Saddest Cubicle - can anyone relate?

[Leyland]

Has anyone seen this on Yahoo today? Can you relate? My worst cube experience involved a 50 hour a week senior accountant's position in a cube with three-foot high walls next to the executive and marketing areas. Quietness and privacy were not to be had. I left after three months.


The winner -- if you can call it winning -- of the Wired News saddest-cubicles contest is David Gunnells, an IT guy at the University of Alabama at Birmingham. His desk is penned in by heavily used filing cabinets in a windowless conference room, near a poorly ventilated bathroom and a microwave. The overhead light doesn't work -- his mother-in-law was so saddened by his cube that she gave him a lamp -- and the other side of the wall is a parking garage. Gunnells recalls a day when one co-worker reheated catfish in the microwave, while another used the bathroom and covered the smell with a stinky air freshener. Lovely.

 

[VTChEwbecca]

The winner -- if you can call it winning -- of the Wired News saddest-cubicles contest is David Gunnells, an IT guy at the University of Alabama at Birmingham. His desk is penned in by heavily used filing cabinets in a windowless conference room, near a poorly ventilated bathroom and a microwave. The overhead light doesn't work -- his mother-in-law was so saddened by his cube that she gave him a lamp -- and the other side of the wall is a parking garage. Gunnells recalls a day when one co-worker reheated catfish in the microwave, while another used the bathroom and covered the smell with a stinky air freshener. Lovely.

That sounds pitiful. I hope they got him moved somewhere better...I think it's the bathroom that does it.

Fortunately, I've never had to work in a cubicle. The closest I came was sharing a window-less office at the United States Patent Office, back when I was an examiner. All my other jobs have involved moving (laboratory, teaching) from place to place and no room for sitting in a cubicle.

 

[angerball]

The winner -- if you can call it winning -- of the Wired News saddest-cubicles contest is David Gunnells, an IT guy at the University of Alabama at Birmingham. His desk is penned in by heavily used filing cabinets in a windowless conference room, near a poorly ventilated bathroom and a microwave. The overhead light doesn't work -- his mother-in-law was so saddened by his cube that she gave him a lamp -- and the other side of the wall is a parking garage. Gunnells recalls a day when one co-worker reheated catfish in the microwave, while another used the bathroom and covered the smell with a stinky air freshener. Lovely.

Makes me think of the movie, Office Space. I actually prefer a cubicle to an open plan office. Less noise, and less interruptions. My last job was an open space office in which I had to sit facing my manager. No fun to be had there.

 

[ewomack]

Oh yes, give me a closed cube any day. Right now we sit in halfy cubes with plexiglas windows. I can't pick my nose or scratch myself at all! And say goodbye to nail clipping at work! At least the window remains always in view.

 

[breading1]

At least the window remains always in view.

You're not thinking of jumping out the window, are you?

 

[BeerWench13]

Ugh! I've only worked in a cubicle once. I didn't mind it so much since mine was on the far side of the office in the corner. Everyone pretty much left me alone since I was out of the main pathway. Now I have a nice office with 2 desks, 2 windows and a few bookshelves which, I must admit, have nearly as many of my personal books on them as they do work-related items. I do believe I would struggle a great deal with going back to a cubicle now.