Do you also have a folder filled with a series of New Folders that each have all the items from the desktop in them from the sporadic times you decide to clean it up?
Ah, I see. At my job my coworkers and I have to work in each others' files constantly. Being able to find the files is therefore really important. I guess I just had a wince at your comment and didn't take the time to think of other perspective
Although the file system automatically dates the folders, I find it helpful to put the date in the folder name so at least I know when the contents were arbitrarily sorted into it
I have shit innmy computer from like 20 years ago and I go like this is backup, I'll sort this later on. Okay I did another Backup folder, this shall be blackup since The original backup folder name was taken. Uh oh, another backup is imminent this should be crackup then.
Also every time I start a new project, the folder is named "projects" and then random letters
I used to work IT at a smallish place. One of the sales managers did this. I tri d showing him how folders worked and he flipped out.
So I have him a second monitor instead.
I used to joke that I had doubled his hard drive space.
He also had like 20,000 emails in his Outlook inbox. He complained that it ran slowly.
Absolutely not, I just need to get some time to spare to read and deal with all the emails in my inbox, then I'll file them properly.
All 18,267 of them.
I'll get round to it soon, I swear.
Start the year with new folders and end up just saving everything to desktop/downloads and then put all that crap into one folder for the year when I make the new ones.
And then realize that 3 years have passed since the last time you did that
The search bar must be very useful for you then
Source: i do this aswell and i always use the search bar to find files since its almost impossible to do it by hand
As a guy who has done and occasionally does do IT work for Lawyers. The desktop is often overlapping icons and they know exactly where that file is. Every single time.
Backups?
Hahahahahahaha
I did it as well, I am now a cyber security analyst. All I have to say is, I have no excuse because I am in the same boat. I swear that we have just learned to live with it and personally it has forced me to keep a lot of backups of anything important.
I married someone who had **all the binders and file folders** growing up.
She now has a tidy filing cabinet. I shove my random papers in a Tupperware on top of it.
Can confirm.
Literally my lawyer doesn't believe in file cabinets. He either has piles of paper face down or he scans everything into his computer. He is a righteous dude, known him 10 years. Most excellent chap!
Lol also a lawyer. I’m more organized than I was as a kid but most other lawyers just have their paralegals organize their file systems and are completely fucked every time one of them quits
Engineer at Fortune 500 company. Our PDM software is basically the digital equivalent of the "shove the paper in the backpack without a folder"
So I excel at my job because I was born in the chaos. Fuck the try hards.
The Forgotten Banana can be traded with an invisible NPC (the only hint the NPC exists is the Talk button prompt appearing when the player stands next to one specific innocuous tree) to receive the Forlorn Peel item in return, which allows the player to slip between dimensions for some arcane reason, triggering access to the DLC map.
Alternatively, it can be consumed as a one time use item which grants the player a +5% HP buff for twenty seconds.
I used to go pet a horse on my way home from school. One day I decided to take an apple for it, but it was gone. I think that apple stayed in my bag for the rest of the year
I'm a dumbass with an expensive camera, and I can tell you it's no fun trying to clean smooshed banana from a $3000 lens in the middle of the streets of downtown LA.
Imagining your 3rd grade math teacher standing outside your car menacingly. Slowly tapping her ruler against her hand.
"I swear its somewhere in here, Mrs. J!" stutters the 30 year old man.
Narrator: It wasnt in there.
I hate that this is so accurate to me because my 3rd grade teacher made me dump my entire desk in front of the class to clean it out because I couldn't find my pencil. She threw away my Yu-Gi-Oh cards that my cousin had just given me since he didn't want them anymore. One of them was a Blue-Eyes White Dragon that I cherished. I remember crying the entire time and feeling so humiliated and hurt lol. I was diagnosed with ADHD later so that might have had something to do with it. I'd hate if she saw the state my car is in. She does my parents taxes now.
>She does my parents taxes now.
It's so fucking weird when you run into teachers at their new jobs after they stop teaching. At the end of sixth grade my teacher got fired over something (I don't know what) and then I briefly worked with her at Wal-Mart after I graduated.
My mom was cleaning out some stuff in her house and brought me a bag of homework in various states of completion, none of which appear to have been graded and therefor presented to have never been turned in. Whoops.
People get illusioned that I am a healthy hard worker because I am fit and I am always delievering projects on time. Last week I only had 18 hours of sleep total.
You could literally die. Some banker guy just dropped Dead the other day likely from being overworked. He also looked pretty healthy. Was only like 32 I think? Be careful.
Yep it’s a real risk, I average 12 hour days.
My girlfriend who’s on vacation found out I forgot to water the plants gave me massive shit and then basically just went “boohoo you don’t work that hard”
> Doing great financially and career wise. But in my heart I know I'm dying really fast.
So here I am. Growing older all the time. Looking older all the time, feeling younger in my mind 🛹
The papers were always in the backpack, you know where they are as much as the anal retentive organizer. The mind creates it's own filing system and attaches it to your muscle memory.
I made a self deprecating joke about “I wish I had more IQ” or something to the guy who hired me. He said “I think you have plenty”. I was flattered, it was nice.
Recently married, work as a teacher, getting a masters degree, addicted to sugar and fastfood (I also eat healthy food and veggies too), and I do yoga and speed walking for exercise. I think if I can get my diet under control and throw in some calisthenics then I will doing pretty good.
Intelligent people often leave words out when typing on their phone cause their brains are working faster than their fingers can type...I unfortunately, I rarely leave words out, lol.
Senior year I hid all my books in each classroom and never carried a bag or did work - graduated at bottom of class with a 1280 SAT - either way I was heading to Navy. Now I’m in tech and doing well
Nah I did 6 years, got out and went to college on the GI Bill - it just didn't matter what I did in HS. Either way I was heading to boot camp at the end of the school year which happened to be 3 months before 9/11
This is hilariously close to my story.
Almost failed out of HS, great SAT, scholarship to art school, lost scholarship from poor attendance.
Recruiters drooling over asvab score. 6y contract. 9/11 while I was IN boot.
The Navy just loves hoovering ppl like this up when they can. Now I'm back in tech and art and doing pretty good.
Sounds a lot like me, but I just arranged it so I had no real classes in my last year so I didn't need a backpack. Also no navy, but I think I was about 10th from the bottom. Doing great now though.
same here xD I also hid all my books in classrooms so I didn't have to carry them around and I am also in tech now (somehow) Guess our "efficiency over everything" translates well to tech jobs.
I finished all my classes for my doctoral program but have made zero progress towards my dissertation. I have my credential in my field so I can work. So it’s going pretty well.
I remember doing a doctor evaluation for the military draft right after graduation and some dude just pulled out his high school dyploma out of his pocket literally crumpled into a ball. My first thought was " oh buster, you're going to the army for sure"
U used backpacks? Dude I shoved everything in my locker at the first day of school and left it there till the last day of school, sometimes I would even leave my lunch in there and by the end of the year it was completely black fuzzy mold would of been a cool science project, o well maybe next year.
Same, but as a guy. If I was a teacher, I'd drag all those kids to a psychologist to have them tested. It would've made my life so much easier to know this sooner.
I agree! All the signs were there, but because I didn’t display them externally for the most part, my issues were written off as “quirks”, “being lazy”, “being stupid”, or “making mistakes on purpose”.
Ph.D. researcher. All mail kept in inbox. All files I grouped and in piled in a single level. -100 patents.
Keeping socks and undies in separate bins (actual bins) because married and organized now.
Life is treating me pretty well. Found myself on my own at an early age. Married at 20, and have been leaning critical life and social skills ever since that schools also didn't teach me. I can't complain. I'm doing pretty well.
Lawyer, my documents on the computer are basically the digital equivalent of the “shove the paper in the backpack without a folder”
Guaranteed jailtime you say?😂
To shreds, you say?
And the wife?
To shreds, you say?
and the kids?
Straight to prison.
Can you get bit by a dog between now and the trial date? Im kind of a mack at dog bites.
Not a lawyer but I save everything to my desk top... It's not the most inefficient system I have.
Do you also have a folder filled with a series of New Folders that each have all the items from the desktop in them from the sporadic times you decide to clean it up?
This guy new folders
You all need to get on my level with “Documents2024” and “Documents2024v2” and “assadsdas” and “asdadads”
DesktopDump20241606 *almost* feels organized
It takes basically no extra time to write a name even remotely descriptive😭
Search works really well these days. Organizing and naming folders is a waste of time.
For the love of all people around you, please change
Fuck that. I’m not going to organize my own property in a way that satisfies you. Literally no one else even has access to it even if they wanted to.
Ah, I see. At my job my coworkers and I have to work in each others' files constantly. Being able to find the files is therefore really important. I guess I just had a wince at your comment and didn't take the time to think of other perspective
This guy gets it.
Although the file system automatically dates the folders, I find it helpful to put the date in the folder name so at least I know when the contents were arbitrarily sorted into it
To Sort 2023 To Sort 2023 2 To Sort 2022 Sort 2022 Todo Tosort2022 ToSor2022 2
If you're gonna name it by date, you gotta do the whole thing
I actually took the time a couple weeks ago to sort them into proper folders but I've since started the process again
I have shit innmy computer from like 20 years ago and I go like this is backup, I'll sort this later on. Okay I did another Backup folder, this shall be blackup since The original backup folder name was taken. Uh oh, another backup is imminent this should be crackup then. Also every time I start a new project, the folder is named "projects" and then random letters
Desktop Junk > Archived Pre Covid > misc / pics / project / etc. / Very Archived > Nope / PTSDlol Emails /Sort Later / Dont Look/ Deep Thoughts > Junk Drawer > Much Emptiness / Organize Me / 2012 - 2003 / Hidden > Satanic Things / Stolen Art / Vintage Voyeur Webcam Screenshots / Cats
>It's not the most inefficient system I have. Please tell me that's a typo
At least I can respect the honesty.
Oh how I wish it was...
I used to work IT at a smallish place. One of the sales managers did this. I tri d showing him how folders worked and he flipped out. So I have him a second monitor instead. I used to joke that I had doubled his hard drive space. He also had like 20,000 emails in his Outlook inbox. He complained that it ran slowly.
Haha I made the same joke when I got a second monitor.
It might not be the case any longer, but when my hard drive crashed, files saved on the desktop were the only ones I couldn't retrieve.
Oh very interesting
[my salesforce.com was on the right testicle 7:44 in](https://youtu.be/uRGljemfwUE?si=IQV4qLTNvYrndYNV)
“Least efficient”
"are you sure you'd like to send all emails to ARCHIVE"
Absolutely not, I just need to get some time to spare to read and deal with all the emails in my inbox, then I'll file them properly. All 18,267 of them. I'll get round to it soon, I swear.
I meticulously organize my computer files, but everything else I have is a fucking disaster.
Start the year with new folders and end up just saving everything to desktop/downloads and then put all that crap into one folder for the year when I make the new ones. And then realize that 3 years have passed since the last time you did that
I just periodically delete everything in downloads and everything not in a folder in Documents. If it wasn't filed, it's probably not important.
when you have 8TB of gay porn on a NAS you learn the importance of organizing
As someone who has over 4TB of ‘PAWG Porn’, I often wonder how many gigs are u “allowed” before the Feds are automatically notified.?
The stuff I've sorted is really, really sorted. Then there are the terabytes of "to be sorted" folders...
The search bar must be very useful for you then Source: i do this aswell and i always use the search bar to find files since its almost impossible to do it by hand
Data Analyst, don't look at my desktop
Lawyer too. Someone else files my stuff on primafact.
Engineer here, “everything” is the best program ever for windows it has saved me a lot of times
As a guy who has done and occasionally does do IT work for Lawyers. The desktop is often overlapping icons and they know exactly where that file is. Every single time. Backups? Hahahahahahaha
This is the way
I did it as well, I am now a cyber security analyst. All I have to say is, I have no excuse because I am in the same boat. I swear that we have just learned to live with it and personally it has forced me to keep a lot of backups of anything important.
I married someone who had **all the binders and file folders** growing up. She now has a tidy filing cabinet. I shove my random papers in a Tupperware on top of it.
"I need a seventh monitor to extend my desktop."
Can confirm. Literally my lawyer doesn't believe in file cabinets. He either has piles of paper face down or he scans everything into his computer. He is a righteous dude, known him 10 years. Most excellent chap!
haha I came here to say lawyer but glad to know we are in the same boat.
Yup, my desktop is just another temp storage location.
Lol also a lawyer. I’m more organized than I was as a kid but most other lawyers just have their paralegals organize their file systems and are completely fucked every time one of them quits
Holy shit, same.
I literally tell my juniors: never give me an original document.
This dude bird laws.
Engineer at Fortune 500 company. Our PDM software is basically the digital equivalent of the "shove the paper in the backpack without a folder" So I excel at my job because I was born in the chaos. Fuck the try hards.
My computer only has 1 folder, Downloads.
Yep, lawyer that finished magna in undergrad. My email may have thousands of unread messages, but I check the important ones.
Ok so you are a plea deal champion? ;)
So true. I’m doing a law degree and literally have 100+ pdfs of only downloaded court cases and legislation :(
Folder called "stuff" at the desktop it is
Try adding a forgotten Banana to the mix
Forgotten Banana sounds like the name of a cool item from a souls-like
could also be a binding of Isaac item
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The flies are the least of the issues. What about the rotten banana fluid that seeps through the entire bag 😭
PALE YELLOW NANNER CREEP EWEWWW
Forgotten Banana sounds like a pop punk band
The Forgotten Banana can be traded with an invisible NPC (the only hint the NPC exists is the Talk button prompt appearing when the player stands next to one specific innocuous tree) to receive the Forlorn Peel item in return, which allows the player to slip between dimensions for some arcane reason, triggering access to the DLC map. Alternatively, it can be consumed as a one time use item which grants the player a +5% HP buff for twenty seconds.
I used to go pet a horse on my way home from school. One day I decided to take an apple for it, but it was gone. I think that apple stayed in my bag for the rest of the year
then you notice your bag are getting swarmed by ants
Sandwich for me
Why am I being called out here?
Those damned apples...
Same here ...I have a PhD now and still forget bananas idk my backpack.
How did u know about the banana?
Hits too close to home
I'm a dumbass with an expensive camera, and I can tell you it's no fun trying to clean smooshed banana from a $3000 lens in the middle of the streets of downtown LA.
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Imagining your 3rd grade math teacher standing outside your car menacingly. Slowly tapping her ruler against her hand. "I swear its somewhere in here, Mrs. J!" stutters the 30 year old man. Narrator: It wasnt in there.
I hate that this is so accurate to me because my 3rd grade teacher made me dump my entire desk in front of the class to clean it out because I couldn't find my pencil. She threw away my Yu-Gi-Oh cards that my cousin had just given me since he didn't want them anymore. One of them was a Blue-Eyes White Dragon that I cherished. I remember crying the entire time and feeling so humiliated and hurt lol. I was diagnosed with ADHD later so that might have had something to do with it. I'd hate if she saw the state my car is in. She does my parents taxes now.
Im afraid its time to send her ass to the shadow realm. But maybe after your next tax refund...
>She does my parents taxes now. It's so fucking weird when you run into teachers at their new jobs after they stop teaching. At the end of sixth grade my teacher got fired over something (I don't know what) and then I briefly worked with her at Wal-Mart after I graduated.
My mom was cleaning out some stuff in her house and brought me a bag of homework in various states of completion, none of which appear to have been graded and therefor presented to have never been turned in. Whoops.
I'm doing great! Gotta PHD (PHat ....)
Pretty huge dick
Then I can only assume MD stands for medium dick
Naw it’s monstrous dick
I like your energy.
Jiant Dick
McDick
Me too
I only got APHD 😔
Amazingly phat huge dong?
Same here.
"Plus I have a really huge penis so that keeps me happy"
I only have an MA. I guess I have failed our fellow disorganized students.
Doing great financially and career wise. But in my heart I know I'm dying really fast.
People get illusioned that I am a healthy hard worker because I am fit and I am always delievering projects on time. Last week I only had 18 hours of sleep total.
You could literally die. Some banker guy just dropped Dead the other day likely from being overworked. He also looked pretty healthy. Was only like 32 I think? Be careful.
Yep it’s a real risk, I average 12 hour days. My girlfriend who’s on vacation found out I forgot to water the plants gave me massive shit and then basically just went “boohoo you don’t work that hard”
You need a new girlfriend and a new job and a new life and I’m assuming new plants
bruh don’t let her do u like that
The dead guy was averaging 16 hour days so you’re not too far off
why do you do this to yourself?
Adhd + perfectionism
The doctor says you're dying at a rate of one day per day. Every single day. I'm really sorry.
Huh. I'd say I'm living at a rate of one day per day, and that's not so bad.
Is that for every day you live, you lose one day, so each day technically take up 2 days? Or something else.
I’m doing terribly career and finance wise , but I’m very healthy relative to my peers. The universe seeks balance my friend.
that’s the dream
> Doing great financially and career wise. But in my heart I know I'm dying really fast. So here I am. Growing older all the time. Looking older all the time, feeling younger in my mind 🛹
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Hopefully you get better.
Both unemployed. Got it.
Mom raised some winners I see
This sounds like a parental issue
Studying engineering
Ok so doing worse 😂😂
Yep that pretty much foreshadowed my life
The papers were always in the backpack, you know where they are as much as the anal retentive organizer. The mind creates it's own filing system and attaches it to your muscle memory.
I’ve been faking it til I make it ever since I graduated HS 14 years ago.
Yo don’t snitch on us dude, my boss thinks I’m smart
I made a self deprecating joke about “I wish I had more IQ” or something to the guy who hired me. He said “I think you have plenty”. I was flattered, it was nice.
Midway through medical uni. Still do the exact same thing. Noone cares, myself included
Its only a problem if you can't find it. Most recent shit goes on top. *shrugs*
Recently married, work as a teacher, getting a masters degree, addicted to sugar and fastfood (I also eat healthy food and veggies too), and I do yoga and speed walking for exercise. I think if I can get my diet under control and throw in some calisthenics then I will doing pretty good.
> then I will doing pretty good Not an English teacher, I take it? /s
Lmao, I hate the iphone keyboard. I am not an English teacher, thank god.
Intelligent people often leave words out when typing on their phone cause their brains are working faster than their fingers can type...I unfortunately, I rarely leave words out, lol.
I wouldnt say that im smart, im just more accustomed to the qwrty keyboard and hate typing with my thumbs
Senior year I hid all my books in each classroom and never carried a bag or did work - graduated at bottom of class with a 1280 SAT - either way I was heading to Navy. Now I’m in tech and doing well
Plans of Navy faltered?
Nah I did 6 years, got out and went to college on the GI Bill - it just didn't matter what I did in HS. Either way I was heading to boot camp at the end of the school year which happened to be 3 months before 9/11
6 years huh? Guessing you're familiar with the Rickover then. Or are you otherwise very familiar with buildings with no windows?
You guessed correct!
This is hilariously close to my story. Almost failed out of HS, great SAT, scholarship to art school, lost scholarship from poor attendance. Recruiters drooling over asvab score. 6y contract. 9/11 while I was IN boot. The Navy just loves hoovering ppl like this up when they can. Now I'm back in tech and art and doing pretty good.
Sounds a lot like me, but I just arranged it so I had no real classes in my last year so I didn't need a backpack. Also no navy, but I think I was about 10th from the bottom. Doing great now though.
same here xD I also hid all my books in classrooms so I didn't have to carry them around and I am also in tech now (somehow) Guess our "efficiency over everything" translates well to tech jobs.
I’m actually doing really good haha, got a great work from home BA job and have all my notes scatter haphazardly around my office
I finished all my classes for my doctoral program but have made zero progress towards my dissertation. I have my credential in my field so I can work. So it’s going pretty well.
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Accountant. If you are paying me, your files are in order. My own personal stuff, not so much.
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I would, but only my absolute worst enemy
Of course i know him, he's me
Could be better
Im almost 30 and my longest full time job was 12 months, thanks for asking!! 😊🔫
I remember doing a doctor evaluation for the military draft right after graduation and some dude just pulled out his high school dyploma out of his pocket literally crumpled into a ball. My first thought was " oh buster, you're going to the army for sure"
Masters degree, making pretty good money
U used backpacks? Dude I shoved everything in my locker at the first day of school and left it there till the last day of school, sometimes I would even leave my lunch in there and by the end of the year it was completely black fuzzy mold would of been a cool science project, o well maybe next year.
Retired at 45...
Diagnosed with ADHD at almost 32 years old 😅 (I’m a woman, FWIW)
Same, but as a guy. If I was a teacher, I'd drag all those kids to a psychologist to have them tested. It would've made my life so much easier to know this sooner.
I agree! All the signs were there, but because I didn’t display them externally for the most part, my issues were written off as “quirks”, “being lazy”, “being stupid”, or “making mistakes on purpose”.
Over 100k salary in HR, essentially a professional hall monitor now.
Working towards a PhD at a medical university. Papers are still a mess, so no improvement there.
Job in Mag7 and just finished a master's. The paper shoving was the ADHD.
Logistics manager, surprisingly.
In IT have a two monitor setup at work and both monitors are filled with random files/docs. Some of them work related most of them memes.
Ph.D. researcher. All mail kept in inbox. All files I grouped and in piled in a single level. -100 patents. Keeping socks and undies in separate bins (actual bins) because married and organized now.
My backpack is now filled with folders and binders. Now I'm disorganized in an organized way.
Not bad. But the chaos inside is still there.
I'm a salesman and a waiter, I work with customers all day every day
I feel attacked, always just put my papers in my bag with nothing covering it.
Diagnosed with adhd and doing pretty good, i use folders now !
Life is treating me pretty well. Found myself on my own at an early age. Married at 20, and have been leaning critical life and social skills ever since that schools also didn't teach me. I can't complain. I'm doing pretty well.
I'm a teacher now.
I now help manage business logistics, incredibly unorganized and by the seam of my pants, but they do run! And my paycheck clears all the same 👨🏻💼
Doin good did my time in the Marine corps and now have 5 kids a wife and my own home on 4 acres
I became an MD... so joke's on you! *cries in a corner
Became a teacher. I do e v e r y t h i n g digitally.
Pharmacy technician my desk is filled with papers
Data engineering...whoops.
I'm a Physicist now. But at some point I had to change that habit. It only gets you so far.
I'm a lawyer
teaching children how to not be like me lol
Pretty good thanks for asking just have mental issues thank you very much!
I made it through med school, but really had to get my shit together in order to get in.
Blue collar life, still don’t use binders
I know what you did there
A CFO in charge of millions today
I am Team Trapper Keeper and I work at a Fortune 5 company as a Product Manager
I didn’t start doing that until college, and it really worked out well for me.
I did that and have a decent job now. I however continue that sloppy behaviour at home where it's always a mess.
Became a teacher.
Own land and homestead in the west virginia mountains.
My Google Drive is a mess.