Alright.
If you are an engineer, and your desk is always immaculately clean, with nothing spread out on it, no parts around, nothing stacked up anywhere, you just don’t have enough workload. Life should be a lot like juggling five flaming hedgehogs whilst frying bacon naked.
I have spoken.
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Yebbut, you WOULD have a clean desk, if only you could find the …
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A clean desk is the sign of a misguided carreer.
A clean desk is a sign of a sick mind.
I haven’t seen my desk in YEARS…
Amen Og, AMEN!!!
Wish I could convince our 5S Nazis around here of that. “Sort, Shine, Store, Standardize and Sustainâ€. *gag* I can’t tell you how much stuff I’ve lost since they made me ‘clean’ my desk.
My desk is perfectly clean. In fact, it’s right here… under all of this shit.
As an engineer, I pulled my boat into the driveway in May. I’m ready to put it back. It’s been out three times. That’s a workload. And my desk is as described. Everything on it is a reminder of something I need to catch up on. Of course I’ve got time to read your blog today during work.
I can’t even see my office, let alone my desk. I think I’m sitting on a chair, but for all I know it could be a couple of fileboxes covered with leather.
I had to clean my desk last week because a mouse had made itself a home… amongst the parts under the paperwork. Now I can’t find a damn thing!
“If a cluttered desk indicates a cluttered mind, what does an empty desk indicate?” Einstein I am told.
Is there a desk in here? I can’t find one. I thin it is just the piles of crap stacked so high they have taken on the shape of a desk.
When I was on a jobsite a couple years ago, I was so far behind in getting things filed, that the project superintendent threatened to lock me in until is was done. When I stood up, I couldn’t see over the pile, and I am 6’4.
BUT, I could find ANYTHING almost immediately.