A Do or a Don't: Personalizing Your Cube

DearSugar — Wed, 16 Jul 2008 08:00:00 -0700

Since we spend most of our time at work, our cube or office space essentially becomes our home away from home. I've never gone so far as to put frames on my desk, but I definitely have my fair share of unique touches that makes my desk feel homey and familiar. On the flip side, some people don't even feel comfortable sharing their personal life with their co-workers so I'd assume personalizing their cube would be out of the question. What about you? Do you set up camp in order to make your workplace more pleasant or do you think adding personal touches is a don't since mixing business with pleasure can easily become too complicated?

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DearSugar — Tue, 11 Sep 2007 15:00:00 -0700

...keep personal memorabilia in your cubicle - you're there enough, why not make it homey!

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Wed, 29 Aug 2007 14:09:53 -0700

So let me preface this by saying I feel very bad saying this. I am normally a very sweet and nice girl. Well I just moved to a new city and I miss all of my old friends. So far I have met a few people, mostly guys...and 2 girls. They are very sweet, however they are not like most of my friends. I am very into fashion...I go to fashion events, openings, ect... These girls are not like that. They are very "homey" (spelling??) and a bit on the heavy side. Well 2 days ago while walking on the street ( a very cool street by the way) I was approached by a promoter asking me if I wanted to go to a fashion show/party/gala. I told him I was excited since I went to these things all the time yet I haven't found a way to plug in to the scene here yet. He told me to bring friends. Well I have only TWO girlfriends in this town, so I quickly called them to ask if they wanted to join me (how else am I going to go??!). One said she wasn't into it (figures) and the other said that she was totally up for it. So up for it in fact that she brought her outfit today to show me (the event is on Friday). Well the outfit is HIDEOUS. It is tacky, trashy and horrific!!! She is too heavy to wear it and it has too many weird colors/patterns...ahhh. Anyway, so it gets worse. I have been asking around and it turns out these events are suppose to be filled with models and beautiful people. What do I do??? Even if I help this girl with her outfit, she is still pretty heavy and as much as I hate hate HATE to admit it, I'M self conscious about it. Please help! I feel so guilty for feeling like this, but at the same time I really don't want to have a bad time. Let's be honest, these events are fun. Hot guys, free drinks, gorgeous clothes and great music. Certain people would be out of place. How do I get past that? Bring her anyway? Not bring her??

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A Do or a Don't: Personalizing Your Cube

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Group Therapy: I am going to burn in hell for this! Need your thoughts