PC possession

[Burble]

The desk and equipment may be owned by the company but they are dedicated for my use and setup how I like them so nobody else is allowed to use them without my permission.

It may seem anal but it annoys me when I find stuff moved, stuff missing and things unplugged so to save me having to waste time setting things up again I don't allow anyone else to use the area.

[Piggymon]

I don't care about people using my PC or desk but it really ***** me off when they move things around ! GRRR!!

If I have a few days off my boss sits at my desk throughout the day, I come back and my stuff is just everywhere ! I always keep my production diary to the left of me but it walks into a drawer by the time I come back :/

I just can't work properly if things aren't where they should be !

[Garp]

When I was working in NOC and we hot desked, I really wasn't bothered. Then I moved into Sysadmin and I suddenly had one specific PC, and all of a sudden it began to irritate me when people used it.
Unlike other departments we setup our PCs ourselves, installed our preferred version of Linux on them, customised it to suit our work practices and so on.
With the amount of typing and the style of the typing I seem to do with sysadmin an ergonomic keyboard was essential otherwise RSI strikes in a matter of a day or two.
To stop the RSI my keyboard was always carefully placed on my desktop to help alleviate this. My chair was also very carefully set up to stop my back problems occurring again.

What happens when someone uses it? Keyboard gets moved, chair gets adjusted, and monitor moved, all of which take me up to a week of small adjustments to get sorted again and thus stop my back and wrists from hurting.

So yeah, I get a bit peeved when other people use my desk / PC at work..

[Justsomebloke]

Originally Posted by Matblack

My plan for Monday and Tuesday

MB

Gissa job !!!
I can Do That !!!
Go on then, Gissa job







I need a green smiley <<< He is Not smiling just Green with envy, Sry best I could do.

[SidewinderINC]

I don't have my own PC, but I do have my own pipettes (& Tips), my own timer, my own sterile water/saline/buffers and if people start using those without asking me they feel the wrath!

All of our equipment is numbered, so I never have to check it when writing down the numbers, I know that it's been cleaned/cared for and quite a lot of the other pipettes are just manky to use.

[Feek]

Yes, technically everything on my desk is company owned (except my logitech wireless mouse), but I don't care. As far as I'm concerned, it's _my_ kit, it's organised how I like it, the chair, monitor height etc are all in positions as recommended by the person who does our workstation evaluations and all hell will break loose if things are moved around.

In reality, everyone in the office is very good about such thing. We all have laptops so there's no PCs left on the desk for others to use anyway and we don't tend to hot desk at all in here so it's an unusual occurance for things to be moved around. The natural keyboard scares people away anyway.

[Mark]

Originally Posted by Feek

The natural keyboard scares people away anyway.

Same. My chair does go walkabout now and then but it's mostly cleaners moving the rest so I did the job for them over the holidays (removed the batteries from the keyboard and mouse too ). Looks like they tried to clean my screen recently with god knows what so I'll have to take a proper cleaner in next time to sort that.

[AboveTheSalt]

Originally Posted by mejinks

I was able to observe this a while ago when I was working for the HMRC and there was a rule that no more than 2 photos were allowed on everyones desk and that at the end of the day, everything had to be laid out exactly (phone goes here, mouse here etc) and there was to be no other personal decoration such as drawings by kids.

It is a great pity that HMRC don't invest more time in simplifying their wretched forms and tightening up on tax evasion.

As to the OP, you should try working as a contractor, I have long since lost count of the number of times I have turned up on site to be told that nobody was expecting me, no desk, PC or 'phone is available, my contact is off on holiday or off sick, trainees are not available, the system can't be shut down for the intended upgrade or maintenance and generally, I am wasting my time and the client's money.

[Will]

We have a clear desk policy... unfortunately I don't adhere to this fortunately it's my office and I'm the only one with the key I don't understand how you can have a clear desk policy - I have too much work to do to keep it clear!!

[Feek]

So do we. What it means for me is that at the end of the day, I close my scribbly notepad and put my pen in my drawer.

Apart from that, it's hardly clear!