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The Great Escape
Forty million American employees toil in soulless cubicles
Fortune ^
| 15Mar06
| Julie Schlosser
Posted on 03/16/2006 5:08:05 AM PST by Professional Engineer
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To: Peanut Gallery; bentfeather; snippy_about_it
To: Professional Engineer
Got me a window office with a door ... I'm the king of the world.
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posted on
03/16/2006 5:10:09 AM PST
by
tx_eggman
(Islamofascism ... bringing you the best of the 7th century for the past 1300 years.)
To: Professional Engineer
The only number that matters is the one on your pay stub.
People will do crazy things for a six-figure salary.
To: tx_eggman
LOL
I've been fortunate for a number of years as well.
To: Professional Engineer
If you are a cubicle-dweller and have not seen this gem of a film, you need to go out and rent it today. It motivated me to quit my last job (though I stopped short of burning the place down).
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posted on
03/16/2006 5:12:19 AM PST
by
Drew68
To: tx_eggman
Window office on a controlled access hallway. Just a few folks can get in.
To: proxy_user; Indy Pendance; Rose in RoseBear; Bear_in_RoseBear; JenB
This is a good one.
"I thought I'd be excited, but I came out depressed. It was DILBERTVILLE."
--DOUGLAS BALL, designer
To: Professional Engineer
I've managed to work my way up to a soulless office.
To: tx_eggman
"Got me a window office with a door ... I'm the king of the world."
I work at home in my underwear. :-)
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posted on
03/16/2006 5:14:42 AM PST
by
Rebelbase
(President Bush is a Texas jackass when it comes to Border security .)
To: Professional Engineer
As long as I can listen to music, I can put up with the cubicle farm. The day I can't rock out to Bruce is the day I quit.
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posted on
03/16/2006 5:16:32 AM PST
by
Ace of Spades
(Sed quis custodiet ipsos custodes?)
To: Drew68; Peanut Gallery
Someday I really need to see this movie.
To: Professional Engineer
I enjoy working on the computer but, if I had to work indoors, it would kill me quickly.
To: Drew68
Dude, me too. "Office Space" changed my life. I left corporate work this year.
when I saw that fat man keel over and die, Michael, I realized that we don't have a lot of time on this earth. We weren't meant to spend it this way. Human beings weren't meant to sit in little cubicles, starring at computer screens all day, filling out useless forms and listening to eight different bosses drone on about mission statements.
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posted on
03/16/2006 5:16:58 AM PST
by
Huck
(I only type lol when I am really lol.)
To: Professional Engineer
I like the soulless cubicle in which I toil.
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posted on
03/16/2006 5:17:08 AM PST
by
Skooz
(Chastity prays for me, piety sings............Modesty hides my thighs in her wings......)
To: Professional Engineer
You need to rent it today.
Really.
Pick it up on the way home.
Watch it two or three times.
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posted on
03/16/2006 5:18:05 AM PST
by
Skooz
(Chastity prays for me, piety sings............Modesty hides my thighs in her wings......)
To: Professional Engineer
I lasted exactly 3 weeks in a cubicle environment. As I grow older I know I can't continue to work out in the field, but dang the cubicle deal is nasty.
Share an office with a team of 3-4 people, sure in the field that's easy. The project keeps you out of the office most of the day.
A 'cubicle' day in, day out...not for me.
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posted on
03/16/2006 5:20:29 AM PST
by
EBH
(We're too PC to understand WAR has been declared upon us and the enemy is within.)
To: Huck
That was on AMC last evening. I walked in the door just as it began.
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posted on
03/16/2006 5:21:19 AM PST
by
theDentist
(Qwerty ergo typo : I type, therefore I misspelll.)
To: Professional Engineer
Before cubes, it was soulless bullpens. The cubes are better.
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posted on
03/16/2006 5:21:23 AM PST
by
Ditto
To: Ditto
Yep.
I picture Jack Lemmon in "The Apartment."
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posted on
03/16/2006 5:22:48 AM PST
by
Skooz
(Chastity prays for me, piety sings............Modesty hides my thighs in her wings......)
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