Living in a Cube Farm

Posted: 17th September 2009 by ê¿ê in Friends & Family
North view of cubicle
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Where I work, we have a cube farm. You know what that is don’t you?

It’s a huge space filled with these walls that go 2/3 of the way to the ceiling that you hook together to make pseudo-offices.

They give zero in the way of privacy and you can hear what everyone in the office says or does all day long. Forget having a private telephone conversation. Everyone knows that you called the doctor to find out the results of your STD test.

Lighting in these things is an issue for me. Ours are placed so that the ceiling lights just put glare on my computer screen. I go home nearly every day with a headache from that. I don’t know if san diego cubicles are any different from those we have here — I’ll have to ask the folks in our California office what they think.

My cube looks almost exactly like the one in this picture — the only difference is my chair. I do have a nicer chair than that one. You can’t see it, but there’s a light underneath those overhead cabinet things. It puts an even worse glare on a computer screen than the ceiling lights do.

And Ken wonders why I like working in the dark in my office at home….

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  1. Ugh.. I guess I should really be grateful with my office now

    Oh well as long as you have lots of things to do / busy, I guess you don’t really need privacy as you don’t have time to do personal stuffs anyway :)