There were four boys, they came to the cubicle, they grabbed my head, and tried to push me into the toilet. When I tried to balance, another boy kicked me and I ended up inside the bowl with my head.

Cubicles were the hallmark of a dull, soul-sucking job. Now they seem like paradise lost. In a memorable montage from the 1999 workplace satire "Office Space," Peter Gibbons, a fed-up office drone ...