Geeks are known to live, literally, at their desks. Their workspace can become somewhat personalized and cluttered. Sometimes massively so. If you think your workspace is one of the best (meaning worst), hop on over to CrunchGear and check out their workspace challenge. Whoever sends in a picture with the most ridiculously horrible workspace wins a new Steelcase chair.
To enter, we need pictures of the worst workspaces. This includes your desk, chair, general work environment, etc. We want to see disaster. Papers everywhere, gum stuck to stuff, coffee spilled, broken chairs, smashed desks, whatever. It needs to be Bad, with a capital B. Send your entries to contest at crunchgear dot com with the subject “Worst Workspace Challenge.”.
I can’t wait to see these pictures. And by the way, TechCrunch employees are not eligible (I actually think I’d have a shot at winning this).
you’ll see a bunch of fabricated scenarios, because everybody wants to win a chair – therefore the integrity of this contest has been questioned already
lol – this is a rat race of a contest
the real winners are tc and the chair manufacturer/retailer
Any honorable mentions for keeping a semi-livable space and functional equipment in spite of three small children setting off firebombs and spilling juice everywhere?
some Drifter: Last time I saw a content like this, over at Something Awful, the winning entries were so messy that deliberately crufting up your workspace to win would take most of an afternoon, to say nothing of the hours (days?) of cleanup.
Trust me, if people want to mess up their workspace, either it won’t be bad enough by far, or they’ll have to disinfect everything so hard that they’ve earned the chair.
I’m OCD when it comes to cleaning…how about a prize for the cleanest, most modern work space
I don’t think Mike cares if the photos are fake or not, all he wants is publicity, maybe a digg front page, what a cheap marketing strategy. Oh yea, and we know you’re not a geek mike.
It’s sad to see techcrunch keeps getting lamer by the day, may be it’s never been good
This contest/article would have been much better had it accompanied a review of the new book “A Perfect Mess” by Abrahamson and Freedman in which the authors argue against conventional wisdom – that fighting that mess can be an unprofitable endeavor.
The end of the review would have been a nice lead-in to: “Now crunchers show us that mess!”
-Stan
That chair would come to good use but just had the cleaning day…
There is no way I would have a chance at winning this. When it comes to my living environment I am a clean freak. That is one great idea and marketing plot.
Our “office” building is an old day care center that was slated for demolition before they stuck us in there. We occasionally get rats chewing through our fiber and often have to brush rodent droppings off of our desks before sitting down to work. Our back door leaks so badly that during a heavy rain we have to put our workstations up on 2×4’s to keep them out of the rising water.
However, the building is in a restricted area and we can’t take photos of it. So much for that chair!
The government actually has a bunch of odd things like this. Some of the offices at Ft. Huachuca, Arizona are in buildings built when the cavalry still used horses. If I remember correctly, one of the office’s basement is the old mortuary.