At work, there are no cubicles, rather, there are big tables placed together. Officially, the word is that this particular table arrangement reflects the company’s culture, and promotes an open atmosphere which in turn, helps us code better and make awesome products. But we all know the real reason: to allow people like my colleague, Mark, to slowly, but steadily push his crap onto my desk when he runs out of space. (When I’m not watching)
After jokingly mentioning that I should build myself a wall so that his crap doesn’t “inadvertently” land on my desk, Mark lays back into his chair and gives me an evil laugh.
So, while he was away on holiday, I took some of his Post-it notes and built myself a fence, nothing fancy, just a little something to mark our boundaries.
After seeing the fence, Mark goes into a litany about about it’s because of people like me that there are things like the Berlin Wall and how walls do not solve anything. He then orders me to take pictures and to put them on my blog, to show everyone how mean I am to him. He even threatened to buy the domain MyMeanColleague.com to tell the world about the mean things I say or do to him.
The fence from my side. (Notice how my side is so much cleaner haha)
Mark’s crap.. Yes, thats a shirt lying around on his desk!!
I plan on increasing the height of the wall by one post-it every month.