- Re-configure the cubicle. See life in the cubicle as boot-camp training to make you as tough as you can be. Relish it, it's not for life.
- Wander the grounds. Get out of the cubicle and make yourself known. Don't hunker down in the cubicle trying to avoid hassle: you'll just be be forgotten. Volunteer for stuff and do amazing work. Maybe somebody will give you a job in the library or the hospital from where it is a whole lot easier to escape.
- Do what Jason Bourne would do. Never let anyone at any stage faze you. Look around and there is always a solution, always a way e.g. out of the the crappy meeting in which you are sitting.
- Get a map from those who have escaped. Others have done it. What did they do? How did they do it? Copy the excellent strategies and tactics of practitioners.
- Do press-ups every 45 minutes. When your opportunity comes you will need to run hard, scale walls and swim in cold water. Get and stay very fit indeed. Now.
- Be beholden to nobody and no thing. They are wearing you down with the free pastries: you know that. Anyhow: look what it has done to the jailers.
- Look out of the windows. Sure they are sealed and need a good wash. But look beyond that, out at the horizon: that's your goal. Not the next ping of your phone.
Zen & The Art of Cubicle Freedom here.