Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!husc6!mailrus!cornell!batcomputer!sun.soe.clarkson.edu!mrd From: mrd@sun.soe.clarkson.edu (Mike DeCorte) Newsgroups: comp.software-eng Subject: Re: Is it hot in here or is it me? Message-ID: Date: 7 Aug 88 22:31:29 GMT References: <12849@agate.BERKELEY.EDU> <3015@ttidca.TTI.COM> <361@uwslh.UUCP> Sender: mrd@sun.soe.clarkson.edu Distribution: na Organization: Clarkson University Lines: 44 In-reply-to: lishka@uwslh.UUCP's message of 6 Aug 88 14:36:16 GMT Although you can take my opinion for what it is worth (I am still a student, although I am holding down a full-time this summer), I would rather work in an office with other people than be stuck in a private one. I prefer to be able to talk to others every now-and-then so I don't lose my mind by staring at glowing phosphors for 8 hours. I would feel isolated in a private office. I am the exact opposite. The only way I can really get any work done is if there is nothing else going on. My boss sometimes wonders where I am because I do most of my work either: 1) at home over the modem 2) after everyone leaves 3) In another smaller terminal room (there are only 3 suns in it) where there are very few people For me the ideal environment is: 1) sun 3/50 with X (or a PC with hd, if I am doing PC work) 2) a laser printer near at hand (I take care of TeX you see) 3) a filing cabnet 4) SILENCE. that includes visual silence. I found out that I can't work with everyone asking questions and chatting. Chatting is nice and all, but if I am trying to find out where I lost a pointer, I can't be interupted. That is why I show up at work about 2pm and leave at 4pm. I come in to see if anybody need something from me, or I need to ask questions etc. Most of my work (and all of my productive work) is done late at night or elsewhere. -- Michael DeCorte // (315)268-2292 // P.O. Box 652, Potsdam, NY 13676 Internet mrd@sun.soe.clarkson.edu // Bitnet mrd@clutx.bitnet ------------------------------------------------------------ Clarkson Archiver Server archiver-server@sun.soe.clarkson.edu archive-server%sun.soe.clarkson.edu@omnigate.bitnet dumb1!dumb2!dumb3!smart!sun.soe.clarkson.edu!archive-server ------------------------------------------------------------