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Cubicle Etiquette?
zrgn asks: "Our team is moving to an open office type environment in a couple of weeks. The problem is that most of them have never worked in that type of setting before and thus may not know the do's and don'ts associated with a cube farm. I have two questions: what types of cubicle etiquette things have Slashdot readers come across that may help us in the new environment? (ie. don't listen to your voice mail on speaker phone); and What are some creative ways to relay 'cubicle rules' to the rest of the team?"
"Don't hire smokers, they waste too much time and cost too much to take care of. Spend money on child care instead."
Amendment, don't hire nonsmokers, or at least xsmokers and nonsmoking evangalists who produce loud noise and whine about smokers. Hire those who may not smoke but don't care, or those who smoke to begin with. This way everyone can just smoke in the office and you won't have to listen to anyone whine. Your smokers won't have to waste time going outside or have increased stress waiting for breaks to smoke.
Excuse my anal retention on this matter, but if you want to seem french, then know that liason is used between words that do not have a consonant between them. "l'etiquette d'cube" is incorrect. The proper way to write this would be "l'etiquette du cube," because "of the" translates to "du" when the noun in question is masculine. Since "du" and "cube" does have a consonant between them, liason of the two words is not necessary.
If you were writing this in french just for fun, then you're OK. But I've seen many times when some pseudo-intellectual attempts to seem french to appear more sophistimacated
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