h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

Entry: Decorating Office Doors - A1001809
Author: Mikey the Humming Mouse - the ferocious Linkinator - U99875

I'm having a door fixation this evening....

Mikey

Very nice. A novel sociological sub-sector neatly summarised. Good to see us cubicle dwellers getting the attention we so rightly deserve, though naturally I defer to those with doors.

One of my big excitements this year was getting my *own* door -- I had had an office with a door before, but I had shared it with several other women. Now I have my own, so I feel more free to decorate.

Mikey

I work on the opposite side of this fixation. I work behind a door that you can't come through unless you have security clearance. Thus I have a door, but am at the beck and call of every Tom, Dick and Harry who bangs on it. The sign on it says :

BRIDGE

Not all cartoons are copyright violations. Some people I work with have a certain office humour cartoon-a-day calendar which stars an engineer with a curved tie and they post these on the doors/cubicle walls.

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No, those are OK. But the entry does specifically say "photocopies" -- and those *are* copyright violations. If, on the other hand, you *bought* the newspaper, cut out the cartoon, and then posted it on the door, then you would be all in the clear. By buying the newspaper, you've essentially bought the right to have the cartoon.

Mikey

Oh, I know it mentions photocopies, specifically, but maybe something like "A common style of door decoration involves affixing cartoons they've clipped or photocopiedOf course, such photocopies are copyright violations. that depict bitter office workers" would work, too. Or maybe just remove the word "photocopies" from the sentence?

Anyways, it's just my .


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Good idea -- I've tried a little modification, what do you think?


Mikey

Looks better!

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Door decoration doesn't really happen where I work (or if it does, then it's in offices I never go in).

Doors have two sides. Is the most common side for decoration the outside or the inside?

It would have never occurred to me that it wouldn't be obvious, I guess. You decorate the outside of your door -- you're not decorating for yourself to see, you're decorating it for other people to see. Maybe I should make that more clear?

Yeah, it doesn't happen everywhere. In some offices to top brass frowns severely on anything that deviates from the grey and sterile. In other offices the employees simply don't have the inertia or the intelligence.

Mikey

Alright, I've added 2 more sections...

Very fun entry...

My only quibble is with the first sentence. 'Many of those with jobs work in offices' I dunno, there's something that bothers me about the way that *feels* if that makes any sense.

But aside from that little thing, I liked it a lot. Of course, we're not permitted to do decorations in my office either...

I can see a related entry about Decorating College Dorm Doors on the horizon...


- Jimi X

OK, minor first paragraph modifications -- does it read any better now? Worse, even? Suggestions?

Hello

Good entry (for those not in hideously open plan offices <shudder&gt

Just got a couple of points, in simplistic dorr decorations with the title as it is I think the first line would be better as this:
"One of the more common styles of door decoration involving merely affixing an amusing or obscure quote on the door, or perhaps ..."
I don't know what it is, but the original wording seems to jar.

oh, and about bitter office worker comic strips I think there is an entry on Dilbert in the EG, might be worth linking to as an example.

Researcher PSG

A773778 Dilbert - The Comic Strip

Dilbert link added.

hello! your article triggered memories of my professor at the genetics department. now you have to understand that he's a brilliant man (he studied dna fingerprinting under alex jeffries himself), but he's also the most eccentric professor in perhaps the entire science faculty. wears loud hawaiian shirts and slippers with socks... you know the sort. well, anyway, he has (yes, still has. i've checked) this large board on his door just underneath his name plate, with descriptions of places he is likely to be (stuff like 'gone for lecture', 'at meeting', 'gone home')... and get this... trolls on the board (you know, those wild-hair trolls that were so popular some time back) showing *where* exactly he was. we'd burst out into laughter every time we passed by his door - it was just hilarious. (oh yeah, and this is the same guy who draws sad faces in the attendance register beside the name of each student who has failed to come for the day's lecture)

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