Cubicle Living/Working

On that note don't reheat broccoli, that's nasty not matter what.

You've moved up?  Did you drop the star wars action figures?

I'm struggling to understand why a discussion is necessary.  No heaters or hot plates so they don't burn the place down - WTF else do you need?

Sounds like the whole notion has turned into a lord of the flies debacle.  Who's steering the ship there?  Honestly.

The company has been in offices since its inception.  And we're in the South, where folks -- especially the women, are genteel and not in-your-face about things.

There are two people who nuke their lunches in the microwave right outside my office.  The next office to mine is VP-Regulatory; other side of him is the CEO.  No complaints have ever been lodged with or against the two smelly-food-nukers.  Not because it doens't bother us (daily), but because we have more important things to do and no one wants to be the Executive slamming on the Little Person over something so petty.  But it DOES stink.  A lot.

Lots of people have habits and behaviors that they don't think twice about now, but that will cause friction when everyone is tightly packed in cubes.  Plus, we walk customers/prospects/partners through our facility, so Hillary Clinton voodoo dolls (I *feces* you not), pictures of two AK-47s crossed under a Confederate flag (I *feces* you not) and the like might not be welcomed.

No talking to OB/GYNs on the phone about menopause and the associated vaginal dryness - and what it will mean to your love life.

That was one of the most disturbing cubicle conversations I ever had to listen to.

What he fails to mention is that I had to speak loudly to compensate for what sounded like him working a speed bag in his cubicle while I was discussing such intimate matters.

I don't like your chances of pulling this off smoothly.

If people are already pissed off for losing an office and getting put into a cube (as well as being reminded of their value to the company), how do you pull off a list like this without making it seem like they're being treated like children?*





* Yikes, I put, like, three "likes" in that sentence.

You misunderestimate me.  I'm in the penumbra of senior management: high enough up to get hierarchical respect, but not so high as to be blamed for any decisions handed down.  As a member of the Legal "team" (total membership: two; total membership on-site: one), I'm not viewed as wearing the jersey of any one functional group that any other group might be at war with.  I'm like Switzerland, but with slightly less personality.  Finally, and at the risk of immodesty, I discovered I was nominated to this post because it was believed that I would not hesitate to tender a policy that best benefited the collective rather than one which better served my own self-interests.

Anyway, it was a team effort, said team consisting of the very employees who will live under the guidelines.  So they can bite my ass, provided it be done without within the restrictions pertaining to sight, sound, and smell and with due regard for privacy.