n. A half-desk, half cubicle workspace designed to foster a collaborative environment and remove privacyvia atypically lower walls. Commonly appear in groups.
The newer variation of a cubicle that uses one desk connected so that you and a co-worker share. It is supposed to improve communication, but is really just a more annoying cubicle because your coworker sits too close to you and you have no privacy but you still work in a cubicle. Meltdowns are likely when deskticle is shared with an annoying person or especially a loud talker.
I just got done organizing my deskticle but it was a waste of time because all of Dan's shit just migrates over to my side after a day.
An office compartment that's more than a desk, but less than a cubicle. It's the modern working environment's attempt to give you privacy while saving money and space by only giving you half walls around your desk.
Sometimes I like to hang a sheet from one end of my desicle to the other so that I can pretend I have a realoffice.
A Shackteau is a humble, weather-beaten, structurally questionable shelter located in a spectacular or highly coveted place—Wales, Jackson Hole, Sun Valley, Crested Butte, coastal Maine, the Alps—where the building itself may be worth almost nothing, but the dirt, view, access, and mythology make it absurdly valuable.
In use:
Shackteâu - We thought it was an abandoned shed until the realtor called it a rare alpine Shackteâu with unobstructed views and listed it for $2million.