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Clare

Hi all, part of my morning has been spent clearing out the office where I am currently based in anticipation of a pending office move and I have been sitting at a desk where various individuals have come and departed, leaving behind an array of personal and work items.  I'm sure many other colleagues have done the same or had to clear out the workspace for individuals who have been escorted from the workplace or perhaps threw their toys out of the pram and refused to return.  And this got me thinking ...  the items I have come across today have not been particularly noteworthy - a broken necklace, memory sticks, pain relief, software disks, sunglasses - however one item caught my eye: a pair of chop sticks although I can't work out why they would be in an office ...


So, if you have been tasked with a similar clear out please do share your experiences of what prompted the clear out, any unusual items found and perhaps if (and how) you reunited them with their owner?  :-)

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  • At a previous employer, they had over the years appointed a number of temporary and interim HR personnel, and the most notable was a girl who was absolutely obsessed with her looks. I never got to meet her as she was long gone by the time I got there, but for some reason, she left her very expensive ceramic hair straighteners in her desk cupboard and left without taking them. The team and I never really understood why. They became the communal straighteners for the HR office, and anybody else in our building who wished to borrow them.

    At my current employer, our H&S manager was clearing out a leavers locker last year and found t-shirts and jeans. Why would you leave your clothes behind? We boxed all the possessions up and wrote to the individual asking them to come and collect the items, but they never did.

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  • At a previous employer, they had over the years appointed a number of temporary and interim HR personnel, and the most notable was a girl who was absolutely obsessed with her looks. I never got to meet her as she was long gone by the time I got there, but for some reason, she left her very expensive ceramic hair straighteners in her desk cupboard and left without taking them. The team and I never really understood why. They became the communal straighteners for the HR office, and anybody else in our building who wished to borrow them.

    At my current employer, our H&S manager was clearing out a leavers locker last year and found t-shirts and jeans. Why would you leave your clothes behind? We boxed all the possessions up and wrote to the individual asking them to come and collect the items, but they never did.

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