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Techies thought outside the box. Then the boss decided to take the box away
Who, Me? Another Monday has arrived, bringing with it the chance for work-in-progress meetings at which managers will recite corporate clichés with astounding sincerity. Which is why The Register always opens the week with a new edition of Who, Me? It's the column in which you share stories of trying to meet your KPIs and somehow escaping when you don't.
This week, meet a reader we'll Regomize as "Hamish" who sent a story recalling a time when his company hired a temporary workspace for a project.
"It was a fairly old-style office with a glassed off inner office," he told Who, Me?
This column has worked in similar environments, where such offices were derisively described as an "aquarium."
Hamish and his colleagues quite liked the aquarium.
"We enjoyed its sound-proof interior," he wrote.
It also made him mischievous.
"Working in a glass box gave me an idea," he told Who, Me? "I printed off two signs. One read: 'Thinking inside the box.' The other read: 'Thinking outside the box'."
This week, meet a reader we'll Regomize as "Hamish" who sent a story recalling a time when his company hired a temporary workspace for a project.
"It was a fairly old-style office with a glassed off inner office," he told Who, Me?
This column has worked in similar environments, where such offices were derisively described as an "aquarium."
Hamish and his colleagues quite liked the aquarium.
"We enjoyed its sound-proof interior," he wrote.
It also made him mischievous.
"Working in a glass box gave me an idea," he told Who, Me? "I printed off two signs. One read: 'Thinking inside the box.' The other read: 'Thinking outside the box'."
https://www.theregister.com/2025/05/26/who_me/