Do you decorate your cubicle?

IrishZeus

Been in a new job just over a year now and its the first time I've had a "cubicle" style desk. I don't decorate it at all as I couldn't be arsed.

There are people around me though that go to the other extreme - baby pics, family pics, ornaments on desks, posters etc etc. I think they do it to personalise their space or remind them of their family but personally I prefer to keep thoughts of work entirely separate to my personal life!

So question is, do you decorate you cubicle/desk/office and if so, with what? And why?

Biggins

With the skulls of my victims.

P.S. Your next!

Vicxas

Ive got Final fantasy characters on my desk....


























What?

Jaxxy

No, couldn't be bothered, think it looks ridiculous. Nobody wants to look at pictures of your kids.

harney

IrishZeus wrote: »

So question is, do you decorate you cubicle/desk/office and if so, with what? And why?

Jizz, I love unfiltered internet.

Ruu_Old

A few pictures of countryside from home but not much else.

hidinginthebush

I've got a few bits and bobs: a calendar, a tiger cub getting hugged by a baby orang utan, little bits and pieces the gf has given me, and some stickers from bananas I've eaten, let's see we got Chiquita, Del-Monte, BananCo, Gorilla's Choice

AnonoBoy

I don't decorate my office. I have however been known to decorate certain orifices on occasion.

Kintarō Hattori

Jaxxy wrote: »

No, couldn't be bothered, think it looks ridiculous. Nobody wants to look at pictures of your kids.

Perhaps the occupier of the cubicle wants to look at their kids photos....

Oranage2

I hate those pr*cks that decorate a cubicle then expect you to look at their ugly kids for your shift!

IrishZeus

Oranage2 wrote: »

I hate those pr*cks that decorate a cubicle then expect you to look at their ugly kids for your shift!

You only want pics of good looking kids, eh?

Jaxxy

Kintarō Hattori wrote: »

Jaxxy wrote: »

No, couldn't be bothered, think it looks ridiculous. Nobody wants to look at pictures of your kids.

Perhaps the occupier of the cubicle wants to look at their kids photos....

Why? Because they forget what their kids look like during the course of the typical eight hour working day?

Keep it in your wallet or phone!

Sorry, don't mean to offend anyone, it's just a pet peeve of mine. I work with a girl whose desk is overflowing with useless clutter; pink photo frames, teddies, fluffy pen yokes, photos tacked up of a dog that died fifteen years ago... Every available surface is covered. I just think it's a bit juvenile!

livinsane

I used to be against it until finally the drudgery and misery of working in an office got to me and now I've got little laughing Budda statue. If I'm feeling
p!ssed off, I just look at that fat little smiling fecker and all is well again.

AnonoBoy

I used to have a cubicle and I really wished I had kids so I could put pictures of them over the "Don't forget: you're here forever"sign they put up right in my eyeline.

Biggins

Honestly, amid much crap on my desk is two (stuffed toy) meercats, one Winnie the Pooh, one small Elmo and an Eeyore - O' and a Winnie the Pooh in a Bear costume!
LOL You'd know I have kids! (not including this big one typing)

Dravokivich

I used to have this by my monitor in work along with a packet of Soduko Toilet roll.

Moved departments and just left'em at home.

Eroticfishcake

AnonoBoy wrote: »

I used to have a cubicle and I really wished I had kids so I could put pictures of them over the "Don't forget: you're here forever"sign they put up right in my eyeline.

Just put pictures of other peoples kids over it, I'm sure that will freak them out sufficiently.

stupidusername

I haven't even got a cubicle ;_; just a desk and chair.there's a wall behind my desk,i could try decorate that.i should put up a picture of my boss and throw things at it.

SV

Jaxxy wrote: »

No, couldn't be bothered, think it looks ridiculous. Nobody wants to look at pictures of your kids.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vJyzdLN8CSE

bullets

See people who never even have so much as a photo hanging up until they
get married or have kids then all of a sudden theres framed photos in the cubicles :rolleyes: as if they dont remember what the Mrs or Kiddie looks like after being away from them for less than a day.

I've a self confessed Cubicle decorator and look like King Nerd inside in work.
Its not as bad as it used to be as I recently moved cubicles so a lot of stuff is
still in cardboard boxes.

I've shooting trophies, a Hand Grenade (inert), Spent smoke grenade and flare cartridge,
Miniature model guns,
a Predator Sculpture made from nuts and bolts wielded together,
I've about 100 25mm Lord of the rings models all hand painted (like the warhammer rubbish) on my cubicle shelf, I've some model castle tower and bridge made from Dental Plaster, a vibration driver unit to turn any surface into a speaker, DVD box sets of old retro stuff like Buck Rogers and Battle star galactica, Books on guns, and dueling with swords, printouts of artwork, photos from my goth days, photos of shooting days out, used to have targets up where I had shot well, fencing photo and airsoft photo, the mandatory argos catalog sits proud on the top shelf, PC, Linux Box, 3 screens an Ipad and sometimes an 18.4inch Laptop, I've a 40mm Anti-Aircraft ammo box down by my feet, Robotech/Macross model, had a
load of wooden and metal puzzles as well as 2 Rubix Cubes and Rubix magic, spare paint for the models in the drawer, a squash racket, some old media such as reel to reel tapes, 8" floppies, old magneto/optical discs etc,
a few spare pairs of socks and jeans in case I get wet cycling to work.

~B

kfallon

My desk is spotless, nothing on it only a phone, keyboard, monitor, little stationery holder, loose change in a plastic cup and that's it!

Only decorating I have done is change my desktop background to "King Kieren" *loveblush* :pac:

Gummy Panda

Yes, with pics of Cristina Vujnich

starlit

Ya when I was working, I did. I just had a few photos and a calender anything else was important stuff for work so tried not to clutter stuff up too much. Just had photos to remember and keep me sane I suppose if I had a long day at work. Didn't want to over decorate my desk.

hondasam

I like a clean tidy work space, no clutter and definitely no pics.
Family pics at work is just sad, you have kids, great get over it.

Wertz

The glory hole has a little ring of tinsel around it and the toilet paper holder is picked out in gold leaf but otherwise? No.

ejmaztec

This one from long ago shows what cubicles are for, and they're not for marking your territory.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xZLCoYrmZwk

rootjuse70

just a few pictures to stop me going crazy. sunset, sunrise and a picture of a lake.

calms me down, relaigns my chakras, my chi and my tao.

bijapos

bullets wrote: »

See people who never even have so much as a photo hanging up until they
get married or have kids then all of a sudden theres framed photos in the cubicles :rolleyes: as if they dont remember what the Mrs or Kiddie looks like after being away from them for less than a day.

I've a self confessed Cubicle decorator and look like King Nerd inside in work.
Its not as bad as it used to be as I recently moved cubicles so a lot of stuff is
still in cardboard boxes.

I've shooting trophies, a Hand Grenade (inert), Spent smoke grenade and flare cartridge,
Miniature model guns,
a Predator Sculpture made from nuts and bolts wielded together,
I've about 100 25mm Lord of the rings models all hand painted (like the warhammer rubbish) on my cubicle shelf, I've some model castle tower and bridge made from Dental Plaster, a vibration driver unit to turn any surface into a speaker, DVD box sets of old retro stuff like Buck Rogers and Battle star galactica, Books on guns, and dueling with swords, printouts of artwork, photos from my goth days, photos of shooting days out, used to have targets up where I had shot well, fencing photo and airsoft photo, the mandatory argos catalog sits proud on the top shelf, PC, Linux Box, 3 screens an Ipad and sometimes an 18.4inch Laptop, I've a 40mm Anti-Aircraft ammo box down by my feet, Robotech/Macross model, had a
load of wooden and metal puzzles as well as 2 Rubix Cubes and Rubix magic, spare paint for the models in the drawer, a squash racket, some old media such as reel to reel tapes, 8" floppies, old magneto/optical discs etc,
a few spare pairs of socks and jeans in case I get wet cycling to work.

~B

Somehow I wasn't surprised that you don't have a pic of a girlfriend in all that stuff.

rain on

Yeah I decorate it, I'd go spare staring at grey walls all day (with yellow trim, I hate yellow). I used to have about 20 pictures of cats but then I moved desk and couldn't be arsed putting them up again. Now I have a picture of me and my best friend on her wedding day and one of my boyfriend, right over my monitor to remind me that there are finer things in life than spreadsheets and reports.

Professey Chin

Gizmo
Spud Trooper
Darth Tater
Oscar
Cookie Monster
Morph
Andy (android mascot)
Unicron
Rubiks Cube to do & undo when im bored
Spider and Goomba hanging above the desk.

Nope.Not at all

smallerthanyou

I keep nothing on mine but have to face other people's kids drawings. Sometimes I'm even forced to comment on how their drawing style is "really coming on, I can definitely make out that blue blob is a person."

I should put up a picture of a house or a porche or something to remind me why I come in in the morning.

kfallon

Btw I only clicked into this thread cos I thought it'd be about destroying the jax in work, I was so disappointed

:P

ash23

I've a plastic bath duck....he was here before I was so I let him stay. Other than that I've nothing other than the usual clutter - earphones, pens, postits, highlighters, stampers, calculators and charts. And paper. Forests of paper that I never seem to get through....

bigneacy

Jaxxy wrote: »

No, couldn't be bothered, think it looks ridiculous. Nobody wants to look at pictures of your kids.

Somebody might

ejmaztec

It's best to have a minimalist approach to decorating your patch, because you won't have time to call a removal company if you get the sack.

jenizzle

I have random things up on the wall. Various IT things such as a chart for diagnosing network problems, a picture my car outside Father Teds house, a ticket for RATM in London, a ticket for London Dungeon and other useless stuff but there are no personal pictures up there.

Archeron

Mine is blank and grey as an Irish winter sky, because we arent allowed to have that sort of stuff. We're not even allowed change our screen savers.

I do however enjoy decorating other peoples cublicles. Just little things like writing "BOOBS!" in 14 inch high letters with black permanent markers on their monitors.

Firefox11

Various work awards (to remind me of how long i have worked there.:D) but that's it.

IrishZeus

Firefox11 wrote: »

Various work awards (to remind me of how long i have worked there.:D) but that's it.

You must love the job when you use your decorations to remind yourself of the job! :eek:

CrazyRabbit

No room. I've 2 desktops, 2 LCD screens, 2 mice+keyboards, a large phone, and my laptop.

We have an entire row of desks which hold all our local reporting & test (desktop-style) servers etc, but we ran out of power outlets, so we've started putting the servers on our own desks. I've a Domino server and a Glassfish server sitting on front of me even though I never actually use them.

Kinda shocking that a company that makes billions in profit each year can't afford a bigger building with more storage spaces for servers/test machines.

I do have a small rubber rugby ball though. I keep that for when I need to get a colleagues attention and they have earphones on.

Fratton Fred

I worked for a company that was part of a group that considered itself young, funky and cool (named after people who have never had sex).

We were encouraged to have photos of our kids up to make the place look cool. In reality they encouraged you to do that as they expected you to work 50 hour weeks and photos would be all you ever saw of your family.

Shower of bastards.

ejmaztec

IrishZeus wrote: »

You must love the job when you use your decorations to remind yourself of the job! :eek:

When I worked in an office, I preferred to decorate my home with stuff from the office, like boxes of stationery, pens, tippex, and anything else that looked "decorative". I now work from home and am eternally grateful for the start that my old employers gave me.

WoollyRedHat

Pfffffft, I have a big swanky office, with rooftop terrace views and fine, expensive paintings... decorate my cubicle, good one

Robdude

Every job I've had that gave me a cubicle also seemed to move me around every 3-6 months. I quickly decided it was easier to leave my cube empty.

Princess Peach

I don't have a cubicle but I used to have a paper cut out of Keith Barry on my till that I put paper clothes on and would change on a regular basis.

My favourite was rainy day Keith.

I don't have a cubicle. I have a bench and a biological safety cabinet. And a 'write-up' area. No personal belongings allowed.

LH Pathe

I thwart my ma's victorian ornaments with miniature injuns, totem poles n the like

big chief presides over the bog, with a big spear cos I have no plunger

Red Hand

bullets wrote: »

See people who never even have so much as a photo hanging up until they
get married or have kids then all of a sudden theres framed photos in the cubicles :rolleyes: as if they dont remember what the Mrs or Kiddie looks like after being away from them for less than a day.

I've a self confessed Cubicle decorator and look like King Nerd inside in work.
Its not as bad as it used to be as I recently moved cubicles so a lot of stuff is
still in cardboard boxes.

I've shooting trophies, a Hand Grenade (inert), Spent smoke grenade and flare cartridge,
Miniature model guns,
a Predator Sculpture made from nuts and bolts wielded together,
I've about 100 25mm Lord of the rings models all hand painted (like the warhammer rubbish) on my cubicle shelf, I've some model castle tower and bridge made from Dental Plaster, a vibration driver unit to turn any surface into a speaker, DVD box sets of old retro stuff like Buck Rogers and Battle star galactica, Books on guns, and dueling with swords, printouts of artwork, photos from my goth days, photos of shooting days out, used to have targets up where I had shot well, fencing photo and airsoft photo, the mandatory argos catalog sits proud on the top shelf, PC, Linux Box, 3 screens an Ipad and sometimes an 18.4inch Laptop, I've a 40mm Anti-Aircraft ammo box down by my feet, Robotech/Macross model, had a
load of wooden and metal puzzles as well as 2 Rubix Cubes and Rubix magic, spare paint for the models in the drawer, a squash racket, some old media such as reel to reel tapes, 8" floppies, old magneto/optical discs etc,
a few spare pairs of socks and jeans in case I get wet cycling to work.

~B

A lot of ammo and machine gun/militaria bits and bobs there. Do your coworkers maintain a respectful distance?

I don't have a cubicle, I have a desk. No decorations, other than a doodle on a post-it that scarcely lasts a day stuck to my computer monitor.

weemcd

I drew a picture of my desk last week

starlit

I did have a cuddly thing alright only on view once in a while.

we have cubicle style dividers but they're pretty low, so you can easily see everyone around you

anyway no, no photos or decorations or any of that rubbish for me