Comments on: Notes from CubeVille

By: Peter Varvel

Peter Varvel — Wed, 12 Mar 2008 19:46:41 +0000

And also: “yet, THEIR asses languished,” ha ha!

Come work with us down here in LA! We regularly share and laugh over group emails featuring the ‘name of the day’ or ‘street address of the day,’ such as the applicant who lives on Farting Street. This is absolutely true! I spoke to him over the phone and verified the correct spelling and everything–all with a straight face in the tone of my voice.

(Sunny: I, naive person that I am, prayed for a happy job after graduation and only had to wait seven months until I found it!)

By: Suebob

Suebob — Wed, 12 Mar 2008 04:53:18 +0000

I used to be a typesetter. My best typo? Changing “Old West Cinnamon Rolls” into “Old Wet Cinnamon Rolls.” Doesn’t have quite the same homey feel.

By: The Over-Thinker

The Over-Thinker — Tue, 11 Mar 2008 22:01:08 +0000

These comments are awesome–Totally pee-your-pants worthy. This is why you shouldn’t speed through “spell-check”–hitting “OK” to all the suggested corrections.

My co-worker sent out an e-mail to an entire division of the Fortune 500 company where we work. She typed the VP’s name “John” Erickson in the body of the e-mail. Spell-check didn’t recognize his last name and replaced it with “correct spelling”….After she hit send, a co-worker came over to tell her that she just sent out a division-wide e-mail referring to the VP as John Erection.

By: Moose

Moose — Tue, 11 Mar 2008 21:48:38 +0000

This is when I just adore blogging. When everybody starts tossing the stories on the table. Thanks, all!

By: Heidi

Heidi — Tue, 11 Mar 2008 21:08:53 +0000

I lived in CubeVille for eight months. It was after seven years of teaching middle school, so a quiet cube was just what I needed for my sanity.

My “across the aisle” cubemate and I had a running dialogue made up of entirely Seinfeld quotes, which, at times, sent us off into peals of very loud, raucous laughter. The building was one big, open layout of acres of cubes, and people from other departments would weave their way through the maze to tell us we were disrupting the entire floor (seriously, this was like a warehouse size building). To which Marshall would wave his finger at them and yell as they were leaving, “You ain’t gettin rid of the waterpik!”

Everytime we had conversations with difficult customers, we’d shake the phone and say, “Serenity Now!” Maybe it was only funny to us, but I don’t remember ever laughing that hard at work before or after that job.

And the best typo? The typist of our church bulletin forgot the last letter of a hymn and we were all invited to sing, “Come, Christians, Join to Sin.” Maybe not scandalous but a little heretical anyway!

By: jess

jess — Tue, 11 Mar 2008 20:40:39 +0000

in our cubeville, the section where my cube is located is considered the worst real estate in the office b/c there are few of us who laugh too heartily, too often.

i say YAY to no new neighbors anytime soon.

By: ali

ali — Tue, 11 Mar 2008 19:04:35 +0000

noisiest vegetable to eat at a cube?
celery.

all i ate when i did south beach?
celery.

most embarrassing two weeks ever.
no more vegetables for me at work.

By: Sunny

Sunny — Tue, 11 Mar 2008 18:27:22 +0000

Ah yes, with every Cubeville post, my will to graduate fades more and more. Poor Cubeville Boss, clearly the Grinch has visited his Cube one too many times. Now I need to go file a grad school app somewhere – and buy a pepper. Yum. (Your posts always make me hungry – is this good? Bad? Pavlovian?)

By: Nora

Nora — Tue, 11 Mar 2008 09:17:28 +0000

Our favorite typo came at the expense of a person (who, as far as we can tell, will never know, thank goodness). The name Mahboob was typed as “manboob.” No joke.

By: Kerri Anne

Kerri Anne — Tue, 11 Mar 2008 03:19:23 +0000

I really did! have a supervisor at one point in my cubicle career that told a coworker and I that we “shouldn’t laugh so much.”

I quit two months later.

Coincidence? Actually, no.

(I would have laughed with you. And tried to frame it.)