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do you personalise you desk at work?

IndieAndy_Jones [Edit] [Delete] 112 replies 11:53, 7 August '08

some people here have LOADS of stuff on their desk, like little fuzzy toys that have no purpose other than being cute. Other people have photos, and I've seen one person who seems to be trying to turn their little corner into a rain forest.

I however, have nothing on my desk because i have no personality.

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  • when I had a desk i did

    I had a picture of harmar superstar in his pants, some posters of busted and mcfly that came free with the smashhits we used to get and various bits of pink tat that also came free.

    my office companion covered every surface with plants, mainly cacti - very pretty

    Slicky | 7 Aug '08, 11:56 | X
    • Do you miss working?

      TheoGB @Slicky | 7 Aug '08, 11:57 | X
      • nope

        not in the slightest...

        babies are WAY more fun :)

        Slicky @TheoGB | 7 Aug '08, 12:05 | X
        • babies won't make you cups of tea

          or buy you biscuits though will they

          IndieAndy_Jones @Slicky | 7 Aug '08, 12:08 | X
          • in a few years they will :)

            Slicky @IndieAndy_Jones | 7 Aug '08, 12:10 | X
            • haha

              my parents trained us as soon as our tiny hands could grip the kettle.

              nice_squirrel @Slicky | 7 Aug '08, 13:10 | X
    • her or the plants?

      lemonbrickcombo @Slicky | 7 Aug '08, 11:59 | X
      • it was a he

        and the plants

        Slicky @lemonbrickcombo | 7 Aug '08, 12:03 | X
  • i emit pungent smells to deter intruders

    medulla | 7 Aug '08, 11:56 | X
  • I've put some flyers and small posters and clippings from papers etc up

    lemonbrickcombo | 7 Aug '08, 11:56 | X
  • In that case I have no personality either....

    I hate desks overflowing with personal crap.

    Lo-Pan | 7 Aug '08, 11:56 | X
  • I hate hotdesking.

    I'm glad to have my proper desk with a pedastel full of snacks and stationery.

    TheoGB @Jack_El_Biscuit | 7 Aug '08, 12:00 | X
  • What is hotdesking?

    bamos @Jack_El_Biscuit | 7 Aug '08, 12:01 | X
    • must be a bugger when you get lost among the desks

      and can't find your way back.

      "i'm sure i passed that desk before..."

      poptimusgrime @Jack_El_Biscuit | 7 Aug '08, 12:05 | X
    • You actually rotate it?

      In our office you just pick whatever desk is free when you come in.

      It's stupid here, though. They have limited space and they could maximise it for the management types by having a separate long desk with more seats for them, considering they just use their laptops and don't need all that space.

      TheoGB @Jack_El_Biscuit | 7 Aug '08, 12:06 | X
      • Christ.

        Are some 'better' than others, then? Ours are all the same really.

        TheoGB @Jack_El_Biscuit | 7 Aug '08, 12:09 | X
        • You're one of the nesters, eh?

          Tut-tut...

          TheoGB @Jack_El_Biscuit | 7 Aug '08, 12:12 | X
          • Are you in fact

            a cuckoo?

            gowman @Jack_El_Biscuit | 7 Aug '08, 13:14 | X
          • 'nesting'

            hah. offices are funny.

            poptimusgrime @Jack_El_Biscuit | 7 Aug '08, 12:10 | X
            • the only memo we got about nesting

              was when an owl built a nest in the roof. it was great. the owl made an appearance one day and flew around the building in a right panic.

              poptimusgrime @Jack_El_Biscuit | 7 Aug '08, 12:12 | X
            • if you're not a nester

              you're nodal or nomadic!

              IndieAndy_Jones @poptimusgrime | 7 Aug '08, 12:16 | X
          • They heat the chairs and furniture up so you have to keep moving around to stop being burnt

            lemonbrickcombo @bamos | 7 Aug '08, 12:02 | X
          • We're not allowed to really.

            There isn't anything that's 'me' on this desk.

            TheoGB | 7 Aug '08, 11:57 | X
            • I've never worked the type of job to allow me to have a desk,

              but if I did have one, I'd make it a little home from home; plants, photos, wee ornamenty things, cushions/blankets on the chair, etc.

              Wouldn't it make being at work so so much nicer?

              dark_truffles | 7 Aug '08, 11:57 | X
            • few flyers, photo of me cat

              not a lot else though.

              Ricky_Ronco | 7 Aug '08, 12:00 | X
            • Photo of wife and son

              Saints mouse mat

              Matt le Tissier on a Triple H mini-skateboard pulling a manual across the top of my PC

              other than that, no

              Judge_B | 7 Aug '08, 12:01 | X
              • the actual Matt Le Tissier?

                he must have fallen upon hard times

                IndieAndy_Jones @Judge_B | 7 Aug '08, 12:03 | X
                • The pay isn't bad

                  plus he gets all the dried apricot he can eat

                  Judge_B @IndieAndy_Jones | 7 Aug '08, 12:04 | X
                  • and boy does he like to eat

                    IndieAndy_Jones @Judge_B | 7 Aug '08, 12:09 | X
              • also, he's a fat fucker, how

                on earth has he got the balance to skate ?

                Ricky_Ronco @Judge_B | 7 Aug '08, 12:04 | X
                • He's not fat, he's big boned.

                  I will also have you know that he smells of lavender, and is kind to his mother

                  Judge_B @Ricky_Ronco | 7 Aug '08, 12:14 | X
                  • which of his 'big bones' is responsible for his massive pot belly?

                    IndieAndy_Jones @Judge_B | 7 Aug '08, 12:17 | X
                    • Shut up!

                      That's which one

                      Judge_B @IndieAndy_Jones | 7 Aug '08, 12:23 | X
            • Not really

              I've personalised my PC desktop background, but that's about it.

              colonol_k | 7 Aug '08, 12:01 | X
              • I can't do that :(

                sadpunk @colonol_k | 7 Aug '08, 12:05 | X
              • having a personalised desktop

                was my one haven of hope. i do this "hotdesking" thing too (although I prefer nomadic administration) but now theyve taken away my radiohead desktop and replaced it with "Have an IT related problem? Call the Helpdesk on Ext.250".

                Nightmare

                expostfacto @colonol_k | 7 Aug '08, 12:18 | X
            • Nothing

              my desk has enough crap as it is

              roastthemonaspit | 7 Aug '08, 12:02 | X
            • only four pictures

              of morrissey, pj harvey, shellac and jd salinger.

              poptimusgrime | 7 Aug '08, 12:02 | X
              • I'd love to see that desk

                splitterwill @poptimusgrime | 7 Aug '08, 12:11 | X
            • My desk has accumulated a lot of stuff!

              http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v660/martynwells/desk.jpg

              L-R:
              A model bear taking a dump
              a garden gnome
              one of those cool things with lots of pins in that you can press your face into
              a toy pig
              a 3x3 rubik's cube
              a post it note with a picture of some tits on it
              a wooden cut-out of my name
              a washing up brush
              a stick of rock
              a little kinder toy (just visable under the monitor)
              a lego man in a lego car
              a drum kit clock (on the partition)

              sadpunk | 7 Aug '08, 12:02 | X
              • DESK COMPARISON

                http://www.flickr.com/photos/--sam--/298807203/

                colonol_k @sadpunk | 7 Aug '08, 12:05 | X
                • You win.

                  sadpunk @colonol_k | 7 Aug '08, 12:07 | X
              • :)

                i think i'll go and get one of those cool pin things at lunch. hours of face pressing fun!

                poptimusgrime @sadpunk | 7 Aug '08, 12:06 | X
                • You can also play the game of

                  'Guess what I've pressed into the pin thingy'

                  sadpunk @poptimusgrime | 7 Aug '08, 12:16 | X
                  • was it your nads?

                    lemonbrickcombo @sadpunk | 7 Aug '08, 12:22 | X
                    • Ouch!

                      :)

                      sadpunk @lemonbrickcombo | 7 Aug '08, 12:25 | X
                      • It looks like a heart

                        did you rip your heart out of your chest, squidge it on the pins, and then put it back in?

                        lemonbrickcombo @sadpunk | 7 Aug '08, 12:27 | X
                        • Correct!!

                          Your turn!

                          sadpunk @lemonbrickcombo | 7 Aug '08, 12:29 | X
              • Whenever i click on those

                photobucket links at work, all i get is a blank page.

                Never before has this made me so sad. I like the sound of your desk, you clearly have a personality

                IndieAndy_Jones @sadpunk | 7 Aug '08, 12:11 | X
                • If you really want to see it

                  PM your email address

                  sadpunk @IndieAndy_Jones | 7 Aug '08, 12:11 | X
                  • and I don't think it's a sign of personality

                    it's just a sign of being the kind of person that hoards crap! :)

                    sadpunk @sadpunk | 7 Aug '08, 12:14 | X
              • :D

                I remember that pin thing! Do you have a wooden cut-out of your name in case you forget it?

                I only really have the book I'm reading at the moment to personalise my desk. I'm not one for covering it in junk. Someone in my office has decorated her pc with stones which help 'calm' her apparently. They don't seem to work much.

                shucks @sadpunk | 7 Aug '08, 12:14 | X
                • It was a present! :)

                  It also serves as a handy reminder to those around me of how to spell my name :)

                  Stones? How the jibbly can stones calm you down? I suppose it you were to recieve a big one at some force to the back of the head then you'd be unconscious, which is quite a calm state.

                  sadpunk @shucks | 7 Aug '08, 12:22 | X
                  • *if not it

                    sadpunk @sadpunk | 7 Aug '08, 12:22 | X
                  • Just realised I should have said

                    rocks instead of stones, but oh well. She has stuff like this covering her computer:

                    http://www.crystalfantasy.co.uk/assets/images/large_amethyst_geode_sphere.gif

                    http://www.come-alive.co.uk/Calming-Crystals_120x118.jpg

                    No wonder it runs slow, carrying all that weight!

                    shucks @sadpunk | 7 Aug '08, 12:29 | X
            • I don't, no.

              Can't be arsed with all that. I'd never look at photos, and frankly I can do without busybody work cunts going 'Oh, is that your girlfriend/mother/dog/raleigh chopper? It's so cute!' every day. Sod 'em.

              And I don't want any plants near me. They'd play havoc with me perennial allergic rhinitis.

              bamos | 7 Aug '08, 12:03 | X
              • You're a regular ray of sunshine on a cloudy day, aren't you?

                Judge_B @bamos | 7 Aug '08, 12:05 | X
                • Just call me Zoe.

                  bamos @Judge_B | 7 Aug '08, 12:15 | X
                  • Hi Zoe!

                    (how was that? was that okay?)

                    sadpunk @bamos | 7 Aug '08, 12:27 | X
              • You have issues if your girlfriend/mother could be mistaken

                for a dog and a Raleigh chopper.

                TheoGB @bamos | 7 Aug '08, 12:07 | X
              • 'perennial allergic rhinitis'

                = not quite hayfever style sniffles.

                lemonbrickcombo @bamos | 7 Aug '08, 12:23 | X
                • It's a lot more annoying though.

                  Apparently it's because I drink too much. Science can fuck off.

                  bamos @lemonbrickcombo | 7 Aug '08, 12:26 | X
                  • Johnny Ball says YOU can fuck off!

                    sadpunk @bamos | 7 Aug '08, 12:28 | X
                    • Tell Johnny that's not what his daughter was saying to me, that time she told me I was cool.

                      Should it sadden me that that's still the best thing that's ever happened to me?

                      bamos @sadpunk | 7 Aug '08, 12:36 | X
                  • Maybe you're allergic to cider?

                    or you're a big girl?

                    lemonbrickcombo @bamos | 7 Aug '08, 12:35 | X
            • I have personalised

              my keyboard with dead skin, hairs and fragments of crisps. That's it.

              Balonz | 7 Aug '08, 12:03 | X
            • Nope

              I can never be bothered. Besides, what if I need to quit in a dramatic fashion? I can't be doing with coming back to collect stuff

              DanielKelly | 7 Aug '08, 12:05 | X
              • but on the other hand

                i would like to have to pack up my stuff in a box on my last day, like they do in the movies

                IndieAndy_Jones @DanielKelly | 7 Aug '08, 12:11 | X
                • Just take stuff from the stationery cupboard instead

                  DanielKelly @IndieAndy_Jones | 7 Aug '08, 12:14 | X
              • leave uggggh alone!

                poptimusgrime @zabakdaz | 7 Aug '08, 12:10 | X
                • ^ Pervert.

                  justanothersheeldz @poptimusgrime | 7 Aug '08, 12:17 | X
                  • leave me alone!

                    poptimusgrime @justanothersheeldz | 7 Aug '08, 12:25 | X
                    • No.

                      justanothersheeldz @poptimusgrime | 7 Aug '08, 12:33 | X
              • kinder egg toy collection

                cos i buy them at lunch and a mini hulk action figure climbing up the side of my 2nd monitor :P

                definitionofself | 7 Aug '08, 12:09 | X
                • oh and my rubber band ball

                  born june 2004 now a fat baseball

                  definitionofself @definitionofself | 7 Aug '08, 12:18 | X
              • I have a desk tidy filled with pens.

                Apple stickers attached to my moniter.
                A moveable clay man that at the moment is shagging my phone.
                A big ball of blutack that occasionally has a face on it but right now is a big penis with eyebrows.
                Numerous post it notes stuck to the desk surface with cars, planes, swords and band logos drawn on them.
                My calculator.
                A plant that is dying cause the woman who waters it is on maternity leave.
                A calendar with pictures of varying pipes.

                justanothersheeldz | 7 Aug '08, 12:13 | X
                • A calendar with pictures of varying pipes??

                  Do you have some kind of plumbing obsession?

                  sadpunk @justanothersheeldz | 7 Aug '08, 12:17 | X
                  • I wish it were that simple

                    but I work in the Oil and Gas industry and this company http://www.cpsaberdeen.co.uk/ gave me a calender and if you got to this far in the reply have a muffin.

                    justanothersheeldz @sadpunk | 7 Aug '08, 12:27 | X
                    • Be grateful you have a calendar at all

                      I don't.
                      Where's my muffin?

                      sadpunk @justanothersheeldz | 7 Aug '08, 12:31 | X
                      • Here:

                        http://frankroche.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2008/03/muffin.jpg

                        justanothersheeldz @sadpunk | 7 Aug '08, 12:33 | X
                • ^ perv... ah, you know!

                  poptimusgrime @justanothersheeldz | 7 Aug '08, 12:18 | X
                  • :O

                    justanothersheeldz @poptimusgrime | 7 Aug '08, 12:27 | X
              • MIne is covered in post-it notes

                with Keith Haring-esque drawings on them. There was never a decision to make it that way, it just happened. I have noticed other people who are cringeworthily tagged 'creative' doing the same thing.

                John_Brainlove | 7 Aug '08, 12:32 | X
                • Mine are not creative.

                  They are marked with shitty cars, logos, and random equations being used improperly with terrible rounding.

                  justanothersheeldz @John_Brainlove | 7 Aug '08, 12:34 | X
              • ^ Gorndon Brown dart board.

                justanothersheeldz @ClicheGuevara | 7 Aug '08, 12:36 | X
              • ^ Queen Mum plush toy

                marckee @ClicheGuevara | 7 Aug '08, 12:40 | X
              • ^ Maggie Thatcher commemorative plate

                poptimusgrime @ClicheGuevara | 7 Aug '08, 13:14 | X
                • laminated

                  marckee @poptimusgrime | 7 Aug '08, 13:25 | X
                  • it'll say on it

                    "Baroness Thatcher: the True Queen of Hearts"

                    poptimusgrime @marckee | 7 Aug '08, 13:34 | X
              • ^ pint of milk

                bamos @ClicheGuevara | 7 Aug '08, 13:18 | X
              • I haven’t really personalised my desk

                unless you count having a paint swatch on my desk, a monitor covered in post-it notes, and a backboard covered in print outs of a contract programmes, as ‘nesting’.

                Instead, I mark it as my own by urinating in the corners and rubbing my musk against the table legs.

                marckee | 7 Aug '08, 12:34 | X
              • Viz

                Alex-in-Ciderland | 7 Aug '08, 13:12 | X
              • aside from all the work crap

                I have my jar of coffee substitute, a postcard from a nearby Korean dress shop our head of team gave me, and a soft toy plague rat finger puppet my mum bought me from the Museum of London.

                nice_squirrel | 7 Aug '08, 13:14 | X
              • i had some christmas cards

                on mine for about 18 months.

                i also have a Homer Simpson mini poster thing on the wall. i stole it from someone who transferred offices and left it behind. it says "trying is the first step towards failure".

                guntrip | 7 Aug '08, 13:28 | X
              • I have nothing at the moment.

                I think I'd like some lego.

                TheSoundofBastards | 7 Aug '08, 13:33 | X
              • Not really deliberately personalised

                and definitely no cuddly toys or ornaments but I do have a lot of crap

                3 boxes of various tea bags
                Mug, bowl, spoon, glass all from home
                pepper grinder
                pot of vitamins
                small stack of CD albums
                hand cream

                Ruby_Tuesday | 7 Aug '08, 13:35 | X
              • I pretty much refuse to do this

                because it would mean I'm settling in some job for an extended period of time, and that would freak me out because I still think I'll be famous one day soon instead.

                If I made my work all comfortable and homey it'd also be admitting it's a bigger part of my life than I'd like it to be.

                Oh, except it could also be that I'm totally lazy and uninspired.

                I still have a birthday card here from 2 months ago which I imagine will still be on my desk at Christmas.

                bleak | 7 Aug '08, 14:14 | X
              • i personalise mine

                with a stacked tower of coffee cups from the canteen. 'They' decided that we wouldn't have a bin at each 'corrale' (desk area) anymore and I'm too lazy to take cups to the big bin.

                I also have a load of annual reports and consulations from various organisations that I will never read.

                I also have 2 in/out trays that are just stuffed full of nonsense in no particular order.

                And a pile of printed out stuff that could probably go to the recycle.

                monpot | 7 Aug '08, 14:21 | X
              • Prefix: WHEN I HAD A JOB

                I didn't personalise my desk. But I did leave lots of bits of paper which should have been shredded on it.

                Royter-Hatfood | 7 Aug '08, 14:23 | X
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