When I first started full-time at Kodak, my first cube was built from a motley assortment of rose, lavender, and purple panels over a purple rug (in tiles, which, some months later, had to be taken up and replaced with broad rolls of carpet). The entire cube farm (about the size of a football field) was so decorated, leading to everybody calling it the "Purple Palace".
Building 11 Elmgrove. Now known as Kodak Manitou since they sold off the rest of the Elmgrove Plant to developers. Building 11 was sold to Heidelberg, who in turn gutted, remodeled, and expanded it before selling it to Philip Morris as an investment. When Kodak bought back the copier/press division from Heidelberg they actually re-used those purple cubes instead of spending the money to use the same cube design Heidelberg used.
Where are there uniform off-white cubes?
Cingular Wireless in Bothell, WA, just northwest of Redmond (home of Microsoft) and northeast of Seattle.
The new job has grey cubes, which isn't bad, but they are a bit smaller than my old one, and they are designed to be shared with a cube mate. I'm not that crazy about them. The new office is huge, but they do break it up with some higher partitions and such. you can't see all the way down the building from your cube here.
I tried to stick to the actual dress code guidelines, which did not mention kilts, so technically, within guidelines, except that you are requested to wear undergarments.
I was management, i had to set an example, right? :-)
Well, exactly, but I was also trying to push the boundaries, because my example whenever the dress code would come up would always be, "but I'm still allowed to wear a kilt." In the end, I proved myself right. I couldn't wear capri pants, but kilts weren't mentioned, and that's open territory in my book.
And I just wanted to leave them with something to remember.
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My new office has uniformly off-white cubes.
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Football-field sized cube farm?
Sounds like Building 205 to me -
Where are there uniform off-white cubes?
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Building 11 Elmgrove. Now known as Kodak Manitou since they sold off the rest of the Elmgrove Plant to developers. Building 11 was sold to Heidelberg, who in turn gutted, remodeled, and expanded it before selling it to Philip Morris as an investment. When Kodak bought back the copier/press division from Heidelberg they actually re-used those purple cubes instead of spending the money to use the same cube design Heidelberg used.
Where are there uniform off-white cubes?
Cingular Wireless in Bothell, WA, just northwest of Redmond (home of Microsoft) and northeast of Seattle.
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Good luck with the apartment snafu.
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I was management, i had to set an example, right? :-)
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And I just wanted to leave them with something to remember.
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