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Who’s in your office?

February 18th, 2010 Jessica Hagy Posted in work |


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26 Responses to “Who’s in your office?”

  1. bork Says:
    February 18th, 2010 at 1:23 pm

    This venn diagram would be easier to interpret if there weren’t circles around each of the labels. Circles should be used to indicate a set, not to highlight a label.

  2. bork Says:
    February 18th, 2010 at 1:24 pm

    Also, C can be a nightmare, too: The person who doesn’t know what they’re doing but volunteers to teach others.

    [Shudder]

  3. Sg3000 Says:
    February 18th, 2010 at 2:00 pm

    hey! bork is an “A’

  4. Viewtiful_justin Says:
    February 18th, 2010 at 2:19 pm

    Eh…I beg to differ with that first comment. It wouldn’t make any sense without the circles.

  5. Risa Says:
    February 18th, 2010 at 2:31 pm

    The circles ARE actually parts of the Venn Diagram … you know, a subset of “good with ideas” is the group “prima donnas”.

  6. agnesmcgee Says:
    February 18th, 2010 at 2:36 pm

    I agree with both bork and Viewtiful_justin: Circles do indicate a set, but the circles around A and C confuse that definition in this diagram. I’d say you need the circle around D to define it as a set, and none around the others. Or, how ’bout squares around all four labels?

    Aaand, my lunch hour is now over. Well-spent time. I’ll be watching Indexed for a diagram describing the ratio between the time spent on non-work-related activities during the work day (such as commenting on entertaining blog posts) and the triviality of those activities.

  7. Brent Says:
    February 18th, 2010 at 3:29 pm

    D = downsized 8 months ago due to “down economy”

  8. Jaap Says:
    February 18th, 2010 at 3:41 pm

    Brent: actually, C was downsized because D was able to put the blame on him.

  9. MS Says:
    February 18th, 2010 at 4:40 pm

    http://www.interpersonalskillslab.com/forum/?p=110

    Interesting link makes it look like the Cs edge out the As

  10. tomas Says:
    February 18th, 2010 at 4:56 pm

    maybe this would be better represented in a graph, with “good with people” on one axis, “good with ideas” on another, and A, B, C and D placed out in the four “corners” of the graph…?

  11. gregcole220 Says:
    February 18th, 2010 at 8:56 pm

    I hate that I immediately tried to rationalize my B status, but am comforted that I am not trying to correct a humorous venn diagram like our A friends.

  12. yoho7410 Says:
    February 18th, 2010 at 10:08 pm

    A = Oscar Martinez
    B = Jim Halpert
    C = Michael Scott
    D = Dwight Schrute

  13. David Says:
    February 18th, 2010 at 10:56 pm

    This is more classically a quadrant diagram (the basic Gartner tool):

    vertical scale is Good with People,
    the horiz. is Good with ideas; then the quadrants are:

    A | B
    ————–
    D | C

  14. Adrian Jones Says:
    February 19th, 2010 at 5:46 am

    So, according to bork and agnesmcgee, all those who are good with ideas are prima donnas?

    Or, it’s exactly as it’s drawn with prima donnas being a *subset* of good with ideas.

  15. Nora Says:
    February 19th, 2010 at 6:50 am

    Actually, if you draw another big circle intersecting the two others with D as a subset of it, your name for it would be ‘Knows the rules’.

  16. Carl Gundel Says:
    February 19th, 2010 at 10:40 am

    Hi, your Here’s the deal link is broken in case you didn’t notice. I tried to send you an email about it, but I couldn’t find a contact link.

    Great site otherwise. :-)

  17. Kel Says:
    February 19th, 2010 at 12:29 pm

    @Sg3000 - Bork does not understand subsets and thinks that *everybody* who is good with people is a pushover. He’s definitely a member of D.

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  19. Geoffrey Simms Says:
    February 22nd, 2010 at 1:23 pm

    Sorry that the standards of all your respective editorial style books aren’t being met, but have you considered that maybe this is a comic, and not a peer-reviewed journal?

  20. Emma Says:
    February 23rd, 2010 at 5:47 am

    Great diagram! Would definitely print and stick to the wall of my office if I could be sure that my co-workers had a sense of humour…

  21. Ms. Information Says:
    February 25th, 2010 at 5:20 am

    Oh how I love this. I’ve shared it with the non-D people in my life. Thanks, Jessica!

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    March 1st, 2010 at 8:31 pm

    cleaver!

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