Michael Bloomberg Tweets Out Making East Room Open Office Plan, Goes Poorly

[theme park joe]

For those who don't know Open Office Plans basically remove all dividers, walls, and more from offices to let people work and "collaborate" more. Too bad it just doesn't work.

Of course he's being rightfully dragged as an out of touch boss.







Pull me into a manager's office if old.

 

[Deepwater]

as if people really needed another reason to hate bloomberg's campaign. This is where I have to draw the line

 

[AntoneM]

Single monitors and actual paper files? What is this, the year 2000?

 

[danm999]

Is it just the perspective or is that brown door on the left not going to open given there's a desk too close to it

 

[Atomic Playboy]

On the plus side, there are some excellent responses.

 

[Dyle]

I'm glad his campaign remembered to put in an aquarium at the back, he would be the first president since FDR to have fish in the White House, which is an essential part of good governance

 

[Deepwater]

I couldn't imagine dicking around on my phone on the clock and the POTUS happens to walk behind me without me noticing whilst on their way to the bathroom

 

[Deleted member 9932]

open offices were made so people actually never work.

 

[SugarNoodles]

The open office I worked in didn't bother me at all.

 

[Euron]

Is he also going to also include the toilets that slope downward at a 13 degree angle to prevent people from using the bathroom long?

 

[Mr. Snuffleupagus]

OK, that Office Space tweet is gold.

 

[Jesse_and_the_rippers]

Run America like a business where we cram in more people per square foot and sell it like a positive.

 

[Slayven]

But who cooked fish in the microwave?

 

[ZealousD]

The Open Office, aka the space where everybody puts on headphones so they can't hear the person next to them and use the office instant messenger to ping the guy who's just on the other side of the devider.

 

[turtle553]

Is he doing this for his office at Bloomberg now?

 

[El Bombastico]

Goddamn, that tweet about the grocery store cookies and generic soda almost triggered a PTSD flashback for me...

 

[nhlducks35]

Like that Harvard study says, everyone just puts in headphones and IMs each other

 

[Dennis8K]

A true man of the people.

Well, some of the people some of the time.

 

[Grimminski]

 

[catboy]

Is he doing this for his office at Bloomberg now?

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yes. he sits at a regular desk in amongst a bunch of other regular desks / employees.

there are plenty of reasons to dislike him (this video outlines many of them: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eqiRvjKhNm4) but i don't think this is one of them.

 

[Failburger]

The only reason for open office is to save money by not buying those dividers. Go into any dev shop and you'll see rows of noise canceling headphones used to block out the office.

 

[Davidion]

There's no better way to out yourself as a completely clueless clown-grade manager than to be openly excited about open floor plans.

 

[Ogodei]

I dislike my current open office because I have a job that doesn't work me all 40 hours so I get a lot of anxiety that people see how slack I am (though I take steps to diminish the appearance). My last open office was great because we were pretty busy and it allowed us to set up good banter or bail one another out when we got in trouble.

Bloomberg's a jerk but the idea here isn't bad.

 

[Carn]

I was reading a study the other day that pretty much boiled down to that open office plans reduce in less social workers (more digital communication) and is detrimental to work-happiness and other stuff.

 

[Slayven]

Goddamn, that tweet about the grocery store cookies and generic soda almost triggered a PTSD flashback for me...

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[Deleted member 43]

That's just an absolutely ridiculous idea.

And does anyone begrudge the President having a private office?

 

[El Bombastico]

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[Deleted member 17092]

Lol it's so cluttered why

 

[theme park joe]

That's just an absolutely ridiculous idea.

And does anyone begrudge the President having a private office?

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As someone brought up on Twitter IT LITERALLY CANNOT WORK with the protocols with issues of national security and levels of clearance.

 

[Jedi2016]

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This one always cracks me up because not only is it missing Dr. Pepper itself, it also doesn't have any of the variants I see at local grocery stores around here.

 

[Slayven]

This one always cracks me up because not only is it missing Dr. Pepper itself, it also doesn't have any of the variants I see at local grocery stores around here.

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I didn't know Dr.Pepper was that popular to bootleg

 

[betterbuddha]

FYI, that is NYC city hall. There is also a separate office just for the mayor, so open office for the workers, private space for him to make deals.

 

[ZeoVGM]

What a dork.

 

[Nassudan]

Dumb idea from a guy who will never be president.

 

[Deleted member 3010]

I hate open offices, no way to hide when you're not working.

 

[Walter White Walker]

I feel the synergy and out of box thinking building from across the nation.

 

[Mahonay]

This dude sucks so fucking much, I thought I escaped Bloomberg by moving out of NYC.

 

[ty_hot]

The only thing that I hate more than politicians that think the public sector is the same as the private sector is the people that believe in them. Fuck this shit.

 

[ElectricBlanketFire]

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Hey now...Dr. Thunder AND Dr. Skipper are legit.

 

[Kenstar]

I didn't know Dr.Pepper was that popular to bootleg

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nothing special about dr pepper there, there's a million store brands of mtn dew, coke, pepsi, and sprite too
Only the Dr. peppers and maybe the dew have the knockoff names as opposed to Cola, lemon lime, etc
because it doesn't have a single indentifiable flavor you can just generically put, so you name it dr value or whatever the shit and give it a red container /mountain rush and a green one so people put 2 and 2 together instead of having to put 'brown soda with a hint of spice' or just 'citrus' (whatever the fuck THAT means)on it

 

[echoshifting]

Lol fucking bosses and their fucking open office plans

 

[Vilam]

FUCK open office plans.

 

[darkwing]

open office is the worst

 

[efr]

The open office I worked in didn't bother me at all.

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You cant use headphones and you have to work with nazis and ex trump supporters for 9+hrs a day depending on your job.

also national security and the person with the most power in the world is standing over your shoulder

 

[SugarNoodles]

You cant use headphones and you have to work with nazis and ex trump supporters for 9+hrs a day depending on your job.

also national security and the person with the most power in the world is standing over your shoulder

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I'm willing to accept that open office plans are terrible or at the very best situational.

I guess part of what I'm wondering though is what makes open office plans so much worse than cubicles? Just less privacy?

 

[Ionic]

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I'll sit in any number of work parties for a box of knock off Samoas.

 

[Sordid Plebeian]

This is such a weird thing to get angry at

 

[Zoantharia]

This is hilarious

 

[The Namekian]

As someone who use to work for NYC Cityhall..... this is how it's designed. Deblasio calls it his Bullpen and in theory it's based on the idea the mayor of NYC isn't really in the office long. They move around the city constantly, and the bullpen acts as a think tank.

 

[Operations]

His "man of the people" Office 2.0 remark wouldn't work in the WH for confidential and national security matters alone. Even in banks that have adopted open space, market traders and equity Research analysts remain confined.