Technically Speaking

Thriving Office has to be about the biggest joke at turning a buck that I have ever seen. I mean seriously, for you home workers do you really want to sound like the mp3 demo on Thriving Office? No offense to TechCrunch and Duncan who wrote the piece. It was well written, but seriously, do you think it makes you sound more important to have all that noise?

I went to check this all out, and saw some of the more humorous quotes ever. In fact, so lame that I almost wanted to really question “How many drinks did you buy them to get them to say this?” For example

“Create the audio illusion
of a dynamic office” - Business Week

I clicked the link and saw the actual article. My first question is an obvious one. If you are in the middle of a conference call, you have the choice of where you take that call when you work at home, so would you really answer the doorbell? Would you really surround yourself with a barking dog? I mean, you are working right? Oh, that’s right, just surround yourself with this CD noise and the doorbell and the barking dog disappear!

“You’ll love the idea of the Thriving Office CD” - Trend Hunter

No, I hate the idea actually.

“Thriving Office can energize a quiet workplace or give comfort to the lonely telecommuter” - The Pioneer Press

Sorry, wrong again. Lonely telcommuter’s have porn and social networks, as well as reading this blog if they are really lonely! ha!

“Make your quiet office sound like it’s bustling with activity” - The Wall Street Journal

Actually, it makes me want to go around and tell people to sit down and shut the F up. Get back to work.

All in all, I still do not see a point for the home web worker, home office consultant to have loud obnoxious sounds going on in the background. Honestly, if my dog barked and I was on a call, the person 1. Knows I’m working from home, 2. The dog just proved that fact.

Another thing I find amusing is the part where it says

Purchased by employees at leading corporations, including:

Which is followed by - IBM, Best Buy, American Express, Merrill Lynch, Haworth, Random House, D&B, and LPL Financial Services. Now again, why would “employees” of these huge companies buy the CD? I guess they are either all working from home, or they are all moonlighting on their own gigs trying to get away from these companies? If it’s the later, why have this noise?

Technically Speaking, it was a well a well written article, but again - I really can’t see the point of

“Turns your home office into a bustling office” - NPR

Why? Why? Why turn your nice quiet home office, your web working office into something you ran from? Makes absolutely no sense to to me.