How to make sharing an office suck less Forum

Anonymous User · Post by **Anonymous User** » Sun Sep 14, 2014 5:00 pm

Any tips? Other than remote in more.

2014 · Post by **2014** » Sun Sep 14, 2014 5:02 pm

Have a good office mate

Anonymous User · Post by **Anonymous User** » Sun Sep 14, 2014 5:03 pm

2014 wrote:Have a good office mate

Also, I'm going to be the "loud" one.

banjo · Post by **banjo** » Sun Sep 14, 2014 5:22 pm

How much of a pay cut would people take to have their own office?

Anonymous User · Post by **Anonymous User** » Sun Sep 14, 2014 5:52 pm

In the case of PH, no paycut at all! TTT

20141023 · Post by **20141023** » Sun Sep 14, 2014 5:59 pm

Anonymous User · Post by **Anonymous User** » Sun Sep 14, 2014 6:04 pm

Are privacy filters worth it? I'm too used to my own office. This blows.

jbagelboy · Post by **jbagelboy** » Sun Sep 14, 2014 6:05 pm

banjo wrote:How much of a pay cut would people take to have their own office?

$15K/year. or just work in LA

Anonymous User · Post by **Anonymous User** » Sun Sep 14, 2014 8:36 pm

Not sure why there's so much hate on sharing an office. I shared an office my entire first year and thought it was pretty great. You can bounce ideas off your officemate, work together to find a precedent document and have someone to commiserate with when work sucks. What are the major cons (assuming that the office isn't tiny and is designed to be large enough for 2 people)? Have to wear a headset on the phone rather than using speaker? Maybe I'm missing something but it really wasn't a big deal.

911 crisis actor · Post by **911 crisis actor** » Sun Sep 14, 2014 9:12 pm

Sharing an office sucks because it makes it very hard to shitpost to TLS without your officemate knowing

dixiecupdrinking · Post by **dixiecupdrinking** » Sun Sep 14, 2014 9:15 pm

Agree that you'll both take personal calls elsewhere.

Rahviveh · Post by **Rahviveh** » Sun Sep 14, 2014 9:16 pm

Anonymous User wrote:Not sure why there's so much hate on sharing an office. I shared an office my entire first year and thought it was pretty great. You can bounce ideas off your officemate, work together to find a precedent document and have someone to commiserate with when work sucks. What are the major cons (assuming that the office isn't tiny and is designed to be large enough for 2 people)? Have to wear a headset on the phone rather than using speaker? Maybe I'm missing something but it really wasn't a big deal.

What was the setup like. One firm I visited had one guy sitting behind the other.. So if you're the unlucky one you have someone watching everything you do, unless you get a privacy filter or something. That sounds like a nightmare. Plus an even bigger nightmare is my office mate watching porn when I'm not in the office. If you have some say in who you share an office with that might make it more bearable.

rinkrat19 · Post by **rinkrat19** » Sun Sep 14, 2014 9:51 pm

Rahviveh wrote:
Anonymous User wrote:Not sure why there's so much hate on sharing an office. I shared an office my entire first year and thought it was pretty great. You can bounce ideas off your officemate, work together to find a precedent document and have someone to commiserate with when work sucks. What are the major cons (assuming that the office isn't tiny and is designed to be large enough for 2 people)? Have to wear a headset on the phone rather than using speaker? Maybe I'm missing something but it really wasn't a big deal.
What was the setup like. One firm I visited had one guy sitting behind the other.. So if you're the unlucky one you have someone watching everything you do, unless you get a privacy filter or something. That sounds like a nightmare. Plus an even bigger nightmare is my office mate watching porn when I'm not in the office. If you have some say in who you share an office with that might make it more bearable.

Would you rather your office mate watch porn when you're IN the office? (And is watching porn at work really a thing? Do people not have internet at home?)
I wouldn't want someone sitting behind me either, but porn doesn't even enter into it.

Big Dog · Post by **Big Dog** » Sun Sep 14, 2014 10:08 pm

Plus an even bigger nightmare is my office mate watching porn when I'm not in the office.

That would be win-win, since that Associate would be gone real quick, and you would be solo.

Anonymous User · Post by **Anonymous User** » Sun Sep 14, 2014 10:19 pm

TBH, having an office mate would DEFINITELY make me more efficient. Would spend way less time dicking around on the internet/TLS/facebook/fantasy/whatever.

And for that reason, I would be much less happy.

Also, I thoroughly enjoy being able to change clothes and get naked in my office when needed.

Anonymous User · Post by **Anonymous User** » Mon Sep 22, 2014 8:52 pm

Anyone know if people at cleary share offices their first year?

Anonymous User · Post by **Anonymous User** » Mon Sep 22, 2014 9:27 pm

Anonymous User wrote:Anyone know if people at cleary share offices their first year?

yes in NYC, no in DC

patogordo · Post by **patogordo** » Mon Sep 22, 2014 9:46 pm

911 crisis actor wrote:Sharing an office sucks because it makes it very hard to shitpost to TLS without your officemate knowing

you tls on the work network?

911 crisis actor · Post by **911 crisis actor** » Mon Sep 22, 2014 10:08 pm

Brother, what do you recommend to better cover my tracks?

patogordo · Post by **patogordo** » Mon Sep 22, 2014 10:10 pm

911 crisis actor wrote:Brother, what do you recommend to better cover my tracks?

phone network, wifi off, blanket over head

911 crisis actor · Post by **911 crisis actor** » Mon Sep 22, 2014 10:20 pm

Brpther, the LTE is limited on the higher floors

A. Nony Mouse · Post by **A. Nony Mouse** » Mon Sep 22, 2014 10:57 pm

patogordo wrote:
911 crisis actor wrote:Sharing an office sucks because it makes it very hard to shitpost to TLS without your officemate knowing
you tls on the work network?

Is it really any less obvious if you TLS on your phone?

Old Gregg · Post by **Old Gregg** » Mon Sep 22, 2014 11:04 pm

we get it DF you work in biglaw.

patogordo · Post by **patogordo** » Tue Sep 23, 2014 12:13 am

A. Nony Mouse wrote:
patogordo wrote:
911 crisis actor wrote:Sharing an office sucks because it makes it very hard to shitpost to TLS without your officemate knowing
you tls on the work network?
Is it really any less obvious if you TLS on your phone?

to IT, yes?

Old Gregg · Post by **Old Gregg** » Tue Sep 23, 2014 12:32 am

patogordo wrote:
A. Nony Mouse wrote:
patogordo wrote:
911 crisis actor wrote:Sharing an office sucks because it makes it very hard to shitpost to TLS without your officemate knowing
you tls on the work network?
Is it really any less obvious if you TLS on your phone?
to IT, yes?

just make sure the phone isn't connected to the firm's wireless network

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