I work in an office, and I have a significant amount of downtime every day. So I have a lot of crap on my desk, much of it not at all work related.
I have a bunch of little sand-filled cloth animals: a couple of salamanders, a frog, a rhino, a penguin, a seahorse. They’re just hanging around on top of my computer monitor.
I’ve got Homer Simpson and Mr. Burns bobble heads.
I’ve also got a rubber-coated infinity cube that I mindlessly play with all day long. I have an aluminum one at home, but it’s too noisy for work; the constant clicking and clacking drives the co-workers in my vicinity absolutely nuts, but the rubber-coated one is silent.
The only non-work related item I have on my desk other than family pictures is a magnetic “toy”. Mine has stars and moons, not bolts. I have to say I haven’t touched it in years except to dust!
When I have downtime, I’m usually roaming around on the internet or playing a solitaire game - Tri-Peaks while listening to a podcast.
Rubber ducks. I have over 20, and that’s nowhere near the most in our office.
I also have a random collection of foam “stress balls” in various shapes. My favorite is a brain given away by the Alzheimer’s Association, which is either very appropriate, or in terrible taste; I can’t do decide.
There’s a small dancing robot, and a plastic crow skeleton. I also have a Rick Sanchez mask on my wall.
I have, at home (sadly) a USB-powered Patriot missile launcher. Plug it in & software on the PC lets you change the direction & angle before launching Nerf-like Patriot missiles at your cow-orkers. Sadly, I’m not even sure it’ll work anymore (designed for older version of windows) or if it’ll work here since our USB ports are locked out - for data security reasons I can use peripherals like a mouse or keyboard but not a thumb drive.
I have two Pez dispensers (Arlene and Nermal from Garfield), a mini snow globe from Holland, a gumball machine, a stuffed Grumpy Cat and a stuffed javelina. Oh, and one of those wire thingies that you use to make you scalp tingle.
I don’t have a work desk and my home desk is basically one giant toy where I visit places like this so -------- but I do keep a yo-yo close at hand there.
I work in a DoD library. I run the Interlibrary Loan department here. Actually, more accurately, I essentially am the Interlibrary Loan department. So if nobody wants anything, I don’t really have anything to do. It’s mostly a “feast or famine” type of thing; the requests tend to come in a lot at one time, then nothing for a while.
And typically nothing is urgent, so I get to it when I feel like it.
What, nobody has a Magic 8 Ball at their desk? I had one for many years and seemingly nobody could resist playing with it. I don’t remember what happened to it (and I don’t currently work with people that I would particularly want to linger at my desk).
I have a Funko Batman. He’s brown and yellow. I opened a thread here back when my wife first gave him to me, asking which version of Batman he was supposed to be.
I have a foam squeeze toy in the shape of a pill, that I got during benefits open enrollment a few years ago when we switched to a new prescription company.
I have a small wooden moveable human figurine like what an art student might use.
I have a plastic figurine of a Chinese dude in robes and a hat, which was a bonus gift I got in an order from Archie McPhee many years ago.
I have a monkey that repeats everything you say in a mocking voice when it’s switched on. It is side-splittingly hilarious for about 45 seconds every once in a while.
If I had any toys on my desk I would get nothing done. At all. Ever. Hell, having a computer on my desk with internet (read: SDMB) access is damaging enough already.
Since a recent location reshuffling, none. But up until a few months ago my desk was decorated for Halloween year-round. I had cobwebs in a corner with a big, hairy spider, a glowing LED potion, one of those cauldrons with the fabric flames, and a life-size skull (which was everyone’s favorite). This stuff may all move back in again this Halloween.
