Friday, July 27, 2007

...how to feel isolated in an office.

  • Place the entrance of the office very far away. You will need to walk pass many offices and go down to the lowest floor (not up, as most buildings are).
  • Be known not by your name but by your staff ID number.
  • Have high cubicles. When you stand up, you still can't see the person in the next cubicle.
  • Ensure that all cubicles are exactly the same, in terms of size, colour and layout.
  • Arrange the cubicles in such a way that they resemble a maze. This can be turned into a game of finding your way out of a maze when you get bored.
  • Take up the whole office floor with only 25% occupancy rate.
  • Accidentally walk into one of the cubicles. 90% of the time, it's an empty one.
  • Walk into your cubicle only to realise it's not yours. You either overshot or still one cubicle away.
  • Your cubicle has an address.
  • Make sure that the only sounds you can hear are the tapping of your keyboard, footsteps from beyond your cubicle, the whirring of the printer as it prints, and your stomach rumbling.
  • Your desk phone doesn't ring.
  • When your mobile phone rings or beeps, it sounded so loud coz the office is as quiet as in a library.
  • Be one of the odd ones because you wore office attire rather than casual smart.
  • Be the new person in the block.

Good points: Privacy, ability to concentrate without much disturbances, good exercise, systematic, able to make excuses that you are new.

Well, you will get use to it and in the process, like it. I guess. I hope. Oh, dear.

4 comments:

Ebbs said...

sounds so dilbert. ;)

put a flag at the corner of your cubicle, that way, you will always find your way 'home'. hahaha.

kwazy berry said...

i do like to read dilbert a lot :D

ev said...

lol...i like the flag suggestion. in fact, get a wilayah flag and stick it at your cubicle :D

Anonymous said...

haha...I also feel that! XD - n welcome to d community of d silence. (yawn)