• Flying Squid@lemmy.world
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    “I’m perfectly happy in my large, quiet office, sitting in my $2000 executive chair in front of my mahogany desk and using my private executive bathroom. I don’t know what these people on the fourth floor are complaining about. We give them cubicles and a ping-pong table (do not use during work hours), don’t we?”

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          To maximize efficiency we cannot have the cubicle walls potentially blocking the path of the farts and sneezes we must all breathe in. Every fart and sneeze must be fully breathed in by staff to cut down on cleaning costs!

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        Now they’re all about open floor plans for collaboration (read: for squeezing more people in the same space).

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        Sometimes you have to give them a little extra to make them more productive. It’s okay, we found a loophole in accounting so it’s a write-off.

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      Having done cleaning in offices such as these for at least one of the top companies in the world, I fail to see why even this sort of office is all that compelling. Look, a miniature golf statue…

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        They’re not compelling to you and I. They’re a way to show fellow executives how powerful you are. A huge office with expensive furniture means you’re important.