When you start comparing the differences between the joint and the office, sometimes an orange jumpsuit’s a better choice than a suit and tie.

Ever feel like your cubicle or office is a jail cell? Well, it’s not. A jail cell’s probably better. Here are some interesting comparisons pulled from around the Internet:

• In prison, you get time off for good behavior. At work, you get rewarded for good behavior — with more work.
• In prison, a guard locks and unlocks all the doors for you. At work, you have to carry around a security card and open all of the doors yourself.
• In prison, you spend the majority of your time in an 8-by-10 cell. At work, you spend most of your time in a 6-by-8 cubicle.
• In prison, you get three square meals a day. At work, you only get a break for one meal — and you have to pay for it.
• In prison, you usually get your own toilet. At work, you have to share.
• In prison, your friends and family are allowed to visit. At work, you can’t speak to your family or friends because it’ll distract everyone else.
• In prison, all expenses are paid by taxpayers with little work required. At work, you have to pay expenses just to get to work, and once you’re there, they deduct taxes from your salary … to pay for prisons.
• In prison, you spend most of your time looking through bars from inside wanting to get out. At work, you spend most of your time wanting to get out and go inside bars.
• Finally, in prison, there are wardens who are notoriously sadistic. At work, they’re called “supervisors.”

Ever noticed how similar your office is to another, less-than-ideal place? Let us know in the comments section below.

Don’t get us wrong: Having the right URL for a company’s Web site is absolutely vital. The more traffic, the more business, the more profit — it all makes sense.

Case in point: One British travel company handed over a cool $1.1 million to a German competitor for the Internet domain name “cruises.co.uk.” Seamus Conlon, the owner of the company, said it was necessary to maintain dominance in the rapidly growing market for ocean cruises.

Couldn’t agree more. For a British travel agency aimed at developing its cruise business, that’s a great move.

But the company already owned the similar address “cruise.co.uk.”

Conlon went on to say his company wanted the top positions — note the plural — so that his company is the first “port of call” for those searching for deals.

The $1.1 million sum takes the cake for most expensive European domain name purchase, but the more popular “.com” addresses usually go for far more.

The current “.com” record holder is “sex.com,” purchased for $12 million in 2005.