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Cube House 429

Posted by michael from the red-stapler dept.
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?"
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  • cool (Score:4, Funny)

    by Valegor ( 693552 ) * on Tuesday December 23, 2003 @03:32PM (#7796742)
    I think this is the coolest thing I have seen in a long time. You are now my hero. Course most of the guys I work with say it is gay.

    • Re:cool (Score:3, Insightful)

      by axis-techno-geek ( 70545 )
      props!

      You could reuse the frame to make a haunted house for Halloween ;)

    • Re:cool (Score:5, Funny)

      by dillon_rinker ( 17944 ) on Tuesday December 23, 2003 @03:38PM (#7796819) Homepage
      It's not gay - it's metrosexual!

    • Re:cool (Score:4, Funny)

      by capt.Hij ( 318203 ) on Tuesday December 23, 2003 @03:42PM (#7796879) Homepage Journal

      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)

        by walt-sjc ( 145127 ) on Tuesday December 23, 2003 @04:31PM (#7797399)
        Not only that, the ornaments hanging off the eve's are a clear OSHA violation. I sure the paper used is a fire hazzard. Did you get a building permit? I thought not. Oh, your woes have only just begun!

      • Re:cool (Score:3, Funny)

        by skintigh2 ( 456496 )
        The sad thing is, you just described the exact policy where I work. Not even NAME TAGS are allowed outside the cube -- they must be on the inside edge. People used to decorate their cubes or put roofs on them or drape them in camo (Texas, nuf said) but no more.
    • (From one of the picture captions) "Oh, and the ladies tell me that I have such wanderfull color coordination."

      Case in point.

    • Re:cool (Score:4, Funny)

      by Powercntrl ( 458442 ) on Tuesday December 23, 2003 @04:31PM (#7797385) Homepage
      Gay? I think not. Chicks HAVE to dig it, it's a LOVE SHACK, baby!

      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)

      by IdleTime ( 561841 ) on Tuesday December 23, 2003 @04:50PM (#7797633) Journal
      And why is it gay?

      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.

  • Sure (Score:5, Funny)

    by shystershep ( 643874 ) * <bdshepherd@gmai[ ]om ['l.c' in gap]> on Tuesday December 23, 2003 @03:32PM (#7796743) Homepage Journal
    I've done it, lots of times. I make them out of tinfoil. It's stops the cosmic rays, you know.

    • Re:Sure (Score:2, Insightful)

      by u8nogard ( 546370 )
      Wish that I would get away with trying to build something like that. But instead of Santa visiting, the local fire department would be visiting instead.

    • Seriously (Score:5, Insightful)

      by Overly Critical Guy ( 663429 ) on Tuesday December 23, 2003 @04:53PM (#7797663)
      Seriously, though, it's cool that his company lets him do things like that. Sounds like reasonable, human employers, which of course means a reasonable, fun place to work, which means better productivity.

      I know many places that would have you called in their office for daring have such a "distraction on the floor."
  • Where are the TSP reports I asked for two days ago?

  • I think your boss... (Score:5, Funny)

    by Cordath ( 581672 ) on Tuesday December 23, 2003 @03:33PM (#7796753)
    ...is currently taking a long hard look at just how much he's paying you.

  • Yes. (Score:3, Interesting)

    by Shinobi ( 19308 ) on Tuesday December 23, 2003 @03:33PM (#7796755)
    Some of Pixars' work areas have more imaginative cube mods, decorations etc than this

  • And the question is (Score:5, Insightful)

    by Cyberglich ( 525256 ) * on Tuesday December 23, 2003 @03:33PM (#7796763)
    Where do you work that you can get away with doing this.

    • It makes sense. (Score:2, Informative)

      by Mobster75 ( 234793 )
      He works for a college in their CS department. Of course he won't get in trouble for it. Probably also hangs out "after hours" and tries to hang with all the residents and be cool. :)
    • Well in the IT Business system Christmas is usually a slow time for business. So on these slow days the people are still working. You might as well have some fun to boost morality at work.
    • Lots of places, so long as its a salary based job and you meet all your deadlines it often doesn't matter if you take a few moments off to do something interesting. My boss would be happy that I was finding a way to prevent my burn out since that seems to be one of the big things where I work now days.

    • Re:And the question is (Score:5, Funny)

      by Rorschach1 ( 174480 ) on Tuesday December 23, 2003 @04:53PM (#7797659) Homepage
      Hey, I work on a military base and I've got away with more.

      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)

        by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday December 23, 2003 @05:51PM (#7798369)
        Box noted in highly unusual place by cleaning staff.

        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)

    by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday December 23, 2003 @03:33PM (#7796766)
    Yes I have seen this before, but then the walls were padded....

  • Cool (Score:5, Funny)

    by Talrias ( 705583 ) <chris.starglade@org> on Tuesday December 23, 2003 @03:34PM (#7796772) Homepage

    I see there's a pink slip attached to your monitor too! I wonder what THAT'S doing there!

  • So (Score:3, Funny)

    by Shut the fuck up! ( 572058 ) on Tuesday December 23, 2003 @03:34PM (#7796776)
    Did you win the contest?
  • Glad to see someone attempting to liven up the usual dull conformo look of the "cube". I assume since you're in a cubicle yourself you're not a manager or such, so my question is, how did you get your bosses to allow that? And what will be your next project, perhaps a little cubicle bunker where you can rain weapons of nerf destruction down on your fellow co-workers?

  • Props! You have too much time. (Score:4, Funny)

    by Nijika ( 525558 ) on Tuesday December 23, 2003 @03:34PM (#7796778) Homepage Journal
    See subject; :) Other than that, I think JWZ [jwz.org] made himself a cubicle tent once. Netscape made him take it down as I recall. I'd love to see more examples of clear fire hazards, so if anyone has any more keep posting.

  • You did this at your work?!? (Score:3, Funny)

    by xotx69 ( 571221 ) on Tuesday December 23, 2003 @03:35PM (#7796789)
    Just what *do* you do at work if you have that much free time!? lol This reminds of that "While You Were Out" show...they should do it for cubicles.

  • Mr. Kanta (Score:2, Funny)

    by thepuma ( 721283 ) *
    Can I see you in my office, please? I think we have a few things to discuss....

    - Your Pointy Haired Boss

  • Wrong kind of cube... (Score:5, Funny)

    by Blimey85 ( 609949 ) on Tuesday December 23, 2003 @03:36PM (#7796792)
    I read this thinking he decorated his Mac Cube... and thought that was pretty cool. Maybe put some christmas lights inside or something... but this is just his work cube... not as cool.. IMO.

  • Heat? (Score:4, Insightful)

    by jerkychew ( 80913 ) on Tuesday December 23, 2003 @03:36PM (#7796796) Homepage
    Wouldn't it get pretty warm in there?
    • Wouldn't it get pretty warm in there?

      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.

      • (Yes, I realize I'm replying to my own post. My brain works in mysterious ways.)

        Maybe he should make the chimney functional, and stick a fan in there. :-)
    • Heat? Forget the heat. I'm wondering who he can blame the farts on now.
  • I thought things got out of hand at *my* office during the holiday season. On a more serious note- clearly the individual who made the house/cubes company is not in downsizing mode. Still Looks like a big "Lay *me* off please" sign to me...

  • PayCheck bonus. (Score:5, Funny)

    by Nautica ( 681171 ) on Tuesday December 23, 2003 @03:38PM (#7796817)
    5.5 Hour of Pay to decorate your CUBE. cool I still have you beat, getting paid 8 hours a day to surfing slashdot.org

  • True story (Score:5, Funny)

    by grub ( 11606 ) <slashdot@grub.net> on Tuesday December 23, 2003 @03:38PM (#7796818) Homepage Journal

    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
    "The Gold Urinal"
    "A [my surname] Concept"
    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.

  • 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...

  • Mirrored so this dude doesn't melt his server... (Score:4, Informative)

    by Geraden ( 15689 ) * on Tuesday December 23, 2003 @03:38PM (#7796823) Homepage
    My server could use a good slashdotting... ;)

    http://scottkuma.net/CubeHouse/ [scottkuma.net]

  • >What bugged me was that some people asked me
    >where I saw this before to get my idea.

    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.

  • done before in wood (Score:4, Interesting)

    by lnzdingo ( 26117 ) on Tuesday December 23, 2003 @03:39PM (#7796826) Homepage
    there was a whole interview on some evening magazine type tv show in the SF bay area a few years back, where some guy did that PERMANENTLY to his cube.
    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)

    by emptybody ( 12341 ) on Tuesday December 23, 2003 @03:39PM (#7796828) Homepage Journal
    I have not looked at the article yet.
    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.

  • Is it just me or all the offices look alike. Man my office has exactly the same layout, floor, cube and ceiling. And then again you get to spend 5.5 hours doing things other than "work". Hope you are using "cover page" on all your reports :-)

  • about the roof... (Score:5, Funny)

    by thoolihan ( 611712 ) on Tuesday December 23, 2003 @03:39PM (#7796832) Homepage
    as if cubes don't trap the smell of a fart already enough...

  • Fire Hazard (Score:3, Interesting)

    by BullSnot ( 677535 ) on Tuesday December 23, 2003 @03:39PM (#7796833)
    Your PVC roof is a fire hazard as it prevents sprinklers from putting out fires in your cube.

    ...or at least that's what the security at my last job would tell me when i tried to do simular stuff. Truth be told, any fire in your cube would open a gapping hole in that roof and the spriklers would work just fine. But, fire codes don't always make sense.

  • an older cube house (Score:5, Informative)

    by convolvatron ( 176505 ) on Tuesday December 23, 2003 @03:40PM (#7796844)
    greg minshalls cube house at ipsilon around 98 or 99 [benjaminbenson.com]

  • That's nothing... (Score:5, Funny)

    by AccUser ( 191555 ) <mhg.taose@co@uk> on Tuesday December 23, 2003 @03:41PM (#7796872) Homepage
    Since I started to work at home, I have turned my house into a cube. Much to my wife's consternation, I might add...
  • There was the "Tent of Doom" [jwz.org] at Netscape for example, which was waaay cool.
  • ...that i worked at with cubicles, i would have gotten fired for this probably.

    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. :o)
  • Ya know, the first thing I thought when I saw those pictures was, "Looks awfully familiar..." I thought that could have been in the office of my last job. But then I realized, "Oh, it's just a cube farm."

    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
  • Linking a page full of rather large images to slashdot?? That's a suicide plan, although the server is taking it well so far! You're crazy, man!
  • My cube at work has 2 pieces of my art in it, some random weird webcomics, the sign "It is illegal to be normal and work here", and a random toy I got when I was younger. People pause when they see odd colored light coming out of my cube.

    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.
  • I made a cubicle roof solely to shut out the fluorescent lights overhead, which the accountant (apparently) desperately needed.

    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]
  • I was hoping this would be someone's cube with in-cube plumbing for a bathroom, shower, and drinking water. Then just add relatively normal extra stuff like a small microwave and fridge and maybe an inflatable or roll-up bed and you never have to leave.
  • says that this barely registers at all. In fact, this is the lowest Masculinity site I've ever measured, that wasn't pink. I'd have my testes checked, if I were you. Sounds like a hormone deficiency or something like that. Better go buy a red sports car. (With a stick shift! NOT a manual!) That'll perk you right up!
    • With a stick shift! NOT a manual!

      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 here [pc9.org]
  • wow, and I clicked on the link assuming that you had decorated a Mac cube, maybe like a gingerbread houes or something. Boy am I happy I don't worrk in a cube farm.... :)

  • Mirror (Score:3, Informative)

    by OmniVector ( 569062 ) <see my homepage> on Tuesday December 23, 2003 @03:54PM (#7797012) Homepage
    Server is starting to get slashdotted.

    I put up a temporary mirror [otierney.net].
  • For a second there, I had forgotten what my OLD cubefarm looked like.

    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...
  • ...cuz I expect you'll be referred to pics of said cube.
  • ...it was attacked by the cast of Queer Eye for the Straight Guy.
  • We wanted to do something like this.. but the fire code people were not too fond of putting any significant horizontal surfaces between the sprinklers on the ceiling and the floor.

  • I personally cannot see how this style of working is good for anyone.

    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 and I'll ./ your house down!

  • Tiki Hut (Score:5, Funny)

    by Foofoobar ( 318279 ) on Tuesday December 23, 2003 @04:05PM (#7797126)
    Actually yes, while I was at one job I turned my cube into a tiki hut complete with thatch roof. My boss was pissed and was going to scream at me until the VP of the company came by and congratulated me on such a great morale builder and said that others should be so industrious.

    Nearly everything for your own Tiki hut can be purchased at Archie McPhee's :)
  • Did anyone else read this and think about the Macintosh G4 Cube?
  • Wally got a story posted on Slashdot! Bet he gets a visit from Alice soon.

  • Gothe (Score:4, Interesting)

    by kfg ( 145172 ) on Tuesday December 23, 2003 @04:18PM (#7797252)
    "Everything's been thought of before. The trick is to think of it again."

    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)

    by Lordrashmi ( 167121 ) on Tuesday December 23, 2003 @04:20PM (#7797282)
    At one start up I worked at, we had a cubicle decorating contest for who got the close parking spots in the middle of January. My cubicle group (4 cubicles with doorways facing inwards) use white plastic to create a biohazard tent. It actually was nice because it blocked light from outside and helped us regulate the temperature.

    The downside was when someone let one rip, well it lingered.

  • visa (Score:5, Funny)

    by sethx9 ( 720973 ) on Tuesday December 23, 2003 @04:24PM (#7797315) Journal
    "Total cost of the project: $34
    Total cost of the project after I return "unneeded items": $14
    Total time to build, including sawing, etc: 5.5 hours."
    ...pissing off all your non-christian co-workers: priceless

  • Not a house, but rather... (Score:3, Interesting)

    by chhamilton ( 264664 ) on Tuesday December 23, 2003 @04:24PM (#7797318)
    ...a submarine. I work as a reserve officer and spend several weeks every summer at a nearby air force base. This summer, a few guys in my office took it upon themselves to turn another office-mates cube into a submarine like environment. Using nothing but card-board and duct tape, they enclosed the cube from floor to ceiling. At the cube entrance they left a fully functioning hatch-style door complete with wheel. They then proceeded to decorate the outside to look like steel and rivets (not quite as much effort as your cube-house though).

    By the way, good job on the cube-house!

  • office celebrations (Score:5, Interesting)

    by Twillerror ( 536681 ) on Tuesday December 23, 2003 @04:41PM (#7797531) Homepage Journal
    We do this stuff at our office all the time. Usually for birthdays and the such. I really should throw together a web page with all the pics sometime.

    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)

    by dbIII ( 701233 ) on Tuesday December 23, 2003 @07:48PM (#7799332)
    Turned mine into a dump for old computer gear. Hang on, that's what every sysadmin does! You just never know whether a DecStation5000 will turn up to plug that old digitiser tablet into - all those empty boxes damp sound in the office, and that big pile of AT keyboards and big 10Mb/s switches are valuble thermal mass keeping the office temperature from fluctuating too quickly.

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