Decorating and Organizing the Office
This week marked an important milestorne in my workplace. I had the pleasure of going through the office and organizing it. For those of my readers who know me (which is pretty much all of them), they should know that this is a big deal for me. I love to organize when I'm at work. Home is a different story, but that is not the subject of my blog entry for today. My belief is that everything at work has a place, and things should be kept in their place for easy access.
I believe this obsession started when I was working at the movie theater. Judy Bizzle is an extremely clean person. Part of her thing is that everything at work had a place. I liked that idea because no matter who came in to work, they would not have a difficult time finding things, since everything was in its place. I started to organize my cash register in a similar way; all bills facing the same direction and placed from in increasing order (direction depended on which side I was working on). The next step in my insanity was labeling everything. I love to make labels. I used to spend my free time creating signs in concession ("CASH ONLY," "Cleaning Sink," "Sanitizing Sink," "Please Keep Doors Shut At All Times," etc.). Eventually, everyone I worked with got disgusted with my signs and protested by taking them down or defacing them. :-(
So I have transfered this obsession from job to job. Recently my boss told me that I could organize all the desks at this office. It was only a matter of time until I did it anyway. So on Monday, I began the process. I stayed at work until 6:30 that night, but man did I feel satisfied when I got home. The clutter was cleared off of each desk, and drawers were emptied so that they could actually be used! What a novel idea! I threw away tons of crap that wasn't needed. And more importantly, I put necessary office supplies in each desk that were needed (what kind of a newspaper office doesn't have pens and paper at every desk?!?!).
On top of all the organizing, I got to decorate some of the desk space. I brought in a picture of me and my dad at an OU football game last year, a democratic donkey Beanie Baby and some other random stuff. It finally feels more like an office to me. Or maybe I should say that it feels more like my office. Bwah-ha-ha! It is my evil plan to take over the newspaper office! All those in my way, watch out! Just kidding...or am I?
I believe this obsession started when I was working at the movie theater. Judy Bizzle is an extremely clean person. Part of her thing is that everything at work had a place. I liked that idea because no matter who came in to work, they would not have a difficult time finding things, since everything was in its place. I started to organize my cash register in a similar way; all bills facing the same direction and placed from in increasing order (direction depended on which side I was working on). The next step in my insanity was labeling everything. I love to make labels. I used to spend my free time creating signs in concession ("CASH ONLY," "Cleaning Sink," "Sanitizing Sink," "Please Keep Doors Shut At All Times," etc.). Eventually, everyone I worked with got disgusted with my signs and protested by taking them down or defacing them. :-(
So I have transfered this obsession from job to job. Recently my boss told me that I could organize all the desks at this office. It was only a matter of time until I did it anyway. So on Monday, I began the process. I stayed at work until 6:30 that night, but man did I feel satisfied when I got home. The clutter was cleared off of each desk, and drawers were emptied so that they could actually be used! What a novel idea! I threw away tons of crap that wasn't needed. And more importantly, I put necessary office supplies in each desk that were needed (what kind of a newspaper office doesn't have pens and paper at every desk?!?!).
On top of all the organizing, I got to decorate some of the desk space. I brought in a picture of me and my dad at an OU football game last year, a democratic donkey Beanie Baby and some other random stuff. It finally feels more like an office to me. Or maybe I should say that it feels more like my office. Bwah-ha-ha! It is my evil plan to take over the newspaper office! All those in my way, watch out! Just kidding...or am I?
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