How do you answer this interview question?

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Tiptop

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came across this interesting interview question while practising at {SNIP} I know there is no right/wrong answer. Just wondering how you guys would answer it in an impressive, creative, and yet acceptable way.

Here is the question:

If you were hired, how would you decorate your cubicle?
 
Whichever way would make me more money. Perhaps to appeal to my boss.
 
Tiptop said:
came across this interesting interview question while practising at {SNIP} I know there is no right/wrong answer. Just wondering how you guys would answer it in an impressive, creative, and yet acceptable way.

Here is the question:

If you were hired, how would you decorate your cubicle?
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Damn dude, you should try not to promote you're site with you're first post. It kind of makes you look really dumb.
 
Grey Fox said:
Damn dude, you should try not to promote you're site with you're first post. It kind of makes you look really dumb.
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Almost as dumb as using an apostrophe in the possessive 'your'.

And no, no sympathy for not being a native English speaker...
 
"Cubicle? CUBICLE?! I'm getting a goddamn cubicle?!! I'm solliciting for Supreme Overlord of the Universe, and you give me a cubicle?! How can I command my forces of Dark Evil from a CUBICLE?! **** you! Just, **** you!"

I always hate it when that question pops up :(
 
If you are from that site, then posting like this is rather shallow and weak, but whatever.

I'd say just a few pictures, or whatever my boss prefers.
 
This is really sad, i feel sorry for him, it must be some sort of advertisement.

Oh and i'd decorate my cubicle with pictures of my closest people, a poster of a hobby perhaps, a pet and some flag or shirt for my football team. Just stuff to fill the walls tbh.
(Hey Ennui i haven't seen you around for a bit)
 
oh I've been around, just not at the same rate (I had around 700 posts in one week, there, brought my posts per day from like 11 to 16 :p )

Down to 10-40 a day now.
 
Farrowlesparrow said:
I'd write the address of my website all over it.
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LOL

I'd fill it with lotsa plants and wear army camo so my boss could never find me
 
pomegranate said:
Almost as dumb as using an apostrophe in the possessive 'your'.

And no, no sympathy for not being a native English speaker...
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Here you go :p
 
I'd decorate it with my brain matter, generously spread about by my handy shotgun.

I hate cubicles.
 
wat makes you think hes from that site he might really be practisicing for an interview

O i would dec it out with pics of the wife, kids and other fam
 
With camo-nets, a search-light and a .50 machine-gun nest overlooking the workfloor.
 
Actually, I would decorate it with a high quality 7.1 sound system. Blast some Come to Daddy. Let the chaos begin.
 
/me decorates it with 4000 ultra white LED's covering all of the walls
shiny...
 
definitely pics of my family. my background at work is my family. i don't have a cubicle, but i do have a computer that's basically mine and a large bench. I work in a research lab (well, for three more weeks before medical school!). I think that question is meant to give the interviewer some idea about who you are, more than merely someone qualified for a job. Most people have lives outside of work and they want to see your response. It's healthy to have other interests. An "um, i don't know" is the worst answer.
 
I would put up posters of my FAVORITE cola drink: PEPSI
and why not add a couple of the hot young sensation: Lindsey Lohan?
 
CREMATOR666 said:
I would decorate it with pin-up girls :D
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I would decorate it with pinup guys and then claim all of them were my cousins.
 
Tiptop said:
If you were hired, how would you decorate your cubicle?
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The following are acceptable answers:
1. A calendar
2. Respectable photos of family and friends
3. Naked pictures of your interviewers' spouse/partner
4. A daily shcedule, to promote efficiancy
5. Naked pictures of myself, to promote nakedness
6. Postcards of your favourite artworks
7. Photos of natural beauties (mountains, forests, etc.) to help myself escape from the grim reality of this souless "cubicle"; a shackle on my every move and constant reminder that every single one of my hopes and dreams has been irrevocably crushed by your mind-numbing employment and that this ocean may prove to be my only respite from the unavoidable urge to kill you in increasingly grusome ways.

Compliance with the above will result in instant employment, momentary self-satisfaction and, a few years down the line, a mid-life crisis so devastating it will leave you only with the all-consuming urge to kill yourself in the most extravagant way possible. It's the only excitement you could possibly glean from that day.


The following are unacceptable answers:
1. Hardcore pornography.
2. Any form of decoration that professes one's love for any '80s rock band - Van Halen, Bon Jovi, etc.
3. Photos of you in "hilarious" situations that actually make you look like a wanker, ie: drunk, in fancy dress, on holiday.
4. Naked photos of your interviewers' children/grandmother.
5. Your recently-deceased but eternally stuffed cat. Thank God for taxidermy.
6. A basketball hoop above your bin.
7. A poster either featuring a cat hanging on a branch or the contemptable phrase: "You don't have to be crazy to work here, but it helps!"

The above will result in instant and unending unemployment, failure to ever find love without paying, verbal abuse, phyical violence, death and a police inquiry concluding that you deserved it all along.
 
About as much as decorating it with pin-up girls I imagine...
 
"My own saliva. Now, before you convince yourselves I'm insane, I should point out that it's a brilliant waterproofing sealant. Let me demonstrate... hey, keep still...!"
 
venturon said:
I wouldn't.
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I don't think you'd do very well in a job interview if your answers werealong the lines of: "No comment."
 
Well that's easy, I would place things in the most logical areas where I could increase my productivity.
 
el Chi said:
About as much as decorating it with pin-up girls I imagine...
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But I like pin-up girls, so it will increase my motivation, however, since I dont like pin-up guys, my motivation level will go down. You see the connections? :burp:
 
i dunno really, spongebob merchandise, a nice big avril lavigne poster(she's hot!), and dilbert comic strips!!! etc.etc.etc. And a HL2 poster, of course. Anyway i'm still 13, so what do I know about cubicles.
 
CREMATOR666 said:
But I like pin-up girls, so it will increase my motivation, however, since I dont like pin-up guys, my motivation level will go down. You see the connections? :burp:
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No. If you don't wanna look at pictures of naked men, then putting them all around your cubicle will stop your eyes wandering from your work.
Put pictures of naked ladies up, and your hands may wander from your work. And we wouldn't want that now, would we.
Therefore:
Gay porn in a heterosexual office space increases productivity and lowers "visits" to the toilet.

I should SO be a motivational consultant.


And bravo JellyWorld for your Spongebob decoration. You win. :)
 
el Chi said:
No. If you don't wanna look at pictures of naked men, then putting them all around your cubicle will stop your eyes wandering from your work.
Put pictures of naked ladies up, and your hands may wander from your work. And we wouldn't want that now, would we.
Therefore:
Gay porn in a heterosexual office space increases productivity and lowers "visits" to the toilet.

I should SO be a motivational consultant.


And bravo JellyWorld for your Spongebob decoration. You win. :)
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I will one day crack and burn the entire cubicle :|
 
Yeah but by that time you will have worked so hard your brain will have frazzled, reached a similar consistency to porridge-and-piss mixture and be about as useful. You'll be an empty shell of a human unable to wield matches, merely babble incoherently, an image of your screenful of work forever singed into your retinas.
Stick that in your pin-up girl pipe and smoke it :)
 
If you were hired, how would you decorate your cubicle?
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With nothing at all - as I feel that such items would only distract me from my work or cause others to be distracted from doing their work.
 
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