March 08, 2005

Build your own office cube or Create a Corporate labyrinth one cube at a time!

"Finally, the drudgery of corporate life has been captured in a play set for adults! Bob, Joe, Ted, and Ann spend eight hours a day, five days a week, at tiny desks in tiny cubicles in a giant room packed with countless similar cubicles in a giant building filled with countless similar rooms." I like the realistic paunches on the figures.

posted by LokiSpeak 19 years ago
  • Fantastic! )))
  • Cubicism debunks evil corporate singularity. You are all educated stupid . well, someone had to say it...
  • hahaha! I love it!
  • A friend bought me two of these for my birthday. They are set up here on my cubicle desk. A big hit at the office, I tells ya!
  • What's up with the beatnik?
  • The hairy dude? Oh, here's his file: PERSONNEL FILE HUMAN RESOURCE EYES ONLY Employee #: 113852577 Name: Jim Title: Junior Marketing Associate Status: Full Time Hire Date: 01/16/1997 Infractions: 05/19/1999 – Level 4 Attendance Violation (Called in "sick", later seen standing in line for first showing of Star Wars: Episode I) 07/22/2000 – Level 2 Dress Code Violation (Innapropriate facial hair) 05/16/2002 - Level 4 Attendance Violation (Called in "sick", later seen standing in line for first showing of Star Wars: Episode II) 12/02/2003 – Level 2 Dress Code Violation (earring) 11/04/2004 – Level 6 Conduct Violation (Innapropriate use of company internet - downloaded Star Wars: Episode III trailer) Time Off Request: 05/19/2005 - reason: "sick" hee hee Click on the pics for more files.
  • So, people really work in cubicles? I've never seen one, though I have seen shared offices/open concept/offices in converted mansions and even in converted hospital rooms. But never the classic sets of squares, except in the movies.
  • Yeah, #2 worked in a cube farm. The walls were conveniently just above head height, so you had to stand on the furniture to gossip with your neighbours. (That was me, not him.) It really was a lab-rat maze.
  • I recently purchased the entire set and put them in my cube. I set it up in a 4 cube configuration with no way out. 8 figures locked into an inescapable gray hellscape. Just like real life.... Mwahahaha! Everyone here loves them and a supervisor even suggested I rename them after people from our office, but that seems risky. Oh and I've worked in several cube farms. The walls vary in height and color (from gray to beige) but they do exist and the expressions on the faces of these toys can been seen in almost every one. And the stickers these things come with are hilarious. Almost all of them are real things I've seen posted in peoples' cubes. Also, this is my first post. I've been reading stuff here for a couple weeks and you seem to be some of the smartest monkeys to ever take part in this type of site.
  • Welcome Aboard *Beats his chest
  • Cubicles very much exist. The funny thing is I desperately MISS having my own cubicle. Right now I share an office with my boss, who sits about six feet behind me with no barrier whatsoever. Before this I worked at Disney, sharing a cubicle, which was ever so much fun when the relationship turned rancid and my cube-mate and I literally didnt speak a word to each other for weeks on end while sitting less than 3 feet apart. Of all the stupidities of the dot coms, the whole "open plan" thing has to be the stupidest. Let's sit people at oddly shaped desks in a huge warehouse with no privacy whatsoever to prove how hip we are!
  • I really lucked out in the cube farm department. My first ad agency had cubes with walls high enough to be over one's head when standing (unless you were over 6 ft. tall). Lots of space and even a sliding door for privacy. My new agency just moved to a new building that's more in line with the traditional cube farms, but we also have the "privacy" plastic barriers in between cubes and thank god, we have white noise machines everywhere so you can actually hear your phone conversation even if your next cube-mate is 4 feet away. Given the chance, sure, I'd take an office, but our new space was really well thought out and the atmosphere is a lot more convivial than when only the bigshots had offices and the peons had cubes. Now it's everyone except for THE most senior partners.
  • Hmmm, are we to believe in the great joy and wonder of working in a cube farm as described by a ZOMBIEbunny?
  • I swear to god, it's the truth....if you're on the right farm, that is. Place before this cube farm utopia, I had this random cube box in the middle of nowhere with a printer behind me where 30 of my (closest) department mates would congregate. It's like waking up in the morning and having 30 people standing in your bedroom. So, I suppose compared to that, this is pretty ideal. And don't let my zombie moniker fool you. heh heh...