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The Great Escape Forty million American employees toil in soulless cubicles
Fortune ^ | 15Mar06 | Julie Schlosser

Posted on 03/16/2006 5:08:05 AM PST by Professional Engineer

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1 posted on 03/16/2006 5:08:07 AM PST by Professional Engineer
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To: Peanut Gallery; bentfeather; snippy_about_it

Feel like a number!


2 posted on 03/16/2006 5:08:48 AM PST by Professional Engineer (Algebra? It's a piece of pi.)
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To: Professional Engineer

Got me a window office with a door ... I'm the king of the world.


3 posted on 03/16/2006 5:10:09 AM PST by tx_eggman (Islamofascism ... bringing you the best of the 7th century for the past 1300 years.)
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To: Professional Engineer

The only number that matters is the one on your pay stub.

People will do crazy things for a six-figure salary.


4 posted on 03/16/2006 5:10:51 AM PST by proxy_user
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To: tx_eggman

LOL

I've been fortunate for a number of years as well.


5 posted on 03/16/2006 5:11:01 AM PST by Professional Engineer (Algebra? It's a piece of pi.)
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To: Professional Engineer

If you are a cubicle-dweller and have not seen this gem of a film, you need to go out and rent it today. It motivated me to quit my last job (though I stopped short of burning the place down).

6 posted on 03/16/2006 5:12:19 AM PST by Drew68
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To: tx_eggman

Window office on a controlled access hallway. Just a few folks can get in.


7 posted on 03/16/2006 5:12:34 AM PST by Tijeras_Slim
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To: proxy_user; Indy Pendance; Rose in RoseBear; Bear_in_RoseBear; JenB

This is a good one.



"I thought I'd be excited, but I came out depressed. It was DILBERTVILLE."

--DOUGLAS BALL, designer


8 posted on 03/16/2006 5:13:33 AM PST by Professional Engineer (Algebra? It's a piece of pi.)
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To: Professional Engineer

I've managed to work my way up to a soulless office.


9 posted on 03/16/2006 5:14:15 AM PST by PBRSTREETGANG
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To: tx_eggman

"Got me a window office with a door ... I'm the king of the world."

I work at home in my underwear. :-)


10 posted on 03/16/2006 5:14:42 AM PST by Rebelbase (President Bush is a Texas jackass when it comes to Border security .)
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To: Professional Engineer

As long as I can listen to music, I can put up with the cubicle farm. The day I can't rock out to Bruce is the day I quit.


11 posted on 03/16/2006 5:16:32 AM PST by Ace of Spades (Sed quis custodiet ipsos custodes?)
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To: Drew68; Peanut Gallery

Someday I really need to see this movie.


12 posted on 03/16/2006 5:16:51 AM PST by Professional Engineer (Algebra? It's a piece of pi.)
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To: Professional Engineer

I enjoy working on the computer but, if I had to work indoors, it would kill me quickly.


13 posted on 03/16/2006 5:16:56 AM PST by wolfcreek
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To: Drew68
Dude, me too. "Office Space" changed my life. I left corporate work this year.

when I saw that fat man keel over and die, Michael, I realized that we don't have a lot of time on this earth. We weren't meant to spend it this way. Human beings weren't meant to sit in little cubicles, starring at computer screens all day, filling out useless forms and listening to eight different bosses drone on about mission statements.

14 posted on 03/16/2006 5:16:58 AM PST by Huck (I only type lol when I am really lol.)
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To: Professional Engineer

I like the soulless cubicle in which I toil.


15 posted on 03/16/2006 5:17:08 AM PST by Skooz (Chastity prays for me, piety sings............Modesty hides my thighs in her wings......)
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To: Professional Engineer

You need to rent it today.
Really.

Pick it up on the way home.
Watch it two or three times.


16 posted on 03/16/2006 5:18:05 AM PST by Skooz (Chastity prays for me, piety sings............Modesty hides my thighs in her wings......)
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To: Professional Engineer

I lasted exactly 3 weeks in a cubicle environment. As I grow older I know I can't continue to work out in the field, but dang the cubicle deal is nasty.

Share an office with a team of 3-4 people, sure in the field that's easy. The project keeps you out of the office most of the day.

A 'cubicle' day in, day out...not for me.


17 posted on 03/16/2006 5:20:29 AM PST by EBH (We're too PC to understand WAR has been declared upon us and the enemy is within.)
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To: Huck

That was on AMC last evening. I walked in the door just as it began.


18 posted on 03/16/2006 5:21:19 AM PST by theDentist (Qwerty ergo typo : I type, therefore I misspelll.)
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To: Professional Engineer
Before cubes, it was soulless bullpens. The cubes are better.


19 posted on 03/16/2006 5:21:23 AM PST by Ditto
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To: Ditto

Yep.

I picture Jack Lemmon in "The Apartment."


20 posted on 03/16/2006 5:22:48 AM PST by Skooz (Chastity prays for me, piety sings............Modesty hides my thighs in her wings......)
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