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True story: I took over for a woman who got canned. Her office was crap on top of crap on top of crap. Not quite as bad as yours--she didn't have food crumbling on the mouse pad--but it was bad.
Because her office was such a dump, I took a different office and safely locked up her hoard so nobody would get it without my knowledge. Nobody asked to open her office to get anything. After a few weeks of nobody needing a single thing from her precious landfill, I had some warehouse people come in, load up a pallet with her paper trail, shrink wrap the pallet, then shove it somewhere on a rack in the warehouse. Her rat's nest was so valuable that it's still probably gathering dust, never having been unwrapped.
How you keep your house is how you keep your office or work area. Same for the car. I can spot a slob by the way their desk looks and the way their car looks. I don't know anyone who can become a neat freak in one area and not another. Unless their job is threatened which I doubt would happen.
actually I could namely my brother who was in the Military and a supposed "neat freak" yet his home office looks worse than OPs.
His car is impeccable yet the front of his house looks like it should be "condemed"!He hoards things like me but all of my stuff is organized unlike him.
Ugh!
I don't see how you get any work done in that mess. I think your boss was being kind, if you worked for me I would have told you to clean it up NOW and keep it clean, or else.
The fact with this thread is that in the amount of time it took for the original poster to take the photo, make the poll, write the original post, attach the photo and post it all, the office could have been straightened up with the papers off the floor and things put into neater piles for proper sorting and filing later.
I've seen way worse, even to the point that the fire chief told the guy to clean up. THAT's when it's bad. My two cents, if you know where everything is and NO ONE needs to find something, who cares. I can name at least 5 people that are 100x worse than this and they're all top management. One had at least 10 stacks of files 2 feet high. The guy the fire chief warned? His cubicle looked like something out of Hoarders.
I've seen way worse, even to the point that the fire chief told the guy to clean up. THAT's when it's bad. My two cents, if you know where everything is and NO ONE needs to find something, who cares. I can name at least 5 people that are 100x worse than this and they're all top management. One had at least 10 stacks of files 2 feet high. The guy the fire chief warned? His cubicle looked like something out of Hoarders.
The OP's boss cares and complained, so he should do something about the mess.
The OP's boss cares and complained, so he should do something about the mess.
The OP said his boss "mentioned it was messy" not that the boss complained and cared about it. He's just thinking that his boss wants him to clean it up, but isn't sure. He didn't post anything about the boss "caring and complaining". Mentioning isn't complaining.
Everyday my desk looks like the photo he took. Every evening I straighten up the papers, stack them into neat little stacks, offset so I can see things and do you know how much that changes how bad it looks? Same amount of paperwork, but straight.
Therefore, I bet if the OP just straightened up the papers, it'd "look" cleaner and voila, everything is still in it's place and boss is happy.
OP, straighten up the papers and take another photo. I bet it'd look cleaner, even though nothing was removed or even moved.
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