Have you ever thought that your soul was actually melting away while sitting in your cubicle? I was recently thinking about “Escape from Cubicle Nation” by Pam Slims, and can’t help but wonder how much working in a cube actually harms your well being. It can’t be good for you to not see the light of day for 8+ hours, breath the same recycled air, and feel like a corporate drone day in and out for 40+ years.
Top 5 Worst Things about Working in a Cubicle (in no particular order):
- Shouting over cubicle walls, because people are too lazy to get up
- No privacy, no personal space, no sanctuary
- Creative inspiration forget about it! Grey/beige and fluorescent lights are the only inspiration and they suck the life out of you
- Surround sound conference calls. As though they aren’t bad enough, everyone is booked solid all day so the only option is to dial in on speaker phone and multitask…
- Negative energy. Sometimes it is hard not to hang up the phone and let out a huge sigh or a big fuck you back to the phone/email. If you work in a place where everyone does this all day, its exhausting and depressing.
“So I was sitting in my cubicle today, and I realized, ever since I started working, every single day of my life has been worse than the day before it. So that means that every single day that you see me, that’s on the worst day of my life.” -Peter Gibbons, Office Space
Do you ever feel completely drained of all life and energy from sitting in a cube all day? I would love to hear other reasons you want to escape from your cube in the comments.
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