Cube Etiquette

By Bill Burleson

 

 

Rules to follow in the office so we can all get along:

 

  1. If a co-worker dies during the work day, it is not polite to raid their cube or office of supplies, monitors, phones, chairs, etc. before calling an ambulance. However, after is fair game.

  2. It is not polite to make eye contact. When passing in the hall, look at the floor or at your hands.

  3.  Your co-worker is as afraid of you as you are of them. If you happen across a co-worker, back away slowly. Do NOT turn and run. If confronted by a co-worker, make yourself as large as possible. Yell as loud as you can.

  4.  If bitten by a poisonous snake, do not scream or beg for help, as it will disturb your co-workers. Instead, open up a help ticket.

  5.  While for men taking your shirt off is perfectly acceptable at the beach, depending on how much back hair one has it may not be acceptable at the office.

  6.  While eating in your cube is permitted, Hibachis are not allowed.

  7.  Burning a wicker men stuffed with chickens is permitted only in the neighborhood center.

  8.  Cleanliness is a virtue. It is important that staff maintain good hygiene so as not to offend others with their odiferousness. However, taking a sponge bath in one’s cube is not acceptable.

  9.  Cube heights are 5’6”. While some staff are tall enough to see over the tops, others are not. Therefore, in the interest of fairness, taller staff need to slouch.

  10.  Installing a mezzanine in your cube made from scrap lumber and branches is not permitted.

  11.  Chair races must conform to the AASBD Rule Book. http://www.aasbd.org/SBD_Rules.htm

  12.  Playing dead when your supervisor comes to check up on you in your cube is not permitted. It is not only a sure way to not get your time entry approved, it is insulting to your fellow co-workers who are actually dead.

 

 

 

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