CUBE LIFE: Office Etiquette

[Canehdianman]

Originally Posted by corporatejay

Keep my office at 13. I wear a suit so I'm always hot. I can't wear shorts and a tshirt but you can put on a sweater.

Haha I can't even imagine how much the assistants must hate having to come into your office.

[CroFlames]

Originally Posted by Canehdianman

Haha I can't even imagine how much the assistants must hate having to come into your office.

Who has assistants in today's economy?!

[undercoverbrother]

Originally Posted by CroFlames

Who has assistants in today's economy?!

me

[Canehdianman]

Originally Posted by CroFlames

Who has assistants in today's economy?!

I am 100% certain Corporatejay has an assistant.

[corporatejay]

Originally Posted by Canehdianman

Haha I can't even imagine how much the assistants must hate having to come into your office.

I do have an assistant.

In any event, it's mostly the female associates who complain, jokingly, the male associates used to complain but now they just wear their jacket.

[Coach]

As a guy who shares an office with 3 women, 2 of whom are from tropical locations, and am constantly sweating because of the heat, keeping your office at 13 degrees is regoddamndiculous.

[Komskies]

Originally Posted by undercoverbrother

He should have just geared down. Sitting at your desk in a wife beater and Y-fronts gets attention.

Japan has already done it:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cool_Biz_campaign

The Cool Biz campaign is a Japanese campaign initiated by the Japanese Ministry of the Environment (MOE) from summer 2005 as a means to help reduce Japanese electricity consumption by limiting the use of air conditioning. This was enabled by changing the standard office air conditioner temperature to 28 °C (or about 82 °F) and introducing a liberal summer dress code in the bureaucracy of the Japanese government so staff could work in the warmer temperature. The campaign then spread to the private sector.

[peter12]

My cube-mate is ridiculously unproductive. After I made a joke (passive-aggressive) about how pointless it must feel to come to work just to read the news, she installed no-glare screen protectors on her two computer monitors. Now she can read the Globe and Mail with no fear of judgement on my behalf. Meanwhile, I post on Calgarypuck with brazen confidence. No fear!

[Johnny199r]

Originally Posted by peter12

My cube-mate is ridiculously unproductive. After I made a joke (passive-aggressive) about how pointless it must to come to work just to read the news, she installed no-glare screen protectors on her two computer monitors. Now she can read the Globe and Mail with no fear of judgement on my behalf. Meanwhile, I post on Calgarypuck with brazen confidence. No fear!

The guy in the office next to me had his own shredder. He would shred things all day long. No idea why. We had nothing that required personal shredding. But he would just shred and shred and shred.

He also loved to be on speaker phone dealing loudly with CRA and other companies he owed.

Best of all, he was OCD. He would yell out 1-2-3, 1-2-3, 1-2-3 and other patterns as he worked in his office.

I always wondered if he did that while in court too (lawyer)

[Coach]

The day someone tells me I'm not allowed to chew gum while at my desk is the day I grab a box of my personal effects and leave without a word. Okay, maybe a nice big "Heeeeeeellooooo" in the person's face with full blown coffee breath.

[peter12]

Originally Posted by Johnny199r

The guy in the office next to me had his own shredder. He would shred things all day long. No idea why. We had nothing that required personal shredding. But he would just shred and shred and shred.

He also loved to be on speaker phone dealing loudly with CRA and other companies he owed.

Best of all, he was OCD. He would yell out 1-2-3, 1-2-3, 1-2-3 and other patterns as he worked in his office.

I always wondered if he did that while in court too (lawyer)

People blow my mind.

[Sainters7]

Well I'm glad we had that talk about gum. For the first time ever, I'm sitting at my desk chewing on some Trident confidently.

Haha I don't know why I thought it'd be so frowned upon, it's funny the things that stay with you from grade school I guess. That and never in my office-going life have I seen a co-worker chewing gum. You must all work in cooler offices than I.

[CroFlames]

Originally Posted by Sainters7

Well I'm glad we had that talk about gum. For the first time ever, I'm sitting at my desk chewing on some Trident confidently.

Haha I don't know why I thought it'd be so frowned upon, it's funny the things that stay with you from grade school I guess. That and never in my office-going life have I seen a co-worker chewing gum. You must all work in cooler offices than I.

Is your office run by 96 year old ex-Gestapo men or SS guards? Holy cow.

If you are allowed to have water, coffee or snacks at your desk, why in the heck would gum be an issue?

[Locke]

I could see gum being an issue if you're in close quarters and you chew like a cow or if you have no restraint and put it under the desk or somewhere else equally gross.

Beyond that if you're chewing gum at a reasonable level in your own space there should be no issues.

[Sainters7]

Originally Posted by CroFlames

Is your office run by 96 year old ex-Gestapo men or SS guards? Holy cow.

If you are allowed to have water, coffee or snacks at your desk, why in the heck would gum be an issue?

I dunno, the same reason why my high school let us eat and drink at our desks, but gum was a no no? Gum just seems to have a certain stigma to it, I'm guessing because of how some people choose to "dispose" of it on furniture.

And nope, its just a bunch of socially awkward science nerds. They're not really the gum chewing type. No-one said anything about it not being allowed, I just assumed it would be an office faux pas for whatever reason, and sought out the CP collective on it. It's a whole new world for me today..

[jeffporfirio]

Originally Posted by Sainters7

Nope, just a bunch of socially awkward science nerds. They're not really the gum chewing type. No-one said anything, I just assumed it would be an office faux pas for whatever reason, and sought out the CP collective on it. It's a whole new world for me today..

Wow...images of Orwell's 1984 coming back....

[blueski]

Originally Posted by Johnny199r

The guy in the office next to me had his own shredder. He would shred things all day long. No idea why. We had nothing that required personal shredding. But he would just shred and shred and shred.

There was a guy who printed every email and kept them in a book. Had two phonebook size binders to show me of all the emails he had read since he started.

[undercoverbrother]

Originally Posted by blueski

There was a guy who printed every email and kept them in a book. Had two phonebook size binders to show me of all the emails he had read since he started.

People blow my mind.

[CorsiHockeyLeague]

Originally Posted by blueski

There was a guy who printed every email and kept them in a book. Had two phonebook size binders to show me of all the emails he had read since he started.

If I did that it would take up a lot more than two binders... we actually do print every e-mail on every individual file, though, and keep them in separate correspondence folders. There's off-site storage. Starting to move away from that, finally.

Here's my blatant, selfish breach of office decorum: I have a magic bullet in my office. When I get back from the gym (which is either before 9am or after 5pm usually, if that matters) I make myself a protein shake.

Now, my door's closed, but it's a freakin' blender. I'm sure people can hear it from the adjoining offices and I'm sure my assistant right outside the door can hear it. Poor etiquette, but I need it. It usually involves under 20 seconds of blending, once a day. Hopefully people don't hate me too much. No one's ever complained.

[kipperiggy]

Originally Posted by Sainters7

Well I'm glad we had that talk about gum. For the first time ever, I'm sitting at my desk chewing on some Trident confidently.

Haha I don't know why I thought it'd be so frowned upon, it's funny the things that stay with you from grade school I guess. That and never in my office-going life have I seen a co-worker chewing gum. You must all work in cooler offices than I.

Just make sure you don't smack it or blow bubbles. I absentmindedly did it once and someone got mad at me. Rightfully so, but it was an accident!