I've worked in both types of environments. Myself, I prefer
cubicles. Maybe if I was doing the same work as everybody around
me, like data entry or phone answering or programming the same
type of stuff, but some jobs required working on stuff that
required me to do a lot of thinking and the noisy environment
would be distracting to me. When I was a Systems Analyst ,
thinking time was critical because I had end-to-end
responsibility so there wasn't really any sharing of the inner
workings of 'the thing'. I'm still not even sure what "Systems
Analyst II" meant really. I guess it was a kind of engineering
job? I dunno. I looked it up once and the description made
sense, but it sounded a lot fancier the way they said it. To me,
I was just what they called me "Excel guru". I was ok with that.
liked being called "secret weapon" for a while too, until I
realized that means, "they're taking all the credit" [which is
why I was 'secret'], so then I started getting noisier about my
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