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[guycook]

Yep. I rewatched Office Space recently and found myself envious of their working conditions (!). That's what 5 years of open plan does to you

[millstone → guycook]

I just replayed Space Quest 3. In the game, Roger Wilco visits ScumSoft, a dystopian software company. Check out the ScumSoft office layouts:

http://www.hardcoregaming101.net/spacequest/sq3-15.png

http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-Bp3Emd3jJVo/T7wcdqFTM_I/AAAAAAAAAu...

The layout is nice, notwithstanding the whipping.

[jordanb → millstone]

Honestly I'd take the whipping to have full-height cubes like that.

My office is half-height cubes, but apparently there's a redesign in the works that's going to give us "friendly clusters with low partitions" (kill me now).