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Re: How nosy are you?

Subject: Re: How nosy are you?
From: guy <guy -at- hiskeyboard -dot- com>
To: "TECHWR-L" <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- raycomm -dot- com>
Date: Wed, 30 Jul 2003 10:39:42 -0700


John Posada wrote:

I've noticed, in myself, more and more of a tendency to do quick scans of
documentation on other people's desks, around printers, and even in garbage
cans for any hints of anything going on around me that may impact my
documentation.

Don't get me wrong, I don't rifle through people's desks or through file
draws...by if I happen to be passing someone's desk and I see a document or
email in plain sight, I will ask about it.

Example: This was an email I sent to the guy in charge of database
engineering a couple of minutes ago:

---------
[name]...I noticed an email you had sent to the DBAs with the title
"Standardized Server Build and Configuration" documentation last July 10th.
Any chance of getting a copy of these documents for my [system_name]
documentation?
---------

Do you find yourself doing this? Is it wrong to do this? Is it a good thing
to do? How far do you take this? Do you let others in your company know
you're doing this?

From my perspective, if you leave something in full view, it's fair game.

I guess I do some of that -- particularly around the printer.

But here's a related observation and question:

I used to think I preferred offices, either one- or two-person ones, where solitude was availble. After several years in a cube farm, I took a job in a company that provided offices. Soon, I realized how much I had come to depend on overheard conversations for scuttlebutt about what was going on in other projects that could affect the project I was part of.

What says the body? Do you prefer the quiet environment of offices, or the more exposed one of cubicles?

--
Guy K. Haas
guy -at- hiskeyboard -dot- com | gkhaas -at- usa -dot- net
Software Exegete in Silicon Valley


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