From last week’s New York Times: “Studies are piling up that show that messy desks are the vivid signatures of people with creative, limber minds (who reap higher salaries than those with neat “office landscapesâ€) and that messy closet owners are probably better parents and nicer and cooler than their tidier counterparts. It’s a movement that confirms what you have known, deep down, all along: really neat people are not avatars of the good life; they are humorless and inflexible prigs, and have way too much time on their hands.”
Our colleague Adam Ebbin, whose desk makes mine look like the cover of Real Simple Magazine, will never let us forget this.
I’ll buy that, especially the “creative, limber minds” part :)
Maybe we need to have a “who has the messiest desk and, therefore, the most creative, limber mind” contest :lol:
If this is true, then I must be the brightest mind and kindest parent in the world!
Lest it seem that I am casting stones, when Bob called to point out that I should probably not make fun of anyone else’s desk, I almost couldn’t take the call. It seems I couldn’t find the phone …
Shucks, I was going to add a comment of agreement, but it took me this long to even find my keyboard :)
As a clean freak… All i have to say is Grrr…