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Dela Posted 19 years ago
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What does cubicle mean here?

A Cubicle's eye view of bosses...
  

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Cubicle is a small area for private use. But here (as far as I understand you are speaking about the book) it means that somebody is watching his bosses from the cubicle, so from his small office room. A person (the author of the book) is watching what is going on in the office from his working area.

  • Cubicle is a small area for private use.
  • But here (as far as I understand you are speaking about the book) it means that somebody is watching his bosses from the cubicle, so from his small office room.
  • A person (the author of the book) is watching what is going on in the office from his working area.
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Cubicle is a small area for private use. But here (as far as I understand you are speaking about the book) it means that somebody is watching his bosses from the cubicle, so from his small office room. A person (the author of the book) is watching what is going on in the office from his working area.
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It's not quite so personal as that.

In corporate American, we tend to work in cubicles. Not offices, but fabric covered walls that go up about five feet, separating up from our immediate neighbors but still in these sometimes giant clusters.

Any reference to a cubicle is often a way of referring to corporate America. While managers also have cubicles, the higher up you are, the m
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Thanks! I understand now.

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