My home office is full of creations me and my son make (robots, animals, castles, etc).

I, like many, can’t stand office politics. Sometimes they are a necessary evil, but just as most evil, should be avoid as much as possible.

The author over at Slacker Manager (link below) has a good list of tactics started based on his own experience. One of them is “being yourself” which seems like a given, but everyone knows those that play politics rarely present ‘themselves’.

As can be seen here, my workspace is me. I filled it with things I like and love. It’s not a ruse or an attempt to make me appear something I’m not. But I’ve seen the looks I get from people when they walk in, and I can instantly tell (and obviously know) that my office is a little - shall we say - abnormal.

But with that brief look of fear, each of them log a mental note: stay away from this weirdo. And for the people at work that aren’t my friends and don’t know me, that’s fine because I probably don’t want to be bothered by them.

When the suits walk in and find my version of Children’s Palace, I would bet they write it off as an excentric nerd and know not to bother me with office shinanigans because shit’s getting done and when it comes down to it, that’s all they care about - and if that means toys hanging from the ceiling, so be it.

Anyway, I never really looked at my office that way until now. Just an interesting thought.

Slacker Manager
http://slackermanager.com/2006/04/how-to-avoid-office-politics.html

Your pictures are on the corkboard right next to the monitor. Although I do need some frames for them.

Our door gets locked every night and there is usually one person in the office during the day.

I suppose if I had a more open space, like a cubicle, there would be less - though still some. Of course, that also assumes that people would actually want what I have.

I need to redo my office at the store. I need to make it my space. Too bad I can’t lock the door and keep everyone else out. I really don’t share work space very well, so it really bugs me to have people in and out of there all the time.

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