SnackNation

MAY 19, 2017

Over half report career trajectory as the main attraction in an employer, with salary coming in second. Employees of other generations may believe that filled cubicles are an obvious sign of productivity while in reality, the lines between “work” and “home” are blurred more than ever.

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Vantage Circle

SEPTEMBER 28, 2018

Physiological Needs – Regular salary, safe working environment, lunch breaks, coffee/tea machines. When we say office, the things that come to mind are rooms covered in white paint, cubicles, computers. Timely appraisals and salary hike is an important factor of employee motivation. This becomes mundane and boring.

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Ask a Manager

JUNE 7, 2022

I previously worked for a company that had an open office plan, with cubicles with low walls. One employee brought in an iPad and watched movies on it in his cubicle all day long. Was it reasonable for his supervisor to let him watch TV in his cubicle all day long? Here we go…. Is watching movies a reasonable accommodation?

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Vantage Circle

SEPTEMBER 28, 2018

Physiological Needs – Regular salary, safe working environment, lunch breaks, coffee/tea machines. When we say office, the things that come to mind are rooms covered in white paint, cubicles, computers. Timely appraisals and salary hike is an important factor of employee motivation. Offices like Homes. You can change this.

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Ask a Manager

JUNE 3, 2015

And yes, there are certainly employers with total salary transparency, where everyone knows what everyone else makes, or government agencies where salary is public record — but I’m assuming that’s not the case here.

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JANUARY 12, 2016

Cutting the salary of a disappointing new hire. She asked for a higher salary than entry-level, which we were okay with giving based on her experience. Essentially, we regret paying her the higher salary and feel that she isn’t worth it. I sit in a cubicle at work all day. It’s five answers to five questions.

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DECEMBER 18, 2014

This was my way of telling her that we needed to discuss the salary and the “promotion” details first before I assumed the new position. I should have really said what I thought, which is what will be my new salary? I know for a fact that the other manager that she wants me to supervise has a higher salary than me.

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OCTOBER 18, 2015

Today our boss came to my desk to talk to me, in an open office area of about 40 cubicles. Reapplying for a job that I turned down over salary. While I’m interested, it just feels odd to approach it like I’d not applied before, when all parties know it was salary that was a sticking point. Here we go….

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NOVEMBER 1, 2016

I recently put in my two weeks’ notice as I got a job elsewhere with a higher title and salary. We work at cubicles in an open-ish concept office, so it’s not like he can hide behind an office door. I have been with the company for about a year and a half in an entry-level position (this is my first job out of college).

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Bonnie Low-Kramen

JUNE 19, 2024

If more men understood the scope of responsibilities, the salary potential, and the positive impact we have on others, more would join the profession. In an office setting, the administrative professionals were in a communal space of cubicles, while executives were in offices around the perimeter.

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JULY 31, 2020

I negotiated and went with a local firm who increased my salary by 50% with fantastic benefits, gave me a lot of responsibility and great feedback, and has handled Covid in a very responsible way. I have flexible hours to work on my master’s and eventually CPA, my own office (no more hot-desking or cubicles!)

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OCTOBER 7, 2016

My new job pays a lot more, but I went from having my own office to sitting in a cubicle and spending most of my time holed up working independently on projects, which bores me almost to tears. I have decided that, even though there is nothing fundamentally wrong with the new job, it’s not right for me and I need a change.

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Vantage Circle

JANUARY 16, 2023

Send a detailed notice on how salary ranges are calculated across the company (exact numbers are not required) and allow your employees to ask any questions they may have regarding it. Ask the employees to handcraft the emoji of their choice and stick it on their cubicle walls. Equal Pay Day: April 2, 2023, Sunday.

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Vantage Circle

APRIL 17, 2023

When you focus on salaries alone, you might end up with a team that gets the job done. If You Are An Employee Even if your company does not have a reward or token system in place, stopping by a colleague's cubicle for a quick chat and bringing them a cup of coffee can always be the start of a potential new friendship.

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Workplace Psychology

AUGUST 22, 2015

Indeed, one disadvantage of telecommuting is that you have no “tech support,” at least not in the sense of physically running down the hall to the IT department and asking the IT folks for help or calling them on the phone and have them come to your cubicle 30 minutes later to correct a problem with your laptop.

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AUGUST 17, 2018

I even got a “warning” note left anonymously in my cubicle telling me to “mind my own business,” which was taken very seriously by admin, but mostly just gossiped about by staff. ” (I’m doing what I was told to do.) My boss has my back, and she’s taken everything very seriously. You can read it here.

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MARCH 22, 2022

As a salaried employee, there are times when I take meetings over lunch, but generally I have time free over the lunch period. We share an open cubicle farm space in an open office, meaning our “conversations” can be heard by the whole office. The walks do not extend past the edges of what a normal lunch break would be.

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NOVEMBER 1, 2022

I overheard a conversation between two supervisors in our office (I have a cubicle, they were in the conference room opposite me, the door was half-open, and they’re both loud talkers).

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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. She told us that gifts from the hospital are added to their salary and they have to pay taxes on them! They usually play games together on a computer or tablet and often get loud and animated, as kids do. Is this normal practice?

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APRIL 5, 2015

But maybe there are other solutions to minimize the distractions, like putting up a barrier (like a cubicle wall) between you and the sink and fridge. ” She discussed the payment terms and offered me a salary that was significantly lower than I was quoted by the recruiter. I said that I would consider it.

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AUGUST 19, 2019

I saw an internal document with HR salary bands and should be earning more. In one of the folders was a document that is usually only given to senior-level hiring managers for salary negotiations and promotions. I am still over $30k in salary away from the 50% and have received exceptional reviews for four years now.

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FEBRUARY 11, 2018

I recently was told I had to move to a different cubicle. He was in an office next to my previous cubicle when he was first employed and the smell was atrocious! When negotiating salary, can I tell a personal story about why I need to make a certain amount of money? How do I tell this story without sounding weepy?

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FEBRUARY 19, 2017

” she will exclaim over the cubicle wall out of the clear blue sky. They also said that in place of a higher salary, they’d give her a company car. So when the car fell through, so did the “in lieu of more money” part, thus reopening the question of what salary was fair. My employees doesn’t use nearly enough words.

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AUGUST 25, 2016

I didn’t count on driving all these miles every day only to sit in traffic and then under fluorescent lights in a cubicle. My offer letter just states salary and PTO/benefits. I haven’t worked full-time in an office in years. My husband is disabled and that is the biggest reason I needed to be home sometimes.

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JUNE 29, 2016

I found out yesterday that my coworker who works in the cubicle next to mine is incredibly offended by the fact that my body makes sounds a lot. But if that’s not possible, I think you probably need to be understanding about the impact it’s having on your cubicle neighbor and not be shocked that it bothers her. Here we go….

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JANUARY 15, 2019

My manager, who likely makes around twice my salary, has a child in a private school and recently approached me to make a tax credit donation to his child’s school, which would help offset the tuition bill. It’s the nature of working in a cubicle farm; you’re going to hear each other’s phone conversations.

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DECEMBER 15, 2015

She cares most about salary and the life I will be living. I swear to god I don’t want to be sitting in a cubicle, then get married and settle down with two kids while he goes to work. I have tried talking to her about going into fashion design and she said, “There are many great engineering fields in design.” She doesn’t listen to me.

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MARCH 10, 2019

We are in a customer-service industry, where most employees spend about half of their shift at a service desk and half of their shift working on computers at cubicles in a shared work environment. I am not eligible for promotions (at all) and have realized that my current salary is below market value.

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DECEMBER 20, 2019

I got full benefits, a salary above what I asked for and it’s super close to where my internship was so I won’t even have to change my commute! Their replacement almost immediately brought up (without my mentioning it) it was silly I was in a cubicle and that I need a quiet space closer to my supervisor.

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MAY 4, 2016

Can you confirm for me that it’s totally uncool for me to overhear this in an open bank of cubicles? Is there anything I need to know about the Teapot Grant?”. Is there some other way I should handle this?

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AUGUST 4, 2019

Perpetua is to my right and boss is behind a cubicle wall to my left, so they can’t really hear each other and neither will use the phone/get up to go to the other’s desk.). 2) Noises I can’t control (such as buzzing lights or the woman in a nearby section who sings to herself) stress me into the red zone. (3)

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Success

AUGUST 10, 2021

You launched this side hustle in 2017 but recently left your salaried job to take this business seriously. . But you also like the lifestyle that your salary pays for: weekly dinner and drinks… lease payments on your Audi… the waterfront condo. Option 4 : Stay at the bank until your business can replace your salary dollar-for-dollar.

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SnackNation

MARCH 24, 2017

Step 1: Put together the boxes with the packing tape and place them in a coworker’s cubicle or office. We’ve all probably seen a version of the “fill your co-worker’s cubicle with packing peanuts” trick, and while it’s pretty good, it’s definitely been done before. A cubicle desk with overhead cabinets. Packing tape.

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Ask a Manager

NOVEMBER 19, 2017

It’s a “standard” office, cubicles, meetings, etc. Should I walk away from this salary negotiation? I’ve been going through the archives reading up on salary negotiation. I had did research on what the salary range looks like in the industry, what values I bring, etc. I work at a medium-sized office.

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DECEMBER 19, 2022

Now I’m am at a more “traditional” company where pay ranges for workers range from minimum hourly wage to six figure salaries. The woman who sits near me, with an empty cubicle in between us, bought tons of soda and junk food from Costco and sold it during the challenge, with the proceeds going to the charity.

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JULY 18, 2022

One time, outside of my cubicle, near the coffee pot, a group was chatting. But there we were, with my bread machine plugged in in its own cubicle. Back in the 90s, at age 25, I landed my first salaried office job. I never lived it down (and never did get removed from the email list). The attack. We didn’t share. The editing.

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FEBRUARY 14, 2023

Of the 8 floors in the building the floor that had the biggest cash to coffee gap was the floor where most of the top executives sat (salaries of mid-six figures to seven figures). After a number of these various warnings someone decides to start tracking each floor with coffee in and cash out. She would be utterly charming and gracious.

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