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turn on the pc next to you and chuck a few papers across the desk method. It's the office equivalent of the Hun and their towels on holiday (no offence).

is that a terrible pun on hotlinking?

All the hotdesks get put in a corner out of the way of the decent workers.

Meant I could never keep anything in drawers or faff about with my chair. My new work looked at me like I was vaguely challenged when I looked so pleased at having my own desk, but it's a massive victory.

i'm going to be sat with a load of hot desks. not good.

Usually goes like this

"Hi, i need to hotdesk"
"there's an igel over there"
"i need an actual pc so i can remote back to my machine so that i can access all the programs that are on my machine so i can do my job"
"there aren't any"
"can't i use yours and you use the igel, you're only the receptionist so you can access everything you need from there"
"no"
*sit there doing nothing take two hour lunch, get train back to manc.

People 'can' use my desk which is permanent. Usually I find network cables remain disconnected, mugs are left on my desk. Once I actually had a lump of chewing gum on the desk. Then again we have signs in the toilets reminding us to flush...

it's a constant war around in our office because people do the kind of jobs that require them to have specific computers for software etc reasons, and to have antiquated stuff like papers, notes, even books within reach.
But the Upper Management insists this is a chilled out, creativity-enhancing workspace where anyone can turn up, sit down at a random desk, so officially nobody is allowed to have any object whatsoever on their desk. or under it, like with the Great Pedestal uprising of 2012.

Silkyskillz11 needs all our support.

all desks in my department are essentially hotdesks. Most of the tools we use are web based so there's no real need for anyone to use specific machines.

In our Manchester office there are also hot desks but I've never managed to get one and had to sit in the break area for a whole day.

http://m.youtube.com/#/watch?v=g98QXm42mmA&desktop_uri=%2Fwatch%3Fv%3Dg98QXm42mmA&gl=GB

that are not allocated to anyone in particular. This means that anyone can sit at a particular desk on any given day.

Normally used by remote workers who pop into an office sporadically

but we were mostly fulltimers so we sorta claimed our own proper desks. but there was this union guy that would sometimes come in and use whatever one wasn't in use that day and use it to shout down the phone about the Tories and stuff. my manager disliked him a lot and we were told not to let him use her desk whilst she was away.

one day I forgot this and he used her desk and spent the whole time he was there eating a Big Mac meal. I can't remember if I ever told her he'd had his greasy processed meat covered fingers all over her desk or not.

(also he was also wearing a Tolpuddle Martyrs baseball cap a lot - where do you even get that? Is there a Tolpuddle Martyrs gift shop somewhere in the south west? I guess there's a museum, but it still seems a little crass)

My comp was broken so had to use someone's who was on leave.

She has one of those daft ergonomic keyboards (with the contours, a split down the middle and all different sized keys) and a trackball thing instead of a normal mouse. What a fun day that was.

Mandatory work-from-home once a week. Desk booker used to book your desk up to a month in advance, even with very senior members of staff. One tiny locker to store your posessions in and an otherwise clean-desk policy.

It's a great way of reminding your staff how replacable they are on a daily basis.