Cube House

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Posted by ryuzaki0 on Tuesday December 23, 2003 @07:31AM 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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Yes. by Shinobi · 2003-12-23 07:33 · Score: 3, Interesting

Some of Pixars' work areas have more imaginative cube mods, decorations etc than this
done before in wood by lnzdingo · 2003-12-23 07:39 · Score: 4, Interesting

there was a whole interview on some evening magazine type tv show in the SF bay area a few years back, where some guy did that PERMANENTLY to his cube.
he used wood for all the framing and used real wood shingles for the roof!!!

his boss said, ok, but that no one else was allowed to do it.
Fire Hazard by BullSnot · 2003-12-23 07:39 · Score: 3, Interesting

Your PVC roof is a fire hazard as it prevents sprinklers from putting out fires in your cube.
...or at least that's what the security at my last job would tell me when i tried to do simular stuff. Truth be told, any fire in your cube would open a gapping hole in that roof and the spriklers would work just fine. But, fire codes don't always make sense.
Gothe by kfg · 2003-12-23 08:18 · Score: 3, Interesting

"Everything's been thought of before. The trick is to think of it again."

Don't get your knickers in a knot just because someone else once had the same brilliant idea you had. It happens. A lot. It doesn't in any way diminish your own insight, no matter what some dimwitted nebish in the third cube over says.

Or even what you think.

I've always liked Pete Seeger's definition of "sophmoric," the itch to be original. Let it go.

I've never had the "pleasure" of working in a cube farm, but I tend to work in open office like enviroments of one sort or another. I like to dress up my space on a periodic basis. Right now it's a simulated Japanese tatami room, floor seating with the computer on a kotatsu with nonfunctioning wooden hibachi ( actually, it functions as a waste basket). A scroll painting and a rack of swords as a finishing touch. Very comfortable actually, and a damned sight cheaper than an Aeron. It's pretty easy to do in a cube space.

In the past I've done a simulated traditional Mongolian yurt, the rectangular Tibetan equivilent, various native American styles and an English country cottage.

Of course on a workaday basis it helps to have enough authority that no one can give you shit over it.

Next Christmas you might want to try a traditional middle eastern house or nomadic tent for the true Christmas spirit.

KFG
office celebrations by Twillerror · 2003-12-23 08:41 · Score: 4, Interesting

We do this stuff at our office all the time. Usually for birthdays and the such. I really should throw together a web page with all the pics sometime.

The best ones so far where.

We took a bunch of cubicles and covered them with taped together black trash bags. This created a very cool cave. We put plants and a fog machine in as well.

Our boss is from Alabama, so for his birthday we decorated the whole office like some kind of back woods farm. We took his desk out and replaced it with a piece of plywood, and put a bail of straw in his office. We all dressed up in overalls and even staged a wedding ( the groom was at gun point and the bride about 8 months along ).

The next year we staged a murder mystery with our unexpecting boss at the middle of it. His brother was murdered and he had to figure out who it was. We staged it like a 30's private eye office.

For my birthday the guys decorated my office like a rave. Including a bunch of techno and monitors with cheesy colorful screen savers. Again the smoke machine was brought in, and they all laughed as I got lung cancer and couldn't even see my screen.

We've made people where bunny suits like at an amunsment park, had a toga party theme, made people work in a tent all day, and a whole lot of other things.

We've been slacking as of late with less revenues and more stress, but this stuff can really really boost morale in your office. We are a small company with very few rules, so we can get away with this stuff, if you can go for it.