blake murphy wrote:

> at a place i used to work, there was a guy who had *two* desks that
> were covered with papers and whatnot (i heard it was one, but it
> metastasized), who also used to say 'but i can find everything.'
> every friday another co-worker, just to be a dick, would take the
> papers he had accumulated during the week and add them to the middle
> of mr. find-it's piles. (his boss, not coincidentally.) never heard
> a peep from him.

Meanwhile, if someone had moved something on the desk of an anal retentive all hell
would break loose. At one of our locations there were three desks and it was first come
first serve. It should be no surprise that the anal rententives always wanted the same
desk. It seems they felt there was some sort of entitlement to "their" desks. In other
places I have worked there were always a few anal retentive types who always had to sit
in the same seat in the lunch room. I was on the road most of the time and was not
around much at lunch time. I took a perverse pleasure in sitting in their spots.

>
> but i'm kinda messy myself, so i can empathize. i was a peon, though,
> so they made me tidy up once in a while, which kinda ****ed me off.
>
> your pal,
> blake