Welcome to Karoshi Cube

We want to welcome you to Karoshi Cube, a blog about the often frustrating practices of our managers, and our peers in the modern office environment. We? Yes, we are three (this will be the only entry written by all 3 of us). Let us introduce ourselves.

I am The Coconut. I am a consultant for internet technologies. I've worked in a multinational company of thousands, a local company of 10, and I currently work for myself.

I am LJ. I am an engineer. At least I think so. The O3 environment has made me doubt my qualifications though. I am a human being...perhaps.

I am Blind Dog. I am an engineer for an MNC all my life. Blind dogs don't climb trees or corporate ladders, so my name appears at the bottom of every org chart. But, hey! Who's complaining? I'm a manager, I manage my sanity.

Why another blog? We're all rather amused by how a bunch of individuals, when put together, asked to achieve a common goal by working together, with a structure of leadership created around them, function. Throw in the fact that resources (for example promotions) are limited, and there's a very strange atmosphere of cooperation and manoeuvring which is affectionately known as Office Politics. Now the leaders of this mishmash of conflicting interests have found out that these interests often hinder the achievement of the common goal, and thus have created rather odd rules, known to the mishmash as Policies, to help align these interests. The result is a weird and funny behaviour by all parties.

This blog explores these behaviours.

Call it a pschology experiment. In order for this experiment to work, we need EVERYONE's participation. Please contribute. The larger the sample population, the more accurate our discussions will be.

Which leaves only one question. What IS a Karoshi Cube? We'll leave that to our resident business and management expert Blind Dog to explain that. We expect it'll be a future blog entry. We expect it to be rather disappointing.