A tidy desk is the clearest sign of a diseased mind.

[Robinho]

The key to a clean desk is to have absolutely nothing on it.

Just stash everything in your pedestal.

[cojak]

Or a sign that some ineffectual middle manager has latched onto the "5S" scheme as a way of ensuring his continued employment.

Oh yes, and you can forget having anything useful on your desk like reading lamps or staplers...

[al_cam]

I wish I was still an engineer

My desk used to look like these

Happy days.

[SueEllen]

Oh yes, and you can forget having anything useful on your desk like reading lamps or staplers...

If you put those things on your desk in most open plan environments they go missing.

[bless 'em all]

Or a sign that some ineffectual middle manager has latched onto the "5S" scheme as a way of ensuring his continued employment.

Many Western companies now promote Hirano’s approach with a sixth ‘S’ added for Quality.

Now that's management. I counted 8 S's and another 'S' for quality..WTF?

[mudskipper]

I'm horribly untidy.

A few years ago, bought a book to help me sort myself out.

Colleague took photo of it on my desk (not set up!)



No idea where the book is now.

[Freamon]

My todo list:

Ah, what is known in the industry as a "ticketing system".

[Freamon]

My desk is a place of horror.

Richard Granger the erstwhile director of the NHS National Programme for IT was notorious for nipping round the building at lunchtime and confiscating unlocked laptops, leaving a note that the miscreant should apply to him in person for its return.

I never met the man, but I heard many people say he was like that.

[xoggoth]

The key to a clean desk is to have absolutely nothing on it

OOOOh no. It has to have all sorts of things on it, they just must not be out of place. Like here is my desktop EDL protest.



PS It has acquired a puffer fish, a butterfly, a prism and a transparent space alien since that picture.
PPS Also have blackbird skull, model of Henry VIII, 2 soft lizards, 2 blobby aliens, fossil sea urchin, 18th century snuff box, snake, lizard, frog, prawn thing, deer horn knife, giant copper ant, drawing mannequin, seahorse, various bottles, miniature oil lamp, African witch doctor.......
PPS and a Japanese knife holder with (a bit) of genuine gold leaf outlining an angry fat god in the rain.

[ZuiderZee]

I'm horribly untidy.

A few years ago, bought a book to help me sort myself out.

Colleague took photo of it on my desk (not set up!)



No idea where the book is now.

My guess is in exactly the same place only it now has another 3ft of tulip piled on top.