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FEBRUARY 14, 2023

It was always advertised as a this-month-only thing, but the same promotion was renewed for May 2021, June 2021, and so on, all the way until December 2022. And along the cubicle corridor she would sail, distributing a mug of coffee and a milk jug to the three people who happened to be in her good books that particular day.

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JULY 6, 2020

The problem for me is, two of these kids are usually set up in the empty cubicle next to mine. We can and should try collectively willing it to stop because you’re right — if these positions are only temporarily remote, it makes no sense to advertise them as remote to someone across the country. Those aren’t remote jobs.

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SEPTEMBER 15, 2015

I recently started a job in a place where there’s like 50 cubicles. The position was not advertised anywhere; it was more my former colleague trying to make them hire someone with good written skills to clean up their online content. It’s five answers to five questions. Here we go….

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AUGUST 7, 2018

Typically, if someone drops by my cubicle to chat, I stand up. It was easy for me to approve a more flexible professional development plan, where employees could choose from several possible conferences or paid training options based on their interests, skill needs, or even the advertised keynote speakers.

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AUGUST 17, 2022

I don’t have cupboards here, and since I don’t have food every day I need to ‘advertise’ that it’s there by leaving it in the open. Would it be rude if I posted a sign asking them to knock or announce themselves before popping their head into my cubicle so that I can put on my mask? liked vs. respected.

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NOVEMBER 18, 2021

I find the abundance of Christmas lights, and decorations, and sales, and advertisements, and everything that pops up as soon as Thanksgiving is over… exhausting. All that aside, we’re a public library, not a religious institution or a store with holiday sales to advertise.

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DECEMBER 14, 2014

She periodically has different men in her cubicle. ” Employees have complained they saw her having sex in exam rooms and they saw her in a too close for comfort position in her cubicle several times. That said, they’ve advertised these two jobs in our school’s student newsletter. What can we do?

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OCTOBER 31, 2019

There is also a tiny balcony behind the control booth where we have screens that face the main hall and that we use to advertise upcoming events, memberships, etc. There were two rows of cubicles back to back, with high walls so we couldn’t see to the other side. ♦ “I used to work in an office in a manufacturing facility.

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