Frank:
I used to work with an individual that was an OCD "neat freak". This guy would go ballistic if you placed a message slip on his desk instead of in the IN basket. His desktop only had a blank pad of paper and the telephone. His pencils were all the same lenght, sharpened and lined up on the right side of the top drawer. When he left for home he would place his chair at just the exact distance from the desk every time (would sometimes measure it) and if he was on the phone and a call came in for him and you took the message, you could not tell him afterwards that so and so had called. You had to WRITE a "while you were out" message and put it in the IN basket.
I would, on purpose leave my desk an unholy mess, with fast food wrappers, empty coffee cups, piles of papers, etc just to watch him sit there and squirm. The final straw was when he came in on a saturday and "straightened up" the office, used a Brother labelmaker to label EVERYTHING in the office, including each and every file folder in the 4 cabinets! A petition was circulated among the other employees and he was "transfered" to where he could work by his lonesome self.
Believe, this person was unreal.
Nemo me impune lacessit
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