Welcome to the "Open Your Office" Blogopalooza!
Earlier in the week I asked people to give us a peek at their work space - the place where they do their thinking, or writing, or nail-biting. They came through in spades. People reached deep inside, excavated their inner bureaucrats, and exposed the places where they take care of the bidness. Links can be found at the end of this post; please visit and rock the comment love as if you will never live to comment another day.
Mine is a tale of two offices. Most days, I toil in a cubicle. It is pretty much devoid of any personality, just the way Facility Services likes it. (P.S. Click on any of the photos to make them bigger.)
THREE is the magic number. I sit on the 3rd floor of Building 3, and to keep the numerology going, I always use the 3rd stall in, usually right around 9am, which as any idiot who used to watch Schoolhouse Rock can tell you, is 3 x 3.
My cube is is the place where official paperwork goes to die. I have at least three dead Sequoia trees worth of paper stuffed into pointlessly colorful file folders. 
Occasionally, I telecommute. Spawn do not stay home with me. They go to a Kiddie Kennel during the day while I am working. I do not leave the house, but I do fold laundry during conference calls, and I have a weekly Wednesday morning date with a guy named Brian. Peapod grocery delivery, you dirty-minded people.
I do "real" work AND my bloggy stuff in this room. The home office is my favorite place in the house, because I got to decorate it EXACTLY how I like it, and it houses many of my favorite things.
Finally, you should know that if I am ever breathing heavily when we are on the telephone, it is probably because I am multitasking to ride on this: 
CERTAINLY not because I am riding on THIS:
So that's my situation. Let's check out the rest!
Always Home And Uncool
Alice at Honey Pie
Cocotte at Suburban Musings
For A Different Kind Of Girl
Jenn at Juggling Life
Laura at Chesty LaRue
Marketing Mama
MereCat
Connecticut Mom's Family Financials
Kristine aka Stamford Talk/Fancy Pancakes
Anne At Wise Women Coffee Chat
Lindsay at Rock And Roll Mama
Erin at Cheap But Not Easy
Marathon Mom
JCK at Motherscribe
Tina at The Bigger They Get
Daily Piglet
Deb at San Diego Momma
We Make Three
That Girl From Shallotte
LilSass from Don't Get Me Started
Ms. Picket To You
Carolyn at Carolyn Online
Madge at It's a Madge Madge World
Mrs. Chicken at Chicken And Cheese
Thanks to everyone who participated!
Saturday, July 12, 2008
Suck On This, Dilbert
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Sweet LORD!!! I didn't realize you work for my dealer! I swear to you, my blood runs piss yellow. There have been days when my liquid intake has peaked at 120+ ounces of Diet Mountain Dew (some of which was purchased in the hefty 44 ounce Kum and Go cups!). The Spawn shall enjoy a free ride through college, and I shall refrain from saying things like, "Damn, honey, how 'bouts hookin' a girl up, yo?!"
Seriously, you ever need a spokesperson, I'm your woman. I will not jump a skateboard off a mountain nor wrestle a mountain lion while parachuting from a plane, though. Unless there's free swag thrown in. This is all negotiable. Shall we plan a meeting in the bathroom? I mean, what with all that deliciousness coursing through me and all...
(Also, I will likely repeat a form of this very comment in response to you on my own blog!)
Just for the record, I use stall number 1 on Floor 3, Building 3. This is because I once heard that the first bathroom in public restrooms tend to be the least utilized. I'm not sure if this is at all true of 3/3 however, because stall 1 seems to be fairly regularly occupied.
But don't worry, I'll stay away from stall 3. It's all yours.
OK I should do this. My office is at home and is a combo of work office/home office/sewing room/place where children come to lure me away from all three and deposit their stuff.
love seeing your offices.
Hey MM - thanks for the link. Is this a hint to change my blog name :-)?
Thanks for including me. When I saw your pictures, I knew what was missing in my office: a cuckoo clock.
Now I just need to convince El Jefe that I need to go to Europe to get one...
I know you organized that desk prior to pictures. Cheater. Cheater.
I wish I had pics from my cubicle days when I would troll the halls for abandoned furniture ensuring I had THE COOLEST CUBICLE EVER. I'm talking coat rack, glass front book shelves, vintage government chairs. And to think I gave all that up for my kids. *sigh* When the doc put me on bed rest, people were chomping at the bit to get to my stuff.
Ok, I work in a cave! It's an office with a closing door that used to be a large storage room. Problem is, there are no windows. I am torn between having the door, of which the 23 other people in my office do not have, and the echoes that drive me a bit crazy. Sorry, no pics though.
Ooo, ooo, I'm ready! Post mine, too! Thank you:
http://cheapbutnoteasy.blogspot.com
You rock.
Alice: I totally forgot about the Cubicle Vultures. I've been on both ends of the stealing spectrum. It's amazing the primal urge we have to feather our prefabricated nests...
Wise woman, you'll be a much happier person avoiding my stall. Especially on Tuesday mornings, because Mondays are burrito nights in the Manager household.
I've never been able to poop in a public bathroom, but if I could, I'd have offices throughout the great San Diego area.
I'm with you on having a certain stall at work. I seriously can't use another! It really screws up my day.
Love your cubicle. It is so organized and fancy!
Love the post coital bliss with Keanu. Now that's truly where the magic would be happenin'!
is it odd that i am jealous that your work spaces are so neat and organized?
as well, my husband has been told entirely too many times how much he looks like keanu reeves. personally, i think he looks like bono but taller.
i am currently getting my work space in photos with funny captions. i just had to fly to texas really quick to take care of a certain "someone's" nose.
Watch out, Daily Piglet, I may have to come to your house and perpetrate a Wife Swap.
Okay, I'm finally home from random family events today so I can visit everyone's offices. Is that a sliding glass door on your cube? I've NEVER seen anything like that. That's awesome! So people still look over the top of it, but at least you can block out some of the distractions of working in cubeville.
p.s. love your lamp in your cube. I think it's hysterical when people have lamps in cubes - you can't turn off the overhead lights, but the lamps make them look so homey... :)
I love your two office spaces. Your organization is killing me... Very funny post and my favorite things were the Keep Out sign (of course!) and the oil painting paid for by your first bonus. Yeah! Good to recognize rewards!
So, all of a sudden I realized that I never emailed you a time that my post will "air." Our office has undergone demo and is now under the paint brush. I snuck away to our town library, and waited for a computer - just to email you! My post is up at 5pm PST. Thanks for making this so much fun, MM! Hopefully I'll be back online by mid-week...
Marketing Mama - I have had that lamp for the whole 10 years I have worked for my company. I got temporarily put into a VP office when I first started, and when I moved to my real office, the lamp followed me like a lost little puppy. I didn't STEAL it or anything.
Your cubicle is so darn organized! I have to ask - did anyone catch you taking a picture of the bathroom stall?
I've posted my workspace and would love to be added to your list. It's at http://www.thebiggertheyget.com/ . Looking forward to seeing all the posts! Thanks...
And Alice - by the way, I didn't cheat. I really am just that anal retentive.
Bins. Organization. Sigh!
I'd love to share my workspace but that would mean cleaning up the empties. I wouldn't want folks to get the wrong idea about me.
Yeah, I know what Jenn would do - I think that quote is absolute genius. I'd try "breaking out in bitch" but I'm afraid the kid wouldn't notice the difference...
Manager Mom that is actually a pretty sweet cube as far as cubicles go. My cube is really just this open space not offering much cover. Everything is too out in the open. The smell of tuna has more room to roam however.
I have not grown attached to any BR stall. Yet!
See, my desk is pretty lame... except for the windowsill which is full of photos of my wife and kid (and the entire shelf dedicated to Lego and Star Wars action figures).
hey MM - Daily Piglet called you a booger on her post. What did you do to attain that status?
Tee hee ...
Whoa! There's real white space on your desk! Like, I can SEE the furniture part. It is beautiful. And your cube at work looks very chromey and futuristic, not all crappy and cardboard like my old-school cube was. I fact. mine only had 2 sides. How lame is that?
Your workspaces have some nice feng shui going on.:)
lest you doubt my commitment or need to be committed, and I have no good idea if I have spelled either of those words right, i am up at -- good god - almost 1:30am after a houseful of family for the weekend to say: I did it Manager Mom! And also, thank you so freakin' much for this fun peeping tom time.
Yawn. lkdsfhkjshdfkj/ Sleep.
damn I love that I can pop in here for a LAUGH ALWAYS.
you never fail me....
JCK - That oil painting will be buried with me someday. It's a painting of a Chicago streetscape and will always remind me of a really great time in my life.
I *heart* your cubbies and bins MM. Someday...
And since you're so busy with two offices, can I borrow Keannu?
Dude, do you know I LOVE seeing pictures of people's offices? Mine is HORRIFYING. I will do a post on this eventually, though.
I can honestly say you'll probably never find me in your bathroom - unless, of course, I'm dressing drag that day, and even then I don't think I'm THAT brave. Or perverted.
You had me at Tomb of the unknown memo.
Just. Awesome.
Sorry about the cube, though. No one deserves cube treatment.
Excellent! :)
My home office clutter banished me to the kitchen table. Then the clutter found me again. I'm thinking roof? I admire your organization. Or at least the semblance of it?
My post is going to be late ... I haven't been to my office to get a photo. Outside sales ... I am outside alot, I guess :)
7:45 stall #1...and I have a fake tree in my office.. (office, w/ a door!...jealous?)
Well, it's kind of more of a sliding shower door, but at least I have time to switch from "blog screen" to "spreadsheet".
I will pay you scads of money to come organize my office. Actually, by scads, I mean no actual money. But I would make coffee, and buy a drawer-ful of candy for you to find among the mess.
Suddenly I have an urge to go to IKEA and buy a bunch of organizing stuff.
Here's mine:
http://tinyurl.com/6x9yq8
Your home office is cool and so much neater than mine. Enjoyed it!
I forgot, dang it!
thanks for linking me! I'm still at the library. Well...I didn't sleep here. Did I? Did I?
In my company, the girls all sneak discretely down to the 11th floor, where the corporate library and megaconference rooms are, for "private time." The boys all strut proudly down the hall with the sports section.
Thanks for helping us worker chicks take the power back. I HEART you, MM!
am I just to late to participate or what? i put up photos of my workspace today...
Because I am slllloooooowwwww, I finally put your link on my blog. Yay! Now we're all linky and stuff.
Wow, that is really organized! Okay, how MUCH coffee/espresso is behind all of this?
I'm so effing jealous that you have the new multifunction copier that also slices and dices. Damn you.
MM, this was such a cool idea for a post! However, I failed, like with a big fat F, trying to create some "artistic" fun graphics for my blog. I can't work photoshop worth shit! I downloaded a free program so I could edit some of my pictures and grab em up into my blog. I'm a loser blogger...it took about 6 hours of frustration, and alas I popped bottle of-get this- Boones Farm "lemonaide", so refreshing. I didn't get the pictures that I needed. Must get classes in photoshop or ...anyother cheater suggestions? (for software to allow me to add comments and paste pictures over other pictures?)
My "office" is a closet beneath the stairs and it's currently inaccessible due to a mysterious junk explosion. I managed to scale the landslide of old bills and school projects to rescue my laptop. We are currently residing in a refugee camp on the family room sofa enduring regular assults by loud children and three legged dogs.
Ms. Jackee...I can't find your email anywhere on your home page. But the program you need is called Capture Express. Even I figured out how to use it, and I am a completely technologically challenged moron.
I used to have the opportunity to view the cubicles of a collection agency. I swear that you could do a psychological profile of the person based on what was in his/her cubicle. I wanted to make a coffee-table book of those cubicles.
It was hard to know if it was comedy or tragedy.
But it was super interesting.
You ride the exercise bike while you are on conference calls?
I hate you.
that is a lovely cube- My office is my car! I live in it everyday driving all over the place- my desk is the passenger seat- and my favorite bathrooms are at gas stations along my daily route!
It basically sux but it has been my life for the past 10 years!
Damn! I've been so busy getting drunk on California vino- I mean,having deep intellectual discussions about dangling participles with my fellow scribes - that I missed the Cubiclepalooza!
Oh well...next year. By which time I might have actually unburied my desk.
I love that Keanu is your secret boyfriend! Mine is Christian Bale:P
Yea... I can't go in public bathrooms. I dunno why. I just can not.
you sure you didn't cheat on the photo of your cubicle?....its too incredibly NEAT! *WINK*
You have a door on your cubicle? Waht? How did you manage that? (even if it is see through you can still close it)
TMI!TMI! lol
did you know, i find in my past life cleaning toliets that the dirtiest toliets are GIRL toliets, why is that when they are closer to their object that the boys???
You're going to love/hate me, but I've met Keanu before- ran into him at LAX. Much cuter in person, if you can believe it, and really nice!
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