 is 2, not 3" can be shortened to "1 + 1 is 2, not 3." https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
People 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…
Did you mean to post here? https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21565841
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That was a very, very stupid thing to do. https://latterdaysaintmag.com/the-parable-of-chestertons-fen...
The logical conclusion to this is that we should not take any action in the face of incomplete information or uncertainty. This is typical of the dogmatic approach to reasoning that you find in many religious texts. The action of taking down the fence may not be based on ignorance, so much as curiosity. This could be viewed as subversive, and we can’t have that now can we?
I see no mention of genetic predisposition to hating office noise. 23andme looks for a marker that indicates hating the sound of chewing, misophonia. Maybe something similar is at play for other noises.
I have a hatred of the sound of any marker dragging against (non-glossy) paper. It's torturous to me, makes me physically cringe and grind my teeth when I hear the noise. And conversely, marker-against-glossy-paper is a very pleasing sound to me. Now I'm wondering if that's genetic and how many other people have the same experience with those sounds.
I 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.
I see no mention of genetic predisposition to hating office noise. 23andme looks for a marker that indicates hating the sound of chewing, misophonia. Maybe something similar is at play for other noises.
I have a hatred of the sound of any marker dragging against (non-glossy) paper. It's torturous to me, makes me physically cringe and grind my teeth when I hear the noise. And conversely, marker-against-glossy-paper is a very pleasing sound to me. Now I'm wondering if that's genetic and how many other people have the same experience with those sounds.
I don't think it has anything to do with the sensations themselves, just my brain perceiving the stimulus as abrasive / piercing. It causes some kind of psychological pain, and weirdly I did not have this problem until my mid-20s.
Colleagues next to me eating hard carrots, chips, anything crunchy. Or Chinese expats who slurp their soup and coffee (normal in their culture; rude in mine)... it drove me crazy.
The singing one drove me insane at my last job. An office lady walked around the office, she would loudly and falsely be singing nonsense like: "LALALALA POMPOM PIEWPIEW LALA" (verbatim) and sometimes fragments from pop songs, in her broken English: "I CAN'T GET NO SASIFICTION LALAPOMPOM".
I wanted to murder her. No joke. If I could get away with it, I would have. The anger was physical and deep. Rage and disgust was the feeling, and I felt personally attacked. It felt like a "fight or flee" instinct, where I'd prefer to fight.
Many angry looks thrown at her (not just from me!) didn't make any difference. She must've felt like she was a rock star or something.
On my last day in the office I mentioned her to the rest of the office. Turns out everyone was annoyed by her. Nobody spoke up.
I have misophonia. The hospital close to my home in Amsterdam did a lot of scientific research into it. And nowadays I work from home, fully remote, as a software engineer. Life is good.
People 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…
The linked article doesn't mention noise as the subject of the article - the word appears once on the page. Are you in the right place?
I 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)?
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