I am not a naturally organized person. I like working in a certain amount of clutter and chaos, but order has its place, especially in a shared work environment. Here are some examples of how chaotic the print shop was before Tuesday (when Mac and I worked damage control and fixed this).
This is where we keep most of the leads, which allow us to make lines of type single spaced, double spaced, etc. They aren't normally scattered about like this - normally, each is stacked almost neatly in or on top of others in the section of its width. For some reason, the disarray here bothers me more than the disarray anywhere else in the shop.
This is dangerous. Not for a person's body, aside from toes if it fell, but for a person's mind. There was a case stacked on a stool as well, and unlike this one, it fell before I could move it to a safer place. It is not particularly fun to re-sort an entire case of 14 point type that has dust and dirt all throughout because the floor where it fell was particularly dirty.
And this is why that case was balanced so precariously on the press. There was no room on the table! Also, note the stack of four, yes four, cases on the left. As far as the other cases, they're each stacked on something else as well. I believe Mac, in the background, is attempting to straighten up.
These photos predate the recent Thanksgiving break. It took us several days before the break and a good deal of Tuesday to clean up so we didn't embarrass the Press when Mr. Dissette arrived. Oh, and so, you know, we could actually work without knocking things over.
3 comments:
I like the Gatorade in the picture because I feel like I've located the thing that doesn't belong.
Heh. No, it would not be any kind of fun to re-sort all that minuscule type. (Kind of a nightmare scenario, really, minus the flying monkeys.)
I wonder how LONG it takes to replace a case of type that has fallen and scattered.
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