in the middle of my cube farm, there is a workspace. This workspace, down at our end of the giant area, stays fairly neat. So neat, in fact, that the staplers are always lined up, and the binder clips are put neatly at the back of the work bench.

And when i go over to use the giant auto stapler, and staple remover, and sometimes when i just walk by, i pull out the staplers and turn them sideways, and generally throw off the balance of the table.

i think its because i want to teach a lesson.

people who want to keep things organized like that, and are ok with a little mess, must be DIFFERENTIATED from the people who want to keep things organized like that, and are completely thrown off, and cannot work, or cannot walk buy when they are VERY BUSY without fixing the table...


the former, i'm ok with... because for a majority of the time, i'm one of them. i like things neat, but i know better than to expect things (both little and big) to stay organized and neat all the time.


and i think for the latter, it speaks to an internal insecurity that worries me greatly. if its sets off something in them that they have to fix, and have to be in control of, even though it is not theirs... they are in a state of mind that is not healthy.

now, a counter argument is that "its not a big deal, we're talking about staplers..."

to which i respond... exactly... i always like stirring up a little trouble on things that are not a big deal.

then again, to these people it is a big deal, and they should learn to not treat things like this as such... they may need to change the way they've been doing things


which is why it pisses me the hell off to hear people at age 23 or 24 say "oh this is just how i do things..." or "oh this is just the way it goes" when responding to a criticism of sorts...

shut the hell up, and find a better way to do things. try something new. don't get stuck in a rut and placid, because that can be so damaging.

doing the same thing over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over... maybe thats what you want.

maybe safety is found in the arms of routine.

but wait, safety is found in risk... calcuated, yes; and otherwise