Comments on: Desktop Psychology

By: Laura

Laura — Thu, 06 Apr 2006 09:51:39 +0000

For days now I have deliberated over replying, but I fear being pulled into Chris’ World, having sat at the same desk area as him for a few weeks now I can see that resistance is futile…As for desktop and images – I like having these fish men (actually my bro and dad) on my screen. Having little reminders of the most important things in my life, family, keeps me sane in what is fast becoming the tech end of the office, plus I like to personalise my desk making it more girly with photos, plants and things; to put you boys off and keep you away; that way i don’t need passwords.

By: Mother Superior

Mother Superior — Wed, 05 Apr 2006 17:41:15 +0000

I do seem to type my key lock password in a little too often. Over time the reason for such a quick ‘lock up’ of my PC has changed and nowadays I use it to make sure that I am on task all the time.

As 90% of my job is done right here at my desk – on the phone or my PC, I figure that my keyboard should rarely be left idle for as long as 3 minutes. It has become my way of making sure of it.

On desktop psychology, I think the UKFast office has a definite gradient. I have to admit to being down the ‘tame’ end where we have pictures of family on and around our screens. It starts to get more adventurous as you venture past sales, through the design team to the research and development boys. Mr Norton’s love of the Terminator is slightly concerning, but only serves as a warning as we venture into the tech team…

By: George Frewer

George Frewer — Wed, 05 Apr 2006 16:43:55 +0000

Well Chris, if 'You can tell a lot about a person by sneaking up to their desk when they're out of the office, rifling through their pockets and messing around on their PC', you find out even more about them by reading their blog and discovering they are the type of person who sneaks up to your desk when you are not there and rifles through your pockets! My desk, other than the already described Fantasy Island, is a field of paperwork, broken biros, my much maligned 'eat your greens' unicorn lunch bag and miniature bottles of soy sauce should I panic buy some sushi at lunchtime. As for my screen, being in Sales does not qualify me for a Multi-Screen Licence and I am still getting used to thunderbird and firefox without adding additional screens to the mix. However, even as a non-believer, I would recommend going the way of Firefox, mainly due its possibilities for personalisation. My current favourite theme is Brushed and extension is ForecastFox, although as we are in Manchester, it does spend most of its life warning me of imminent rain. Again to finish with a relatively relevant point, its no wonder that with PC meddlers like Chris around, Jonathan has been forced to set his PC onto autolock after just 3 minutes of idleness!