Tidy desk seminar/Mein Schreibtisch, frei und aufgeräumt
am 23.10.2006 von http://transblawg.eu
This is not a description of my desk but the title of the seminar for translators I went to in Munich on Saturday. It was about keeping your desk tidy. Of course, an untidy desk is a symptom rather than a disease.
Here is a picture of a translator’s desk that looks a bit tidier than its title suggests. It’s probably the desk of someone who’s already attended such a seminar. In an ordinary office, we learnt, this pencil stand (Stiftbehälter) would be full of bent paperclips, rusty nails and pencils that no longer write. But I can’t see anything really extraneous, although the wall looks promising.
The trainer was Gunter Meier, who has a company website (more E+E - details there of his book on dealing with email too). People who work in offices have more chance to hear about this kind of thing. It’s a shame so few people attended - apparently there were 30 in Aschaffenburg. Probably there’s just too much else to do in Munich.
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