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"NEW YORK (FORTUNE Magazine) - Robert Oppenheimer agonized over building the A-bomb. Alfred Nobel got queasy about creating dynamite. Robert Propst invented nothing so destructive. Yet before he died in 2000, he lamented his unwitting contribution to what he called "monolithic insanity."
Propst is the father of the cubicle. More than 30 years after he unleashed it on the world, we are still trying to get out of the box. The cubicle has been called many things in its long and terrible reign. But what it has lacked in beauty and amenity, it has made up for in crabgrass-like persistence."
http://money.cnn.com/2006/03/09/maga...ex.htm?cnn=yes
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Join Date: Oct 2002
Location: In yer threads
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Makes me glad I have my own office.
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Addicted to MacNN
Join Date: Apr 2001
Location: Landlockinated
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I'm lucky (I guess) - since getting laid off in 2001, I worked a job that was in the spare room of the owners' house, then an office where I had real walls (one glass!), then to a large common room with no walls (enhanced communication and creativity) to now working at home...
No veal fattening pens for me!
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Clinically Insane
Join Date: Dec 1999
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Originally Posted by davesimondotcom
I'm lucky (I guess) - since getting laid off in 2001, I worked a job that was in the spare room...
Yeeeah, about that. We're gonna have to move you... down stairs. Into the basement. We're going to need that spare room for the new intern. Oh, while you're at it, can you spray down there? Yeeeah, we're having sort of a rodent problem. Yeah, thanks.
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"…I contend that we are both atheists. I just believe in one fewer god than
you do. When you understand why you dismiss all the other possible gods,
you will understand why I dismiss yours." - Stephen F. Roberts
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Join Date: Feb 2005
Location: Cleveland, Oh
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And let me get that red swingline back too!
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Join Date: Dec 2002
Location: Rocky Mountain High in Colorado
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"And I told Bill too. I said, if they move me again I'll - I'll - I'll set - I'll set the building on fire."
"That sounds great Milton."
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I'm not going to call an ambulance this time because then you won't learn anything.
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Clinically Insane
Join Date: Dec 1999
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"I can't believe I told those fudgepackers I liked Michael Bolton."
"Why don't you just change your name?"
"Why should I have to change my name?! He's the one that sucks!"
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"…I contend that we are both atheists. I just believe in one fewer god than
you do. When you understand why you dismiss all the other possible gods,
you will understand why I dismiss yours." - Stephen F. Roberts
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Join Date: Feb 2004
Location: The O.C.
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MacBook 2.4GHz Intel Core 2 Duo | Clamshell iBook G3 366MHz | 22" Cinema Display | iPod Mini | iPod shuffle | AirPort Express | Mighty Mouse
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Senior User
Join Date: Dec 2002
Location: Rocky Mountain High in Colorado
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(
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I'm not going to call an ambulance this time because then you won't learn anything.
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Professional Poster
Join Date: Oct 2000
Location: Toronto, ON
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Originally Posted by davesimondotcom
I...a large common room with no walls (enhanced communication and creativity)
That's about the last thing I'd want to work in. I did it when I started out in multimedia, but spent most of the time with headphones on either editing audio or listening to music.
This job I went from cubicle to own office, which kicks serious butt. I fear our move in 2 months time will see is in some semi-open concept crapola. I don't want to hear other people when I'm working, because the people I deal with are across the country. Sticking me in some vaguely defined space will NOT make my productivity go up, since there's no escape from the loud talkers.
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The Lord said 'Peter, I can see your house from here.'
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Addicted to MacNN
Join Date: Oct 2002
Location: Boston, MA
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Never had an office as a Nurse. Just the nurses station.
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"Never give in, never give in, never, never, never, never - in nothing, great or small, large or petty - never give in except to convictions of honor and good sense." Winston Churchill
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