My Cubicle Masifesto

The corporate machine has led you astray. The American dream has been distorted. Now is the time for us to rise up and change the reality that we live.

When our baby boomer parents joined the work force there was a dream. This dream was nurtured from the successes of their parents. This generation saw a quality of life improvement that covered everything from indoor plumbing, graduating high school, owning a home away from the family farm, and the invention of retirement. Our parents embraced this dream and took the next step. This generation attended college and headed to the workforce under the idea that if you are loyal and work hard for a company, that company will do right by its employees. For the most part this was correct. So what has changed?

The corporate culture today is that the company will do what is best for the stockholders, not its hard working foot solders. Is this wrong? No. The company is in business to make money. However, we as employees, still have this generation old concept that the company cares about us as individuals. This is simply not true.

I call on all cubicle slaves to free yourselves of the chains that you have allowed the company and society to place on you. At the end of the day, the only one who can comfort you at night is you!

My challenge for you this Sunday is to take a piece of paper and write down all of the things that you enjoy doing or things that you would like to do. This is a free thinking exercise. If you like to paint, write, build, or go to Wal-Mart and play count the mullets, write it down. Now, once you have your list, put it on your refrigerator. Why? This is you! Don't hide it because corporate America will think that you are less professional or not dedicated to only to the company. Who cares! The company does not think about you and your family when they made the decision to cancel holiday time off or institute Saturday work hours.

Define who you are and embrace it.