• Say No to Cookie-Cutter Cubicles!!

    Sometimes I feel like this.. Like I'm in a cookie-cutter cubicle! Each boxed with the same vomit-colored walls.. This will not do for a creative spirit such as me. I am starved of color!! ::insert mental image of me crawling through a desert of blah.. Must.. Have.. Color..:: So I’ve be…
  • How to Survive the Office Environment

    I love the office environment. I love working in it, I enjoyed being educated in it, and it was always my career aspiration. I even really like the film Office Space. If I had to boil down my advice for a new member of the cubicle farm, it would be in three words: Flexibility, Priority, Diligence.T…
  • The Cubicle

    I am thankful that I do not work in an environment where I have to sit in a cubicle and work because there is a huge chance that you cannot stand the etiquette of your neighboring cubicle resident. Since it is an open door policy unless you barricade your entrance with a paper machete door, there i…
  • Adjusting to the New Cubicle

    You spend 8 hours a day...40 hours a week there. Let's hope the work environment is tolerable, aworking tirelessly against deadlines. Lighting to your liking. Neighbors with similar temperament. Conscientious. To the dismay of the selected few forced to move, we had less than a week's notice.…
  • Ooops...I Did It Again...

    I've fallen asleep with the Crest Whitestrips on. This time was an hour longer than the 30 minutes on the instructions. 3x longer. It hurt like crazy the entire day, with the pain easing just now. Last year, I slept all night with them on! AND swallowed one of them! The pain equivalence was fa…
  • Chair Butt

    When we sit on our butts all day, all week, all year...we are at high risk for Chair Butt Syndrome. Here are ways we can thwart this unforgiving ailment. (from Kim at the Cube farm) These and more videos from cubefarm can be found using the BFN toolbar. Have fun exercising.... (which one wor…
  • More Developments From the Bad Boy Saga...

    Today was not a productive day at work. No, it wasn't the Bad Boy distraction.I requested to have my cubicle moved. And today it happened! Although I was happy, it was bittersweet, too. I won't see him so much anymore. He said he'll miss me. He confessed that he always looked at my back as I s…