Are the cube walls also made out of black tape?
Hello? Excuse me? By the time people have stopped living with their parents and gone out and gotten jobs, they often have something resembling an idea of how to organize their stuff.
Black tape is being stuck on civil servants’ desks to show them where to put their keyboard and pens — at a cost of £7million. The Public and Commercial Services Union’s Kevin McHugh said: “This office has been open for 60 years and people have managed to find their pens and staplers without consultants helping them in that time.” The black-tape project is part of the nationwide Lean programme, run by consultants Unipart, which has already required staff to move their personal belongings off desks.
Um. Ri-i-ight. Screw “clutter management”, how about “time management”? People can have desks covered with stuff and things; but if they manage their time well and get the work done, who cares if they bury their desk under every single tchotchke they can find? Conversely, a pristine desk might simply mean that the person in question is either a minimalist decorator or is planning on leaving the company (or something entirely different). It doesn’t guarantee that they’ll complete tasks accurately or efficiently. In a slightly related note, this weekend I am going shopping. I am going to put enough stuff in the current cube that whatzitsface may think again before moving me. (Also, it will give the area a definite “in use” look which may make people less prone to playing a quick round of Grand Theft Cube.)
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