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Ross Rifle
Title: Rock N Roll God
Joined: Oct 29 2006
Location: Chilliwack, BC
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So I work at the redbox call center. I definitely enjoy this job, and one of the best parts of it is the cubicle. It's my first ever, and I fucking love it. I've decorated it with a picture of Brutal Legend's Eddie Riggs playing a solo, a bobblehead of the Avenger Vision, a pill container full of pushpins, and a picture of Gary Coleman and David Hasselhoff standing in front of Kitt, thumbs high, which is basically the greatest photo ever taken, and gets me pumped up for every work day.
So what do your guys' work areas look like? Cubicles, dishpits, drive-thrus? And what makes it special?
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SoldierHawk
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Title: Warrior-Poet
Joined: Jan 15 2009
Location: San Diego, CA
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Like this:
or this:
depending on the time and day of the week. Both beat the crap out of a regular office, imho. (Although I would love to have some sort of cordoned off space in my classroom where I could get actual work done when not teaching.)
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Syd Lexia
Site Admin
Title: Pop Culture Junkie
Joined: Jul 30 2005
Location: Wakefield, MA
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My workspace is your hearts and minds. My playground is the sky.
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Valdronius
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Title: SydLexia COO
Joined: Aug 22 2005
Location: The Great White North
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I'd show you what my workspaces look like, but the students and parents would wonder why I was taking pictures of the inside of their homes.
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jackfrost
Title: Cold Hearted Bastard
Joined: Feb 21 2009
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Mine is a windowless office with a "L" shaped desk, a copier/printer, a microwave, and a few file cabinets. The walls are painted white and the carpet is brown to hide decades worth of dirt and coffee stains. I could decorate it some if I wanted to, but the way they are always moving employees' offices around here it wouldn't be worth the effort to me. I am not there enough to enjoy any decorations anyway.
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username
Title: owner of a lonely heart
Joined: Jul 06 2007
Location: phoenix, az usa
Posts: 16133
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cubicle guy here.
no pics. nothing personal really. even the awards i have received (employee of month etc etc) i keep in my desk.
the only things i have on top of my desk are: a pack of orbit gum, a container of icebreakers mints, a bag of kirkland signature trail mix, and a bag of kirkland signature dried fruit & nut medley. oh yeah, i also have a double gulp from 7-11 i fill up w/ice & water every day and drink.
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pineapple
Joined: Nov 11 2009
Location: Cajun Country
Posts: 1511
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Klimbatize
2010 NES Champ
Title: 2011 Picnic/Death Champ
Joined: Mar 15 2010
Location: Las Vegas, NV
Posts: 5000
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I have a fairly large office. Two stories, a couple of bathrooms, a kitchen. Even a couple of beds...'cause I work from home. And I get to work naked if I want.
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Andrew Man
Title: Is a Funklord
Joined: Jan 30 2007
Location: Annandale, VA
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| Syd Lexia wrote: |
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Awwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwww <3
I work in a kitchen, it's hell.
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Pandajuice
Title: The Power of Grayskull
Joined: Oct 30 2008
Location: US and UK
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Wow Ross, I've never heard someone so excited to work in a cubicle before. I did a stint as a call center cubicle drone, and boy, it was not for me.
Right now, I just work from home so my PC is on a huge desk I share with my wife.
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Blackout
Title: Captain Oblivious
Joined: Sep 01 2007
Location: That Rainy State
Posts: 10376
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Call center dispatch pod, no pens or paper surfing reading or eating.
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Ross Rifle
Title: Rock N Roll God
Joined: Oct 29 2006
Location: Chilliwack, BC
Posts: 4844
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That sounds terrible Blackout. I'm at work right now.
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UsaSatsui
Title: The White Rabbit
Joined: May 25 2008
Location: Hiding
Posts: 7565
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I work in a group home.
Plus: 50 inch TV with cable.
Minus: Five incontinent mentally retarded elderly people, including two really fucking stubborn and needy ones.
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Blackout
Title: Captain Oblivious
Joined: Sep 01 2007
Location: That Rainy State
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| That sounds terrible Blackout. I'm at work right now. |
Meh, no time to do much other than work, can't take your eyes off the screen if your dispatching anyways, and the paper surfing stuff is for security reasons, we got computers in the break room we can use for surfing so I don't mind.
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Ross Rifle
Title: Rock N Roll God
Joined: Oct 29 2006
Location: Chilliwack, BC
Posts: 4844
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Yeah, we get some empty time spaces here, especially on Sundays, and my Team Manager doesn't mind if we surf in our off-time, particularly websites that involve movies, which this one does.
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Blackout
Title: Captain Oblivious
Joined: Sep 01 2007
Location: That Rainy State
Posts: 10376
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Fun fact! These break computers are ancient and covered in food droppings, the hard drive on the one I'm on now is making a weird high pitched buzzing noise that is vibrating the table ever so slightly. The emoticons have yet to finish loading as I type this.
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Doddsino
Joined: Oct 01 2009
Posts: 5316
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You call that camoflage? I can see every single one of their asses...well except the extremist sniper 200 yards away. They better be careful.
My work area is also a cubicle. The person who had it before me was a very dirty person. He wrote on the carpeted cubicle walls and left cigarette butts in the drawers along with his dirty laundry (literally). Apparently he broke his parole or something, so I gained his area. It took me about 2 months to clean the entire thing up.
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UsaSatsui
Title: The White Rabbit
Joined: May 25 2008
Location: Hiding
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You call that camoflage? I can see every single one of their asses... |
What? I can't. Those asses are well hidden.
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SoldierHawk
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Title: Warrior-Poet
Joined: Jan 15 2009
Location: San Diego, CA
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This is off topic, but I got to address it since Dodd brought it up...
Believe me, we know. The hell of it is that scrub, in terms of coloring, is not all that different from Afghanistan. And that fucking UCP shows up just as badly against the light coloring of Iraqi deserts. But the worst is at night. When there's ANY light at all, the camo lights up like a fucking Christmas tree (ESPECIALLY through night vision goggles.) Its seriously getting so many of our guys and gals killed overseas. Fucking travesty.
The semi-good news is that they've FINALLY figured this out, and have decided to replace the camo with a pattern called multicam. Its not perfect, but its a HELL of a lot better than UCP, and actually does blend into multiple environments. (The ideal thing would be to do what the Marines do, and have desert camo and forest camo of course, but...) They've already started issuing it to guys in Afghanistan and from what I understand, its been helping. Thank God.
By the way, for shits and giggles, think about the cost of the exhaustive study they did to figure out which camo was best. Then outfit the entire Army with not only UCP uniforms, but UCP rucksacks, LBEs, vests....etc. Now, because they fucking didn't listen to the people who had to wear the shit, they have to backpedal. And within the next 5 years or so, the entire Army is going to get everything changed over AGAIN, to what we should have had in the first place.
Ladies and gentlemen...your tax dollars at work.
/rant
Oh and for those curious about multicam:
However, the good news for those of us still stuck in UCP is that if we ever need to invade your grandmother's house, we got it covered:
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Spanish Meatloaf
Title: Denim Clad Road Warrior
Joined: Feb 24 2010
Location: Olympia, WA
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I don't work because I'm 16 and I get everything for free. Fuck yeah. I'll do something after I get a degree, but I've always wondered what a cubicle would be like, is it accurately portrayed by the TV shows?
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username
Title: owner of a lonely heart
Joined: Jul 06 2007
Location: phoenix, az usa
Posts: 16133
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| I don't work because I'm 16 and I get everything for free. Fuck yeah. I'll do something after I get a degree, but I've always wondered what a cubicle would be like, is it accurately portrayed by the TV shows? |
watch Office Space, and you'll get the idea.
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TheThunderThief
Joined: Jun 07 2009
Location: Ditka's Moustache
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They spent all that money ditching BDU's/ DCU's that worked because they wanted in on the MARPAT type digi stuff and came out atrocious mainly due to color choice...at least the Army isn't alone.
Navy Work Uniform: (To be worn on ships only)
Air Force ABU (Basically tigerstriped ACU's with a blue/Grey Tinge w/ grey boots instead of seude)
To get back on topic though, I work from home now.
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SoldierHawk
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Title: Warrior-Poet
Joined: Jan 15 2009
Location: San Diego, CA
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True. The key difference though is that neither the squids nor the zoomies NEED land camo--its purely an aesthetic choice (if they do get attached to a land Army/Marine unit, they wear the uniform of that service.) For a land force like the Army or Marines, its literally life and death.
*snerk* those blue cammies are absolutely hilarious though.
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TheThunderThief
Joined: Jun 07 2009
Location: Ditka's Moustache
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You know why they're such horrid colors, because it masks dirt and paint, true story. 
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IceWarm
Joined: Dec 22 2008
Location: Breckenridge, Colorado
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I work as a butcher in a grocery store so I'm mostly in the meat room. Sometimes for a couple hours when we first open I run the cash register until the next cashier shows up and I am free to go to the meat room and do whatever I need to do for the day.
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