Only these cubicles would be spread across one of New York's true architectural gems, the sumptuous Tweed Courthouse on Chambers Street, just behind City Hall.
As an extra fillip, he would put a school of unspecified nature in the courthouse, so that the administrators filling those cubicles would be reminded every day of "what their mission is".
The narrow white hallways and gray cubicles would be somewhat grim if not for Phillips's insistence that each staff member place an image of something he or she holds dear on their nameplates (a pinup of the actress Jane Russell, the logo of the University of Virginia or, on Phillips's own door, a photo of the band U2, with his own head pasted atop Bono's body).
Shootings are rare, he pointed out, and he added, "providing individual offices or bullet-proof cubicles would be both extremely costly and contrary to other important objectives of the open-plan office design".
If you worked in a small office cubicle, I think it would be fun to have the airport tower broadcasting in your cubicle to drive your friends crazy.
If the Chicago Mercantile Exchange traded cubicle futures, Pennsylvania-based Knoll would be short the contracts.
If you have lunch everyday with a bunch of your cubicle mates, then your absence would be conspicuous if you disappear during lunch.
To some degree the company operated as an assembly line: teams of writers in piano cubicles churned out songs that would be recorded immediately, as demos or sometimes as finished productions.
"A lot of guys his age would be in a cubicle somewhere, behind a desk in some office building.
In Connecticut, however, it was only 2 p.m., and my mom M would be sitting in her cubicle, facing a computer.
