Cube House 429
drkanta writes "Hey, I decided to decorate my cube for a holiday decoration contest. Well, I went all out and had a lot of fun and turned my cube into a house. I thought it was very very funny. What bugged me was that some people asked me where I saw this before to get my idea. What? Saw something like this before? My question is: has anyone done something like this before?"
cool (Score:4, Funny)
Re:cool (Score:3, Insightful)
You could reuse the frame to make a haunted house for Halloween ;)
Re:cool (Score:5, Funny)
Re:cool (Score:5, Funny)
A Metrosexual knows never to use that patterned wall paper with a green chimney. And that's not even a Gucci snowman. That most is DEFINITELY gay (or straight depending on how you look at it).
Re:cool (Score:3, Funny)
How astute of you to notice.
Re:cool (Score:2)
Re:cool (Score:4, Informative)
Basically, it's just straight guys acting gay. The clothing is a little louder than preppy, and instead of acting like an asshole, you act all bubbly.
Re:cool (Score:3, Insightful)
No. More like the Tony Manero character from Saturday Night Fever, with the almost-but-not-queer obsession with primping and preening.
Re:cool (Score:4, Funny)
I think this is the coolest thing I have seen in a long time.
Cool????
I for one do not think that this is "cool." This is the sort of rampant individualism(1) that can create havoc in an office. This is the sort of thing that happens when they let people post comics outside of their cubicles. We have taken one more step closer to the abyss. I can only hope that your little project will stand up to the resulting chaos that will result from this sort of willful nihilism (sp?). Now clean up that mess and get a haircut...
(1) With apologies to Author's boss in "The Tick"
Re:cool (Score:5, Funny)
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Re:cool (Score:2)
Case in point.
Re:cool (Score:4, Funny)
Looks like someone's not going to need to use that OSDN dating service to find a date this New Year's.
Re:cool (Score:4, Insightful)
Just because they are scared shitless at the thought that something like this is not macho enough doesn't make it anymore ok to bash gay people. Disclaimer: I'm not gay, but don't like people calling things 'gay' because they don't like it or in order to be considered cool.
Re:cool (Score:5, Funny)
I happen to be gay, and the first thing I thought when I saw it was that I wanted a pic and a phone number...
If it's not gay, it's at least gay-friendly.
Sure (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Sure (Score:2, Insightful)
Seriously (Score:5, Insightful)
I know many places that would have you called in their office for daring have such a "distraction on the floor."
You're fired! (Score:2, Funny)
Re:You're fired! (Score:2, Informative)
Re:You're fired! (Score:4, Funny)
I think your boss... (Score:5, Funny)
Re:I think your boss... (Score:2, Funny)
Re:I think your boss... (Score:5, Funny)
Re:I think your boss... (Score:5, Funny)
Comment removed (Score:3, Interesting)
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And the question is (Score:5, Insightful)
It makes sense. (Score:2, Informative)
Re:And the question is (Score:3, Informative)
Re:And the question is (Score:2, Funny)
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Re:And the question is (Score:5, Funny)
Last year, at Halloween, I swiped a spare floor tile (we have a raised floor in the network control center), ripped the carpet off, and mounted it on a piece of particle board with a hole cut in the middle. I removed one of the regular floor tiles, climbed in, and put my head through the cutout. Someone set a box on my head, and we just waited for the cleaning lady to come around.
I've got a still pic of the setup somewhere, but unfortunately we didn't tape the cleaning staff's reaction. The two poor ladies screamed their heads off when one picked up the box, and ran for the door.
MP Report (Score:4, Funny)
MPs forcibly evacutated building.
Bomb squad noted problems with security and downtime due to location in network control center.
In case box contained explosive device, it was immediately disrupted with small demolition charges. Minor damage to surrounding equipment.
There was one casualty. How he avoided the evacuation and reached the vicinity of the box has not been determined.
Well as a matter of fact (Score:5, Funny)
Cool (Score:5, Funny)
I see there's a pink slip attached to your monitor too! I wonder what THAT'S doing there!
So (Score:3, Funny)
Very cool looking! (Score:2)
Props! You have too much time. (Score:4, Funny)
The tent of DOOM (Score:5, Informative)
You did this at your work?!? (Score:3, Funny)
Re:You did this at your work?!? (Score:2, Funny)
Does she bring in brass poles for stripper day?
Mr. Kanta (Score:2, Funny)
- Your Pointy Haired Boss
Wrong kind of cube... (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Wrong kind of cube... (Score:4, Funny)
"Webserver is now a flaming beige cube."
Heat? (Score:4, Insightful)
Re:Heat? (Score:2)
Especially with the roasting chestnuts on an open fire he's got going in there. I'm not sure that was the best plan in the world.
Re:Heat? (Score:2)
Maybe he should make the chimney functional, and stick a fan in there.
Re:Heat? (Score:2)
Why not paint a bullseye on the cube instead... (Score:2, Insightful)
PayCheck bonus. (Score:5, Funny)
True story (Score:5, Funny)
has anyone done something like this before?
True Story: In 1982 or so I had a job stocking shelves (hey, I was 16) Anyhow, I got pretty stoned at dinner break and had a great idea.. I bought a can of gold spray paint in the store then proceeded to completely spray paint a urinal in the men's room. Then I wrote in felt marker Needless to say when my boss called me in the next day and I was straight I didn't think the idea was too smart.
Re:True story (Score:2)
I realize it's 20 years too late, but you should have said "why would I write my own name if I was the one who did it?".
Re:True story (Score:5, Funny)
Just wait! (Score:2)
I will get myself an office with sauna, bubblebath, harem, minibar and some nice waterfalls. Maybe a nice big gatling cannon to keep people at bay...
Re:Just wait! (Score:2)
Re:Just wait! (Score:2)
Mirrored so this dude doesn't melt his server... (Score:4, Informative)
http://scottkuma.net/CubeHouse/ [scottkuma.net]
Uncreative People! (Score:2, Insightful)
>What bugged me was that some people asked me
Wow, so you must work with some uncreative people, if they think that anything cool has to have been ripped off. I hope they don't have the same attitude to the actual WORK that you do.>where I saw this before to get my idea.
done before in wood (Score:4, Interesting)
he used wood for all the framing and used real wood shingles for the roof!!!
his boss said, ok, but that no one else was allowed to do it.
yep. (Score:4, Funny)
I procured cardboard shipping boxes with the intent of converting my cubicle into an interior office.
There is no good reason the walls do not continue straight up.
Are my eyes deceiving me??? (Score:2, Insightful)
about the roof... (Score:5, Funny)
Re:about the roof... (Score:4, Funny)
Re:about the roof... (Score:3, Funny)
Fire Hazard (Score:3, Interesting)
an older cube house (Score:5, Informative)
That's nothing... (Score:5, Funny)
Re:That's nothing... (Score:2)
Sure it's been done before (Score:2)
In the last office... (Score:2)
But that being said, i say this is the coolest cubicle "alterations" i've seen ever. You did an excellent job on it, and i think it's awesome. Plus, i bet with a cover on it it is quieter and feels more 'private'....
Well done!
Can't wait to see what you do next year.
Re:In the last office... (Score:2)
I feel you deserve some sort of award. Maybe not a
Freaky... (Score:2)
See, thing is, I haven't been in a cube farm for the past two years. I've either been unemployed or working for a small company that has a funky office in a warehouse. I've been out of the cubefarm for so long that I've forgotten how generic and anonymous one can be.
Christ, those places are depressing
Huge images (Score:2)
My cube.... (Score:2)
And it's not the weirdest cube in the office by far. *That* cube has a bunch of even more random stuff including Brittney Spears posters, Phish posters, a mousetrap, and a drum kit.
Nowhere near as extravagant, but yes (Score:2)
Mine was constructed out of 1x2 and black fabric, and earned me quite a few more odd points around the office... though my green hair phase probably added some, too.
Photos here... [mskf.org]
Functional house would be cooler (Score:2)
my Masc-o-meter. . . . (Score:2)
Re:my Masc-o-meter. . . . (Score:2)
Ok, I might be revealing my own ignorance here, but I thought "stick shift" and "manual transmission" were synonyms, both the opposite of "automatic transmission".
What's the difference between stick shift and a manual?
Mirror (Score:2)
cube house indeed (Score:2)
Mirror (Score:3, Informative)
I put up a temporary mirror [otierney.net].
Oh god.... (Score:2)
Get out of corporate hell. Start your own business doing SOMETHING and then you don't have to worry about what to do with your cube over the holidays.
Sheesh...
Don't bitch about wanting an office next year (Score:2)
It looks like... (Score:2)
Fire Code (Score:2)
Hats off to you mate - but I hate cube working (Score:2, Insightful)
Isolated behind cloth covered walls all day is not my idea of a good working environment.
My workplace is not ideal. We are semi-open plan with groups of four but it looks like luxury when compared to the layout of a cube farm.
Well done with the House Mate. However, by the time I got to the stage of making a house out of my cube I would have got out of that place.
And I'll huff and I'll puff... (Score:5, Funny)
Tiki Hut (Score:5, Funny)
Nearly everything for your own Tiki hut can be purchased at Archie McPhee's
Apple Cube (Score:2)
Whoah (Score:2)
Gothe (Score:4, Interesting)
Don't get your knickers in a knot just because someone else once had the same brilliant idea you had. It happens. A lot. It doesn't in any way diminish your own insight, no matter what some dimwitted nebish in the third cube over says.
Or even what you think.
I've always liked Pete Seeger's definition of "sophmoric," the itch to be original. Let it go.
I've never had the "pleasure" of working in a cube farm, but I tend to work in open office like enviroments of one sort or another. I like to dress up my space on a periodic basis. Right now it's a simulated Japanese tatami room, floor seating with the computer on a kotatsu with nonfunctioning wooden hibachi ( actually, it functions as a waste basket). A scroll painting and a rack of swords as a finishing touch. Very comfortable actually, and a damned sight cheaper than an Aeron. It's pretty easy to do in a cube space.
In the past I've done a simulated traditional Mongolian yurt, the rectangular Tibetan equivilent, various native American styles and an English country cottage.
Of course on a workaday basis it helps to have enough authority that no one can give you shit over it.
Next Christmas you might want to try a traditional middle eastern house or nomadic tent for the true Christmas spirit.
KFG
Biohazard tent (Score:4, Funny)
The downside was when someone let one rip, well it lingered.
visa (Score:5, Funny)
Total cost of the project after I return "unneeded items": $14
Total time to build, including sawing, etc: 5.5 hours."
Not a house, but rather... (Score:3, Interesting)
By the way, good job on the cube-house!
office celebrations (Score:5, Interesting)
The best ones so far where.
We took a bunch of cubicles and covered them with taped together black trash bags. This created a very cool cave. We put plants and a fog machine in as well.
Our boss is from Alabama, so for his birthday we decorated the whole office like some kind of back woods farm. We took his desk out and replaced it with a piece of plywood, and put a bail of straw in his office. We all dressed up in overalls and even staged a wedding ( the groom was at gun point and the bride about 8 months along ).
The next year we staged a murder mystery with our unexpecting boss at the middle of it. His brother was murdered and he had to figure out who it was. We staged it like a 30's private eye office.
For my birthday the guys decorated my office like a rave. Including a bunch of techno and monitors with cheesy colorful screen savers. Again the smoke machine was brought in, and they all laughed as I got lung cancer and couldn't even see my screen.
We've made people where bunny suits like at an amunsment park, had a toga party theme, made people work in a tent all day, and a whole lot of other things.
We've been slacking as of late with less revenues and more stress, but this stuff can really really boost morale in your office. We are a small company with very few rules, so we can get away with this stuff, if you can go for it.
Thats nothing - turned mine into a dump (Score:3, Funny)
Re:For when it gets /.ed: (Score:2)
Re:That was completely unnecessary and retarded. (Score:2)
Re:I haven't (Score:2, Funny)
Right... if by I have to work you mean surfing slashdot and by staying after work you mean getting all the work you avoided finished at home?