Listen up fellow cube jockeys -- it' not that serious. Unless you're a cube jockey working in some capacity where you actually have a direct or indirect impact to saving someone's life, you really need to put it in check. Yes, I'm talking to you.
I know you've got seniority and you probably have a title with "Senior" in front of some made up title that your company gave you but you're still just a cog in the corporate wheel. You can drop dead tomorrow and 99% of the time the company will continue on. Your family will get some flowers and some co-workers may come to your memorial service, but trust me, the company or department will not shut down without you.
So what am I saying? I'm saying loosen up. Laugh a little. If the printer gets jammed or the computer freezes up, that is no reason in the world for you to go into panic mode. NONE. It will get fixed and you can continue moving that paper to the next cog in the wheel.
Being a cube jockey is not a glamorous position. If truth be told, nothing we do or don't do has that big of an impact on the world. Yes, our jobs are necessary evils in the jungle known as Corporate America but cube jockeys should NOT be more stressed than brain surgeons. Working 16 hours a day does not make us more valuable to the company -- it just causes folk to continue dumping way too much work on you.
So just chill a little. Work hard. Do your best. Then go home to your real life. That cubicle ain't it.
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