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Everything you've experienced is normal. You just need to find what works for you so you can be productive in each one.
My first job was in a noisy environment, so I cobbled together a set of passive sound deadening headphones from some shooting earmuffs and a set of headphones. They allowed me to play music softly enough it drowned out the office noise yet still wasn't a distraction itself.
We can program with only 1's, but if all you've got are zeros, you've got nothing.
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I use to have a cube that was right next to the tech support group. Very noisy. I eventually brought in my shooter muffs. They worked great! A couple of the tech support guys thought they were just funky looking headphones. 
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FredWi wrote: Please tell me that this isn't normal.
Sorry, I believe it is.
I have had more software engineering jobs than most (and I'm not bragging). While I find cubicles acceptable, the lab where integration occurs is always loud with cooling fans. (hmmm .. but perhaps your kind of software is not 'embedded' in noisy telecom equipment.)
I recommend you deal with noise directly. The other respondents have mentioned noise-cancelling headphones, buy good comfortable ones. I got a Bose.
One solution(?) no one mentioned ... start a rumor. I once worked in cubes way too close to an obnoxiously noisy mechanical device, some sort of mechanical small component sorter. The team complained to our supervisor. And though he was competent and professional, he later shared something about brick wall, and nothing happened.
Later, with no supervisor's permission, one of our team suggested we start a rumor. In 5 minutes of discussion, and a one time walk about in all the buildings we had access to, we found a good location (away from us) for that noisy machine (out by the shipping docs). It turned out that robots delivered the machine output, so no human would be inconvenienced by the location.
Note that 'good' rumors are easy to start. Simply share with anyone, "hey I heard ...". In this case, the noisy machine was gone within two weeks. I suppose it could have been a coincidence.
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I work in a "noisy" environment. Hardly anyone talks - they all chat to each other on IRC. You think they are beavering away but they're chatting all the time. Half the staff have their headphones on so they can't hear anything anyway. I'm still getting used to the text message spelling.
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In preparation for the incoming bad weather, Norfolk Police have implemented their emergency procedure. A spokesman said just now on the "Magic Noise Box" [or Radio as the ROW call it] that they will be going house to house to make sure everyone is aware.
There was no mention of radio or television announcements, just that they'd pop round to see all's well.
speramus in juniperus
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On the matter of road regulations from a recent pub quiz, without cheating: What was the speed limit introduced with the 'Red Flag Act'? Ah, the good old days.
Regards,
Rob Philpott.
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4mph
speramus in juniperus
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Correct, but only half the answer...
Regards,
Rob Philpott.
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I'm not sure, but I do know it was variable depending on whether the locomotive was in the city or the countryside. So, I'll go with 4MPH (city) and 10MPH (countryside).
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Correct, with wrong speeds...
Regards,
Rob Philpott.
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Well, at least I know why it was called the red flag act. Ah, hold on, that's the clue - a person couldn't walk that fast, so let's revise it to 2 MPH city and 3 MPH country.
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Pete O'Hanlon wrote: a person couldn't walk that fast
Speak for yourself. 
Veni, vidi, vici.
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Extremely close, I believe 2mph in town, and 4mph in the country.
Despite having been lifted a while ago, I don't think anyone told SouthEastern Railway.
Regards,
Rob Philpott.
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I was going to ask you which of the Locomotive Acts they referred to, but apparently it's just The Locomotive Act 1865[^] that's called the Red Flag Act. Which states two and four mph.
Politicians are always realistically manoeuvering for the next election. They are obsolete as fundamental problem-solvers.
Buckminster Fuller
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...Disc
I thought great, then I saw its only the disc that's going, perhaps we will get a discount.
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As I learned the hard way, police cars have cameras which automatically read number plates, then check them against insurance/MOT details. All they have to do is drive around and something bleeps when they need to pull people over.
No MOT - £60 fine!
Regards,
Rob Philpott.
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Rob Philpott wrote: something bleeps when they need to pull people over
I believe it's actually the sound of a cash register they hear. Kerching.
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Yes, ANPR - Automatic Number Plate Recognition.
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Anon wrote: ANPR - Automatic Number Plate Recognition.
Really?
But the police call number plates indexes, so shouldn't it be Automatic Index Recognition?
I'm sure that no-one litigious has a trademark/copyright/patent or anything.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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Damn stupid idea.
If you buy a car, how are you supposed to know when the tax runs / ran out? I get mine online, so I have no proof whatsoever that I bought it except for a print out I could produce very easily with Word!
The website won't let you know, and they have never sent reminders...
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It's not clear to me. There is an ongoing taxation on cars AFTER you bought it? Not only a one time tax WHEN buying?
I'm not questioning your powers of observation; I'm merely remarking upon the paradox of asking a masked man who he is (V).
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Yes, originally it was introduced to pay for the road upkeep, now it just goes into the big tax pot.
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Do you have a yearly car test to renew the license of the car? How that the taxation not part of it?
I'm not questioning your powers of observation; I'm merely remarking upon the paradox of asking a masked man who he is (V).
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