[sopooneo]

I am a programmer with my own office. I like it better than shared space, especially if that space is shared with other departments. Especially especially if one of those other departments is sales. Those folks are great for a night out, but I'm not working beside that endless frat party ever again.

However, are we, the fans of private offices, claiming that our corporate overlords are not only greedy, but misguided? That in fact individual offices would be better both for their bottom line and our happiness as programmers?

I ask this only because I find myself increasingly suspect of all arguments which end by declaring that our stance "would be better for them anyway!" I call it arguing on both hands. As in, "on the one hand, this circumstance favors my position, but on the other hand so does this one!"