When you go to a meeting on a floor that has a board room with a door and miles and miles of those little grey cubes occupied by surfs take up the rest of the floor, use some common sense.
If you get a cell phone call during the meeting, don’t stand outside the door and yack away. Sure, you’re not disturbing the people in the meeting but it is very disturbing to the entire rest of the floor!
Plus, it’s rude to make the people in the meeting wait for you for 20 minutes. Tell them you’ll call them back and then do it from a phone that is -anywhere else-!!!—Cindy-Lou Cube
This article appears in Apr 22-28, 2010.
Just a thought: Don’t all of the other serfs in their grey cubes get phone calls, both business and personal, also? I know that I get to hear my colleagues squack on their work phones constantly so to me this is sort of the same ol’ thing.
that is one of the main reasons why i work by myself, no fucking assholes around me. plus i break when i want, and have no worries about being bitched at by the boss.
ah, a fellow cube-dweller.
I can sympathize…
unless you’re allowed headphones, I think you’re right fucked.
obviously the solution is to quit your job!
duh…