Cubical Farms: comfy or soul sucking?

Cubical Farms: comfy or soul sucking?

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I have always wanted to work in a cube, seems comfy as fuck

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as long as monitor is facing away from the cubical opening

as a mechanic thats literally the scariest thing I can imagine

Soul sucking.

why does that one cube have no entrance or exit?

Trucker Sup Forumsro here, you can keep those fucking things. Also see
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Does something actually happen in this gif or am i just trolling myself watching it?

people are working

It would be soul sucking for me, just looking at that shit makes me feel anxious and depressed.

Comfy for normalfags.

Soul sucking if you're a person with substance.

But is there any movement in it at any point?

there could be

I used to work in a call center but I didn't do cold calls I would caption phone calls for deaf people. Honestly that job sucked donkey dick, the cubicles weren't fun and the job was repetitive. It depends on the job I guess. The job I had thought the business came to you so it was annoying because you didn't work on your own shit you worked on other people shit when it came to you.

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You're trying to get me to stare at it forever aren't you?

i felt like you might

I haven't been looking for a while though, I've been checking out other threads.

comfy as long as you get a nice chair and don't sit at home doing jack shit when you get off work.

Senior scientist with a pharma company here. I love having an office just outside the cubicle area.

>don't sit at home doing jack shit when you get off work.

w-what am i supposed to do?

Get a social hobby or hang out with friends.

is starting a podcast acceptable?

no

Do you have social anxiety?

yes

Then what you do after work is talk to a cognitive behavioral psychologist and attend mindfulness meditation classes. Once you've done that, you find a social hobby, get some friends and hang out with them.

You don't have to do a "social hobby".
If you have to see people all day and just want to be alone you should do some "me" time at your free time.
You should just have a hobby which differs from your job. If you're sitting in an office all day you should go outside, e.g. hiking or gardening.

my last job as a network analyst involved each person having their own cubicle, which i totally enjoyed

I do agree with this as well though, me time is also a good thing, as long as you aren't isolating yourself to your own detriment.

At least there is some degree of privacy.

The current rage is total open plan where the entire office can easily creep over your shoulder and fap to your fur porn

Sparky joining in here.

Fuck office work

if it's the short ones where you can see out over the rest of the farm while seated, it's soul sucking. High-wall (72 in. and above) cubicles are the comfiest fucking thing. I have a coat rack in mine.

CBT is a meme. not everyone wants to be a social butterfly

Ausfag here. Daily reminder that office "work" isn't work.

It helped me with my anxiety a whole lot though. If you want to discount it, that's on you. But it helped me get from having to psych myself up for 8 hours before going grocery shopping, to just being able to go if I need to.

having a hobby doesnt mean you have to interact with people.

even snowboarders dont have friends on powder days

>psych myself up for 8 hours before going grocery shopping

yeah i'm not at that level.

Which was why I said social hobby.
Something like playing board games or something.

i'd prefer this

Well I wasn't always like that, I had a nervous breakdown about 5 years ago. I've spent a lot of time getting better since then.

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I work in a farm of 1200 cubicles. It is life sucking unless you now how to have a good time (crop dust other cubes, throw people's lunch in the trash, throw out plots or prints, flood the toilets, piss on the toilet paper, shut and don't flush, etc etc)

open offices were ok before the computer era

i'd prefer no computers

You sound like the type of person that would make a soul sucking job positively hellish.

>I work in a farm of 1200 cubicles

holy shit. is this in china/india? any pics? thats incredible

Care to explain why? Seems the same to me.

it depends on the job. it depends on where the monitor is too, no one walks in to see what your looking at.

Big city local govt, engineering, law, administrative, operations. I'll get some pics tomorrow. City has over 13,000 employees

It's not the same, privacy leads to devious shit happening. I'm 6'4" so I can see over cubicle walls. I've seen some weird shit

how big is your city? over 1 million?

working for an ISP's contact centre, comfy as fuck.

basically telling people they can fucking deal with their bad wifi all day, but then in a more formal formulation with some more time

>comfy or soul sucking?
They're hella more comfortable than working outside in the blazing sun and the frigid cold.

AND they are typically soul-sucking hellscape because of the corporate culture that typically comes with cubicals. Do they always have a shitty corporate culture where you're nothing more than a meaningless and unappreciated cog? No.

This just in, most people don't love their work.

>They're hella more comfortable than working outside in the blazing sun and the frigid cold.

landscaping is an awesome job.

>get to absorb sweet natural vitamin d all day
>gradually get fit and toned through low to moderate intensity manual labor
>burn more calories than you take in every day
>get to stare at QTs all day
>get to banter about obscene stuff with coworkers all day
>no work to take home...ever

too bad pay is shit

It depends, our department have quite nice cubical farms. They are comfty as fuck and ppl are not squezzed into them and are working as group of 3 to 6 ppl.

It's odd, working outside, whether in extreme heat or cold, sounds better to me. But I'm a country boy who gets crazy if I'm not exposed to nature on a regular basis, so that might be it.

Working graveyard atm so its dark.

My department is something else. We work as 2 to 3 ppl per shift aswell.

For most of you neckbeard, hairy ass size 48 pants wearing Texas muthers this is "COMFY" town.

fucking Australians. you do know that you should flip your images out of courtesy before posting to servers in the northern hemisphere, don't you?

>trucker
If you can say a cubicle is more soul sucking then being on the road 24/7 with only yourself and a ham radio to talk to then i want the drugs you seem to be taking.

that's pretty funny.

trucking sounds middling but comfy

Yeeeeaaaah... no.

Yes, approaching 1.2m, it has water and sewer which are typically ran by a sanitation district so it's swollen.

Imagine you have an office, but one day your boss removes your door so that they can just bust into your office whenever they want and yell at tou about shit.

It feels like a punishment.

i have an office and my boss already does that on a regular basis.

Same.

Interested if you still get offices like this? In the ten years I've been working I've not yet encountered anywhere that's not open plan with hot desking - that includes the executive headquarters of a mutli-billion dollar construction company, and construction isn't exactly known for being with the times.

Looks all right, if rather gravitationally inverted.

I work in an open plan office; around 50 people in a space far too small to handle that amount of people but i digress.

I can tell you without any hesitation i'd rather be in a cubical. Jesus fucking christ open plan offices are horrific.
You have no privacy, very little space, you get interrupted constantly whether by people talking to you or talking to somebody sat near you, the noise can be unbe-fucking-lievable as people talk louder to be heard over the people talking louder to be heard over the people talking louder etc etc etc; it just spirals out of control until people are practically shouting and there are no walls or barriers to deflect or muffle the sound.
I'm far less effective at my job because half the time i'm either trying to concentrate while the office is yelling at each other to be heard or the person sat less than 3 feet away from me is talking to another person or somebody is talking on the phone.
I'm one in a line of 4 desks connected side by side with no barrier at fucking all between us and it's a heavily paper based job. You can imagine how fucking annoying that gets.
Give me a god damn cubicle any day.

>not recognizing pictures from Australia.
For shame user.

>no work to take home ever

Still working 6am to 9 pm in the summer sucks dick

Alot of it is more than moderate intensity labor

Not many QT's to stare at
It's mostly old people who need their lawn and sprinkler work done

I dislike looking like a Mexican with the worst farmer's tan for 9 months out of the year

>Golf course laborer and landscaper and sprinkler repairman here
Can't fucking wait to get my BSME and get an office job

Weedeaters are the most soul sucking contraption ever made

>50 people in a space far too small to handle that amount of people

You just discovered the reason people have open plan offices.

Like everything in the world its about saving money. Fuck the people, its all about the boss getting that new yacht

i guess we had different experienced. i worked on the grounds crew at a small liberal arts college.

>You just discovered the reason people have open plan offices.

man you are slow to the party

As a military guy, I somewhat envy cubicle work and office jobs. I mean, you have set hours, weekends off, you work in the air-condition, get to browse the internet, work inside and not suffer from unbearable heat/cold, have potentially hundreds of friends within walking distance...I could go on.

But then, when I'm stuck in the office instead of doing my job I really hate it. But I think it's partly because all the computers are open and nobody has a designated one. I kind of envy office people who have their own desk and a little privacy.

Honestly if you're close to home and get to spend every night in your bed and weekends doing what you want, I'd say it's a pretty sweet gig. Trust me there are worse.

dude you can join at 18, retire at 38, move to a low cost of living area and live off your sweet pension without ever having to work another day in your life.

Huh so all I have to do to enjoy an office job is go to war.
Man I'm glad I'm going for an education as a forest and nature technician.

Glad to hear that user. Keep progressin

Go on...

Shit dude you're absolutely right. You'd be surprised how hard it is to remember that with all the bullshit you gotta wade through. They really get you with that sweet ass retirement, and holy fuck do you pay for it. I mean multiple divorces, wrecked families, driven insane by bullshit, but yeah, that retirement can't be beat. Thanks for being there to put a positive spin on it all.

>It can be depressing at times

You start out all in the same cube areas, you make friends with your coworkers and all of the sudden you get promoted and have to sit in another part of the office
You move somewhere else, but they sit in the same cubes and build friendships/relationships at work while you get moved around, than company says you can work at home every week and come into the office 1-2 times a week if you want. They force you to change cubes, than work from home while the other people stick with each other and enjoy their time in the office. You eventually change cubes and get closer to them again, but they look at you like wtf are you doing here and why don't you just keep working from home rather than coming into the office. Eventually they don't even care about what you work on and they start ignoring you when you want to assign work tasks, and projects. They keep ignoring you while you sit away in a cube somewhere, thinking of looking for another job and not ending up in the same position. You also think of ending it all and killing yourself, but the act of drinking your pain away sounds like a better idea for a few months. Till you lose your job in that cube, and you spend time looking for another cube only to be miserable, afraid, and stressed out even though you are a highly trained engineer

>Will I be ok?

Will do, I've gotten to point where the idea of an education doesn't scare the everliving shit out of me, so I'm hopeful.

Meh, not really. I detassled corn in high school and that alone made me want to do anything to get in a cubicle for the rest of my life haha. I'm the one that posted the military stuff.

Being a forest and nature technician actually sounds pretty sweet.

you've got major issues if you think they're anything but depressing, soul destroying pits of despair where dreams go to die.

which they never do

Yeah I'm the nervous breakdown user, so getting a job in the woods sounds like a good fit for me.
Besides I go all nerdy about plants and animals whenever I take a walk in the woods with other people.

why the fuck would you want privacy? You seem to think you're going to be doing anything but extremely boring office bullshit.

if you got married and had kids while in the military, that shit is on your own dumb ass

fuck work in general TBH.

>be computer programmer
>work in open office environment
>everyone sees everything
>it "inspires a free flow of information when everyone is equal"
>be forced to go on week long retreats with coworkers at resorts way out in the woods for teambuilding
>mandatory team building exercises at the office like parties, group outings, motivation speakers, and office games.
>in evaluations, my performance in the above activities is weighed the same as my programming performance

Easy for you to say. I couldn't imagine trying to date at 38-42 and not having kids yet.

not if your dreams are of providing for your family. good pay, good benefits, plenty of free time to pursue what you actually like. i wouldn't trade it

Sorry to hear about your breakdown. Hope you enjoy working in the woods. That does seem like the type of job that let's you be relatively alone for a majority of the time. That could be somewhat enjoyable.

I'm basing all of this off of an X-Files episode I saw recently so what do I know

All you faggots moaning about open plan and "lack of privacy" - just admit you want to look at porn at your desk rather than shifting off to the toilets for a crafty wank using your smartphone.

Can't look at porn where I'd work but I fucking love to browse thisiswhyi'mbroke and amazon and bleacherreport and just generally not do work

Well shit happens, I'm just happy I decided to deal with it. Also it's not really about being alone, it's about me doing something that interests me and energizes me psychologically. Working in the woods would do that for me.
But thanks for the sentiment, I hope things work out for you as well.