Cubicle Hell

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  • new_me_14
    new_me_14 Posts: 87 Member
    in my cube right now :(
  • kandell
    kandell Posts: 473 Member
    In my cube now too :] Mine is right between two work friends, so it's pretty nice because we can chat when we're bored.
  • dlionsmane
    dlionsmane Posts: 674 Member
    Yep - same here... in the middle of a small sales office with people talking on the phone all the time.... I can't hear myself think or type all my comments on the forums here... lol

    Edited to add: they are not actually even 'cubicles' they are several groupings of four desks facing each other divided by half walls that allow me to see the head of the person sitting in the desk facing me. I can reach out and slap him if I want to.... and sometimes. I really, really want to....
  • fbmandy55
    fbmandy55 Posts: 5,263 Member
    Don't really have a cubicle. I'm in a two person office. My boss has an office in the front with a big window. I have the whole back of the office: 3 desks, two computers, the copy machines, bathroom and kitchen. My area is separated by a chest high desk and divider with a door in it.
  • MissLeelooDallas
    MissLeelooDallas Posts: 145 Member

    Downside: My boss can be a real jerk. Constantly complains when I eat brocolli or fish or anything he can smell. Literally threw my breakfast away one morning, and then put the microwave OUTSIDE for me to use.

    Yeah....he can be mean.

    Not gonna lie, I'd be driven nuts if I were him too. I doubt I'd be aggressive like that about it, but I certainly get annoyed when co-workers eat particularly nasty smelling food in the workplace.

    I save my smelly fish and veggies for my home meals (for the record I love eating these things, but the smell is certainly offensive when it's not your meal).
  • auroranflash
    auroranflash Posts: 3,569 Member
    How about that one chick trimming her nails behind me? .... shudder.
  • BigBellyGoAway
    BigBellyGoAway Posts: 781 Member
    I get to hide and work from the heart of the building a.k.a.the server room. The entirety of the radio station actually calls it "The Cave" and refer to me as the troll who lives in it.

    The owner of the company I work for got a sign made up for the NOC door reading, "Do Not Open. Never. Not Even In An Emergency!". Keeps the riff-raff out and for that, I thank him daily. :laugh:
  • newjojie
    newjojie Posts: 292 Member
    Yep cubicle hell
  • DymonNdaRgh40
    DymonNdaRgh40 Posts: 661 Member
    Wave*

    My supervisor is on the phone as I type. I have two co-workers chattering behind me non-stop in a language I do not understand.

    Yes, it is cubicle hell.
  • DWBalboa
    DWBalboa Posts: 37,259 Member
    Well I work in a cubical farm but I wouldn't call hell, in fact I enjoy it, the banter that we all have is great. We give each other crap all the time of course most of us are prior military and that's what we do.
    I guess for me I also have a knack for making the best of any situation.
  • osothefinn
    osothefinn Posts: 163 Member

    Not gonna lie, I'd be driven nuts if I were him too. I doubt I'd be aggressive like that about it, but I certainly get annoyed when co-workers eat particularly nasty smelling food in the workplace.

    I save my smelly fish and veggies for my home meals (for the record I love eating these things, but the smell is certainly offensive when it's not your meal).

    Agreed. There are two kinds of fish acceptable to eat in the workplace: Pepperidge Farms Goldfish and Swedish Fish.
  • ekz13
    ekz13 Posts: 725 Member
    cube hell...but my cube isn't near the windows...or the center of the room... i stare into a corner.. even when the light comes into the windows, it doesn't reach my corner... it's light even the sun is afraid of going in there. :noway:
  • FitWithWit44
    FitWithWit44 Posts: 412 Member
    Wave*

    My supervisor is on the phone as I type. I have two co-workers chattering behind me non-stop in a language I do not understand.

    Yes, it is cubicle hell.

    Ugh, I have a woman to the right of me can't decide on which language she wants to use for her personal calls. About every 5 words is English then back to Bosnian.
  • TheRoadDog
    TheRoadDog Posts: 11,788 Member
    Got my own office. I don't play well with others. When I shut the door, everyone knows to leave me alone. If they have a question, they wait until I open the door.

    By the way, my door is shut right now.
  • RaeLB
    RaeLB Posts: 1,216 Member
    My department is 5 desks sitting together in a room. I wish I had a cubicle so it would be easier to ignore my coworkers and play on the internet :drinker:
  • EmilyJackCO
    EmilyJackCO Posts: 621 Member
    Not anymore... I work from my dining room now.
  • Iceberg_Simpson
    Iceberg_Simpson Posts: 737 Member
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    THIS!! So much THIS.
  • PennyLane379
    PennyLane379 Posts: 14 Member
    Me!!

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    Hilarious! I, too, am in cubicle Walmart (aka, Hell).
  • MyM0wM0w
    MyM0wM0w Posts: 2,008 Member
    I don't technically have a cubicle. But I work completely alone in a room that is temp. controlled because of the artifacts (I work at a museum). So I'm cold all the time. And there are no windows anywhere.

    Similar. I work in a climate controlled lab with engineers and scientists. It's always so freaking cold in here! We live in cubicle world but our lab is separated from the other inmates by glass walls/doors (since we have to remain climate controlled). Luckily my 5 cell mates are awesome.
  • Derpes
    Derpes Posts: 2,033 Member
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    THIS!! So much THIS.

    +1,000
  • Rskaer
    Rskaer Posts: 14
    Normally i am in cubicle hell, but for the last 5 weeks i have been in a special kind of pergutory......a training room, in the center of the building, no windows. right now the "trainer" is teaching me and 8 other associates a job i have been doing for a year as of June 1st. Have to love health care reform....the bright side when i get out of the training room i will be kissing my cubicle hell good bye and working from home
  • warriorprincessdi
    warriorprincessdi Posts: 617 Member
    I do.

    I drive 1.25 hours to work; sit in a cubicle in front of my computer under florescent lights with no windows, sunlight or fresh air from 8am to 5pm; then make the 1.25 hour drive home... Sighhhh I live for the weekend.
  • IpuffyheartHeelsinthegym
    IpuffyheartHeelsinthegym Posts: 5,573 Member
    *raises hands* also in cubicle Hell over this way....
  • MsMaryMac48
    MsMaryMac48 Posts: 89 Member
    A cubicle would allow for a little more privacy over the fish bowl we work in. A glassed in office with three other people does allow for conversation but no privacy so those "workout at your desk" ideas are useless.
  • Mia_RagazzaTosta
    Mia_RagazzaTosta Posts: 4,885 Member
    I'm in hell as we "speak" but my hell is always freeeeeeeeeezing.
  • tmm_0127
    tmm_0127 Posts: 545 Member
    Ugh haha I'm set up in a cubicle very open to the rest of the room, so I always have people walking around behind and next to me. It's incredibly distracting and nerve wracking.
  • mitch16
    mitch16 Posts: 2,113 Member
    Most days I work from my home office, which is awesome, of course (other than my son thinking I'm a "stay at home mom" and that I'm at his beck and call--that sucks).

    One day a week I go into an office where we are in "open space"--we all used to have offices but they took them away to promote collaboration. It's not actually so bad because we've learned to live with it and we're all in the same boat.

    One other day a week I go to another facility where I have a cubicle in the midst of many offices--this sucks because, although the people in the offices *could* hold meetings and telecons with their doors closed, they do not. In fact, I was just about to go into full rage mode about 20 minutes ago for this very reason.
  • ren_ascent
    ren_ascent Posts: 432 Member
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    Ahhhhh, all my childhood dreams have been realized.
  • Kitship
    Kitship Posts: 579 Member
    Here, they aren't even called cubicles.

    Just "cubes".

    As in, "Get back in your cube!"
  • angf0679
    angf0679 Posts: 1,120 Member
    I used to when I worked in the call center industry. One day a friend I worked with sent me this:

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7BEg3YWZTCY

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