Cubical Farms: comfy or soul sucking?

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

>>724494838
as long as monitor is facing away from the cubical opening

>>724494701
as a mechanic thats literally the scariest thing I can imagine

>>724494701
Soul sucking.

why does that one cube have no entrance or exit?

>>724494701
Trucker /b/ro here, you can keep those fucking things. Also see
>>724495624
And
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>>724495288
Does something actually happen in this gif or am i just trolling myself watching it?

>>724496041
people are working

>>724494701
It would be soul sucking for me, just looking at that shit makes me feel anxious and depressed.

>>724494701
Comfy for normalfags.

Soul sucking if you're a person with substance.

>>724496159
But is there any movement in it at any point?

>>724496484
there could be

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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.

>>724494701
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lweuy1X9Tcg

>>724496597
You're trying to get me to stare at it forever aren't you?

>>724496853
i felt like you might

>>724497037
I haven't been looking for a while though, I've been checking out other threads.

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>>724494701
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.

>>724497232
>don't sit at home doing jack shit when you get off work.

w-what am i supposed to do?

>>724497671
Get a social hobby or hang out with friends.

>>724497814
is starting a podcast acceptable?

>>724498011
no

>>724498011
Do you have social anxiety?

>>724498136
yes

>>724498187
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.

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>>724497814
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

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>>724498878
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.

>>724494701
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

>>724495624
Sparky joining in here.

Fuck office work

>>724494701
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.

>>724498779
CBT is a meme. not everyone wants to be a social butterfly

>>724494701
Ausfag here. Daily reminder that office "work" isn't work.

>>724499746
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.

>>724498136
having a hobby doesnt mean you have to interact with people.

even snowboarders dont have friends on powder days

>>724499915
>psych myself up for 8 hours before going grocery shopping

yeah i'm not at that level.

>>724500023
Which was why I said social hobby.
Something like playing board games or something.

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i'd prefer this

>>724500210
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.

>>>/r9k/

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)

>>724500288

open offices were ok before the computer era

>>724500556
i'd prefer no computers

>>724500432
You sound like the type of person that would make a soul sucking job positively hellish.

>>724500432
>I work in a farm of 1200 cubicles

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

>>724500288
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.

>>724500684
Big city local govt, engineering, law, administrative, operations. I'll get some pics tomorrow. City has over 13,000 employees

>>724500716
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

>>724501583
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

>>724494701
>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.

>>724502159
>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

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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.

>>724502159
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.

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>>724502481
Working graveyard atm so its dark.

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>>724502574
My department is something else. We work as 2 to 3 ppl per shift aswell.

>>724494701
For most of you neckbeard, hairy ass size 48 pants wearing Texas muthers this is "COMFY" town.

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>>724502574
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?

>>724495810
>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.

>>724502882
that's pretty funny.

trucking sounds middling but comfy

>>724503043
Yeeeeaaaah... no.

>>724501785
Yes, approaching 1.2m, it has water and sewer which are typically ran by a sanitation district so it's swollen.

>>724494701
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.

>>724503517
i have an office and my boss already does that on a regular basis.

>>724503801
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.

>>724502574
Looks all right, if rather gravitationally inverted.

>>724494701
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.

>>724504043
>not recognizing pictures from Australia.
For shame anon.

>>724502471
>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

>>724504247
>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

>>724504571
i guess we had different experienced. i worked on the grounds crew at a small liberal arts college.

>>724504615
>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.

>>724505053
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.

>>724505053
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.

>>724500306
Glad to hear that Anon. Keep progressin

>>724501703
Go on...

>>724505366
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?

>>724505579
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.

>>724505411
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.

>>724494701
you've got major issues if you think they're anything but depressing, soul destroying pits of despair where dreams go to die.

>>724495516
which they never do

>>724506000
Yeah I'm the nervous breakdown anon, 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.

>>724499159
why the fuck would you want privacy? You seem to think you're going to be doing anything but extremely boring office bullshit.

>>724505902
if you got married and had kids while in the military, that shit is on your own dumb ass

>>724499258
fuck work in general TBH.

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>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

>>724506244
Easy for you to say. I couldn't imagine trying to date at 38-42 and not having kids yet.

>>724506017
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

>>724506188
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.

>>724506613
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

>>724506581
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.

>>724496041
A gif does not necessarily mean that it is an animated image. A gif is also the lowest quality image you can save, thereby saving space.

>>724506827
That's really what you gotta do, after all.

Although, if I could start over I very well may just find a way to make a lot of money and do that and retire early. As great as the military retirement is I'd like to think I could have become a millionaire by 35 or sooner on my own. But meh, you don't know these things until it's too late I guess.

Enjoy your times in the woods, I'm not into nature and shit but it does sound pretty pleasant to do that for a living.

>>724506347
Why are companies doing this? Don't they see it's just a big pile of shit?

>>724506855
Hence why I was asking, sometimes they just take ages for something to happen though.
>>724506999
Nice trips.
I've heard that if you get into the stock market and do it right, you can basically just hang around at home and earn money. Just don't be one of those investment leechers, do investments that actually help people to do stuff.
I hope I will enjoy it, I'm going to do an internship soon to see how it suits me.

>>724494701
career masterbation central!!!

I've been in office jobs since 2001. I don't mind it. Every 2 hours I take a walk across a few floors and find a nice clean bathroom and sit there and nap.
My peers are all sales reps so our portion of the floor is usually loud and engaging. Everyone is having a good time and we make a good amount of money.

I've worked in shit cubicle farms before and the work is depressing and soul sucking.

Find a cubicle job that challenges your mind. It's not bad and the women are fucking gorgeous.

>>724507411
Fuck I didn't notice. I did get quad 9's tho just last week which had never happened to me before.

I've bought several books on investing and am considering getting my master's in economics...I honestly can't decide if it's like astrophysics and all way over my head or something I could get good at with enough practice. Probably safer to stay in the military and milk that sweet retirement one day. Enjoy your internship tho!

>>724507145
no they see it as the future

>>724507726
Isn't there some economics programs you can take within the military?
They do a bunch of education stuff right?

>>724507885
They do a lot of tuition assistance where you only have to pay for your books. I'm actually just beginning to look into it after resisting it for several years (I got burnt out on school early on, chasing good grades and what not). I don't know about economic stuff exactly.

>>724505053
i'm a civilian and i only get to browse the internet for work related purposes...not because we have firewalls or monitoring, but because i simply don't have time otherwise as all the difficult shit always falls to the dev team.

>sales needs a new feature...let the devs make it
>support gets a difficult call...let the devs do all the problem solving and be the client's IT guy for free
>marketing needs a list of product changes...the devs make those changes so they should also document them all for customers, support, and the management team
>managers need a product roadmap...they'll tell the devs how long they have to make it and rhetorically ask if it will be on schedule
>everyone else needs someone to shoot the breeze with...so they'll come down to the dev area since most people are at their desks

oh, did i mention i'm a software developer? at least my cubicle is reasonably quiet.

>>724508353
Go ask whoever takes care of it anon, using the military to further your money earning capabilities while you are in there is a good idea. If you just leave and go for it on your own, you've lost an opportunity for an almost free education.

>>724494701
It's comfy to have job security.
Never take it for granted.

>>724508543
Thanks bud. My dad says the same thing, no one has ever offered to pay a cent of his education so he tells me all the time to use it.

I'm honestly not opposed to doing it anymore, I just need direction. I have no idea what to get my master's in. Economics, real estate, history, English, theology, MBA....the list goes on and on. But thank you for the encouragement, it's a great deal and I'd be dumb not to take advantage of it.

>>724507850
They get sold on the idea by interior designers / architects who tell them they can cram in 25% more people and increase productivity by passive surveillance. They literally get your co workers to creep on you to keep you from slacking.

Every office has a couple of butt licking spies for the boss.

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>>724509561
>MBA

>>724506347
what language do you program in?
I've been thinking about picking up computer programming as a fallback to my current job
tips?

>>724509825
Lmao, thanks friend. Those top 3 line up with the best MBA programs I researched earlier. I'm sure Harvard will accept me no questions asked right?

>>724510039
depends on gmat

>>724509561
No problem anon, I know that a little encouragement can get you a long way, so I try to do it when I can.
Take whatever advantages you can anon, as you say it would be silly not to.

>>724510039
As long as you include the link to your SoundCloud with your application

>>724494701
Always wanted to fuck someone in a cubicle

>>724510130
guess I better start studying...

>>724510232
well thanks, I'll have to look into it and get my ass in gear one of these days. Good luck to you as well.

4chan has been unusually civil this evening