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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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To: Professional Engineer
Stop the Mexican invasion and many of these poor souls can get second jobs in the fields picking fruit.
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posted on
03/16/2006 5:23:32 AM PST
by
CROSSHIGHWAYMAN
(Toon Town, Iran...........where reality is the real fantasy.)
To: Professional Engineer
Someday I really need to see this movie.Didn't you get that memo?
To: Professional Engineer
Yet before he died in 2000, he lamented his unwitting contribution to what he called "monolithic insanity." Oh, like someone else wouldn't have thought of it eventually.
To: CROSSHIGHWAYMAN
LOL!
Yep.
When I was a young buck, I was a professional roofer.
That's hot work down here in Louisiana.
I would carry 70-85 lb bundles of shingles up a ladder and across a large roof all day.
Tearing off old shingles was even harder work. Much harder.
After years of doing that in the blazing 100 degree Louisiana sun, I could kiss my cubicle.
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posted on
03/16/2006 5:27:47 AM PST
by
Skooz
(Chastity prays for me, piety sings............Modesty hides my thighs in her wings......)
To: Rebelbase
I can only imagine what your sales presentations must be like....
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posted on
03/16/2006 5:28:43 AM PST
by
thoughtomator
(Nobody would have cared if the UAE wanted to buy Macy's...)
To: theDentist
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posted on
03/16/2006 5:28:52 AM PST
by
Huck
(I only type lol when I am really lol.)
To: OXENinFLA
Want to know something scary? I have a current project at work in which I need to produce "TPA reports".
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posted on
03/16/2006 5:30:02 AM PST
by
thoughtomator
(Nobody would have cared if the UAE wanted to buy Macy's...)
To: Professional Engineer
Please turn in your TPS reports before you do that, mmmhmm.
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posted on
03/16/2006 5:30:31 AM PST
by
Aznar5
To: Drew68
To: Skooz
"After years of doing that in the blazing 100 degree Louisiana sun, I could kiss my cubicle." My thoughts exactly!!!
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posted on
03/16/2006 5:34:17 AM PST
by
Niteranger68
("Only 4 out of 3 Democrats actually vote.")
To: Professional Engineer
When I got my first job and they showed me my cube (they called it a "pod" back then), I thought it was pretty cool. That was a long time ago. But, despite the bad rap, I still think cubes are pretty cool.
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posted on
03/16/2006 5:34:29 AM PST
by
advance_copy
(Stand for life, or nothing at all)
To: OXENinFLA
You must have used the old cover sheet....
:D
Neal
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posted on
03/16/2006 5:34:41 AM PST
by
HossB86
To: thoughtomator
Want to know something scary? I have a current project at work in which I need to produce "TPA reports".So have you gutted any fish on them yet?
To: OXENinFLA
Nope but if I don't stop freepin' and get to work I'll be a gutted fish on them! Now if only I could bring myself to remove this sleeping kitty from my lap, I could go out and earn that living of mine.
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posted on
03/16/2006 5:37:42 AM PST
by
thoughtomator
(Nobody would have cared if the UAE wanted to buy Macy's...)
To: Professional Engineer
And you will never see them in a Japanese office building. Weird, but true.
All offices I have ever worked in have been wide open. Sometimes taking up the entire floor of huge buildings.
You sit desk-to-desk, smile at your coworker across from you, see who's taking a heavy-lunch afternoon nap on his keyboard in the afternoon, etc.
I am not saying that Japanese offices are better, but they sure are different.
Oh, there are private offices for the heavies, but only at the very top.
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posted on
03/16/2006 5:38:07 AM PST
by
Ronin
To: Professional Engineer
Without cubicles, there would be no "prarie dogging!"
I've got a cubicle. Sort of... I'm next to a window, on the 15th floor. That's never happened to me before. I work in IT, so I've always worked in a cave. It's nice being able to see sunlight through a window every now and then.
Mark
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posted on
03/16/2006 5:41:57 AM PST
by
MarkL
(When Kaylee says "No power in the `verse can stop me," it's cute. When River says it, it's scary!)
To: Drew68
ummmm, yeah. I'm gonna have to ask you to go ahead and come in on Saturday.
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posted on
03/16/2006 5:44:31 AM PST
by
Washi
To: Professional Engineer
To: Rebelbase
I work at home in my underwear. :-) Sweet gig ... I work a 9/80 and get to work from the house every other Friday.
I'm still trying to get the powers that be let me do it any day I don't have meetings.
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posted on
03/16/2006 5:47:46 AM PST
by
tx_eggman
(Islamofascism ... bringing you the best of the 7th century for the past 1300 years.)
To: Ronin
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posted on
03/16/2006 5:52:32 AM PST
by
Still Thinking
(Disregard the law of unintended consequences at your own risk.)
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