Journal Entry

Shout Out To The Man Behind The Cubicle

August 29th 2004 at 9:00 pm

The inventor of the cubicle:

Propst has created a monster. The modern American office he envisioned as a place where productivity, if not happiness, would thrive has become exactly the kind of environment loathed by those who wear suits and collect regular paychecks. But Propst wants to make one thing perfectly clear: He does not accept the blame for the nightmare that his grand idea has evolved into.

Actually, I have a cubicle and I really like it, as it’s near a large window, I have a fellow worker in a cubicle 4 feet away from me and it’s like having a college roomie at times.

I’m still personalizing it though… a picture here, a picture there.

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3 Responses so far

  1. 1. Joel

    I’ve been in mansions which were less inviting than cubicles. It ultimately matters what the inhabitant does with the space, not the space itself.

  2. 2. Vera Nazarian

    I always preferred working in cubicles over offices.

    Offices are lonely and isolated, and times seems to like not move… but with cubicles you can chat over the partitions (or through them) and then you can do the groundhog-in-the-cube-farm thing. *grin*

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