lshiva

Some people do like open plan offices. They're usually the executives with private offices who discovered they can cram more people into a room with an open plan office. Strangely, the much lauded productivity gains somehow don't apply to these people, despite the fact that they spend most of their days in meetings anyway.

This was a popular story long before the internet. There's even an old dirty joke about it. I'm sure I heard a version of it long before I could go online. Here's a version I just found online:

Two cowboys are staying a couple miles outside of town on a trail they used for herding cattle. While taking a shit behind a bush, one cowboys gets bitten on the penis by a rattle snake. He alerts his friend, who jumps on his horse and races toward town seeking a cure. He reaches the doctors office and runs inside. The doc explains to him that the only way to save his friend is to suck the poison out. The cowboy jumps back on his horse and races back to his ailing friend. When he reaches his camp, the frantic cowboy cries out "What did the doctor say?" To which his friend replies "He said you're gonna die!

I know that some cargo ships rent out cabins to paying passengers. Have you had any experience traveling with passengers? What's it like having a passenger on a working ship?

The problem is self limiting, as the wall of bodies provides a sound dampening barrier at the entrance to the room.