Describe Your Work Area...

Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share
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This is based on something that happened to me Thursday. A friend of mine from another department called me and asked for directions to my cube so he could come visit. I gave him the basics and when he showed up, he said he wouldn’t have needed the directions. My cube,apparently,is so obviously MINE.

So here’s how he could tell which one was mine…

Left Side Wall:

A bulletin board with,left to right, a years worth of certificates for fastest call time,a Cubs bumper sticker,an 8 x 10" glossy of Jeff Hardy,a Blackhawks bumper sticker and a dolphin calendar.

A collage I made of pictures of Kurt Cobain. 75% of the pictures shown him smiling. The cover art from all the Nirvana albums is included, as well as his 3rd and 7th grade school pictures.

A sticker for my friend Matt’s band, Effigy.

Center Wall:

A bulletin board with a shiny Diva sticker dead center,surrounded by pictures of my friends.

Ads for some alcoholic beverage I can’t remember. The first is an angel and a grizzled biker guy, the second is a dominatrix and an Amish woman. I liked the contrasts.

Right Side Wall:

A list of work related things…how to handle accounts using the backup system, phone numbers and extensions,etc.

The lyrics to ** A Question of Lust , I Wanna Rock ** and ** Song #2 **. The first because it reminds me of someone,the next two are the songs me and my friends sing when it’s slow.

A bulletin board with pictures of the Hardy Boyz. Nothing but Hardyz :slight_smile:

A collage of my other favorite wrestlers…Austin,Foley,Triple H,Benoit,Jericho, Spike Dudley, Rhino, Mike Awesome…just need a good pic of RVD.

Overheads :

Left side,framed pics of my nephews,a pic of me and my sisters,a Tinkerbell doll and a Krusty the Clown doll.

Right side,a reference binder,my action figure collection-Jeff and Matt Hardy on ladders,Triple H, Jericho and Austin-now to find a RVD and a Spike Dudley that look real…an Austin psuedo Beanie Baby and a Big Dogs “Steve Pawstin” doll.

Desk surface :

Left side of the computer, a basket of toys- a Magic Eight Ball, a mini Nerf Football,a regular stress ball, a squooshy stress ball, and a stress ball that has little LED lights inside that light up when you bounce it. A Fossil watch tin full of Altoids, and a botle of water.

Right side,a box of kleenex, a Snapple bottle filled with Dove dark chocolate bites, and a glass filled with Chupa Chups lollipops.

So, what does your desk/cube/corner of hell look like? Does it reflect your personality?

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Could a Mod please fix the typo in my title? I’m so happy the SDMB’s working that I’ve lost some small motor skills. :slight_smile:

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Yeah, my office probably reflects my personality. The furniture is all grey computer workstation stuff, all piled high with stuff I need to get to (industry publications, scout reports, submittals, etc.). 3 big monitors dominate the desk and the walls have maps, reports, and data pinned up all over the place (I believe in vertical filing).

It’s a busy mess.

The only decorative item I have on the wall is a bumper sticker. On its left side is a photo of a drilling rig and the right 2/3rds are a photo of an F-16 dropping four bombs. Across the top it says, “Drill Wells…,Not Iraqis”

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on walls of my cube: An F-15 sticker given to me by a Northrop source inspector when we made some of the radar components for them, a large photo of an F-15 in flight, a calender with photos of whietail deer, a bumper sticker from a range I shoot at that reads “fight crime - shoot back”, a button that reads “don’t panic its only ones and zeros”, several postcards of New Hampshire scenery such as the White Mountains and The Old Man of the Mountain, an ad for some networking product that shows a guy in a white shirt with his sleeve rolled up to reveal a tattoo reading “born to network”, a little American flag sticker mounted upside down, and a hard disk with several bullet holes in it mounted on a piece of wood. I was planning to put some sort of caption on it, but I never decided what.

My desk holds: A Lockheed mug another inspector gave me. Lots of papers, manuals, reference books and catalogs, including a Beretta catalog. Assorted bits of electronic hardware.

My mouse pad bears the National Instruments eagle logo. They send me one whenever I register one of their computer boards.

My Windows wallpaper varies, but right now its a sunset (or sunrise?) over an antarctic ice sheet.

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I forgot my mousepad-a Wyland painting of dolphins.
We’re not allowed to have non Windows standard wallpaper,so right now I have the clouds pattern.
Hidden deep in My Documents though, is a pic of Stinky Paws from his webpage. :slight_smile:

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I work in a building about a quarter mile square…full of machines and noise. When I get off I’m glad.

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I don’t have a desk at work, and I’m in the process of rebuilding my home office (just moved), so this will be pretty sketchy:

On desk: Toshiba Satellite laptop stripped of ALL identifying crap (except for the TS logo). I also stripped almost all that crap off my MacroHard desktop and put up only what I want to see. The desktop picture’s that cool train picture from the Travel section of W98, but I have crime-scene photos from the 1910s that I put up when the kids aren’t around.

Also on desk is my Cerebus statue signed by Dave Sim (indy comic character), and a ship’s clock and barometer.

On file cabinet: U2 ZooTV photo pass stuck to one drawer; on top “VeggieTales” fingerpuppets of Bob and Larry (as Super Larry).

Rows of mostly empty bookshelves on wall opposite desk: reference works, mystery and romance fiction, true crime books. More to come as boxes are unpacked.

On bulletin board: Scrap of wallpaper salvaged from Biltmore Estate renovation, photo of Stephen King sitting on a car (publicity shot for Christine), “Vietnam Solidarity” button from anti-war movement. Usual papers of little interest.

To come as soon as I find the right @## box: Frame photos of me in my Continential Army uniform taken on the set of “The Patriot.”