[Professional Engineer]

Feel like a number!

[tx_eggman]

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

[PBRSTREETGANG]

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

[Ace of Spades]

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.

[wolfcreek]

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

[Skooz]

I like the soulless cubicle in which I toil.

[EBH]

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.

[Ditto]

Before cubes, it was soulless bullpens. The cubes are better.

[CROSSHIGHWAYMAN]

Stop the Mexican invasion and many of these poor souls can get second jobs in the fields picking fruit.

[Larry Lucido]

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.

[advance_copy]

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.

[Ronin]

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.

[MarkL]

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

[Reaganesque]

[Filo]

Cubes are evil.

That is all. . . :)

[bkepley]

I have an office with a door and a window but I also use a CAD computer in a cubicle and like it better cuz I can hide in there.

[OB1kNOb]

[ßuddaßudd]

freeping from my cube long time now...

[Basilides]

Too close to the truth...

Bob Slydell: You see, what we're trying to do is get a feeling for how people spend their time at work so if you would, would you walk us through a typical day, for you?

Peter Gibbons: Yeah.

Bob Slydell: Great.

Peter Gibbons: Well, I generally come in at least fifteen minutes late, ah, I use the side door - that way Lumbergh can't see me, heh - after that I sorta space out for an hour.

Bob Porter: Da-uh? Space out?

Peter Gibbons: Yeah, I just stare at my desk, but it looks like I'm working. I do that for probably another hour after lunch too, I'd say in a given week I probably only do about fifteen minutes of real, actual, work.

Later...

Bob Slydell: I'd like to move us right to Peter Gibbons. We had a chance to meet this young man, and boy that's just a straight shooter with upper management written all over him.

[Fresh Wind]

For a number of years, though not in management, I lucked into a situation that allowed me a private laboratory/office in addition to the standard issue cubicle. There was no window, but it had a locking door, and I had better accomodations than 90% of the managers there. I visited my actual cubicle once or twice a day to pick up my mail and messages. One of my proudest moments was day of a public open house when my dad visited. I got to show him my private lab, something he had done for me years before where he had worked. I would have gone crazy if I had to sit in a cubicle the whole time.