Understanding Your Corporate Torture Pen
Fortune has an interesting piece on the "Fidel Castro of office furniture," the cubicle. And who's to blame for your miserable working situation?
Robert Oppenheimer agonized over building the A-bomb. Alfred Nobel got queasy about creating dynamite. Robert Propst invented nothing so destructive. Yet before he died in 2000, he lamented his unwitting contribution to what he called "monolithic insanity."
Propst is the father of the cubicle. More than 30 years after he unleashed it on the world, we are still trying to get out of the box. The cubicle has been called many things in its long and terrible reign. But what it has lacked in beauty and amenity, it has made up for in crabgrass-like persistence.
Aw, we think that's a little harsh. Cubicles aren't all bad. Their culture brought you and us together, now didn't it?
