Do you decorate your cubicle?

IrishZeus · 03-11-2011 02:04PM #1

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 · 03-11-2011 02:05PM

With the skulls of my victims.

P.S. Your next!

Vicxas · 03-11-2011 02:07PM

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

What?

Jaxxy · 03-11-2011 02:08PM

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

harney · 03-11-2011 02:08PM

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 · 03-11-2011 02:08PM

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

hidinginthebush · 03-11-2011 02:08PM

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 · 03-11-2011 02:09PM

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

Kintarō Hattori · 03-11-2011 02:09PM

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 · 03-11-2011 02:14PM

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

IrishZeus · 03-11-2011 02:14PM

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 · 03-11-2011 02:15PM

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 · 03-11-2011 02:15PM

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 · 03-11-2011 02:17PM

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 · 03-11-2011 02:17PM

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 · 03-11-2011 02:19PM

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 · 03-11-2011 02:21PM

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 · 03-11-2011 02:25PM

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 · 03-11-2011 02:29PM

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 · 03-11-2011 02:32PM

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 · 03-11-2011 02:32PM

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 · 03-11-2011 02:36PM

Yes, with pics of Cristina Vujnich

starlit · 03-11-2011 02:36PM

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 · 03-11-2011 02:37PM

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 · 03-11-2011 02:38PM

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 · 03-11-2011 02:39PM

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 · 03-11-2011 02:40PM

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 · 03-11-2011 02:44PM

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 · 03-11-2011 02:45PM

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 · 03-11-2011 02:49PM

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 · 03-11-2011 02:51PM

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.

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