Think Outside the Tribal Box to Improve Your Cube Life
or...(Surviving Life in the Tribal Hut)



Summary 
  • Tribal Huts (cubicles) require a enlightened sense of tribal tasking etiquette.
     
  • Combat physical sleep-sleep with simple Neanderthal exercises. If mud rolling is not available, you may consider using mud balls, or a similar primitive object to squeeze for relief to your hands.

  • Decorating your tribal hut makes working there easier.  Consider use of feathers, flower leis, pots, bows, arrows, spears, or other decorations usual to a fine tribal home.

  • For many otherwise happy tribal toilers, the task hut (cubicle) is the bane of primitive tribal work life.  Although these huts (cubicles) give the illusion of privacy, the little walls are easily penetrated by nearby tribal hut neighbors' raucous sounds and chatter. Not only is a lack of tribal hut etiquette a problem, but spending most of your task day sitting can make you feel like your muscles have seeped into your ergonomic chair, like the errant muskrat, who wandered into the village marsh and never returned.


Tribal Hut (cube) Etiquette

Tribal indigenous types, who have existed in in these little huts, have chiseled in stone, that they resemble small corrals or pens for chickens, young pigs, or other livestock.  The petroglyphs record while attempting to perform tribal tasks, they found how difficult it is to work while trying to block out the sound of chattering.   Therefore, if you can hear your nearest (and sometimes not so nearest) tribal hut neighbor. . .then he can hear you!. . . Domestic tiffs, weird bodily functions, etc.  

Some tribal hut dwellers, have been reduced to poking little juju berries in their ears to drown out unhappy sounds while performing tasks for their tribal community.  Even then, a fellow native's voice can cut through the little berries, like the squawking kookaburra (also known as a Laughing Jackass).

These tribal complaints occur often, says Emilii Pohst, Elder of Tribal Etiquette International, who specializes in friendly relations for tribal enterprise villages. In a task hut (cube) environment, friendly manners & tribal customs must be elevated to a higher standard than a traditional place of tasking, because of tribal toilers' close proximity to one another.   Think about these ideas for making your task hut friendly:

  • Give other hut dwellers a sense of control over their hut.  Before beginning chatter, knock on hut walls, even if this is only symbolic/imaginary, foam, or some other unidentifiable material emanating from the tribal forge.  Ask to enter the hut, instead of unexpectedly leaping in. 

  • Don't loiter or hang loose.
    Your chattering does free-float among the indigenous folks in your village (like a wafting thunder cloud during a monsoon).   This often disturbs tribal members who are trying to make chatter with the little talking horn, read ancient hieroglyphics or  chisel a few of their own.   Others may simply be meditating on important tasks or enterprise for the good of the collective village.

  • Realize that odors know no boundaries.
    Your lunch, although yummy to you, may make someone else's stomach do jump jump. If you munch in your hut, take peels, left over fish, out and bury it at the village swamp promptly. . .and clean your own cauldron!  

  • It is also important to your longevity to keep the memory that the Cauldron Area (lunch room and coffee service areas), are a collective responsibility.  Each tribal person needs to fathom that if they make a mess in these areas, it is their responsibility to clean it up, and fend for themselves in this regard.  The tribal people nearest these cauldrons (The Admins), are not your mother, or the captured slaves from an overpowered foe. . .no matter what you asked the gods for in that last ritual!

  • Be instinctively "knowing" of what you are chattering, and how noisy you are saying it.  Know all tribal folks within a four-hut gathering can hear you. If you need to chatter about sensitive matters secretly, try to find an uninhabited communal meeting hut or quiet area near the stump of a tree, or on the other side of the meadow. 

Hut Atrophy

Indigenous pain among task hut dwellers, is from the feeling they are getting "task hut body." What kind of effect does long-term squatting/sitting/tapping on the stone with many little bumps have on you? Morgutu, a recognized tribal shaman, healing person and body rubber, says tribal peoples have awareness of these physical repercussions:

  • Low back pain coming from bad sitting/squatting position while performing tribal tasks, from the time the sun comes over the top of the banyan tree, until it leaves for sleeping beyond the horizon of the distant village hill.

  • Hurt in upper back from scrunching neck and shoulder together while chattering with other distant tribal indigenous folks on the little talking horn. 

  • Shortened chest muscles from leaning into task mantle to chisel messages on stone, or stroking the stone with the little bumps.  And it has been found, short chest muscles are not good for tribal sports that require jumping and throwing of balls into village hoops...or the swatting of balls with the tribal tree branch.

  • Sluggish movement of blood in legs from not walking about. 

With good fortune, finding harmony with these problems can be accomplished. Morgutu recommends the following traditions for good juju:

  • Get up and walk, every time the sun leaps from leaf to leaf on the Ojihia Tree (half hour). This keeps blood from moving slow like the village slugs.  And too, gives your visions a rest away from your task pool and lets your whole body move. 

  • Stretch your arms back over your head and arch your body into a boomerang ("C").  This helps reverse any hunched-over posture you may be evolving. 

  • Stand up and roll back and forth on your heels and toes. This stretches leg muscles that scrunch from too much sitting or squatting.

Find a large tree (or doorway) and place your forearms against the trunk.  Lean into the tree to stretch your pec muscles. Don't stay this way too long though, or you might feel big pain, like when you got caught accidentally in the tiger trap, and where unexpectedly slung up to the top of the tree by both arms. 

Make sure you have a happy chair with good places for your arms, that can go up and down to get the right fit (ergonomic if the tribe agrees to give it to you), and your tasking mantle (desk) should be placed at happy height for you.

Tribal Hut Bliss

Even if your tribal hut neighbors are a bunch of pesky Neanderthals and your head honcho chief thinks happy seats (ergonomic chairs) are for village wimps, nirvana is still possible. A tribal talkabout (communications) administrator and tribal visitor of a distant village, for many passings of the moon, says true happiness requires a "bloom where you're planted" philosophy.

This Talkabout (communications) Administrator keeps a few framed ancient and present icons on their tasking mantel of tribal pals and tribal family members, as well as favorite distant villages that have been visited.  Other tribal folks, have brought the twigs from forests, plants from marshes, and blossoms from meadows, to their huts in baskets or crockery, that can no longer be used for storage or cooking.  One tribal member even has a small exotic-type rug to place at the entrance of their hut, to make things appear more friendly.  If you have to live in a tasking hut from the time the sun comes over the top of the banyan tree, until it leaves for sleeping beyond the horizon of the distant village hill, you may as well make it a happy hut.

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And just remember, those that ask you to think outside the box, likely created the box in the first place. . . Myrl