Free range no longer

Posted on February 8, 2008 by Gene

As I begin a new chapter of my life — as a cube dweller in Silicon Valley — I look back wistfully at the last three years… which, frankly, I feel like I wasted now. Oh, yes, I bummed around and sat in the sun and planted flowers and just generally enjoyed my sabbatical; but with years of cubicle occupation staring me in the face, I kind of wish I’d done something more memorable than just uprooting my life, moving 3,000 miles away, and buying a half-million-dollar teeny tiny bungalow.
Some people are never happy, you know?
My new cubicle, which is approximately the size of a chicken coop, has one bizarre and demented feature that I just can’t figure out. The cube is something like 4 feet by 6 feet, I think, and the side and front walls are about 4 feet high. I can easily look right over them when sitting in my chair. Yet, the front wall segment right beside the “door” has a glass window in it. About 3 feet off the floor, a little 1-foot-high window that seems to serve no purpose whatsoever. Is it to admit light? Allow me to see out?
What’s really demented is that it is dual pane glass. I suppose this is helpful for climate control or something. Don’t want to lose all that heat in my cube.