But Where Do People Work in This Office?

Re:But Where Do People Work in This Office? by bdcravens on Thursday January 15, 2015 @11:20AM (#8893344)

I like working in coffee shops, except for the fact that I often have to go to the trouble of getting there to find nowhere to sit, since it filled up with squatters that have been there 3+ hours (several of which are one person filling up a big table, with everything spread around like it's their personal desk)

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Re:But Where Do People Work in This Office? by jff on Thursday January 15, 2015 @12:23PM (#8893822)

So you're saying you like working in coffee shops, but it's hard to find a seat because there's all these other people working in coffee shops?

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Re:But Where Do People Work in This Office? by bdcravens on Thursday January 15, 2015 @02:51PM (#8894919)

I'm saying that I want to go and work for a couple of hours, and if everyone did the same, we'd all have seats. The problem is those who think their $3 purchase rents them a desk for 4 hours, and those who need to take up more room than they really need.

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Re:But Where Do People Work in This Office? by dkuntz2 on Friday January 16, 2015 @06:38PM (#8902502)

How is that different from what you described you doing? Are you not going there, and working for a couple hours, and probably not constantly purchasing large amounts of food or drink?

You seem to have a righteous indignation about people doing what you've described yourself as doing.

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Re:But Where Do People Work in This Office? by bdcravens on Saturday January 17, 2015 @04:06PM (#8905505)

I think one drink per 2 hours is pretty reasonable. Maybe it should be one every 1 hour, or maybe one every 4 hours is reasonable. At the end of the day, it's convenient and helps make the coffee shop owners money, but it's not a coworking space, and I'm a fan of "fair share".

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Re:But Where Do People Work in This Office? by xacaxulu on Thursday January 15, 2015 @11:28AM (#8893392)

I use this app (also a webapp if you don't want to download) called Coffitivity https://coffitivity.com/ which recreates the unintelligible murmur of a coffee shop. I find with decent headphones, it acts as a good sort of white noise in open work spaces.

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Re:But Where Do People Work in This Office? by jdcarter on Thursday January 15, 2015 @02:07PM (#8894629)

That's so funny in way, the noise of a coffee shop in your own private workspace! It's so weird that I might actually use it.

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