When championing “the web outside,” we cite the need for people to get away from their desks and PCs and experience the web in a larger social context.

Well, there’s no better spokesperson for this argument than David Gunnells, IT guy at the University of Alabama and, more importantly, the winner of Wired’s Saddest Cubicle Contest. Gunnells’ dark, cramped, windowless cube abuts a parking garage, and unwillingly hosts the smells of the office microwave and bathroom. Wired reports: “Gunnells recalls a day when one co-worker reheated catfish in the microwave, while another used the bathroom and covered the smell with a stinky air freshener.”

Dave, dude, you could definitely use some Web Outside therapy.

[tags]The Web Outside, Wired, Saddest Cubicle Contest, David Gunnells[/tags]