I don’t like my little cage.

Automan21k

Shared on Tue, 03/10/2009 - 12:12

There is just something about today that makes me hate working in a cubicle…my little cage…this tiny box with a little opening for them to push me in. They give me a computer to entertain me, and then give me tons of work so I no longer want to play with it. They even have people in other little cages whose job it is to watch me in my little cage and make sure I don’t leave or try to do something fun. And it that’s not enough they have even more people in even more small cages who spend the entire day working with the sole purpose of keeping me busy. I don’t produce anything, I don’t make or grow anything, I get information, and push a button to send it to another person in a cage just to keep them busy (there’s more to it than that…but in a forum that may not fully understand the PCAOB, GAAP, or GASB we’ll leave it simplified)... but then there is the office…a cubicle with higher walls and a door…it’s no bigger than my little cage, but it is a whole different environment…they give you an office when you get so much work you can’t fit it in a cubicle….but they give you a door, a beautiful door that represents everything us cubicle dwellers dream of…I doubt I will ever be the recipient of a door…I don’t know if that’s a good thing or a bad thing….but it makes me wonder if this little box is slowly driving me insane, or if I’m just becoming one of the sheep, sitting in my cage, waiting, obeying.

It feels like someone replaced my brains with the bowl of cold spaghetti they use to try to scare kids at haunted houses. 
 
…I’m just having a bad day.
 
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J-Cat's picture
Submitted by J-Cat on Tue, 03/10/2009 - 12:14
ah young grasshopper. Listen closely. Kick the wall between you and your officemate. You cubicle will be ever so slightly larger, and theirs will be ever so slightly smaller. Do that over the next 15 years and you will gain a cm of space and peace of mind.
Automan21k's picture
Submitted by Automan21k on Tue, 03/10/2009 - 12:39
well, I only have 31 years, 8 months, 25 days, 2 hours, 36 min, and.....30 seconds until I get to retire!!! provided the service period stays the same. so there's plenty of time for me to kick walls.
DOA454's picture
Submitted by DOA454 on Tue, 03/10/2009 - 17:10
And if your lucky when you kick the walls the power suppl will fall out of them
KittenMag's picture
Submitted by KittenMag on Tue, 03/10/2009 - 20:17
sometimes I wish our office had some kind of dividers. 14 of us in open space. I can hear and see everyone from where I'm sitting. There is NO privacy. We have to go out to the hallway to make a private phone call.

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