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

[mudskipper]

The Zs have it in a nutshell.

Exzactly right.

[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.

[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.

[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.

[Freamon]

My todo list:

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

[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.

[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?

[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.

[al_cam]

I wish I was still an engineer

My desk used to look like these

Happy days.

[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...

[Robinho]

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

Just stash everything in your pedestal.

[NotAllThere]

Same here. If anything is a cm out of place I start foaming at the mouth.

We had one chap like that. We used to mirror the objects on his desk when he went home.

[SimonMac]

What is the 5s scheme?

Let me google that for you

[redgiant]

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

What is the 5s scheme?

In my travels the worst desk I've seen was a tester working for a government department who printed out everything he recieved. His desk resembled a childs den of boxes and paperwork piled up and creating a cave

[wobbegong]

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

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