Finder view changing in OSX 10.8.5

I keep everything in Finder on my Mac in column view, which is sorted by name. Occasionally, when I open a folder, the next column that opens shows the folder contents in "date created" view mode without my changing it.
Why does this happen and how can I lock all folder views to my default, which is set to "none" or "name", depending on the folder?

So, this happened to me again this morning. When I CMD + J, the "sort by" is greyed out, and only "arrange by" is available, which has somehow set itself to "Date created" despite my changing it "name" every time this happens.
I'm just frustrated and confused since I don't know why this keeps changing.
Also of note: I use a different station occasionally at work and this will randomly happen to me there as well. It's under a different login than mine, so it's not like my preferences are carrying over.
Is this not a known issue? Nobody else has had this problem?

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