decorating the cube

[vcsinfo]

So we have 8 cubes of your standard office variety - too small, hi walls, drab grey color, etc.
How does everyone decorate them? I would like to bring in colors and other ideas so when the techs walk in every day they dont walk into their same grey cubes.
I know they could bring a picture and hang and stuff like that, but I thought I could show my support by doing some othe rdecorating to at least make some attempt at making it a more eye-pleasing place to be.

Thnx in advance.

 

[Welshbird]

Rosie - can you have that conversation with my boss do you think?

Fee

The question should be [red]Is it worth trying to do?[/red] not [blue] Can it be done?[/blue]

 

[rosieb]

Well, I've tacked up 5 film posters. Everything from "Gone with the Wind" to "Platoon" - I'm told that's a nono! - so, who's gonna make take them down? No-one yet!!!

Fight the idiot rules!

Rosie
"It doesn't matter how beautiful your theory is, it doesn't matter how smart you are. If it doesn't agree with experiment, it's wrong." Richard Feynman

 

[MeGustaXL]

Rosie, I wish you were my Boss!

My Company seems to think that

Individuality = Variability = Poor Quality = Bad Fow Business

[RobotMonotone] Therefore-We-Are-All-Grey-Clones! [/RobotMonotone]

Resistance is futile!

Chris

Servo vestri abbas etiam quod ego mos arcesso unguentum

 

[KenCunningham]

Nearly the same as our helpdesk motto 'Assistance Is Futile'.

I want to be good, is that not enough?

 

[rosieb]

Carp, it's my work environment, I'll do what I like (so long as it doesn't offend my colleagues - and I am very careful about that).

Now, find a way to fight me on that... (oh, I love an argument with the "higher ups" about this kind of stuff).

On a serious note - this is real motivation stuff - people work much better in a personalised environment - I can't quote chapter and verse, but life experience tells me so.

Rosie
"It doesn't matter how beautiful your theory is, it doesn't matter how smart you are. If it doesn't agree with experiment, it's wrong." Richard Feynman

 

[NickFerrar]

Heh Ken I'll have to remember that one.

As for decorating desks I think we should start a revolution and all make these:

http://www.pontomidia.com.br/ricardo/greatweb/blue_dragon.jpg

I still don't get tired of mine freaking people out

 

[brand5880]

If you want some out there ideas try this web site

http://promotions.monster.com/cubefabulous/

It is a parody of Trading Spaces for the office.

Thank you,

Brandon

http://www.Techies-r-us.com

 

[Dollie]

Offices that don't even have policies mandating cubicle decorations and accessories are usually more productive. We don't have a policy, and it's not something we've ever even needed to consider. Everyone decorates, your cube is your home away from home (and some spend more time there than at home!). The people I work with are smiling, laughing, and enjoying coming in to work, and I think part of it is the fact that we have policies to protect the company and its professionals, but none that will stifle them. I can't imagine working somewhere that I'm not even allowed to have a garbage can. Heck, some days I might not be able to find mine, but I know it's there.... somewhere.



Today we're celebrating Talk Like A Pirate Day, and cubicles all over the office are beginning to get into the spirit of it and I have seen the Jolly Roger flying in several places. Yes, it's goofy, and yes, this scabbard gets stuck in the chair and my eye patch throws off my balance, but shiver me timbers, you should hear the laughter!

 

[Johnthephoneguy]

hmmmm I wonder if I walk around and start talking like a pirate will the manager send me home early? lol

JohnThePhoneGuy

"If I can't fix it, it's not broke!

 

[eyetry]

Why are you waisting company time thinking of ways to decorate cube? I'd be irritated if I was in a cude and someone decorated it.

I'd want to have room for quick reference sheets and have no gree thumb so plants would die (fake ones would collect dust and irritate those with allergies)

 

[Dollie]

It's not wasting time thinking of ways to decorate the cube, it's decorating your home away from home. We're spending more and more hours at work (I believe the nat'l avg is 50 hrs/wk and rising), so we want to be comfortable in our space that is allotted to us. Working in an environment that is so restrictive that you can't have personal items on your desk is almost demeaning to some, and here we've discussed ways to work around that and have compared what we've done to our own cubes.

Plants would die on my desk too, and fake ones would probably die as well.

And the picture of my 11 mo. old nephew is something I just won't compromise.

 

[flapeyre]

Why are you waisting company time thinking of ways to decorate cube? I'd be irritated if I was in a cude and someone decorated it.

I am the only one who decorates my cube. Who decorates yours?

Solum potestis prohibere ignes silvarum.

 

[eyetry]

I suppose if I were back in a cube it would be decorated as it was then. By me, with papers strewn everywhere, a phone, a monitor, a cpu, a keyboard, some writing utensils, an in/out basket, a waiste basket, a chair, some manuals occasionally a beverage and a big head. By then it would be full with no room for anything else.

(-:

PS: please note the at the enf of my message above

 

[LizSara]

I don't have a cube, we have an open plan office (with very small desks). on my first day i brought in my plant and put it on my desk. the lady who sits behind me (before even saying hello) told me i wasn't allowed a plant.

Upshot being tis still on my desk HOORAH!

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[Welshbird]

We're not allowed cuddly toys.

So my cuddly Bagpuss and Kitten and Puppy just hide when anyone important comes along...

Fee

The question should be [red]Is it worth trying to do?[/red] not [blue] Can it be done?[/blue]