Non Sequitur by Wiley Miller for December 28, 2010

A cubical with no way out - that’ll kill productivity aiight!

Those interior offices can be gruesome.

I think he’s found where that smell has been coming from for a while, too.

Those interior cubes look claustrophobic.

For some people, work can kill.

That cartoon needs to be hung in all cubicle offices…good one!

Is that a one light bulb fixture hanging up there?

overlooked can be good - but only to a point

A true skeleton crew, no bones about it.

and bathroom breaks would sure be a bear,

Looks like there’s a few of them.

It has come to the attention of the management that people dieing on the job are failing to fall down.. Since we are unable tell the dead from the normal motion of the staff, this practice willo cease immediately.

Just do a little “prairie dogging” to check those middle men.

The spiders seem to be meeting their production schedule.

Are they still being paid? If so, they can be downsized and everyone wins.

Ungrateful wretches! Management trains them to work without food, water, restroom breaks or sleep, and this is how they repay the company!

I sense a new reality show: Survivor: Office. Only you NEVER get voted off the island.

Are they still working to meet the deadline?

This reminds me of the sandwich I was just reading about in Dilbert

It is the graveyard shift.

@comicgos: My thought was exactly the opposite: Does a door to a cubicle create productivity?!

Well, we were taught by our company to think out of the box…

i love how the rest of them are seated in the typical Cubical Shoulder Hunch position.

I had an interior office once - one door; no windows. I hung a picture of an open window… Didn’t help. I quit!

This brings to mind that oldie but goodie: Nobody knows what I do until I don’t do it.

But… somebody in Facilities Management got a nice promotion (and an office with a window) by making more efficient use of the space…

I lol’d! Slowly boxed in…

We went from offices with doors and windows to “open space” and cubicles. Productivity (office- we mostly did “field work”) went down 90% in general and I turned in my retirement papers. The center row may just be the lucky ones.

Talk about a dead-end job!

I used to have my garden and waterfall as wallpaper when I had no window.

I once saw this about to happen in real life. A drafting error and an outside assembly crew combined to create a corridor between cubicles about 2 feet wide. The oblivious local manager saw the large open space on the other side and promptly added a conference table and plants for a really spiffy area.

Each side thought that it was the other’s responsibility to report it to upper management. When the personnel were told to move into their cubicles, a brighter bulb bypassed management by anonymously asking the city fire marshall’s office for a safety inspection.

Red faces and lots of excusing by all concerned.

Apparently someone forgot to install the gerbil feeders to keep the centre row alive…

The employer should charge them rent for all the days they were there and failed to go home. Take it out of their pensions!

sayhowURfeelingB4URgone said, about 13 work-hours ago

Work Until You Die - they would’nt have it any other way….

As vowed religious, we expect that–just the nature of the assigned jobs will change to what we can handle.

“The hours may be long, the pay may be low–but retirement is out of this world!”

No–I’m just saying that we monks, and other vowed religious, don’t really retire. We care for each other, and we work as we can, contributing what we can, until we die. For the elderly or sick, the work is easier, and with more leisure time, but an 80-year-old in good health will still distribute mail, or do phone duty, or walk the dog–whatever is possible. Our continuing contribution to the community. Retirement is heaven–we hope.

We are the true communists: we each contribute accordint to our means, and receive according to our needs. Only we are religious communists, on a small scale–so it works.

Oh, and we do have a retirement plan. And are something like 60% funded, not perfect–but better than many, either in religious life or in the secular world. And working on it while we can.

Corporations don’t care… If you’re here or you’re there.. As long as the numbers compute… And there’s a geezer inna suit… Alive or dead you’re required… To do the work of the hired… To make the numbers prove out… That the CEO is a genius without doubt… And in the end all is well… With half your staff working in hell…