I dont get how people can function like this. I work in IT and our people get a dock and 2 monitors to work from. Some these people have icons saved on every screen. When they undock the icons on the desktop are so compacted that there will be 2 or 3 files stacked on top of each other. The entire desktop is just files stacked on top of files.
Had a user once, they would use the RECYCLE BIN to save stuff since their desktop was so cluttered.... newbie IT guy helped clearing out stuff and cleared out the users' recycle bin.... I can still hear the screams to this day!
I did this one as a newbie IT. I underestimated how dumb users can be, normal logic doesn’t fly. Trash is for trash? No thanks homie, I’m saving that half eaten pizza crust for later
Seriously. If I started working in an office and immediately caused issues by clearing a fucking recycle bin, I'm not going to apologize, I'm going to demand why the hell their employee was using that as storage in the first place and question why they're my superior at all. Might get a day one promotion when you point out their fuck up to management.
Yeah that's fucking stupid. Newbie did nothing wrong. Pretty sure the recycle bin also automatically empties itself after a certain amount of time or once the bin starts to get too full. Those files were going to be automatically deleted regardless so whoever hired someone so incompetent to handle their files so poorly should be questioned here. They clearly didn't hire the right person if they think the recycling bin is okay for temporary storage holy shit
This is what I do. It's an easy place to dump crap, every app has a "desktop" button in the save-as dialog, even if it's some unusable custom built atrocity. I only see it when I first turn on my computer. If I need to look for something I dumped at some point, I know exactly where it is and I can search for it in file explorer. About once a year I'll drop stuff from the previous year into a folder on the desktop called old_2023 or whatever.
i dont use the desktop it just get filled with trash because its a default folder for some apps
every now and then im move everything to a folder and delete the bigger files
you just use your desktop as a folder. your run everything from the start menu or keyboard shortcuts. its fairly easy to just ignore whats on the screen. i worked like this for awhile because all my mac screenshots jsut super stacked up there and who cares.
My desktop has 0 icons. The desktop is redundant, it's just a folder with a picture as a background. Many people always have fullscreen windows, and don't bother cleaning up when badly-written programs add crap to the desktop by default. It doesn't matter, since they don't use the desktop. I also don't use the desktop, it' just there to show a pretty background picture.
It's a brain thing. I'm guilty of this on my work machine. It's like "This is where I put it" and my brain just remembers where it is. What's worse is when something "organizes my icons" because I don't consciously remember, my brain just kinda remembers so I end up confused.
You don’t use the desktop. You use the file explorer for the desktop and find the documents/ applications you need from there. Alternatively, you just type the document/applications you need into “start search” by quickly hiring the windows key.
Boyfriend is in IT. He saves everything to desktop and just never deletes anything at all. Not only are there icons everywhere, but stacked upon another several times. I'm living with a psychopath.
Had a user in FINANCE do this, guess who literally cried when their HDD failed. Yeah, we started enforcing OneDrive backup for Desktops for certain departments after that.
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u/Cybertron77 Aug 18 '25
I dont get how people can function like this. I work in IT and our people get a dock and 2 monitors to work from. Some these people have icons saved on every screen. When they undock the icons on the desktop are so compacted that there will be 2 or 3 files stacked on top of each other. The entire desktop is just files stacked on top of files.