this post is a joke, right?

notatoad

Many organizations will not allow you to customize your cubicle. That said, I am slowly customizing my soul-sucking gray box. Step 1: contact paper on a hideous hanging file drawer (the paint was coming off and sticking to everything). Step 2: trade filthy blue chair for a new brown one in an empty cube (tough luck, new hire...). Step 3: oriental brocade throw - to keep my feet warm or drape over a wall. Step 4: matching pillow on my chair (power nap, anyone?). Step 5: three matching small mirrors hung at the entrance to the cube for Feng Shui purposes (I'm on the corner of a major intersection, and people no longer use the intersection as an informal meeting room).

Keter

Hmm. I think people didn't take this article seriously the first time it was published 2 months ago - [lifehacker.com]

JackieB

You're kidding. I've yet to some across a company that allows such drastic mods to their cubicles.

japapuss

Ignore the fact that we work in larger versions of coffins and make them pretty, pleasing to the eye?
Painful.

Mircea Suciu

Yeah, like most companies are going to allow any of these setups.

CaptainCynic

inspirational at least if you can't really go all the way.

not all companies are shmoes.... i work for a sports fundraising company... and they've already had fun customizing the office with astro-turf from a local field, ping pong table and those huge life-size athlete stickers.

the idea of cloth over the dividers is an idea i want to try... chalkboard cloth? cool!

fuzzymuffins

No sense in customizing my cube, seeing as I show up as late as possible and leave around 3.

mrafternoon

I love the guy that's demanding whether the Fire Marshall's signed off on the schemes, or whether the Safety Officer's approved the electric devices...for it's obvious they've killed his sense of fun.
And my understanding is that unless items are impeding exit routes, soaked in combustible fluids, jammed into an enclosed space or not UL approved, the fire marshalls and safety officers of the world can go Cheney themselves.

StrangeTikiGod

I don't think the idea here is to go for such drastic overhauls to your cube, but it perhaps gives you an idea or two about adding personality. Even one of the pictures in this gallery states, "Nobody in their right mind would work in this cube."

booticon

More ideas...
[logicalextremes.blogspot.com]

Logical Extremes

We can use whatever color we want, as long as the cube is office beige.

dkushknee

Umm ... I like my gray, soul-sucking cubicle. All the extra decorations on some cubicles distract me from getting my work done.

That and the internet ;-)

davidengel

@all: Sorry for the dupe, but do remember to enter the Coolest Cubicle contest—we don't expect your cubicle to be jungle themed, just to see a somewhat handsome transformation where possible and maybe some smart organizational techniques.

Adam Pash

I plastered my cubicle with my photos of the Swiss alps. It says a lot about where I'm at doesn't it:)... let me out of here!

[www.gadgetbadger.com]

gadgetbadger

I really hope people do enter because I am unreasonably excited about seeing the results (I do not work in a cubicle).

nicopolitan

In my cube I have posters of glamorous cubes. And I daydream.

sharpeiboy

@mrafternoon: Do you use the back door so Lumberg doesn't see you?

Jarett

Try making your career interesting instead of your cube.

That said, all I need is a giant tack board covering my wall. I keep brainstorm images and information related to current projects, prospects and inspirations. I change it/update it all the time to reflect what I'm working on, and a collateral effect is that is livens up my office.

onesix18

@gbs: any particular reason for this, or do your overlords just delight in making their minions as miserable as possible?

StrangeTikiGod

Where I work within the past few months management decided we cannot have ANYTHING decorating the cubicles... so we are pretty hopeless.

gbs