Have a little fun in the cubicle jungle!
This summer, many students engage in the 'office culture.' Often satirized as the 'cubical jungle,' office life can either be a chance for young adults to be mature and prove themselves amongst today's workforce, or students can simply be suffocated.
What I am providing here is a short guide to those who are suffocating in the cubical jungle, and want to find a way to make life amongst the fluorescent light a little more fun.
- The Periscope
Have you ever wondered what lies on the other side of your cubicle wall? The Periscope will help you find out. It is sleek and stealthy, and can freshen up any of those dusty, dreary afternoons.
The most common Perescopes are fashioned out of empty (and clean) milk cartons, with a hole cut out on one side at the top, and a hole at the bottom, on the other side. Then, inside the carton, place a mirror in the corner of the bottom and top inside the carton, so that the mirrors reflect what is seen out the top through the hole in the bottom. Now you can spy on your co-workers without leaving your box!
- Paper Planes
Also very sleek, and very silent, is the paper plane. There are so many types that can be folded and built, that I won't go into detailed instructions here.
However, I do offer a word of caution. Most people in cubicles are usually working on their computers, and are not paying attention to anything else. This means they are less likely to observe a plane flying over their wall and stabbing them in the eye.
So if you can, look into the 'flat nose' flyers that do more circle swooping, and less eye stabbing.
- Chair Races
If you are working in one of those really swanky office buildings, then they might even provide you with a chair that rolls. If this is so, then a whole plethora of possibilities are open to you.
Push your co-worker down one of the narrow corridors between cubicles, or even get a whole bunch of people together and play a game of tag - on rolling chairs!
- Sneaking into Offices
If someone in the office gets engaged, or married, or has a child, then it becomes a rule that the other employees must sneak into said person's office to fill it with balloons and cover everything in tin foil, streamers, etc.
The end result must be a surprise to the person who works in that office and must also keep that person from actually getting real work accomplished until they clean up the mess everyone else created.
A job is an important thing in some people's lives, and I'm not advocating that anyone not take their job seriously. I do believe, however, that life is more than whatever job you may have at a certain time, so while I do recommend that you take your job seriously, I also recommend that everything be done with a little bit of joy and fun.
Luckily Tyrone has never been stabbed in the eye, and scored a window in his office. Copyright 2002 iamnext.com May not be used without permission.
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