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Cube House

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the red-stapler dept.

drkanta writes "Hey, I decided to decorate my cube for a holiday decoration contest. Well, I went all out and had a lot of fun and turned my cube into a house. I thought it was very very funny. What bugged me was that some people asked me where I saw this before to get my idea. What? Saw something like this before? My question is: has anyone done something like this before?"

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  1. cool by Valegor · · Score: 4, Funny

    I think this is the coolest thing I have seen in a long time. You are now my hero. Course most of the guys I work with say it is gay.

    1. Re:cool by dillon_rinker · · Score: 4, Funny

      It's not gay - it's metrosexual!

    2. Re:cool by capt.Hij · · Score: 4, Funny

      I think this is the coolest thing I have seen in a long time.

      Cool????

      I for one do not think that this is "cool." This is the sort of rampant individualism(1) that can create havoc in an office. This is the sort of thing that happens when they let people post comics outside of their cubicles. We have taken one more step closer to the abyss. I can only hope that your little project will stand up to the resulting chaos that will result from this sort of willful nihilism (sp?). Now clean up that mess and get a haircut...


      (1) With apologies to Author's boss in "The Tick"

    3. Re:cool by LeiGong · · Score: 5, Funny
      It's not gay - it's metrosexual!

      A Metrosexual knows never to use that patterned wall paper with a green chimney. And that's not even a Gucci snowman. That most is DEFINITELY gay (or straight depending on how you look at it).

    4. Re:cool by Powercntrl · · Score: 4, Funny

      Gay? I think not. Chicks HAVE to dig it, it's a LOVE SHACK, baby!

      Looks like someone's not going to need to use that OSDN dating service to find a date this New Year's.

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    5. Re:cool by walt-sjc · · Score: 4, Funny

      Not only that, the ornaments hanging off the eve's are a clear OSHA violation. I sure the paper used is a fire hazzard. Did you get a building permit? I thought not. Oh, your woes have only just begun!

    6. Re:cool by Eneff · · Score: 5, Funny

      Well...

      I happen to be gay, and the first thing I thought when I saw it was that I wanted a pic and a phone number...

      If it's not gay, it's at least gay-friendly.

  2. Sure by shystershep · · Score: 4, Funny

    I've done it, lots of times. I make them out of tinfoil. It's stops the cosmic rays, you know.

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  3. I think your boss... by Cordath · · Score: 5, Funny

    ...is currently taking a long hard look at just how much he's paying you.

    1. Re:I think your boss... by Gandalf+Teh+Ghey · · Score: 5, Funny

      The boss is thinking "Outsourcing to India looks better all the time."

    2. Re:I think your boss... by multiplexo · · Score: 4, Funny

      Nahhh, if you had Indian programmers they'd just turn their cubes into the Taj Mahal.

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  4. Well as a matter of fact by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    Yes I have seen this before, but then the walls were padded....

  5. Cool by Talrias · · Score: 5, Funny

    I see there's a pink slip attached to your monitor too! I wonder what THAT'S doing there!

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  6. Wrong kind of cube... by Blimey85 · · Score: 4, Funny

    I read this thinking he decorated his Mac Cube... and thought that was pretty cool. Maybe put some christmas lights inside or something... but this is just his work cube... not as cool.. IMO.

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    1. Re:Wrong kind of cube... by metrazol · · Score: 4, Funny

      You hear 'cube' on slashdot and you think "Mac Cube?" "GameCube?" "To the third power?" but in the end the answer is always the same...

      "Webserver is now a flaming beige cube."

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  7. PayCheck bonus. by Nautica · · Score: 5, Funny

    5.5 Hour of Pay to decorate your CUBE. cool I still have you beat, getting paid 8 hours a day to surfing slashdot.org

  8. True story by grub · · Score: 5, Funny

    has anyone done something like this before?

    True Story: In 1982 or so I had a job stocking shelves (hey, I was 16) Anyhow, I got pretty stoned at dinner break and had a great idea.. I bought a can of gold spray paint in the store then proceeded to completely spray paint a urinal in the men's room. Then I wrote in felt marker
    "The Gold Urinal"
    "A [my surname] Concept"
    Needless to say when my boss called me in the next day and I was straight I didn't think the idea was too smart.
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    1. Re:True story by BasilBrush · · Score: 5, Funny

      You worked there stacking shelves, and you bought a spray can to vandalise the urinal?

  9. about the roof... by thoolihan · · Score: 5, Funny

    as if cubes don't trap the smell of a fart already enough...

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    1. Re:about the roof... by mofolotopo · · Score: 4, Funny

      Hence the chimney.

  10. That's nothing... by AccUser · · Score: 5, Funny

    Since I started to work at home, I have turned my house into a cube. Much to my wife's consternation, I might add...

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  11. And I'll huff and I'll puff... by stefanlasiewski · · Score: 4, Funny

    And I'll huff and I'll puff and I'll ./ your house down!

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  12. Tiki Hut by Foofoobar · · Score: 5, Funny

    Actually yes, while I was at one job I turned my cube into a tiki hut complete with thatch roof. My boss was pissed and was going to scream at me until the VP of the company came by and congratulated me on such a great morale builder and said that others should be so industrious.

    Nearly everything for your own Tiki hut can be purchased at Archie McPhee's :)

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  13. visa by sethx9 · · Score: 5, Funny

    "Total cost of the project: $34
    Total cost of the project after I return "unneeded items": $14
    Total time to build, including sawing, etc: 5.5 hours."
    ...pissing off all your non-christian co-workers: priceless

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  14. Re:And the question is by Rorschach1 · · Score: 4, Funny

    Hey, I work on a military base and I've got away with more.

    Last year, at Halloween, I swiped a spare floor tile (we have a raised floor in the network control center), ripped the carpet off, and mounted it on a piece of particle board with a hole cut in the middle. I removed one of the regular floor tiles, climbed in, and put my head through the cutout. Someone set a box on my head, and we just waited for the cleaning lady to come around.

    I've got a still pic of the setup somewhere, but unfortunately we didn't tape the cleaning staff's reaction. The two poor ladies screamed their heads off when one picked up the box, and ran for the door.

  15. MP Report by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Funny

    Box noted in highly unusual place by cleaning staff.

    MPs forcibly evacutated building.

    Bomb squad noted problems with security and downtime due to location in network control center.

    In case box contained explosive device, it was immediately disrupted with small demolition charges. Minor damage to surrounding equipment.

    There was one casualty. How he avoided the evacuation and reached the vicinity of the box has not been determined.

  16. Re:You're fired! by The_Rift · · Score: 4, Funny

    Uh-oh, sounds like someone has a case of the mondays!