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paulrussell
05-19-2010, 02:56 PM
I'm an organization nut. I hate having to expend more than a few seconds finding something. I adhere to the "a place for everything & everything in its place" school of thought. So much so that it is often a domestic point of contention as my wife is more of the "shove it anywhere out of sight" and "it will probably turn up one of these days" philosophy. (more valid when looking for old photos than say... the fire extinguisher) :eek:
However, despite my anal-compulsive ways when I'm working in the shop my bench ends up looking like a mini version of the city dump. Things stacked upon things, precariously balanced, and in no logical order. A bigger workbench yeilds only a bigger stack!
Does anyone else here suffer from this malady & is there a cure?!? :confused:
tom_k/mo
05-19-2010, 03:20 PM
Paul, no SERIOUS answer to your dilemma, but on a humorous note... Went to meet with the owner of a 1-man business one time that had a neat piece of software we thought we could use at work. This guy was a genius, but had SERIOUS organizational problems. His desk was like you described. His solution was every so often to get a piece of cardboard or masonite and lay it on top of everything on his desk, and start stacking new on top of that. That way, when he went searching for something, he could go back layer by layer and determine time-frame when it arrived. You should have seen that mess, but for him it worked... :eek:
paulrussell
05-19-2010, 03:26 PM
Paul, no SERIOUS answer to your dilemma, but on a humorous note... Went to meet with the owner of a 1-man business one time that had a neat piece of software we thought we could use at work. This guy was a genius, but had SERIOUS organizational problems. His desk was like you described. His solution was every so often to get a piece of cardboard or masonite and lay it on top of everything on his desk, and start stacking new on top of that. That way, when he went searching for something, he could go back layer by layer and determine time-frame when it arrived. You should have seen that mess, but for him it worked... :eek:
I was a software engineer for about a decade (Software Engineer = uppity programmer) and the guy in the next cubicle was like that. He had piles two feet high. He would say they were things that he was going to read when he had the time. After a stack got to be about a year old he would throw the entire pile in the trash, and the next day a new one would start in its place.
JPG40504
05-19-2010, 05:09 PM
I was a software engineer for about a decade (Software Engineer = uppity programmer) and the guy in the next cubicle was like that. He had piles two feet high. He would say they were things that he was going to read when he had the time. After a stack got to be about a year old he would throw the entire pile in the trash, and the next day a new one would start in its place.
Only ONE year?:eek:
charlese
05-19-2010, 05:35 PM
Does anyone else here suffer from this malady & is there a cure?!? :confused:
It is a fatal disease:rolleyes: Won't cause fatality, but when you finally do (everyone does) the malady will remain. Only someone else will be able to finally clean it up.
robinson46176
05-19-2010, 06:42 PM
Years ago my father and I used to talk about replacing the work bench in the farm shop with one that was mounted on bearings at each end. It was to have a pit under it that could be cleaned out with a tractor with a loader on it. It would have had a timer on it and it would rotate and dump everything into the pit once a day... :D :D
I was having trouble with it a few years ago because every time I put something else on it I had to push stuff back and stuff kept falling off of the back. I solved the problem by adding a 16" backstop to the back. Tripled its capacity. :D Kind of like curing a noise in your car by turning up the radio...
Kind of a funny thing, I am a complete slob at home in the shop but when I was working I used to p!$$ people off because I demanded that the people that worked for me be totally organized. :rolleyes:
I demanded that the people that worked for me be totally organized. :rolleyes:
Was that so you'd have MORE room for your "STUFF".:D