...and TV
OK, this is still bugging me so, yeah, a post about it.
In last week's Brooklyn Nine-Nine, the B plot was Amy trying to organize the main characters's desks mostly against their will.
1) The answer to "you can't keep this personal possession at work since there's no space for it" is not "throw it out". It is TAKE IT HOME.
and, more importantly,
2) Organizing the desks is not gonna solve the overcrowding issue. The cleanliness of the desks doesn't have anything to do with their actual problem. The problem they need to solve is "we do not have enough physical space in this room for the people who have to work in it". There are various possible solutions to this, including the most basic of "rearrange the room", which wouldn't fix everything, but at least wouldn't make it a gigantic maze.
In fact, the issue is solved at the end of the episode by getting an entire floor back of space and suddenly everything is fine. You are not going to find a full floor of space just by throwing things out. The only reason why "you need to have more clear space on your desk" would be a proposed solution to the problem is if it was in concert with a desk-sharing strategy and I didn't notice desk-sharing.
Also, honestly,
3) You need buy-in at all levels for this kind of project, and sustainment is the harder part than implementation. Amy didn't have buy-in. This was doomed to fail from the start. It doesn't even need the whole sitcom power of everything goes back to status quo after the episode is over, that would happen anyway in RL.
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