A CEO in a cube? Scary.
It's not his cube at least. (Cubes for everyone is one of the central tenets of our Kool-aid culture.)
Fred: It's the pictures in my mind that are getting me. It's like being stuck in a really bad movie with those Clockwork Orange clampy things on my eyeballs. Wesley: Why imagine? Reality's disturbing enough.
'Shells'
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brenda m - Mar 21, 2008 10:23:43 am PDT #6515 of 10001
If you're going through hell/keep on going/don't slow down/keep your fear from showing/you might be gone/'fore the devil even knows you're there
Theodosia - Mar 21, 2008 10:23:49 am PDT #6516 of 10001
'we all walk this earth feeling we are frauds. The trick is to be grateful and hope the caper doesn't end any time soon"
No don't -- don't make it look like a Potemkin cubeland!
Vortex - Mar 21, 2008 10:24:54 am PDT #6517 of 10001
"Cry havoc and let slip the boobs of war!" -- Miracleman
ugh. it's like the "open classroom, share the learning" concept. awful.
Glamcookie - Mar 21, 2008 10:27:21 am PDT #6518 of 10001
I know my own heart and understand my fellow man. But I am made unlike anyone I have ever met. I dare to say I am like no one in the whole world. - Anne Lister
(Cubes for everyone is one of the central tenets of our Kool-aid culture.)
We also just moved to an "open floorplan." It pretty much sucks. No one has an office. One nice thing is that most peeps are just working from home more often.
Tom Scola - Mar 21, 2008 10:27:46 am PDT #6519 of 10001
Remember that the frontier of the Rebellion is everywhere. And even the smallest act of insurrection pushes our lines forward.
I read something once that for companies that have an "everyone in a cube" culture, what happens is that the bigwigs tend to park themselves in conference rooms, so that they end up being their defacto offices.
brenda m - Mar 21, 2008 10:29:10 am PDT #6520 of 10001
If you're going through hell/keep on going/don't slow down/keep your fear from showing/you might be gone/'fore the devil even knows you're there
Eh, it's not so bad. There's a couple of factors to it. One of them is the "encouraging collaboration" thing, which can sound like so much BS but I think does actually have an effect. Another though, is getting away from the "real estate as reward" mindset, which, after all, is a big part of what we do. (Real estate strategy for corporations, alternative workplace design, etc.)
I might not buy it so much except that at my firm immediately before this one we made some internal office moves - shifting people around - and then moved our offices themselves to a newly designed space, and it was fascinating how those changes affected the way people worked together (or more to the point, didn't.)
Dana - Mar 21, 2008 10:30:47 am PDT #6521 of 10001
I'm terrifically busy with my ennui.
t expires from boredom
brenda m - Mar 21, 2008 10:31:53 am PDT #6522 of 10001
If you're going through hell/keep on going/don't slow down/keep your fear from showing/you might be gone/'fore the devil even knows you're there
I read something once that for companies that have an "everyone in a cube" culture, what happens is that the bigwigs tend to park themselves in conference rooms, so that they end up being their defacto offices.
They do maintain a couple of small workrooms in the C Suite area that are pretty much reserved for their use. But everybody does that to a certain extent - is encouraged to - as well as using our big kitchen/lobby area for meetings and stuff. And we do also have pretty decent work from home flexibility.
Jessica - Mar 21, 2008 10:34:43 am PDT #6523 of 10001
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset
I read something once that for companies that have an "everyone in a cube" culture, what happens is that the bigwigs tend to park themselves in conference rooms, so that they end up being their defacto offices.
Yeah - one of our small conference rooms was recently officially converted back into an office for the CFO. (Which was a huge PITA for me because it meant I had to find another place to pump breastmilk - that conference room was the only place on this floor with real walls...)
§ ita § - Mar 21, 2008 10:35:20 am PDT #6524 of 10001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Colin's currently doing skiffy stuff and hasn't been around, Allyson--I'd try and get in touch with him before investing too much effort in a different direction. Nothing to lose, at least.
I firmly believe in real estate as reward. Or at the very least, a door. I don't think I've officially had my own office since my very first job out of university. Stinks. And the games that are played with offices have been petty to the extreme. But it doesn't mean I don't want one. It's my only ambition other than loads more money for no more effort.