A guy who (if he gets his way) will have you painters tape all around your desk so there’s “a place for everything, and have everything in its place”. Your stapler needs to be in the stapler rectangle. Even stupid shit like your wired keyboard that will never move - labeled tape rectangle!

Giant waste of money. Our $250M global company canned ours and never backfilled the position.

Smartest thing they’ve done all year.

Bingo. From my introduction to it around a decade ago, I believe it originated at Toyota. Some things in the MFG environment (shadow walls for tools so they're always in the same place, reduction of movement/waiting/processes...etc.) all make total sense.

It's when they optimize the production floor but after that's all done still need to justify their position/paycheck so they spill into the office space and tell you your desk phone needs a taped square around it labelling that space as "phone". That's when the eyes start to roll and lifelong enemies are made.
Keep those scissor blades open, FFS! (resized).png
Blue pen on the right, damnit!!! (resized).jpg