Top Ten Office Cubicle Bad Behaviors

eWeek.com offers a slide show of its top ten Worst Cube-Dwelling Offenses.

Before we get to that, indulge me if you will on my tour of Cubeland.

Life in a cubicle is … well a living hell. It’s bad enough to be exposed, but there’s often a feudal system of who gets what height cube wall.

Of course Admins, Assistants and other pee-ons get the lowest cubicles — unless they have some sort of inappropriate relationship with a VP.

The mid-level managers (who do the most work and legitimately need privacy and space) get the crappy 5′ x 5′ cubes with slightly higher walls, usually with a giant building column smack in the middle of it.

The slugs who’ve worked in Cubeland the longest have the least motivation to do any actual work> It’s unlikely they will ever become a VP, but are unnaturally rewarded for sloth with the largest studio apartment-size, high wall cubes.

Okay, back to eWeek’s attempt at humor. It’s what you’d expect:

• Humming / music
• Obnoxious cell phone ring tones
• Smelly foods
• Telephone no no’s like too many personal calls or loud speaker phone conversations
• Yada yada yada

But check it out. Be sure to print out the slide(s) and leave them anonymously around your office for those vermin co-workers that are driving you wonky.

Don’t be afraid. You know you want to.

Best to do it early in the morning so that inconsiderate lout will have to simmer in his/her juices all day.

Have fun.
-Roland

View the eWeek.com slide show of its top ten Worst Cube-Dwelling Offenses