The fast-paced unpredictable high-energy part refers to HR hiring and layoff practices.

Even low cube walls would be great compared to all the "open floorplans" I've been in the last few years.

Unpredictable: "Our requirements are constantly changing due to bad planning."

High energy: "There will be a lot of yelling."

At least it’s a private cubicle and not an open layout where devs are crammed in cheek-to-jowl in a cacophony of chaos.

Translation, "we want someone who's ok with us harassing them to do stuff outside work hours"

Damn they gave you two monitors? The break room must have a pinball machine.

Corporate accounts payable, Nina speaking. Just a moment...

also, every single job listing says this, and i'm NOT willing nor able to work in such an environment

god i love capitalism

It's actually a fast-paced and unpredictable environment. The job is about how fast you switch from playing games/browsing lemmy to look like you are working when the "management" passing by

I'd love a cubical, at work we only had open spaces the last 15 years or so. It's so loud and distracting, I hate it. But the upper management always has their own individual office where they can just close the door.

Answering the phone:

"Yes, this is Glenn from very important global company, how may I help you? Okay, thank you for calling. I will need to check that with our local team in Barcelona. Oh, you know Anthony? Terrific guy. I'll get right back to you on that. If you have any more specific enquiries for our Barcelona team, you can contact them by logging into the web portal. Remember to check your email for the verification of your user registration which you will need to logon to our excellent online support service. Can I help you with anything else today, sir? Have a pleasant day."

Turning to manager.

"We need to fire Anthony. Yes some dude called Anthony in Barcelona is causing customer contact. How am I supposed to make the daily EBITDA reports on time when my phone is ringing constantly?!"

Heh

It's freaking me out that it looks so damn similar to where I used to work. The only thing this lacks is shelving cabinets above the desk.

TWO MONITORS!

Yea, but that picture doesn't convey the thumping techno your cubeighbor has running constantly because I've got ADHD and that shit is serenity for me.

Is that a page-feed scanner? Anyone that hands me a sheet of paper had better realize it's going to sit on my desk until the end of the day, and then get dumped in the recycling.

I WFH now (thank you covid), but my jobs have been in similarly drab cubes and offices.

The work is dynamic and fast-paced. Having crazy lights and crap on the walls would not improve the work.

Little did they know ... a courier will deliver a cell phone to this cubicle any minute and Morpheus is gonna call the moment they open the cardboard envelope

Much rather wake up, eat a coffee cake.