Comments on: Cubicle Etiquette?

By: Kate

Kate — Wed, 20 Jul 2011 16:39:36 +0000

My office just downsized to a smaller space about 1/4 of our previous space. After being in a private office w/ this company for 8 years, and being in a nice private office with previous companies for a total of the past 15 years, I have had to move back into a cube.

I took a week of vacation right after the move to avoid the first week of being in a cube. There are only 6 cubes in my area, and 2 of us had to move from an office to a cube. It’s funny now, but I know it won’t be if I’m still here another year. Hopefully other opportunities will pan out, or I’ll get laid off anyway and get unemployment while I work out my next career move.

Cubes suck.

By: David Allred

David Allred — Fri, 23 Jul 2010 02:39:11 +0000

Thanks for the complement Andrea. Being grateful and being content are two completely different things. Accepting any job under the sun as your lot in life is a sign that someone is doing just enough to get by in life…..not excel. You are in an office job because you choose to be. This post is an expression of how I would feel to be in a cubicle everyday. It was not directed towards ridiculing anyone. You are in an office job because that is what came available to you. Does that make you any better than a prostitute who feels that is their only option?

It’s all about our perspective on what is possible for ourselves. Accepting a job….any job is not my definition of success. It’s more like settling.

Thanks for your comment and I wish you the most success as an artist. Never give up!

By: Andrea

Andrea — Fri, 23 Jul 2010 01:33:46 +0000

You know, you really are a typical piece of trash. Why would anyone hate their job? I do not understand the American mentality of it being cool to hate their job. Especially with times being very hard to get a job, why would you ever hate where you are? You should appreciate having a job, any job!
I work in an office, but at an open desk, but I am still highly offended by people that make fun of office jobs. They are good, respectable jobs. Why not make fun of prostitutes?? At least I have class. So why make fun of me?

Why are you? a starving artist? that’s sad.

By: David Allred

David Allred — Mon, 29 Jun 2009 18:55:54 +0000

That is funny and I am guilty of being part of the masses that is making fun of and completely against working in a cubicle. Not that it is so much the cubicle, it’s just the concept of working a job in an environment where you have to restrict yourself so much for others. It’s great to be considerate and polite, but you must also be allowed to be yourself.

Thanks for the comment. I can completely give props to the inventor of the cubicle. They discovered a need and created a solution. Now they are successful. Leave it up to the masses to create something negative about something positive in nature.

Thanks for the comment!

By: Fort Scott

Fort Scott — Sun, 28 Jun 2009 14:37:01 +0000

The funny thing about cubicles is that they were originally created to give people more privacy. At the time, offices had rows of desks with people working just a few feet from each other. Cubicles were designed to help give people their own space without taking up an entire office.

So originally, moving to a cubicle was considered an upgrade! The person who invented cubicles was disappointed at what a bad name they’ve gotten in recent years.