More on cubicle life

    Gordon tips me off to Mr Quinn, an escaped co-worker (who will one day be returned to captivity I presume) referring to my comments on Chris references to comments by Steven related to my comments about it being impossible to work in a cubicle environment.

      (Yes Michael, I am trying to annoy you by linking. Then again, the Interweb is about the relationships between data as much as it is about the data itself. Showing the stream of conversation which results in my conclusions either strengthens or weakens my comments, depending on if they are justified in that context. I could just quote lots of posts, by that opens up problems of selective quotation, copyright, and being much more enthused that I actually am.)


    Mr Quinn comes to the conclusion that my level of distraction in a cubicle environment is somehow indicative of a personal weakness on my part:

      "This set of circumstances leads to the question: why do you get interrupted while Rory does not when you both work with the same people in the same environment?"


    Because we don't work in the same environment. I don't recall a single instance of anyone doing anything other than patiently waiting for Rory to notice them. That's presumably because he's older, nicer, or more senior than me. If people patiently waited for me to finish my sentence, thought, or just pause iTunes, then I wouldn't be so annoyed.

    Edit: Fixed syntactic errors which changed the entire meaning of the last paragraph...

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