To all the officeworkers..."Respect My Cube"

[Kycha]

IT'S MY CUBE!


Don't just bust up in here unannounced.
Knock on the wall.
Don't stick your head around the corner to see if I'm busy.
Announce your presence.
Don't just jump in because you don't see a door!)

IT'S MY CUBE!
Don't walk past and ask me who are all the pretty people in my pictures that
decorate my desk.
First of all, I don't have any ugly relatives.
Second of all, I don't have any ugly friends.
Third of all, what are you doing lolly
gagging around my cube long enough to look at all the pictures that I have anyway? Don't slow your roll at my cube, speed it up!!

IT'S MY CUBE!
Don't ask me where I got my plants from, my mirror from or my motivational
prints from. That means you've been standing there too long, you better keep
on walking. In fact, why don't you walk your butt to the nearest
Home Depot or Target? You wanna see decorations?
Go to the store nearest you!

IT'S MY CUBE!
If you see me on the phone, don't come in. Don't sit in my vacant chair until I'm done talking on the phone. What makes you think I want you to know all my PERSONAL business? I haven't summoned you. I haven't invited you to
take a seat. I haven't asked you to laugh along with me at the jokes I tell
my friends on the other line.
We don't need to correspond in person. That's what an in-box was created for.
You wanna talk to me? Send me an email. You
got work for me to see? Drop it off in the in-box OUTSIDE of my cube.
It ain't hanging there for decoration!

IT'S MY CUBE!
Don't listen for noises from my cube that announce whether I'm Arriving or leaving. I hate that!

When I get here in the morning, I get here. I don't
need you to say good morning loud enough so that the whole department can
hear. Why do they need to know that I got here at 8:05, not 8:00? And when I
get ready to leave, I'm gone. If you hear me taking my bag out of the drawer
or zipping up my bag, I don't need you to say goodbye loud enough so that
the whole department can hear you announce my departure at 4:45 and not
5:00. I hate that!

IT'S MY CUBE!
Don't think because I have staples, pens and notepads, that Means you can
borrow some, I said no the first time. If I say I don't have any, don't
walk by to check and see if I'm lying, even though I am. I just don't want
you to have it. Do like I did, walk your butt down the hall to the big
supply room and get you some stuff. What do I look like, Office Depot?


Repeat after me: RESPECT MY CUBE!

And have a nice day...........

 

[mtblujeans]

 

[NMAmy]

Wow. Rough week?

I have a desk in an open office--not even a cube. The walls only come up about halfway facing out into the office. I always laugh when the lady who works next to me will knock on my desk when she needs something. She makes me feel like Les Nessman from WKRP in Cincinnati.

Hope things get better!

 

[ckret01]

That is too funny! I used to work at an office where half the things if not all the things you said happened to me daily. The one thing that used to annoy me more than anything was that my boss who was extremely nosey and gossipy used to sit inside my cube wile I was on the phone b/c he was bored and had nothing to do. He loved to listen to your phone calls. If I was talking business he would leave b/c it ddn't interest him....but if I was talking personal he would just sit there until I was off then walk away after I hung up b/c I was off the phone. It wasn't that I was in trouble for talking personal or anything b/c my entire dept did and my boss was even worse then anyone else. He was just nosey and I used to hate it.

Or he would quietly come sit in my cube while I was working and I would turn around and say "do you need me" b/c he wouldn't say anything when he entered my cube and his response was " no" ... I was like then why are you just sitting there not saying a word???????It used to frustrate me

 

[Duckfan-in-Chicago]

Also, I don't like no one touching my stuff. So just keep your meathooks off. If I catch any of you guys in my stuff, I'll kill you.

 

[Davids-Coco]

Ah yes, I understand. I work 32 hours a week in a cube. On my day off, people have been known to come in and take things. Then, when I am looking for the work I left laid out for the next work day, it isn't there. Its a pain! I've also had people come in and rearrange my stuff. Why?

 

[Kycha]

Wow. Rough week?

I have a desk in an open office--not even a cube. The walls only come up about halfway facing out into the office. I always laugh when the lady who works next to me will knock on my desk when she needs something. She makes me feel like Les Nessman from WKRP in Cincinnati.

Hope things get better!

No, not a rough week. I was just sharing an e-mail a friend sent to me. I thought there had to be a few unfortunate souls out there that could relate. In fact I have an office instead of a cube, but some of this stuff relates. I work with a few "Les Nessmans".

Okay, now back to work.

 

[azgal81]

Hahahahah I have an office not a cube but some of this stuff does apply to me as well.