# Photos of family on desk at work- why? **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [May 2, 2007, 7:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/photos-of-family-on-desk-at-work-why/402513 "2007-05-02T19:38:10Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 6\ **Page:** 4
**Author:** ![gigi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/a587f6/32.png) [@gigi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gigi)\ **Post date:** [May 3, 2007, 9:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/photos-of-family-on-desk-at-work-why/402513/61 "2007-05-03T21:10:21Z")
[QUOTE=What Exit?] A few jobs back I worked for a company where one of my coworkers was a very attractive young blonde-haired woman that looked like she could be a model. She did the strangest thing as far as pictures I have ever seen so far. She kept a picture on her desk of herself in a skimpy bikini. If I had a picture of a swimsuit model wearing the same swimsuit, HR would have told me to remove it as it was sexist. I never did figure out, why she had the picture in her cube. I am not sure if she was showing off or just somewhat ditzy about these things. [/QUOTE] Sometimes people use pictures like that as a motivator to keep eating right, working out, etc.?? It does seem inappropriate to have it on display in the workplace. ---
**Author:** ![Antinor01](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ecae2f/32.png) [@Antinor01](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Antinor01)\ **Post date:** [May 3, 2007, 9:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/photos-of-family-on-desk-at-work-why/402513/62 "2007-05-03T21:17:24Z")
[QUOTE=Frylock] Thanks. I figured it would be something like that. You did a great job articulating it. And I still don’t get it. I think there might be something wrong with me. 😛 -FrL- [/QUOTE] You and me both. Except that I know there’s something (probably multiple things) wrong with me. 😉 The only thing on my desk I would take if I was fired/layed off/flamed out and quit making a dramatic exit is my coffee mug. It’s one of those great travel ones from Dave and Busters that holds like 2 1/2 regular size cups of coffee…I love that thing. ---
**Author:** ![TV\_time](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/f17d59/32.png) [@TV\_time](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TV_time)\ **Post date:** [May 3, 2007, 10:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/photos-of-family-on-desk-at-work-why/402513/63 "2007-05-03T22:16:26Z")
I have a photo of my wife on my desk because she is the best thing that ever happened to me, and everytime I look at that photo, I remember that fact. Some days it makes me happy, some days meditative, some days fulfilled. I don’t know how I survived without her before I met her. Looking at her picture reminds me I don’t have to again. After I have faced death, disaster, failure or whatever the world throws at me, all I have to do is look at her photo and see that there is a reason for taking the next step. ---
**Author:** ![Wee\_Bairn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/90db22/32.png) [@Wee\_Bairn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wee_Bairn)\ **Post date:** [May 3, 2007, 10:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/photos-of-family-on-desk-at-work-why/402513/64 "2007-05-03T22:37:52Z")
[QUOTE=storyteller0910] Well, I’d say this is indeed unusual. Nothing wrong with it, though; whatever works for you is fine by me. I am curious, though: do you derive enjoyment out of any visual aesthetic experience? Do you derive pleasure from watching a sunset, or a particularly good painting, or what have you? What would your personal definition of the word “beautiful” entail? [/QUOTE] I personally love going to art galleries and the like and will watch a bad old movie just to look at the retro clothes, architecture, furniture, cars, etc. And have a wee-un I can sit at look at, in person, for hours. But don’t get the pictures thing at work, and have none displayed at home either. Now I can and will think of people mentally many times a day, but am just not into pictures. And yes, I know I’m odd-I agreed with the post that people who go to movies on holidays are selfish a-holes 🙂 Also, I think part of it is that I am really sentimental, and looking at pictures, even happy pictures, makes me sad becasue I then think, where has all the time gone, we are all getting older and gonna die soon, etc. ---
**Author:** ![Kalhoun](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/3bc359/32.png) [@Kalhoun](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kalhoun)\ **Post date:** [May 4, 2007, 12:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/photos-of-family-on-desk-at-work-why/402513/65 "2007-05-04T00:02:56Z")
[QUOTE=TV time] I have a photo of my wife on my desk because she is the best thing that ever happened to me, and everytime I look at that photo, I remember that fact. Some days it makes me happy, some days meditative, some days fulfilled. I don’t know how I survived without her before I met her. Looking at her picture reminds me I don’t have to again. After I have faced death, disaster, failure or whatever the world throws at me, all I have to do is look at her photo and see that there is a reason for taking the next step. [/QUOTE] Dude…I just called the paramedics for some insulin. (only kidding…I love LOVE) ---
**Author:** ![TV\_time](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/f17d59/32.png) [@TV\_time](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TV_time)\ **Post date:** [May 4, 2007, 6:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/photos-of-family-on-desk-at-work-why/402513/66 "2007-05-04T18:17:46Z")
[QUOTE=Kalhoun] Dude…I just called the paramedics for some insulin. (only kidding…I love LOVE) [/QUOTE] What’s really silly is that we’ve been married for 20 years. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/photos-of-family-on-desk-at-work-why/402513.md?page=3)