SevenSeasJim Posted March 9, 2006 Report Share Posted March 9, 2006 For those of you in cubicle hell.NEW YORK (FORTUNE Magazine) - Robert Oppenheimer agonized over building the A-bomb. Alfred Nobel got queasy about creating dynamite. Robert Propst invented nothing so destructive. Yet before he died in 2000, he lamented his unwitting contribution to what he called "monolithic insanity."Propst is the father of the cubicle. More than 30 years after he unleashed it on the world, we are still trying to get out of the box. The cubicle has been called many things in its long and terrible reign. But what it has lacked in beauty and amenity, it has made up for in crabgrass-like persistence. Full Article Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
boiler Posted March 9, 2006 Report Share Posted March 9, 2006 I don't do the office thing anymore, but the last time I did, I worked on an "open floor" plan. Maybe it was just because I disliked the job, the people I worked for and sometimes the people I worked with. I would have done anything to hide in a cubicle to tear my fingernails out from time to time, but nope. Nowhere to hide. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ollie Posted March 9, 2006 Report Share Posted March 9, 2006 I don't do the office thing anymore, but the last time I did, I worked on an "open floor" plan. Maybe it was just because I disliked the job, the people I worked for and sometimes the people I worked with. I would have done anything to hide in a cubicle to tear my fingernails out from time to time, but nope. Nowhere to hide.Took the words right out of my mouth. Your cubicle is your best friend when you're at work with a hangover. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Birdy Posted March 9, 2006 Report Share Posted March 9, 2006 i'm in a half cube/half open floor plan situation- which i like. mostly i need the interaction. if i were four-walled in, i might die. every once in a while i get seriously annoyed when a certain co-worker complains about my "hippie" music, but other than that it's cool. i have just enough privacy to hide my screen when i want to, put up a few personal belongings, and am out in the open enough to give a shout out every once in a while.people don't hate cubicles, they hate their jobs. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mattm Posted March 9, 2006 Report Share Posted March 9, 2006 My cubicle is a four person one so it's not too bad. We have privacy (for viewing videos such as bradm's latest find the glasses commercial) and we each have a place to hang shit with a cabinet, etc (the cubicle has a desk in each corner with it's own shit). My cubemates aren't picky and laugh at the same stuff I do so it's not too bad. One thing I found really nice here is that they provide you with earphones so that you can listen to music all day and no one complains. Another nice thing is that the walls are just short enough that I can see and talk over them. I've finally resigned myself to acceptance of a cubicled life Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
boiler Posted March 9, 2006 Report Share Posted March 9, 2006 people don't hate cubicles, they hate their jobs.Exactly! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tooly Posted March 9, 2006 Report Share Posted March 9, 2006 some days i wish for a cube, im in an open office, 3 rows of big ol cherrywood desks, i swear i almost ran across the tops of them all today and dropkicked my manager in her stupid fat fucking face.grrrrrrrrrrrrrryeah i hate my job, but its paying bills so what do i do? i keep looking for better work Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ike Posted March 9, 2006 Report Share Posted March 9, 2006 people don't hate cubicles, they hate their jobs.I must be a wierdo then.I love my job, but don't particularly like my cubicle. Although it is the swanky corner suite, one side is a wall, one side a partition. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Birdy Posted March 9, 2006 Report Share Posted March 9, 2006 (edited) i have a swanky corner cube too, with one huge window and one partition.. maybe it's the window that does it for me. plus my cube is deluxe in comparison to everyone elses. i have more file cabinets and a table too. also, i could be wrong. Edited March 9, 2006 by Guest Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SteveThe Owl Posted March 9, 2006 Report Share Posted March 9, 2006 Here, check out this poem by the Ottawa poet Garmamie (who appeared onstage at Babylon a month or so ago with Inglewood Jack). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ollie Posted March 9, 2006 Report Share Posted March 9, 2006 Here, check out this poem by the Ottawa poet Garmamie (who appeared onstage at Babylon a month or so ago with Inglewood Jack)."But it's Thursday afternoon. Can we take it easy for once?"It's depressing because it's true. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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