My work environment sucks and it affects my productivity. [View all]

I'm a programmer for a major company. I work at a client site. They have us (a team) in a bleak dirty windowless room that use to be a break room. I sit in the corner and code with constant mostly meaningless chatter going on around me. I struggle to maintain my train of thought.

It is like asking someone to play chess in an elementary school cafeteria.

It pisses me off to think I might have to shell out my hard earned dollars to get noise canceling headphones.

Love the company I work for but hate this project work site.

How about you? What is your work environment like?