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The Ultimate Cubicle

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the a-keep-within-a-fortress dept.

kimba writes "Scott Adams of Dilbert fame has developed the ultimate cubicle with design company IDEO (the same guys that made the Palm V and the new sexy Cisco IP phones). Lying in a hammock watching boss-cam... shweeeet." Still, nothing beats a wireless laptop on a shaded porch, beverage in hand.

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  1. If only I had a cubicle... by doctor_oktagon · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Instead I've got a Hot Desk.

    While this can mean free & easy living, it also means you have to pack the entire contents of your working life into your laptop-bag every evening, and set it all up again the next morning, and you don't have a monitor to stick post-it notes on.

    I yearn for a desk (or even a cube!) where I could actually feel at home, and not like some sort of transient drifting soul through the sea of employment.

  2. Bleh by Mike+Schiraldi · · Score: 4, Funny

    Is anyone else reminded of the car Homer designed?

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  3. Re:Hey Scott Adams, your 15 minutes are up by Bearpaw · · Score: 4, Insightful
    [nod] The "ultimate cubicle" is still a fuckin' cubicle, just like an "ultimate jail cell" would still be a fuckin' jail cell.

    I agree with Tom Tomorrow:

    Scott Adams has an absurdist sense of humor that appeals to me sometimes. It's just that all the articles praising Dilbert were painting it as this radical critique of corporate culture, and I'm sorry, it's just not. The extent to which it critiques corporate culture is to say that bosses are dumb and cubicles are small. I don't necessarily dislike the strip, but Scott Adams shouldn't smile and accept the media's crowning him a radical critic when what he's doing is essentially Blondie updated for the '90s.