My buddy came over and called my desk a disaster zone - he was right

Last month a friend from work saw my setup and said it looked like a bomb went off in a Staples. Cables everywhere, three coffee mugs from last week, sticky notes plastered over the monitor. He told me to start with just one thing: route the cables behind the desk with some adhesive clips from Amazon. Cost me $12 and 20 minutes, now I can actually see my desk surface. Anyone else have a friend give them a harsh but needed reality check about their workspace?

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sandralee22d ago

I keep my desk like a curated gallery of creative chaos and honestly it works for me. Isn't the whole point of a personal workspace that it fits how your brain operates?

kevin_bailey22d ago

See, "curated gallery of creative chaos" is a super nice way to put it, and I get what you're saying about your brain working different. My buddy said the same thing to me, but I think his exact words were "it looks like a raccoon with a bad case of ADHD lives here." It stung, but he was right for me. The funny part is, when I finally did the cable clip thing he suggested, I realized that all my "creative chaos" was just me being too lazy to spend twenty minutes fixing things. I still leave a couple of sticky notes on the edge of the monitor though, because that's where I write down the stuff that actually matters. So I guess there's a line between a system that works for you and just being a slob, and my buddy helped me find that line even if he was blunt about it.