After taking over five months off work, I finally returned yesterday. After two half days back in the office, it feels like I have never been away!
Having completely destroyed my old desk, before I became poorly, I was given a brand new table to sit at, in a different area of the room.
I may have slightly exaggerated back there. My old desk wasn’t completely killed, although it wasn’t far off. The reason for my new seating arrangement was to get me working with a better posture and keeping me well. I am sure my department don’t want me falling ill for almost half a year again, any more than I do!
Moving desks was almost as bad as moving house. I have accrued so much crap over the years – 99% of it in no way work-related.
Here are some of the most useless finds from my old desk.
- A 2017 Leeds United calendar
- About half a dozen coffee mugs
- Packets of out-of-date food
- Enough medication to open a chemist
- Pins, used Post-It notes and loose staples
- Back issues of the staff newspaper
- An old air fresher
- An empty bottle of hand gel
- Loads and loads of pens
- A USB stick with nothing on it
- Old headphones
- An old, broken headset which I’ve never used
- Coffee that looks so stale, it’ll be deadly if consumed
You would have thought that I would have thrown all of this shit in the bin. I haven’t. Besides the old food, most of it still remains – even the dodgy coffee…
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