I want to talk about cube life today.
I want to talk about what's in your cube, what not to do in
your cube, what to do in your cube.
Not to do in your cube. How many times I can say cube in
one sentence? Square Times 3 corporate crash
out. Will you cash in or crash out?
OK, do you know like what the difference between have you ever
hot desked? Yeah.
And everybody, when I said that at my current work, they were
like, what the fuck are you talking about?
And they're like, oh, yeah, we call it Hotelling.
But yeah, I have. And it sucks and I kind of hate
it. And I never know where I'm going
to sit. And then how my old work was is
there was three stories. And so you're supposed to
usually be able to sit in your spot, but like sometimes you
can't if you want to come in on an extra day when your team's
not in. And it was like such a pain.
But anyways. Yeah, I really have never liked
Hotelling either. If people don't know Hotelling
or hot desking is like basically where you like go on.
Like usually they have like a an app or a website or be like a
website or like a link on the Internet like like company.
First come, first serve. Oh, you guys just went and sat
your ass down and it asked stop. No, I've only ever done it where
I'll be like OK, so like 2 weeks out all the desks will drop.
It's like trying to book a Bay at top Golf.
You have to like jump on right when they drop and like go pick
your desk for like you can book for like 2 weeks and you can
change it every day. Like oh, I want to sit in 120
this day 120 on the net. Like you can change it based on
that. And I guess the idea was like
since like auditing cycle, like you work on a job for like 2
weeks or a week was like you could sit with your team but no
one ever did that. Everyone would just like jump on
there and reserve their same desk over and over again or like
steal people's. It was really awkward.
It was like weird. It's like when you're an intern,
you never know. That's like so rough.
Two weeks is so insane. I think we could book like
rooms, but we can book like the actual physical desks.
Hot. Desking was just like coming in
and finding somewhere empty would give me so much anxiety.
Like at least like I know where I'm going if I like book a desk.
No, it was stressful. And so I would just, yeah, I
mean, if there was space, if there wasn't space, you know,
you're gonna have to go save somebody else.
At one of the companies I worked at, you could also see like who
had already booked, so I would go in there and be like, who's
sitting next to me? Like who?
Or should I move and sit next to so and so?
That's so interesting. So who did you move it for?
I don't, I don't know, but do you never just like sit some by
someone and they're annoying? I do all the time, but my
previous three internships I've had they have all had me sit in
a specific spot. They like lump all the interns
together. Yeah, we used to have that at
one of my internships who was like, just like a big table and
you would like reserve a spot at table.
It was weird. Oh I would hate a table, I'm
sorry. Like you saw like a cube ball,
but like only like to the ends and like it was just in front of
you and it was weird. That's a really bad.
It was tough. They called it intern row.
That's a crazy thing to. Say, well, they were like, don't
take the cubicles because the associates get them like
basically like you guys have blast dibs on like the cubes in
the office. Well, we couldn't book offices
because, you know, we were interns.
But I don't know where I'm going with this, but yeah, like
there's just something like I want to move cubes right now.
I just like don't. I want mine to be facing a
window. I think I'm kind of like getting
really depressed that mine's not facing the window because I'm in
Virginia for reference right now.
And it's so pretty. There's so many trees and like,
I don't know, the mountains and stuff.
And so I want to look outside, but I can't.
And then when I do get the opportunity to look outside,
like when we're in a conference room or something, I just stare
outside. And then my like the people in
the conference room kind of look at me.
Like, what are you looking at? But I just want to look out
outside of all the trees. I don't think that's such a
crazy ask, but anyways. Yeah, I I definitely understand
that. One time I was in this office
for my very first internship and they arranged so the cubes only
went up so high so you could like, see over the cube in front
of you. Like it was like they were
really short and it was like glass.
Sitting you could see over the cube or when you're standing,
because that's a big difference. If I sat up really straight, I
could, like, peek over, which, you know, that's a lot of
anxiety. I don't want people to see what
I'm doing all day and know that I'm not working.
But they had like, this whole wall of windows, and they turned
all the cubes to face the wall instead of the windows, like a
blank whiteboard wall. So everyone had their back to
this like huge wall of windows that overlook like trees in a
river. So interesting.
Also, I just thought of this right now, but when you said
like desk stuff, there's this huge cardboard cut out of like a
card, like a credit card. And there's a huge cut out
because we're like in the, you know, finance, whatever
business, credit business. And then it's like just actually
like a giant thing, like one of those massive TV's and they were
just going to throw it away, but some guy said no, you really
wanted it for his house. And he is.
Avatar. The ladies were gossiping about
like in the corner and they're like, and he has a wife and they
were like what they were like. Where is he?
Gonna put it and I don't know but I'm so interested to see
where he's gonna put this huge ass credit card.
I'm kind of pissed. If my husband brought a huge
credit card home, how am I supposed to just explain that to
my kids? Oh I mean maybe he has like an
office or a man cave. Like let the man decorate his
space. Don't touch my space, but you
can decorate yours. It's like the people that you
know how they take like stop signs and stuff from the
streets. Oh my gosh, my neighbor had one
outside his door the other day and was like definitely from the
street because it has like bolt holes.
Like the ones that aren't on the streets.
Like you can tell because there's no bolt hole.
Your neighbor is. Actually 12 years old if he took
a stop sign. Well then, I'm 12 too, because I
really thought about taking it from outside of his door.
Yeah. Actually like such a child.
I was like should I take it? But then I was like that's kind
of weird. But I'm like but he's moving and
he had it out like where you put your trash for them to come pick
it up. So I was like if he's getting
rid of it should I just snag it? But then I felt too shy.
I was like I can't steal but if it's trash it's not really
stealing. My boyfriend literally he went
down the hall into the trash room because I told him to take
out the trash and he found a cutting board like it was still
in the wrapping though. OK, I thought you're like,
that's disgusting if it wasn't. No, I agree.
I mean, I still think it's kind of weird that it even if it was.
But anyways. And then he found this, like,
cute little painting actually, and he brought them back to me
and he wrapped. Them up and he gave them to you
for your birthday. But you know, it's like when a
dog goes outside and it scavenges and like finds a stick
or something and it's really exciting when it brings it back
to you. That's kind of what it's like.
I can't Speaking of like boys taking things and leaving things
places and hot desking. Where is this going, Claire?
I'm thinking about this guy I used to work with and he used to
like fill the drawers of his desk with like snacks.
And I, I want to say it was like a certain type of Hostess.
I could be wrong, but I want to say it was like one of those
very specific types of Hostess cakes.
And he would put them in the drawers.
But like at this place we're hot desking.
So he, it's not really his desk, but he would just like keep
putting them in there and like the desk had little keys and he
would like it was so weird. Katie.
And one day I accidentally reserved that desk.
I opened the door and I was like, Oh, there's snacks in
here. And someone next to me was like,
oh, those are so and so's. Like you can have one if you
want. What it's?
Like an Easter egg hunt? Funny, we should do an office
Easter egg hunt. Do you know how cool that would
be, Claire? I know it's kind of like, oh,
it's just like Christian people. But, you know, everybody else
can, like, find the eggs too, You know?
I think it could be Katie. Said it'll be an inclusive
Easter. Egg.
But I still think it would be like cool to do and then you can
have like a golden egg. That would be so sick.
I would love that. We did an Elf on the Shelf this
year. Oh, did you?
That's so cute. What did you do with it?
Well, it wasn't my job to move it.
But you didn't. Look at where it was.
Well, I did. It would do like different
things. I don't remember what things
but. So cute.
I totally want to do that. Yeah, it was.
It was, it was cute. It was cutie patootie.
That's like about all we've ever done.
Patient. About like do you guys have a
shared reserve of snacks or like a shared reserve of like drinks
or something or no? Yes, we have a kitchen full of
snacks and drinks. Currently crying myself to sleep
because we stopped stalking Coke 0 for some reason.
How weird. Do you at least?
Have Diet Coke. Yeah, but I don't want Diet
Coke. I want Coke 0.
Like, it's mostly junk food, like different kinds of chips
and crackers. And OK, the other thing is like
if someone was allergic to nuts in my office, they would die
because we have trail mix. And then we have just like these
big glass containers of nuts and like the old men, dads like go
in there and like scoop them and put them in their hands and like
walk around and have their nuts. That's to do that like they
love, like the nuts. I don't know why but.
They put nuts in their hand and like, shake them around.
No, you know what I'm talking about.
And then we go like, like it's just the way, OK.
But anyways, we used to have that at my old work.
They had like a little thing of like M&M's and it was like kind
of small and I used to take a lot of M&M's and then they had.
Yeah, that's what we have. We have a glass drive M&M's too
like. Stupid, not M&M.
So I guess, and then we did have like the mix and then I forget
what else we have, but we had that.
But at this one, everything's like prepackaged, but sometimes
people will bring in stuff. Today someone brought in like a
trelette, trelette cake or whatever, and that was cool.
Yeah. And then they bring that in
where people like one person brought in a sourdough today.
Nice. Yeah, it's cute.
It's so cute and like a lot of times people rotate or people
will get each other birthday cakes, which is fun, or like
cakes if we graduated like a certain seminar and so then we
get all the leftovers and it's so cute.
You know, it's kind of gross that something that we do and we
haven't done this in a while, but like every now and then,
like you'll just get like an e-mail and it'll be like
milkshakes in the kitchen. And you'll go in there and they
go to this place and they get these milkshakes and they're
like in the giant like cups, like the biggest cups you can
think of. And people just like they all
share these milkshakes and like pour them into, it's gross.
And you pour them into other cups and like, everyone's like
mixing the flavors and I just, it makes me want to fall over.
Actually is the most insane thing I've ever heard.
It gets worse and then when people are done having
milkshakes, they put the leftovers in the fridge.
Claire, what whoever started this needs to be like punished
like what you guys need to have like a talk with the CDCI don't
know what but this is. Crazy.
No, it really freaks me out. I like I do keep a lot of snacks
at my desk. That's one thing that I keep at
my desk. Like I'll keep like good snack
crackers, my good K cups. What are K cups?
Like coffee cups? Like K cups for the Keurig.
Oh, nobody even uses our cure. Well, we don't have a Keurig.
We just have like the machine and you like press the buttons.
OK, well we're not that bougie. We have like an industrial sized
Keurig and the coffee cups are like really off brand.
So I bring my own from Trader Joe's and I keep them at my
desk. Wait, that's so interesting.
I never even thought about bringing my own, like coffee
stuff. Yeah.
What do you keep at your desk? Like a charger I got.
I had a little duck at my old office, which was so cute.
Do you know what I'm talking about?
Like the ducks they give you to help you, to help you, like code
and stuff. Like they give you ducks.
What the fuck? You haven't heard of this?
This is like actually really common in like software
engineering and stuff, but like basically before.
Ducks. Like I'm imagining the ducks
that are in people's jeeps. Yeah, it's like the same thing.
OK. But, and this all started also
like there was some paper study like about it and it was like
talk to a duck. And then my 11th grade teacher
made us do it. And then so basically before
Chachi BT, you'd be like really stuck somewhere in your code and
like you can't figure out what the error is.
And then you keep asking like the teacher a question and
telling her like, I don't know what it is.
And then she got annoyed and she was like, just go to the back of
the room and talk through your answer to the duck.
So you have to explain like your code to the duck, and then while
you're explaining the code to the duck, like you realize where
you went wrong and then you go back and sit down and then you
don't bother her. What?
About ducks. And that was sweet.
You know how I feel about this. Do it right the first time.
This sounds stupid, I thought. It was super cute, but anyways.
So you have a charger and a duck.
Wow, Katie, really have some interesting things here at your
desk. I usually always have like the
piece of paper that says my name, like when it's assigned to
me. And I'll say like Katie.
And then I keep that 'cause I'm too lazy to throw it away, but I
threw it away. This time, okay, okay.
And then I used to have these little Chinese candies or high
choose. I know high choose are Japanese,
but these other ones are like these Chinese ones, the ones
that come in like a tiny little green thing.
But like basically they're like little things you can suck on.
Like think tiny lollipops. Oh, I've had those.
I had those at a restaurant and they were so good.
I love those so I would like whenever I do something good at
work, I would take out one of those to eat that as my reward
so. Wow, Katie, this is some
riveting desk items. I don't know what else you want
me to have. Like.
I've just been an intern. Oh, a cactus.
I've had a cactus before. Oh, I should get a cactus from
my desk. It's really adorable.
I don't have. Any decorations out right now
other than my normal like photos and my normal like little signs?
You have photos? Yeah, I don't haunt desk.
I have my own cube of. What?
Huh. Like what do you have photos of?
People. What It's like a locker.
Yeah, everyone has like photos of like their family, like
people like I have them like pinned up in my in my cube.
Wait, that's so cute. And then like at Christmas, I
had a little Christmas tree and a little cross and then.
Wait, what? That's adorable.
I had a pumpkin out, like a little velvet pumpkin out at
like Thanksgiving. I haven't had anything out in a
while though. I need to get something to put
out so I'm thinking of cactus maybe?
Wait, that's so cute, Claire. I totally want to do that
because it is like so cute. Yeah, I'd be so much happier
going to work if I like decorated it for the season.
No, some people decorate so much.
Really. Nobody does, and some people
don't decorate at all. Well, don't you guys not have
assigned seats? It'd be hard to decorate if you
didn't have, right? Now in my current place of work
so. But yeah, nobody like.
I'm so sad. No, but my boss has like a rug,
a lamp, a dresser, like all these cute things in her.
Office, ours literally have like, I don't even know what
they have in there. Nothing like maybe like a like a
thing for they can put like books and stuff like a shelf or
whatever that's called a bookshelf, Yeah.
Oh my gosh, I can't handle that, Katie.
But yeah, I know. I knew some other people used to
like decorate more, but it was never like, I don't know, the
way we had desks, it was like a hard surface, like it wasn't
like the soft. OK, yeah, ours are like hard
surface and then like frosted glass.
But I feel like where my cube is is really out in the open.
So I had this idea the other day that I'm going to like make a
cubicle tent, like I'm going to put a roof and like a little
door on my cube. That's so cute.
Because I don't like. Also I don't like the lighting
at work. Like I like to work in the dark
if I work from home. Like I leave the lights off in
my office and just use the window light.
Wait, that's actually really true because this one job I had,
it was like kind of after COVID and so no one wanted to come
into the office and I would. Because I was like.
Already vaccinated, whatever, I didn't care.
And nobody would be there. Nobody would be there.
And then I would get my own office and it was super cool and
I would just work like in the dark and then get my little
coffee and then sit there and be like all cozy.
Exactly like I want this at work, but I'm just like out in
the open. I do have a space heater so we
all have like our office is freezing so we all have like
little space heaters under a desk.
But we recently got in trouble with management because like our
building management, because we keep like blowing circuits and
then like cubes will black out. Like like it'll be like 5
people's cubes at random. We'll just like block out of
power and it'll be like, Oh my cubes out again.
That's insane thing to happen. Why don't you just turn up the
heat? Like what?
Well, they won't let us. I don't know.
They won't let us. So we all have space heaters and
then like when they come to inspect things we hide them in
like our little lockers. Means at school, I don't know if
you had this, but I went to like a really like a private school
and if you weren't wearing the right thing or if you had like a
beard, if you had anything like you had to like.
Hide it. And it's like that with you guys
with the heaters. That's so interesting, yeah.
I don't know. I feel like my boss, I've had
different types of bosses. I feel like in the cubes, like
some, I know I had one whenever he wanted to talk to me, he
would like go around like, do you know what I'm saying?
Like you can kind of see this way, but you can't see this way
because this is like where I'm working like forward.
And so he would come behind me and like, look at what I was
doing. I hate it when people do that.
It scares me. I scream sometimes when people
walk up by me and they're like, hey, Claire.
You screaming? Well, it scares.
Me. Claire, that's so crazy.
Can you imagine? Like.
Not like bloody murder, just like, well, if I I'm really
locked into the numbers, Katie and someone just like as
unexpectedly in my cube. It's scary.
Maybe you should get a doorbell. Oh, that's a good idea anyways.
You can make it a little gingerbread house in the winter
to like pilot the idea of like a closed vest.
Like, I'll pose it as I'm just decorating, but it's really I
just like, want to be by myself and like, want the lights off.
Yeah, but I'll pose as I'm going all out decorating for
Christmas. That's cute.
What about Valentine's Day? Do you guys do anything?
Like do you guys make the shoe boxes and like give each other
hearts and stuff or not? Oh my gosh, should I do that?
Should I make us do that next year?
Like we can go around and put like candy on each other's
desks. Yes, I miss that so much.
That was one of my favorite parts of like, Valentine's Day.
I agree. And I got the decoration box.
Yeah, I had some cool ones. One time I got really jealous so
because this girl, her dad was an artist and he like hand wove
like I guess you don't weave wood, but he like made her like
a cherry pie box, like out of wood in the shape of a heart.
What? That's so insane.
How long did that take him? I have no idea, but it was so
cool and I was so jealous because I just had like a
fucking shoe box. Probably I did the night before.
You know, like when it's like 9:00 PM and you're like, mom, I
need a poster board for tomorrow.
Yeah, that was like me with the shoe box she got.
Sick of it. And she would just have like a
stockpile of poster boards in our house and she'd be like,
yeah, just go get the poster. We would do that too, but then I
would be like it needs to be a trifold or like it needs like I
was annoying like my mom be like this poster board will work.
I'm like no one needs to be like pink 'cause she would keep them
in like this one closet too. Like she would have like 5 in
there. Claire, you're such an annoying
child. Just a child who knew what she
wanted, and it's fine. Cubicles.
Oh, you know what I learned recently about my cubicle area
is that we have a sound machine that plays all day.
What? How did you not know that though
before? I never noticed.
I thought it was the air conditioner.
Like I thought the air conditioner went 24/7 and that's
why it was so fucking cold. But it turns out we have a sound
machine in the ceiling to drown out noises because we have like
2 cubicle sections and like apparently the other one doesn't
have that. So you can like hear like every
little thing, but like this, like I guess like this is like
white noise that plays at this other one.
Like where I sit. And I'm like, I'm just so
confused by it 'cause I can still hear like someone four
cubes up and two cubes over from me.
Like breathing. Like he sits there all day and
he's like. Like.
Shit, are you OK? I hate the people who have that
really nasally, like you know what I'm talking about.
Like they have something stuck in their nose so it sounds high
pitched when they breathe in through their nose and it goes
like. And I just, gosh.
Sounds like I hate it and so that really bothers.
Me. So my new petition is like,
let's put the sound machine on a different setting.
Like what if we heard ocean waves all day one day?
What if we heard? Cute.
Oh my gosh. Or if you guys had like a beach
themed week? Yeah, like we could do different
themed weeks and like change the sound machine did not just be
white noise. That'll be.
Cute, I know. We right now are doing like this
is kind of off topic, but like a music challenge.
And so apparently, like, there's this website where you can like,
say a 90s song and like submit your song and then everyone has
to guess who submitted what and then you they like rank you.
And that's like super fun. Sounds fun.
I want to do fun things like that.
We also do code names on Friday during one of our meetings.
So fun. I know.
I was OK, I was looking on Amazon the other day.
Now I'm really like thinking about decorating my cube and
like the potential for a gingerbread house cube and old
things. And I was like, look, I just
like literally typed into Amazon like cube decorations or like
cube must haves. And there was a security mirror,
a security mirror, you know, like those silver mirrors where
you can like see around the corner.
But it was like made for a cube. So you could like attach it to
your cube to see who's coming. Such a crazy idea to someone
like to be like, this is a problem to actually like invent
the thing and then go. And then in China we're like,
what the fuck is this? I kind of want to get one as a
prank, like just put it on my cube and see what people say.
Hello. Another weird thing I saw was.
Like. A coffee mug, but like heats
itself up. Yeah, I've seen that.
That's the battery like are we this like I'm so confused by
that. I just have so many things to
say about that, but. I also noticed like everybody
just like has the same morning routine.
Oh yes. Like.
That's so true. One of my bosses always gets
coffee from like this one specific shop and then my other
one gets it from Starbucks and then the person sitting next to
me they get Starbucks. But I like to change that.
You guys have a Starbucks in your building?
Yeah. Must be nice.
It is. It's subsidized.
Fuck off. I don't want to talk to you
anymore. This episode's over, actually,
because I want a Starbucks in my office, but.
In the when one of the other offices they have two Duncans.
I'd rather have a Starbucks. I don't really like Duncan.
We. Also have a Starbucks.
They have also 2 Duncan. Bro we don't even have a
security man at our front. Like we don't we got a Keurig
we. Got like 10.
There's like the greeters who says hello every time you come
in and there's one person like actually standing there.
And then there's like all the people sitting at the desks if
you forgot your ID. And then after that, there's
like the people, like the security people.
That's how my old office was at this one.
I like literally walked in for my interview and I accidentally
took the freight elevator and I was like, this is a weird
building. It was like a pad elevator and
it was huge. I.
Didn't see the other elevators. But you were like, yeah, this
looks. It had a regular elevator
button. I don't know.
OK, anyways, why is drugs on this list?
Drugs. Yeah, Oh my gosh.
So do you feel awkward like taking pills at your desk ever?
Yes, I have. Them I'm trying to like hide
them in my bag and I'm like. I have like some because I'm
supposed to take one of mine with food like the metformin,
and so I don't know, I just keep that at my desk just in case.
Like I forget to take it in the morning because like if I don't
eat before I walk out the door, then I can't take it.
So I don't want to take it first.
So it's such a pain. Yeah, no, I feel that.
I always feel weird taking like even like vitamins at my desk,
but there we have like a drawer in our kitchen and it just has
like a bunch of like ibuprofen, like Claritin and people would
just be in there all day. Like it's like the communal
bottle. It's like the big Costco size
ones. Like she what?
That's so crazy. That's like, like if you didn't
have a pharmacy or a nurse, what is that thing like a nurse in
the school like and you just told all the kids to take
whatever medicine they wanted. But I mean like, these are grown
ass adults, Katie. I know, but that's so crazy.
Like at first I thought it was weird but now I'm like in there
taking the ibuprofen if I have a headache.
Like like how often do you have a headache?
I don't know, like once a month. I used to clear I'm so scared to
go back to school. During this one class I always
got like the worst headache because it was just such a hard
class and I was like. Hanging this is too hard for me.
I'm getting a headache. I literally had that happen in
BC calculus in 11th grade. Like I had to take two
preventative ibuprofens every time I went to class.
I'm not even joking because it was like actually like I would
strain myself because he would talk about like all the theory
and then he'd tell us how to use it at the end.
And I'm like, I do not care about the theory.
But then sometimes he'd ask us about it.
So I really tried so hard to pay attention.
I've never, you will never catch me trying that hard, but I
definitely have gone through preventative ibuprofen phase.
Like when I was a cheerleader I would take like 4 before like
practice. So it's like, I know my wrists
are going to hurt. Why would you take 4 before
practice? Four, that's like an
exaggeration like 2 cause like my wrists and my ankles would
hurt. Well, isn't that like a sign?
Maybe you should like slow down. No, not around here, partner.
Who were you tearing for? Did you even have a football?
Team, Yeah, What kind of question is that?
People were on it, Claire, other than like 2.
Like all the boys football, Basketball.
Ever heard of those sports? What sports do you have?
All of the normal ones. No, we don't have sports and
like work. That could be cool.
I know sometimes like we had I can never go, but like little
pickleball things and we would like go play each other and
pickleball and then they have like a basketball court there.
And so like some of the D3 athletes never go play
basketball after work. OK.
We don't even have a gym at our office.
I don't want to hear it. Have you seen these things?
And they're like they look like. I don't know how to describe it
other than half a cylinder. An Ottoman.
Yeah, it's like a foot Ottoman, but like you put it on the
ground under your desk and it's like cushioning.
You like, put your feet on it. It's like a Squatty Potty, but
like. Yes, it's like a squatty potty,
but like a cushiony foot rest at your desk and like one person
got it, then the next person got it.
Like if you don't have this, like you're really missing out.
And I'm like the fuck? You guys are way too relaxed at
work. Literally half the time I don't
know if my chair is going to be the same chair that I had
yesterday. Like anything could happen.
Like, you know, I mean, it's not like.
I don't know if someone messed with my chair I'd be so pissed.
It took me like 5 chairs. Like switching them out with
cubes to get one that doesn't squeeze.
I like the old one. Like I like kept going to empty
cubes and like stealing them until I got one that didn't
squeak and now I have the perfect chair and if someone
ever takes them I'm going to be so mad.
Note to self, never take your chair if we're together.
Do you guys have standing desks? Yeah, like you can like press
the buttons. Yeah, so ours do that, but
they're like low key, obnoxiously loud.
So it's like going up. There's this one guy, he goes
up, down, up, down all day. Like stop.
It interesting. I feel like no one ever really
uses it. Like I mean, sometimes they'll
do it, but I never like noticed because I'm at a meeting or
something when they do, I don't know, but there's like so many
times. So Claire, we're like, we all
come into work, but nobody's around me, you know?
That's saying something, Katie. It's because they have meetings
like in, so they all go to different conference rooms and
like meet with all the different teams.
And so they'll be like in hours where I'm like.
I just want to have a meeting. What do you mean I?
Feel like I never have meetings. You want to have a meeting.
Yeah. Literally.
I want more meetings. That's so I never heard anybody
say that, but anyways. Like I feel like I need at least
two week. You don't have at least two week
no one with your manager and then like the one-on-one with
like no. No, no, we don't have anything
that formal. Oh, we're really laid back.
We have like those set out. So like we have like the don't
you have stand up? Huh.
You don't have stand up, Stand up.
I've done this. Like, OK, It's usually like when
you and your group, like all of you work under this person who's
like a senior director or something, you guys talk about
what you're doing to each other and like say, oh, are there any
blockers? No.
Yes. OK, but like my like type of
work is so different. It's like it's so many different
projects, you know, in different teams and you're on many teams
and there's. Because you guys bill per hour,
right? I feel like people that bill per
hour don't really do that because they just like want to
get like as many out, I don't know, as many hours as they can
because like places I've been at that also never did those.
I don't know, all I'm asking for is a few meetings to waste a few
hours of my week. I'm being too productive.
Literally all of us, when we have to join like meetings for
100 people or more, we just have it on in the background and do
our work and don't pay attention to it.
And then I asked people, oh, what did you think about the
meeting? It's like, you know, when you go
to school and you have like assembly, it's like that.
And then I'll be like, oh, what was like assembly about?
And they're like, I don't know. And then I'm like, why?
I don't know either so. Yeah, sure.
Right, Katie. OK, we really derailed, but I
just kind of wanted to talk about cubes.
That's kind of all I had for today.
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