Does anyone work in Cubicles?
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Mountain Pass
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From: Marietta GA
Does anyone work in Cubicles?
Cubicles have got to be the worst thing to work in, no Privacy, ant the noise coming from the people around me is incredible. One person is constantly making some kind of discusting noise, Just a few hours ago I was in the phone with a VP of a customer discussing future business opportunities, This guy started HONKING his nose so loud that the customer asked me to call him back when we can have a private conversation. (Haven't been able to get him back e phone). I've been to HR an get the story "It's something we all have to live with". Said something to this guy and get a "Shut ....... up". I just hate to think that this ignorant guy can blow a 100M account that I worked on for 15 years
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From: Northern MD
I've got the same problem. Although our cubicle walls are 6' high, noise travels. I'm in a particularly bad spot because I sit 5' away from our lunch room door, and everbody congregates around there to B.S. One time I was on the phone with tech support, and the noise was so bad I had to go into the corridor and tell our agancy's director and deputy director to kindly move on. And the noises people make. I've got a guy on our aisle who has post-nasal drip and he's always coughing and sniffing and clearing his throat. I just know he'll never retire.
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From: TX
I've worked in cubicles for the fifteen of the last eighteen years and you are dead on! My company offers folding screens for some privacy and to help cut down the noise, but they aren't very effective. I spend five to seven hours of the day on the phone, so privacy and quiet is an absolute necessity.
My solution to the problem is to telecommute; the company I work for is a high tech producer of telecommunications products and offers this work option to many of it's employees. I'll be moving from the Dallas area to the suburbs of St. Louis in June and there will be no noticeable change in the way that I conduct business.
My solution to the problem is to telecommute; the company I work for is a high tech producer of telecommunications products and offers this work option to many of it's employees. I'll be moving from the Dallas area to the suburbs of St. Louis in June and there will be no noticeable change in the way that I conduct business.
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From: Michigan
I sit next to a guy we call Loogie or Sleepy... many, many names for this guy actually. If he's not sleeping (and SNORING), he's expelling phlegm into the trash can. If he's not doing either, he's just not at his desk (out smoking). We are supposed to share a PC, but he's always on it (or logged on) so I just found ways to cope on my UNIX. Most everything has some degree of functionality, except Outlook Calendar notifications and some email functions. Not to mention anything else in Microsoft Office Suite... yeah, cubicles rock...
Gone but not forgotten.
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I remember the first sales job I had. I was given a small cubical on the 6th floor which I did not like. My goals were to have an office on the top (15th) floor with a door and a window. Two years later I moved into that office, and two months later the company was sold and I was laid off. I found that more privacy and less distraction made it easier to climb that quota mountain each month.
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Mountain Pass
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From: Marietta GA
I get in her at 6:00 am just get a couple of hours of work in before it gets bad in here. It's amazing that in 2 quiet hours I can get 4 hours of work done. In our old building we had offices it was soo nice, but cubes are the new corporate way. I feel like Drew Carey, and this "Big" noisey guy in MIMI
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Take someone thats worked their whole life in the field and put them in a cubicle. It's just pure torture. I have a door near me and have to listen to it slam. Found out the rubber bumpers were gone so I replaced them. Would you believe someone dug them out and put them on their door? The last ones I glued in with a label to the fact. I have a lady near me that turns her bell up when shes away from her desk, which is most of the time. 99% of her calls are personal. The guy I work with looks at ~orn on his computer, very distracting as I can just catch the edge of the screen. My boss gets iritated because my laptop (my property) screen looks blank unless you are dead on it. Its the way Mr. ~orn @ work has the cubicle set up, to hide what he's doing. Also my boss starts talking loudly to you as soon he comes up to your cubicle. Doesn't even check to see if you are on the phone. Thank God it's only part time, part week. Hopefully within a month I'll be working for someone else in the field, just got to wait for my clearances to be checked.
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They said they wanted cubicles in our office to give us a little more privacy. I told them no thank you. I would not be able to assist my sales associates nor monitor what they were doing. Well that seemed to tie them off for a little while.
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From: Southern NH
I've worked in a cubicle for the past 18 years. During that time, my department has moved 3 times, to different areas of the buidling. I spend about 70% of the time on the phone with vendors, and now a days, writing emails. So the last move we had, we specifically asked for an area with minimal noise, and in a low traffic area. It helped that I had very good friends in the facilty department. It's been bliss for the past 9 years. Because I'm in such a remote area, I've been able to have my kids come in with me on occasion, and I have even had my dog in a few times.
But I feel your pain. I've sat near loud people, people hacking, one sounded like a moose call when he blew his nose, and people who eat smelly things for lunch. I usually spoke up. I'm not one to keep it all pent up inside.
But I feel your pain. I've sat near loud people, people hacking, one sounded like a moose call when he blew his nose, and people who eat smelly things for lunch. I usually spoke up. I'm not one to keep it all pent up inside.
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From: just outside of Phila.
I'm in my 3rd cube....in 4 years.....in the basement. Windows? You guys have windows? Unless it ends in 2000 or XP, I have no windows.
I do manage to get out quite often, but when I come back, it usually means I have giant engineering plans with me and I need to spread out. My 3rd cube, where I'm at now, is actually 3 walls and a little bit of a partition, and a round conference table for about 6 people. This summer, I get my own office, and I can't wait.
Right now though, I'm next to the printer, the fax, the copier, the water cooler and the basement door. One girl (God bless her, she's very sweet) talks to herself. Not mumbles quietly to herself, but talks out loud to herself. She's also one of those, "did she really just ask me that / say that?" kind of people. I smile, nod, chuckle if the situation warrants, and then freak out quietly. I've gotten to the point though where it's just white noise now.
Can't wait for the new office.
I do manage to get out quite often, but when I come back, it usually means I have giant engineering plans with me and I need to spread out. My 3rd cube, where I'm at now, is actually 3 walls and a little bit of a partition, and a round conference table for about 6 people. This summer, I get my own office, and I can't wait.
Right now though, I'm next to the printer, the fax, the copier, the water cooler and the basement door. One girl (God bless her, she's very sweet) talks to herself. Not mumbles quietly to herself, but talks out loud to herself. She's also one of those, "did she really just ask me that / say that?" kind of people. I smile, nod, chuckle if the situation warrants, and then freak out quietly. I've gotten to the point though where it's just white noise now.
Can't wait for the new office.
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From: Southern MD
Cubicles.
The corporate world's way of putting more sardines into the can. . .oops, building.
I've been 'confined' to a cubicle for 3 years now. I used to work in a fully operational, profitable print shop. Then, the bean counters thought about 'digital' printing, and how it is the 'wave of the future.'
Six people lost their jobs and now there are three people doing what nine did.
No overtime. No additional money.
Digital copiers, PCs and sardines in the can.
Ha! We have the usual people that don't do their job. . . . they walk around all day, b.s'n with everyone they see, doing 'drive-bys' looking into everyone's cubicle to see if the 'other guy' is working.
The PC monitors are set up in such a way that anyone that walks by can see what you are doing.
The corporate world's way of putting more sardines into the can. . .oops, building.
I've been 'confined' to a cubicle for 3 years now. I used to work in a fully operational, profitable print shop. Then, the bean counters thought about 'digital' printing, and how it is the 'wave of the future.'
Six people lost their jobs and now there are three people doing what nine did.
No overtime. No additional money.
Digital copiers, PCs and sardines in the can.
Ha! We have the usual people that don't do their job. . . . they walk around all day, b.s'n with everyone they see, doing 'drive-bys' looking into everyone's cubicle to see if the 'other guy' is working.
The PC monitors are set up in such a way that anyone that walks by can see what you are doing.
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"Milt, we're gonna need to go ahead and move you downstairs into storage B. We have some new people coming in, and we need all the space we can get. So if you could go ahead and pack up your stuff and move it down there, that would be terrific, OK?
Milton Waddams: Excuse me, I believe you have my stapler... "
(Office Space 1999, the ultimate cubicle movie)
Milton Waddams: Excuse me, I believe you have my stapler... "
(Office Space 1999, the ultimate cubicle movie)
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Originally Posted by aerocolorado
"Milt, we're gonna need to go ahead and move you downstairs into storage B. We have some new people coming in, and we need all the space we can get. So if you could go ahead and pack up your stuff and move it down there, that would be terrific, OK?
Milton Waddams: Excuse me, I believe you have my stapler... "
(Office Space 1999, the ultimate cubicle movie)
Milton Waddams: Excuse me, I believe you have my stapler... "
(Office Space 1999, the ultimate cubicle movie)
haha man, and why would I want a white collar job again? shoot yesterday was gorgeous and I spent the entire day in it!
