Here's why you really need to have a messy desk

The Trucker Staff

11/20/2008

Have a messy desk. Only top management can get away with a clean desk.

For everyone else, it looks as though we're not working hard enough.

Build huge piles of documents around your workspace. To the observer, last year's work looks the same as today's work; it's volume that counts.

Pile them high and wide. If you know somebody is coming to your cubicle, bury the document you'll need halfway down in an existing stack and rummage for it when he/she arrives.