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Cubicle Culture | Jared Sandberg 11:56 PM | May 09,2008
It’s not a lot to ask for and, it turns out, a surprising number of people dreaming up their dream job don’t ask for much
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Cubicle Culture | Jared Sandberg 11:59 PM | May 02,2008
Either the deserving person will go on to something better, or the resigning shirker may be replaced by someone who will do more work
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Cubicle Culture | Jared Sandberg 01:36 AM | April 14,2008
Self talking starts early, beginning as crib speech for the fun of it and becoming toddlers’ repetition of rules they’re learning to live by, researchers say
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Cubicle Culture | Jared Sandberg 12:45 AM | April 05,2008
Early manuals on meetings warned against late arrivals, early departures, falling asleep — and spitting (hence, the notion of spewing)
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Cubicle Culture | Jared Sandberg 01:02 AM | April 01,2008
Far more common, and more insidious, are the managers who won’t say a critical word to the staffers who need to hear it
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Cubicle Culture | Jared Sandberg 12:31 AM | March 08,2008
So much is worked on in a day at the office but so little gets done
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Cubicle Culture | Jared Sandberg 11:45 PM | March 03,2008
English speakers seem to have many words that are innocuous on one side of the Atlantic but are offensive enough on the other side
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Cubicle Culture | Jared Sandberg 12:44 AM | March 01,2008
The carpet, possibly once blue, camouflages what sounds like sizeable pebbles rattling through the heavy-duty vacuum cleaner on every thrust
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Cubicle Culture | Jared Sandberg 12:07 AM | February 01,2008
To excel at never admitting mistakes, you have to take care to burnish your unaccountability and “sorrylessness”
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Cubicle Culture | Jared Sandberg 12:00 AM | January 26,2008
Dreams can come true. But if they stumble onto the subject of work, you can only hope in most cases that they won’t
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Cubicle Culture | Jared Sandberg 04:44 PM | January 05,2008
When the boss has a pet passion, staffers can find themselves engaging in activities they’ve never tried, probably because they never wanted to
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Cubicle Culture | Jared Sandberg 12:26 AM | December 29,2007
In any office’s underground economy, favours are the currency by which productivity is purchased and goodwill is gained
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Cubicle Culture | Jared Sandberg 01:04 PM | December 14,2007
As management literature often notes, optimists drive employees to exceptional levels of achievement
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Cubicle Culture | Jared Sandberg 11:50 PM | December 07,2007
The whole performance-review process doesn’t exactly exceed expectations
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Cubicle Culture | Jared Sandberg 10:02 AM | November 24,2007
Most chronically late people consistently underestimate time by 25-30%
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