Dilbertville, or Where Cubicles Went Wrong

[unixronin]

The creator of cubicles, Robert Propst of Herman Miller, never envisualized Dilbertian cube farms by the acre when he invented the Action Office in 1968.  But thanks to economics, Propst's invention went wrong, imprisoning the office workers it was intended to liberate.  Now, in an ironic turnaround, the same economics that spawned Dilbertville may finally set people free from it.

Here's the story.

Comments

[batchfile.livejournal.com]

"bright satanic offices"

so true.

[databeast.livejournal.com]

see, it's things like this that give me reason not to :

- have kids
- create anything spectactularly inventive and new

...the knowledge that one day, they would inevitably rise up and destroy me!

[batchfile.livejournal.com]

kids can't exactly rise up and destroy you unless you first teach them how to do so.

i taught mine that i was invincible. then when the first ones became teenagers, i proved it(thanks, karate class).
you must be the alpha human in their midst.

[unixronin.livejournal.com]

Just keep the Ten Rules of Evil Overlords in mind, and you'll probably be fine.