Saddest Cubicle Contest


David Gunnells of the University of Alabama at Birmingham won Wired’s recent Saddest Cubicle contest. He had to send in two pictures of his cubicle, because you can’t tell there’s really an “office” tucked behind those filing cabinets!
His desk is penned in by heavily used filing cabinets in a windowless conference room, near a poorly ventilated bathroom and a microwave. The overhead light doesn't work -- his mother-in-law was so saddened by his cube that she gave him a lamp -- and the other side of the wall is a parking garage.

Wired also has pictures of ten runners-up. http://www.wired.com/culture/lifestyle/multimedia/2007//11/gallery_saddest_cubicle

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Crud; I could have so won that, if I'd known about it. The cube pictured looks pretty nice next to what I endured for the last 18 months. The company I work for just moved to a new building (where I have a nice office with a view!) after spending way too long in the old building. It was worth the wait.
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I remember working across from a girl who would listen to many of my phone calls and comment on how well I handled particular calls. It was nice to be complimented, but also utterly lacking in privacy.

I remember strategically placing a foil balloon so my boss wouldn't have a clear view of me from several desks over. The endless sea of desks was a depressing sight.
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That's not so bad at all. I think the endless office landscapes with five feet tall cubicle walls are by far worse. No privacy, no space that you can feel is your own, just crap. In comparison I'd love to work in a place boxed in to such a degree. Privacy is worth gold in an office environment.
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It told me "spam" is not a word! Just for that I'm going to send them hundreds of unsolicited e-mails for products and services they don't want or need!
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That was pretty cool, but needs work. There's nothing like an entire game with only 2 vowels (3 if you include y). I think at one point I had 4 S and 3 T, what do you do with that?
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Yup, that's fun. It'll need a better lexicon before it becomes really useful.

The other thing it could do with is detecting when you've a full line of consonants and bypassing the randomness to drop a vowel in. There are probably languages out there that can make a word from xdwtpkm, but English isn't one of them.
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What are the win/lose conditions? I got to a game over dialog. Why can't I just keep playing and racking up points? Is there a timer I'm not seeing?
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Thanks a bunch. I've been playing since I saw the posting, about 24 hours now.

I finally figured out the multiplier thingy (I know, I'm not too swift sometimes) and gaming that definitely upped my score, although the most I ever got was 600.
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