Why am I so desperate to escape the cubicle away way? Before I answer that let me say this, contrary to popular belief I actually don’t hate my job I just find it boring. So this blog is not about job bashing. I work as some of you know for a very respectable company that by and large is good to work for, so there’s no job bashing here.
Ok, so back to the question “why escape the cubicle”? For the sake of simplicity I’ll define working in a cubicle as 40% productive work and 60% work because someone simply asked for it or as famous lifestyle designer Tim Ferriss stated “Work for Work Sake”.
So it’s 12:30 noon, I’ve been super productive, I’ve completed all my work, project reports, required meetings, updates to those who care and made all my phone calls now what?
I can’t go home and do something exciting because I’m getting paid until 5pm. I can’t surf the web it’s both unproductive and in plain view of others living the same lie. I’m effectively trapped, forced to ‘find’ something productive to do. I need to appear busy to be seen as successful.
This 60% is usually totally unnecessary meaningless and completely unproductive resulting in massive amounts of time being wasted. However here comes the real answer “in a cubicle office environment you have to appear to look busy” even if you have exhausted all your work. Yes we could start tomorrows work today, yes we could do others work and yes we can tell our superiors we’re bored.
BUT what if we’ve already done that……
