Paging Andrew R - is your desk tidy?

I read this and thought of you

"Black tape has been put on civil servants' desks to show them where to
put their pens.
The pilot exercise at National Insurance offices in Longbenton, North
Tyneside, is part of a UK-drive to encourage staff to tidy their desks."

IIRC you do or have worked at the Longbenton complex. Is this the
system you have invented that only you understand? ;-)

Wrong bit of Longbenton for me, I hang out with a different agency.

However, it does seem reasonable to expect only one person to understand
that system.

I particularly liked this :-

"But a PCS spokesman said: "The tape idea illustrates the madness of the
Lean project.

"The scheme is demoralising and demeaning. Staff know how to order their
desks themselves.

"We had a situation in some offices in Scotland where staff were asked
'Is that banana on your desk active or inactive?', meaning were they
going to eat it?

"If not, it had to be cleared away."

I shall have to keep going to the kitchen tomorrow to ensure my coffee
cup remains in an active state all morning.

I'm waiting for our Health & Safety Loony to start doing this.

I mean, my desk has already been officially certified by her as a
Hazardous Area. This is the next step.

What happened to the petrol can?

She never actually found it, which disappointed me slightly. So I
removed it before Christmas. At some point I might put it back, in a
slightly more obvious place. Like on top of my desk.