The elevator dinged as it reached my floor, and the door slid open. I stepped out into the sprawling office space, rows of cubicles lined like a miniature maze. The faint buzz of conversation and clicking keyboards filled the air, but I tried not to pay any attention to the static. My desk, in stark contrast to the others, positioned right outside the enormous double doors of his office. Of course. He made the change.

There's no cubicle wall to offer even a semblance of privacy, no ...