Worst place I ever worked was doing fairly high-tech programming for new generation SSDs. There were about 7 of us on the project. They would design it, we had a fabrication department that would make it, and then I would program it to make it work.
We worked on an upper mezzanine and were isolated from the rest of the company...the rest of the world, really. The guys liked it cold and dark. I used to joke with them about being polar bear. I was wearing a jacket just to be able to tolerate the cold, they were were wearing shorts and a tee shirt. They were heavy-set guys, so maybe that had something to do with it.
Ok, so we are off isolated in a cold dark environment. Just to make it a little tiny bit worse than that, nobody ever talked. The only time we ever spoke to each other was in the weekly meeting or if we had a very specific technical issue with which we needed clarification. But there was no idle banter as it is called. Any daily communication was done exclusively by email. There were many days when I would come in at 7am, work until 5pm, and never said a single word to anyone the entire day. That was a normal day.
But over time, after about a year and a half, I couldn't take it any more. I needed light. I needed hubbub and conversations. Even the dreaded lunchtime 'birthday party' would at least be something.
These guys were OCD very high level engineers. Extremely talented and intelligent people. For example, you could never tell them a joke. It would just confuse them. They did not understand humor. But, they thrived in that environment. It was perfect for them. But it was driving me crazy. The dark, the cold, the silence, I just couldn't take it. I had to resign. That job, over time, became like Death Row to me. Every morning when I woke up, I hated the thought of going there. I asked if I could VPN from home but they said the work was too sensitive for that.
Don't get me wrong. It was a great/fantastic job. I hated to have to leave it. But the environment of the job was antithetical to my personality. Give me light! Give me warmth! Give me sports talk, or something!