Have you ever found yourself thinking about office desks? Well I have and my conclusion is that an office desk tells us a lot about the person who sits at it.

If you work for a company, you surely know what it means to be invited into the manager's office to discuss certain issues. If not, wait for that moment and as soon as you step through the office door, take a look at his desk. What does it look like? Busy? Dirty? Clean? Shiny? Covered in papers and pencils? And how are his pens and pencils ordered? Do they follow a geometrical design?

You may now rightfully ask: How am I to notice all of these things and listen to what my boss has to tell me at the same time?

Don't worry! It's just a matter of practice. All you have to do is develop your observational skills and make the most out of them, learning to analyze your colleagues and managers, in order to elaborate strategies that will help you improve your office life.

Those who spend entire hours buffing their desk surfaces and silver photo frames, ordering all of their files in piles and sharpening their already sharp pencils are not to be teased. In fact, it is very likely that they are very precise and serious people, who would never be up for a beer with their colleagues and aim high at work.

Generally, this kind of persons dream of occupying managerial posts and do not allow themselves to lose control.

How are you supposed to behave with such complex individuals? Well, do never joke about them, do not hide their papers just to upset them so that the other colleagues will laugh at them, for they would consider it an unacceptable attempt to humiliate them and will not forget you.

There are, then, those people who don't really care that much about tidying their desks up and are not as lunatic as the previous category we analyzed. They are very likely to have pencils, pens, rubbers, staplers, post-it notes and files all over the desk and, should they need some space to write something down, well they simply move all that stuff aside and do what they have to. How should we catalogue these people? Easygoing, funny and extremely friendly maybe?

So what are you waiting for? Tomorrow, when you reach your office, start analyzing as many desks as you can and you will figure out that being the desks' psychologist will help you interpret those around you and act accordingly.