Friday Photo Fun: What do we do with all this crap?
June 25th, 2010 | Published in Change Management, Design, Furniture, People - Workers of Tomorrow, Uncategorized, Workplace Trends | 2 Comments
Author: Mike McKeown (13 Articles)
Mike is a Senior Interior Designer in the HOK Chicago office, usually wearing many hats, including: up front space planning strategies, managing the technical design process as well as Construction Administration. Originally from Philadelphia, Mike attended Carnegie Mellon University where he studied Industrial Design (and is excited with what HOK has been doing with its Product Design efforts). He has lived in Chicago for ten years and enjoys searching for cool new restaurants, running, swimming, biking, working on his cooking skills, seeing comedy shows and live music.
My workstation has been getting very messy lately. I’m going through the CA (Construction Administration) phase on a project and my desk has suddenly been bombarded with stacks of paperwork, rolls of drawings and product samples. I’ve started a bad habit (one of my pet peeves) of putting junk on the floor next to my workstation. I HATE crap on the floor. Drives me nuts. Why can’t there be a perfect little spot to store everything? I keep thinking “this is just temporary. No biggie. Once we get through this phase of the project my desk will be back to it’s normal, organized, peacful state”. But then I’ve been noticing others around me also have this habit of keeping stuff on the floor next to their desk. For some people it’s not temporary. It’s a horrible way of life. On the one hand I can chalk it up to the creative process (we’re designers, creating cool stuff, we can’t be TOO organized, we feed off that creative chaos, right?). But then I realize that it’s not “creative chaos”, it’s just ”too much crap” chaos. People simply have too much junk and never enough space to keep it all organized. So I grabbed my camera and went around to see how people are handling (or mishandling) their junk. Some aren’t so bad but some people can use a lot of help.
And I’ll ask the rest of you readers…what do you do with all YOUR crap? Send in your photos!
June 25th, 2010 at 11:18 am (#)
I’ve had to move desks pretty much annually, so I have done a pretty good job of getting rid of my own crap; however, I do get to see a lot of other people’s crap while touring client offices. See attached for one of my favorites (name withheld to protect the innocent!!)
June 25th, 2010 at 11:20 am (#)
To the point that office inhabitants are not the only paper hoarders, here’s a workstation!