Do you work in your server room?

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Published on 2009-05-12T14:13:59Z Indexed on 2010/04/06 8:53 UTC
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I once had a job offer from a company that wanted my workstation to be in the AC controlled, noisy server room with no natural light. I'm not sure what their motivation was. Possibly it made sense to them for me to be close to the servers, or possibly they wanted to save the desk space for other employees.

I turned down the job (for many reasons, including the working environment).

Is this a common practice? Do you work in your LAN room? How do you cope?

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