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Any books about destroying the company you work for from within?

>> No.15511696

>>15511677
Bartleby the Scrivener: A Story of Wall Street

>> No.15511702

Intersectionality by Patricia Hill Collins

>> No.15511705

why do idiots use the cubicle as a symbol of corporate uniformity and evil. open concepts are 100x worse. you get a modicum of privacy and space with a cubicle.

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>>15511705
you aren't wrong

>> No.15511762

>>15511705
It's just ugly and soulless looking

>> No.15512568

>>15511705
because the open plan office is relatively recent. the cubicle model was absolutely dominant until well into the 2000s and you can still find examples today

>> No.15512572

>>15511705
True

>>15511677
It’s not really what was asked for, but The Man in the Gray Flannel Suit by Sloan Wilson does a great portrayal of white collar office life, very funny and still relevant
Revolutionary Road does that too, actually a lot of Richard Yate’s stuff has funny workplace portrayals
More recently Joshua Ferris’ Then We Came to the End is pretty good, but kind of falls apart at the end

>> No.15512776

>>15511762
But it's practical, and you have privacy.

>> No.15512837

>>15511731
Anti privacy company's employees have no privacy.
Pottery.

>> No.15513082

>>15511731
>mfw used to think working as a dev was like working in the company of scholarly people

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>>15511677
This one worked me OP

>> No.15513175

The Trump presidency.

>> No.15513258

>>15511705
This is very true.
>>15511731
Open offices are unironically the soft version of the panopticon. Cubicles allowed you to concentrate better, which meant you could do 90% of jobs in a third of your work hours and spend the rest on the internet. Few people would notice you didn't make your hours even and your boss doesn't give much fuck provided you still do the job.
I guess the cubicles were hated by normalfags in need of 24/7 visual/physical contact with people but it was a godsend for high functioning autists. Made even the most boring office/coding jobs very tolerable.

>> No.15513271

>>15511731

>black lives matter poster on the bulletinboard
>not a single black person in the whole office

Imagine how good the white woman who hung that poster must have felt about herself for being so progressive

>> No.15513349

>>15512776
there's no fart privacy, which is all that matters.

>> No.15513385

>>15513271
She felt excellent. She did her socially-constructed duty and didn't have to be around a single black person the whole time.