Hey, Now That's What I Call Organised!

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has anybody ever told you you're an organised person? And if so, how did you react?

― MarkH (MarkH), Wednesday, 2 April 2003 06:49 (twenty-one years ago) link

I ask this question as I get the impression that, increasingly, ppl who are organised are labelled "anal". Esp. outside the work arena.

― MarkH (MarkH), Wednesday, 2 April 2003 06:51 (twenty-one years ago) link

I would laugh. I have always been called disorganised, I take a sort of pride in this.

― jel -- (jel), Wednesday, 2 April 2003 06:51 (twenty-one years ago) link

I got told yesterday that I get results. I larfed like a drain.

― chris (chris), Wednesday, 2 April 2003 06:56 (twenty-one years ago) link

By whom, Chris?

yes ppl do that don't they jel? Maybe it's a from a rebellion against despotic elements in one's childhood.

I remember being asked if I had a pencil sharpener that I could lend someone within days of starting at uni. When I proffered said item to (almost) complete stranger, I asked why they'd asked me and they said "you look like the kind of organised person who'd have one". At the time I was worried whether or not to regard this as a compliment!

― MarkH (MarkH), Wednesday, 2 April 2003 06:57 (twenty-one years ago) link

It was by a sales manager, he's pretty cool.

― chris (chris), Wednesday, 2 April 2003 07:01 (twenty-one years ago) link

I'm sick of being told by people that I'm organised and sensible, and then going home and having my mum despairing of me, thinking I'm scatterbrained with no common sense whatsoever.

I got a bit upset about it, and am still quite touchy, probably because I realise that I am quite anal :0(

― Vicky (Vicky), Wednesday, 2 April 2003 07:01 (twenty-one years ago) link

I've never been called organised. At home, I'm probably organised for about one week out of every three months, when the pile of paper on my desk gets too big and an effort to do some filing takes place. At work, my desk surface is a picture of tidyness while the drawers underneath bulge with old documents, scribbled notes and PC parts.

I probably have a pencil sharpener but I couldn't tell you where it is.

― robster (robster), Wednesday, 2 April 2003 07:03 (twenty-one years ago) link

I guess it's because my school reports often said "James could do better if he was more organised", and me in my arrogance mistook this for "James is clearly a genius". I did try to be more organised at college and university, and I did do better, ha! Humility's got a lot going for it.

― jel -- (jel), Wednesday, 2 April 2003 07:07 (twenty-one years ago) link

I am together but not organised, if that makes sense?

― Lara (Lara), Wednesday, 2 April 2003 07:14 (twenty-one years ago) link

There seem to be different categories of organisation. You can be really messy at home and never be able to find things, but still rarelly forget to take the stuff you need for the day with you (keys, money, that kinda thing) and always be on time. Even being messy seems to fall into categories and I sometimes wonder if I'm neat & tidy with the things I really care abt. I quite often leave clothes on the floor, but recoil in horror at the thought of my cds being left in random places in the house, or out of their boxes, or in the wrong boxes.

I don't keep them in alphabetical order tho, that'd be too much ;)

― MarkH (MarkH), Wednesday, 2 April 2003 07:15 (twenty-one years ago) link

How does a drain laugh?

― kate, Wednesday, 2 April 2003 07:15 (twenty-one years ago) link

I think that's the level of organisation I succumb to, Mark. I am often late for things but that's because I don't really care about being there on time rather than anything else.

― Lara (Lara), Wednesday, 2 April 2003 07:17 (twenty-one years ago) link

How does a drain laugh?

Loudly & gurgly.

― MarkH (MarkH), Wednesday, 2 April 2003 07:22 (twenty-one years ago) link

Oi! What's wrong with keeping your CDs in alphabetical order? (And categorised into albums, singles, classical, and compilations) *twitch twitch*

― Liz :x (Liz :x), Wednesday, 2 April 2003 07:25 (twenty-one years ago) link

Ah but the best one was when my dept at work was at its annual away-day at a local hotel to discuss Team Objectives for the coming year (nb this is of great import). We were having the obligatory brainstorming session avec flipchart. The chart was flipped and the ideas flew through the air in quick sucession. The someone decided that the sheet needed to be torn off & put up on the wall and - horror of horrors - there was no Blu Tac. The hotel staff didn't have any! Then I suddenly remembered something - I had some in my bag. I told my boss and saved the day.

The following year, the following Away Day, the nice fruity-smalling marker pen ran out. But...guess what? I had a marker pen in my bag. Inevitably my boss asked "is it next to the Blu Tac?"

― MarkH (MarkH), Wednesday, 2 April 2003 07:26 (twenty-one years ago) link

I'm messy but my messes have their own internal logic. The thing I'm looking for today is always right underneath the thing I was looking for yesterday. As a general rule.

And if I can't find something, I probably didn't need it anyway.

― Jody Beth Rosen (Jody Beth Rosen), Wednesday, 2 April 2003 07:37 (twenty-one years ago) link

Ha, I have all my music in a database.

― Martin Skidmore (Martin Skidmore), Wednesday, 2 April 2003 10:18 (twenty-one years ago) link

I have been called this, which always strikes me as odd because I feel like I'm pretty shambolic. But I guess I am in some ways. All of my bills, etc. I have filed in order in a filing cabinet, and I try to keep all of my cds in alpha and chronological order. I guess it's just fallout from working in libraries for so many years.

― Nicole (Nicole), Wednesday, 2 April 2003 10:58 (twenty-one years ago) link

I was told precisely this on the one occasion I met my accountant face to face. I had a neato transparent folder from Bureau with all my correspondence/invoices in and she was really impressed.

Many months of frustrating phone calls later I grew to understand why she'd been so struck by this revolutionary exhibition of 'filing' but also quite certain she hadn't let it change her life.

― Michael Jones (MichaelJ), Wednesday, 2 April 2003 11:20 (twenty-one years ago) link

Actually, people always comment on how neat (English meaning) my clothes are. This makes me fume.

― Lara (Lara), Wednesday, 2 April 2003 11:24 (twenty-one years ago) link

I worked for an accountants as an office monkey for just under a year and I was amazed how many ppl just take a box file (or even just a cardboard box) and shove all their receipts and invoices in and the poor accountant has to somehow construct a cashbook from them! Dentists are apparently the worst for this, so much so that there is actually a firm just outside Oxford which *specialises* in doing accounts for dentists - if I find them on the webbynet I'll tell you the link.

― MarkH (MarkH), Wednesday, 2 April 2003 11:25 (twenty-one years ago) link

Dental Business Solutions!.

― MarkH (MarkH), Wednesday, 2 April 2003 11:26 (twenty-one years ago) link

Pretty well organized these days after a more messy childhood. The library work, as Nicole noted, helps. But friend Stripey intentionally allows for a bit of chaos at home precisely because of library work -- lets more of an individual stamp creep in.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Wednesday, 2 April 2003 11:47 (twenty-one years ago) link

Yeah I am organised, punctual, good memory for detail etc but very untidy with anything at home that's not a book or CD. It runs in my family, and we all are (or in my case will be) library peeps. Urgh. Also I am a Stationery Troll of course!

― Archel (Archel), Wednesday, 2 April 2003 11:51 (twenty-one years ago) link

I live my life in a whirl of unopened post, discarded clothing and sliding piles of magazines. I like to think of it as creative chaos, but really it just makes me stressed.

― Anna (Anna), Wednesday, 2 April 2003 11:53 (twenty-one years ago) link

I can't get these ppl who always have a pile of unopened post in their hallway, TBF, it's quite often in shared houses where the bulk of its addressed to ppl who don't live there anymore!

Maybe I just value every item of post I get.

― MarkH (MarkH), Wednesday, 2 April 2003 13:21 (twenty-one years ago) link

Organised is what I want to be when I grow up. But there's no holding of breath going on.

― ChristineSH (chrissie1068), Wednesday, 2 April 2003 13:31 (twenty-one years ago) link

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