Escape

[chlkdstttr@lemmy.world]

It took a year and a half for me to escape one of those. It’s a mistake I’ve never repeated (yet).

[lillypip@lemmy.ca]

A 12-pack fits perfectly in that bottom drawer. (I can vouch. Very handy for Friday night overtime code review.)

[don@lemm.ee]

“Thomas Anderson?”

“Yeah, that’s me…”

[indibrony@lemmy.world]

This is the story of a man named Stanley.

[simplejack@lemmy.world]

Gen X in their 20s: “Fuck these soulless cubicles.”

Gen X in their 40s: “We’re the boss now. Kill the cubicles. Open floor plan.”

Millennials in their 20s: “Fuck this distracting open floor plan.”

Millennials in their 40s: “I’m the boss now. Kill the open floor plan. Cubicles.

[death_equity@lemmy.world]

Nobody questions what is in the Stanley until you start slurring your morning huddle.

[metastatic@kbin.earth]

We're here to fix your monitor

[argv_minus_one@mastodon.sdf.org]

Millennial here. I only briefly worked in a cubicle, when I was young, but I liked it as an environment. Not sure why the previous generation hated them so much.

[reseller_pledge609@lemmy.dbzer0.com]

They probably felt like rats in a cage or something similar. Very limiting and stifling, claustrophobic little boxes. I have to say though, if this little box gives me even an extra inch of privacy or silence I'll take it. Leave me alone while I'm working.

[genuineparts@infosec.pub]

Ah, ah, I almost forgot....I'm also going to need you to go ahead and come in on Sunday, too. We, uhhh, lost some people this week and we sorta need to play catch-up. Mmmmmkay? Thaaaaaanks.

[simplejack@lemmy.world]

A lot of offices didn’t, and some still don’t, consider the design of the floor plan. You’d end up with beige cubes filling most of the floor, with no little chill spots to break out and collaborate.

IMHO, a good floor plan has some areas for people to hide and focus, some comfortable areas to collaborate outside of a conference room, and some areas to recharge.

[takeda@lemm.ee]

As someone who always worked in an open office, I wish...

[kittenzrulz123@lemmy.blahaj.zone]

Stanley worked for a company in a big building where he was employee number 427

[morgunkorn@discuss.tchncs.de]

Follow the white rabbit

[punchmesan@lemmy.dbzer0.com]

Holy shit I would take this over an open floor plan any day. I dream of having my own quasi-isolated space.

[skunkworkz@lemmy.world]

It’s because corporations being corporations and took the concept of workspace partitions to its limits for the sake of efficiency. Look at early concepts of workspace partitions and it doesn’t look like anything that’s the office hellscape we saw in the late 90’s and early 2000s. It went from good design with big partitioned off sections to crammed cubicles in a soulless environment.

Same thing happened with the modern open office plan where everyone got crammed into a flex desk bull pen instead of the proper open office design where everyone has a big private desk where you sit several feet away from each other.

[otter@lemmy.dbzer0.com]

Heh. "Escape". No one gets out alive.

[don@lemm.ee]

Well, hey, I appreciate that. I’ll get out of your way. Thank you!

[grass@sh.itjust.works]

I wouldn't find the backrooms scary if it had plenty of cubicles

[my_anus_is_bleeding@lemm.ee]

Yeah, seeing an entire room filled with cubes is very ugly and stifling, but as an introvert I'd want at least one place where I can just work out of sight as it reduces my stress levels significantly.