Impassioned Employees Debate the Benefits of Cubicle Offices

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Ally Perry • Writer and Editor
Aug 29, 2023 8:00 PM EDT

Anyone who's seen movies ranging from Fight Club to The Incredibles have been fed certain ideas about working an office job in a small, gray cubicle. It's meant to be boring and soul-destroying, this tight monochrome box a labored metaphor for your imprisoned will to live. 

There are still many people out there who couldn't think of anything worse than working in one of these, but they're not all to be found on Twitter. In fact, one man was brave enough to suggest that the setup "look[s] incredible". 

Understandably, some who replied to his tweet could not relate in the slightest. At the same time, there were numerous others who jumped to defend the idea of cubicle working. Reasoning that the open plan office was a worse invention, it has to be said that they have a point. Still, they might not feel that way if it was how they actually worked.

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    Furniture - lil uzi perf @ken_wheeler Is it just me or does this look incredible PRE 2203 Subscribe
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    Computer - lil uzi perf→ @ken_wheeler. 4d Replying to @ken_wheeler Why did anyone consent to this
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    Organism - lil uzi perf→ @ken_wheeler. 4d If you ever want me in an office again, it'll be driving a used Honda 15m from my house to an office park where I enter my cubicle decorated with posters and perpetual motion toys and work an undisturbed gentlemanly 8 hours with a packed lunch.
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    Font - Adriana Porter Felt @_apf__.4d Replying to @ken_wheeler I worked in a very similar office floorplan; it was very dark and I got depressed from lack of sunlight. but the privacy was great
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    Font - Kathleen McMahon @resource11 Replying to @ken_wheeler 'scuse me. 1989 is calling, sir. Follow
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    Gesture - Brent M. Clark @Brent_m_Clark 4d : Replying to @ken_wheeler It's just you. Home office any day of the week. Q2 17 269 78.9K lil uzi perf✔ @ken_wheeler. 4d Oh I mean if you had to go in
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    Organism - Scott Scharl @scott_scharl 4d Replying to @ken_wheeler Have you ever worked in an environment like this? Q7 27 ♡21 lil uzi perf→ @ken_wheeler. 4d tons back in the day. it was great ₁137K
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    Font - Ole Kristian Mørch-... @_oKMz Follow Replying to @ken_wheeler All the downsides of a shared open office space combined with the downside of an actual office. You can hear everyone talking, but you have to yell or leave your space to ACTUALLY talk to someone
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    Font - Gayest Tone @gayest_tone Follow Gen X really convinced everyone that the general privacy of a cubicle was somehow bad, and that you should want to be sitting at an open table with your boss constantly watching you instead.
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    Smile - halz!! @wenchpilled. 3d i think millennials and gen x just didn't know how to decorate like i would go CRAZY with one of these
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    Rectangle - Mike Malone (he/... Follow @theobtainedmage You get excited when they change the packaging on your favourite supermarket loaf of bread, huh?
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    Font - The Dread Pirate Ma... @MarkBrooksArt Follow I worked in one of those for 7 years. Far from incredible. Have you ever seen Severance?
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    Eye - NKVD Hentai Enthu... @TheRealHarmy Follow They're manufacturing consent for cubicle farms again.
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    Font - guy @guysxtn. 3d if you can do your work in this then why not just do it at home?
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    Font - Lewis Spears Open plan offices are hellscapes designed by middle management losers who can't stand to be alone with their thoughts for more than 10 minutes so convinced the boss open plan meant more efficiency even though every major study proves solo work means better results + happier teams @LewSpears 3d ●
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    Font - 621 @meat. 3d you can pay thousands of $ to get a fraction of this privacy on a flight, but somehow we were told it was 'soul-destroying' and that we needed to work in a panopticon to 'foster creativity'
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    Product - Donaldisme.redsun.... @BarksistRosaism of Follow You know that the 90s had it good because this was the most inhumane soul-crushing thing they could thought
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