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Somehow, the company I work for has decided it is ok for people to have their dogs in the office.
One of the dogs is such a sissy, cries and make stupid noises - I has been so for many many month.
Yesterday, when we had our asses full of stuff to do. The dog decided that it really have to take a dump inside the office and start barking (more like "veff").
So I turned around, to my other collegue and asked him really loud:
"Should groceries really do that?"
He is asian, he liked the joke. But the owner did not.4 -
I got this coworker who ask me about everything every day. That is fine with me, but the way he does it is not. I always use noise-cancelling headsets. Every fucking time he walks up to my desk - and just stands there. And every fucking time I randomly turn my head and freaks out. HOW LONG HAVE YOU BEEN STANDING THERE, YOU CREEPY CRETIN?!12
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Stackexchange hot network questions...
Whenever you're debugging shit like "What weapons could squirrels use" pops up and I'm not even kidding when I say there's fucking serious answers... Some of them a few pages long3 -
Distraction..........hmmm..........What is that?..........I'm sure I've heard that somewhere..........well..........Let me Google it!
And here we go again..........3 -
Asked my Tech Lead a question, told me everything in Software Engineering, except the answer to that question!!1
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My girlfriend...
We can't go longer than a few seconds without her saying something trivial and demanding validation from me 😂😂 Oh and trying to work while your lady is half naked sprawled out on the bed isn't very easy either...
Oh well, some things you just have to deal with in life.12 -
That one client that owns a nightclub. One night of unlimited drinking and 2 days of trying to be alive again.6
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Co-worker keeps cursing in Spanish and then smacking the table.
When it happens I have 2 choices:
1. Keep suppressing the rage until I can't take it anymore and book a meeting room just to get away.
2. Ask him to keep it down, to which he replies sorry followed immediately by "can you take a look at this?", which turns into 20 mins of teaching him how to use google.
I'm one bad day away from taking a swing at him.11 -
Biggest distraction: finding the right playlist on Spotify to code on. (The search takes all the while)3
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Classmates having trouble with their mess of spaghetti code and improperly named variables (I saw variable names like "poop" already).6
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Meetings about meetings that we're going to have to discuss the need for the next meeting wherein a potential followup meeting will be scheduled to meet for the meeting.3
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The guy that sits opposite me eats with his mouth open and makes "onming" noises.
Also when he needs to call people overseas he goes on to speaker, and sometimes eats lunch while on calls!
I forgot to mention he's incredibly loud, that with my headset (Siberia V2) I at some points max it out :/
Bad for my ears3 -
I forgot to say the biggest distraction isn't that guy at work, no it's actually my job!
I'm an app developer but I want to be a game developer, it takes me so long to get to/from work.
This job is boring and I want to get another one at least closer to home and can at least pay me a bit more than minimum wage so I can save up more :/ but from the looks of things the jobs listed are the wanting experience without giving any. -
Ooh, look! Node got async/await!
Ooh, look! I can lint shell scripts with shellcheck!
Ooh, look! Webpack 2 has been released!
Ooh, look! I can switch over from npm to yarn!
There is so much stuff I want to upgrade and optimize in our project, that I forget about the actual JIRA ticket.7 -
Alright, this my fucking rant right here. Distraction? This whole company is a distraction! Boss decided to throw us all in an open work environment doing jobs that require careful concentration. Straight outta college I'm getting handed vague ideas, (make a desktop app that helps our customers put data on the internet, make an iPhone app) with out so much as an inkling of what technologies to use, just make it work.
Ok I will but when you hit a roadblock with very little resources to draw in it's hard to stay focused.
On top of that since I worked in support for a year I'm our senior support person! But sometimes support just doesn't use their brains and I'm using my time to solve very basic problems.
That brings me to my next point, the goddamn piece of shit that is our telephone. Fuck that thing when it rings it's never good. Moreover, since I don't want to get roasted for not being responsive I have the motherfucker forward to my personal cell. So I answer every fucking call and I get so many spam calls!
Not to mention I'm mainly running the hardware show around here. Shits broke I'm the one fixing it. Need new shit I'm putting the order together.
Tried to get a new guy to be the sys admin, ordered a 6th gen board with a 7th gen proc, had to pull 3 machines apart to get that sorted. Then he left bc family issues, and has been gone for weeks.
The other devs are also slam up busy, and the main product is about 15 people's piss on a plate of garb age spaghetti. (I got a lot of shit going on but at least I'm the only one pissing in my spaghetti) it's a constant run around if who does what with a code first plan later mentality causing confusion and delay.
Nobody wants to help anybody because they are also annoyed with this setup and are getting bitched at by customers or management.
Sales is mostly composed of a bunch of crackhead yes men and women who just want a commission and only half know the shit we sell and have sold 15 new features that had not been discussed. But management always says make it happen. In what priority? It's all a priority they say! Wtf.
So yea, then it brings me to me, dealing with this much chaos at work makes it seem like a high amount of chaos in my life is normal. I'm just now learning to control this.
I've had to do a lot of growing up as a person and as a developer. I've went from being the most junior to about the 3rd most seniors and I've no doubt my efforts have contributed to the growth of the company.
I'm a big believer in coding flow, and that it takes at least 15 mins to get in that flow and about 5 seconds to break it. There is no do not disturb on the company chat, everything always on fire it seems.
So fuck a lot of this, but I've done the research and where I'm at is the best opportunity in a 100 mile radius. So I am thankful for this job. Plus I usually win the horror story contest.
So TL;DR the biggest distraction is every fucking thing in this god forsaken place.5 -
The co-worker in my office that gets nudes from his ex girlfriend via web messenger.
(To be clear the distraction is not the co-worker 😂)2 -
Here is a brief list:
- Idiots from marketing
- idiots from sales
- the lawnmower man (while doing his job)
- sun
- AC off && summer
- no ventilation / fresh air
- civil defense siren tests (we're just next to one...)
- idiots talking to me while I'm on my headphone
- music stops
- phone rings
- light theme
- devRant
- MySql Workbench
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My biggest distraction: Working at home. I have a student job at my university and work at home. Just visit my boss every other week to show him the results.
So I always thought it's amazing to work at home. No need to travel to the work space, I can arrange my time as I like, noone's constantly watching what I'm doing.
Sounds great, right? Yeah it is, but is it productive? Lol no.
I'm getting distracted by everything. New mail about some kickstarter stuff, one hour wasted. "Can you help me with that computer problem?" Yeah sure. "Wanna play some League of Legends with us?" Sure, but just one round, I need to work. Ten rounds later I wrote like three lines of code.
I could ignore all that stuff, but I'm at home and can do whatever I want, right?
Results in me working through all night, because then there's noone to distract me.2 -
Scrum. And agile. And people over-communicating. And estimating work complexity on a prototype. And people in general. I like nights, when all annoying people just shut the fuck up and sleep.1
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Any interruption. Noise and questions are the worst.
Also my girlfriend, when I'm coding alone and writes me online. She gets mad at me if I don't respond.1 -
We have an open office and sales team laughing on top of their voice. What's funny? Nothing. If someone says "I have shit on my pants", they'll start laughing loudly. I have made several complains but the GM says that their laughter makes this company friendly.
I really don't get it.3 -
The sun, the hot, humid temperature and that new intern with the super tight revealing clothes that sits across from you...17
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Other programming languages and cleaning puppy shit.
Situation:
I'm coding in C# and take a coffee break, upon taking this break, I see something on devRant, Stack Overflow, or even just a random thought comes to mind.
Two hours later.
Written various snippets of code in JAVA, C++, PHP, JS - and have done nothing to do with my initial work.
In the above, I have cleaned puppy shit at least 10 times.1 -
My biggest distraction at coding are my parents.
I still live in there house and it's really comfy.
But whenever I code the always come into my room with something random like "my phone is not working" or "how can I delete this?"
I love my parents and Im glad that I can help but always get off where I was after 😂7 -
Fast Internet connection always distracted me to streaming youtube about technology or tutorial, but normally end up with 100% unrelated videos like how to sharp your knife using mug or watching top 10 mistakes in Harry Potter 😖😖😖3
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Managers interrupting you to complain that X takes too much time instead of letting you work on X to finish it in time.
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Basically everything. Let me explain.
It's now.. okay what time is it? Ooh there's some dust on the clock, I wonder how do they form.. I guess I'll check Wikipedia. Page is loading, might as well scroll fb while waiting. Ooh a video on the home feed! Oh wait it's loading, I wonder what's on YouTube. Ugh, ads, let's just mute it and scroll devRant. Oh cool there's something called Google FooBar challenge, imma try searching Arraylist Java. Nice, lv1 done, let's take a break by getting a drink from the fridge.
*Walks back to room after drinking a sip of orange juice* hmm.. what time is it? Oh it's late, imma go to sleep!
*Shuts down everything and goes to bed* Maybe I'll just browse devRant before sleeping.. Ooh I have an idea for wk51!1 -
My boss is cheap so:
- My machine randomly crashing
- Internet disconnecting
On another note:
- Clients calling every 5 minutes instead of putting together a list and coming back when they have more than one point at a time -
My biggest distraction seems to be when I notice other problems in the code I'm fixing/modifying. I then spend too long putting things right!
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Many of them. Can't decide which one is the biggest.
- when the asshole in front of me picks up a call and is loud as hell. Wanna kick his nuts.
- Chats. Hangouts. Whatsapp. Just name it.
- retards who don't know how to google something or even worse..what to google and come straight to me to get a solution.
- My own fucking head at times. You start talking about space tech and i'll have to jump into it. And i end up wasting half an hour.1 -
Mobile phone.
With our without internet it is still one of the biggest distractions I have. I keep checking it even though there is nothing.2 -
Google: "shader particle trail effect"
Click the YouTube link
4 hours later... I've seen all the "gold digger prank" videos.
Disaster! -
YouTube. When I go to get a nice tutorial but then for the next hour you will find me watching football highlights and footballer skills or any other funny videos.1
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Coding distraction
To be honest - task distraction
1. Starting a task, you need to do
2. finding old code you want to refactor
2. Doing some improvements
3.Fixing the bugs created by prev actions
....
Task not finished
But that's kind of fun. Livin' on the edge2 -
Stupid useless humanities courses, because, really, who cares about humans? Besides that, silly Excel questions at work, my boss talking of his non-work projects and devrant (because it is not a #wk51 rant without saying it)
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devRant and google. And amazon. And the internet in general. And my wife. And my 2 month old son.
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I had a developer put the css font declaration on every css class, instead of the body... The site used just one font 🤔😂1
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Random ideas about how I will fight and kill the terrorists who'll enter my room or rappel through the window1
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Reading. I read so much. Maybe I should get some programming books. But then again, the plotline is always so boring
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Bodily urges are so distracting :( I always need to go to the bathroom as soon as I sit down comfortably.. or I get hungry...
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Music videos and random things that come to mind and I feel like I have to check and then end up getting really far from what I was looking for in the first place.1
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When your mind is already in mess trying to fix something or too much focused on coding and your boss call you "hey can you fix the printer" . Happened to me 4 times so far .
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Company not giving my salary on time and waiting for it to arrive. Worrying about paying rent and stuff is not doing good for my focus.1
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When your gf texts you and you just dwell into long romantic conversation and forget what you were even coding.(I'm serious it happen to me sometimes, not all the times coz we spent most of time arguing 😂😝)
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Coding distraction: accidentally finding out about some Vim plugin or cool tool you didn't know about and having to stop searching for that error code to check it out.
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I only code at work.
Now that I don't have an employer I don't code.
The distraction is no employment. -
To me, the single biggest coding distraction is other coding, i.e. When there are more things to work on than there are developers and priority changes on a whim. My runner's up would be people who come to you directly for non-urgent matters disregarding that you're busy. The third would be meetings, but I consider meetings to be a necessary evil. Almost nothing is worse than too little communication and the resulting mismatch in expectations.
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You are a coder as well as dota addict and you see a good game just posted on YouTube. You don't come back then
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1. When someone Buzzes you on Jabber and wants you to join TS
2. Mum says it's dinner.
3. My little brother. -
"I know your busy but can I ask you a question... [and by question I mean add 5 more things to your pile] - The boss
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My academic life.
Because it has nothing to do with programming whatsoever. And yes, this month is final exam month. While I am here thinking about my programming project 😂😂 -
My biggest and favorite distraction...
My queen, my servant... My girlfriend
Have so much support from her. Without her, i would be a mess -
Taps on shoulder.
Seriously, there's a reason I am wearing this big ass headphones, set status to do not disturb and put a sticky saying I'm busy.1 -
The wife, the dog, the commute, the chatty colleagues, the phones, the cars, the peoplethe keyboardthecommentsthefunctionsthebadlywrittenvariablestheinternetfacebookreddittwitterlinkedinblogsdesginsrslyauotshlmtscsjvaarcstipaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa devrant1
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Project manager.
Especially the one casually mentioning in the afternoon that there is a meeting with the customer tomorrow which obviously has been arranged at least one or two weeks ago. -
I sit right behind the board games table. While it was nice that my company provides games and doesn't mind us playing for destressing, my colleagues played and laughed so loud at the table that sometimes they distracted my work discussions with the other colleagues. Usually when this happens I'll just join them.
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You have to explain how this bug happen and on which feature. Big headache. Also QA came and ask what to test. Fuck Fuck Fuck.
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For me, the biggest distraction is definitely hunger. It just pops up sometimes and overtime it gets unbearable. And then I need to cook something. So much wasted time.
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An image is worth a thousand words
( I don't actually watch it on my phone, just needed the app cause my acc got hacked )
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Looking up new js libraries/interesting CSS snippets that MAY help but probably won't. (But they might)1
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I have a live example. Some smart colleague decided today would be a great day to bring a toddler to the office. Too bad we sit in an open landscape type of office. Now everyone can hear how lovely she/he/it is
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Wherever i starts coding something new
There's assignments to submit,
Sessional exams,
Seminars,
Final exams,
And then there's game of thrones, silicon valley, friends, westworld, stranger things etc etc etc
Then again next semester....1 -
that coworker playing nordic music on spotify without headphones so everyone can "concentrate"... (his own words...)4
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I tend to be my biggest distraction. Sometimes I will get half way through a project and start to wonder if I should have written it using another language and then scrap the whole thing and start over.1
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Can we have a good quality headphone thread?
Using 20€ in-ears right now. Any good on ear wireless headphones, you can wear all day without your big ears hurting or too much sweating?9 -
Facebook and Buzzfeed :(
I kept checking every notification which pulled me in to a black hole of surfing and I ended up using 2 or so hours on Facebook and Internet stuff a day (this was only at work so my days got so long because I had to stay longer and actually do my job). Found out I was addicted, read some articles about work productivity and how to be more effective at work, deleted social apps from my phone and only check notifications once a day, and now my days are much shorter and I actually feel relieved and free :) -
Literally any other piece of code that ISN'T necessary will have my full attention until it's too late
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I still say there is nothing like music for distracting me. Sure, it often helps me focus, without a doubt... Who here hasn't found themselves in the groove, then without warning, one of those songs comes on that pulls you out of the zone, bouncing your feet along with the beat, barely keeping from singing out loud?
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Gaming! Even though I am not a hardcore gamer, I spend so much time on multiplayer games. Mostly, PVZ Garden Warfare 2.
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Work instant messenger....I turn my status to "offline" to give myself relief from constant interruptions
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Found out that i have amazon prime music with my account for free (i always thought it was £7.99 extra) So mow im going through down loading a load of music and remaking my playlists, in the end it will make me more productive so that's how im justifying it to myself :P
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Kids for sure are a distraction. Mostly working 40 hours a week and being exhausted from that is the prime factor.
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The biggest distraction is every other bloody department in the organisation, other than development.
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Any non-task-specific talking in the office... I always try not to be too curious, but it's damn hard ;)
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Some side coding you do because you think it will help you with the main coding and then 10 hours later you realize, you don't need the side coding but you aren't honest with yourself and just continue the side coding because maybe someone could use this as a library and no, noone will use it and days later you still didn't finish the main coding.
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When I have to update my APIs and Libraries with my poor internet connection; Hence, cannot google for solutions for my problems while the download is going on because opening websites takes a shit load of time.
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YouTube, one moment you are searching for a library and the next thing you know you are learning the difference between Chinese and Japanese writing sytems1
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The others!
Sounds like an horror movie XD
Aniway in animation the motto is "animation is concentration", but i think all work are
P.s. sorry for my bad English -
Documentation. I know what I'm doing here. Future me will have no idea though. Neither will the suckers who have to maintain this spaghetti
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All the goddamned meetings, calls, messages and other kinds of interruptions I get.
I'm lucky if I get a 1 straight hour of actual production, non interrupted.
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