I know I’m a day late on getting all of this up—sorry. I’ve been working on getting all of these pictures uploaded for awhile.
You all have expressed interest in us posting all of the pics. We’re going to do a slideshow of all the entrants, but we’re only making the drawing through the five that we chose as best. The reason is that, if we allowed all of the pics to be in the running, the votes would be spread too thin. Plus some are very clearly better (and by that I mean worse) than others.
Anyway, the winner of this will be able to select a Steelcase Leap or Think chair (restrictions apply) and the runners-up will receive iFrogz gift cards.
And so without further ado, I give you the Steelcase Worst Workspace Challenge Finalists in no particular order:
V.M.:
Peter M.:
Dan from NYC:
Andru E:
Talia:
We’ll announce the winner on Friday.
I would have voted for VM, but it looks like he did that for this contest. It looks way too faked. The only one of these that is for sure a hell hole of an office workspace is Dan from NYC
I agree with Phillip, VM’s looks fake… but then again most of these look dressed up for the camera.
-prk
I’ve been promising to clean it up for two years, and failed to make a dent. The first pic was taken about two months before the contest was announced. It has a black cordless phone to the left of the blue silver exercise ball chair and no HDTV antenna. The second and third pics have dymo labelwriter 330 turbo printers in place of that phone and the antenna where it currently is. The neckties in the lower right got hung up and the mac mini box in the center wasn’t purchased yet at the time of the earlier pic.
I can vouch for VM on this one. I first saw these pictures when the IRC channel we hang out on held its first annual messy workplace contest a few months ago.
questions is, what makes the worst workspace, the mess or the depressing nature of it? I would rather sit in vmarks mess than dan’s little wire deathtrap
ok… so I guess my husband isn’t the biggest slob in the world. I guess I better go apologize…
I begged my hubby, Peter, to send this in. This is the SECOND office they gave him for all his stuff, after the number of servers made it too dangerous to have all this in the mix. The pics, when Peter first showed them to me, disappointed me because this is probably the best his office has looked in over 8 years.
That area in the right bottom is the tiny area where they squeeze in his poor student worker, who has actually been responsible for the room looking this ‘good’.
I promise you, this is my hubby’s office as it appears right not, and better than it is most of the time. ;>
Thankfully, I control our house. Thanks, everyone — very interesting to see what else is out there. I’d love to see all the entries.
any of these could be fake – i woulda joined cuz i really really want one of those chairs but i dont actually have enough “stuff” to even come close to looking as ridiculously messy as you guys even if i wanted to.
kudos
V.M.s workspace look post-Katrina to me – ouch!
“The only one of these that is for sure a hell hole of an office workspace is Dan from NYC”
Actually, I don’t think Dan from NYC is even a contender – here’s why:
I see a bunch of wires, 2 tv trays, a phone, a ‘wall-mounted’ (pbx?), and a laptop -
it could easily be argued as a ‘closet-turned-workspace-in-time-for-contest’ and looks rather sparse/transitional (to me) to be included in the top five.
In hindsight, everyone should have been required to -
*include their current ‘chair’ in one or more of the pics
*submit 2 or more pictures of their ‘Desktop-based’ PC/Mac/Linux workspace
*have the Steelcase/Crunchgear Contest shown on their Monitor
Also, ‘laptop-only’ workspace submissions should have been excluded, as anyone can place a laptop on top of their nearest pile o’ bunk, include a chair and…voila a workspace!
VM’s workspace doesn’t look faked, it looks like the office of a product reviewer or full time geeky writer type. Trust me mine looks like that on many occasions, typically my garage too.
Next time I’m just parking my laptop on the back of a cow…
I actually know Peter, and I have been in his office. I am trying to figure out when he cleaned it up.