[texasaxel]

I have a trivial problem that I want your opinion on:

Because of a new building construction, I recently moved my desk so that I can still get a (partial) harbor view. Unfortunately, this means that my back faces the door. I have been told by a co-worker that this might bring bad luck. Should I turn my desk around so that I face people coming into my office? I still see their reflection in the window and usually turn around quickly when someone is standing in the door. Is this really about feng shui or more likely just an excuse / her way of saying that she liked it better the way it was?

[PDLM]

The only colleague I have who believes in that sort of stuff turned his desk sideways so that he was neither facing the door nor with his back to it. It's inherently awkward but he will do most things in the name of feng shui - we've had to have mirrors moved and all sorts.

Bizarrely, we let someone who thinks this way run a business worth a couple of hundred million US$ a year.

[bluepiggy]

There's some interesting info about this particular topic in this week's SCMP's Post Magazine, right at the very last page.

[KnowItAll]

Sitting with your back to the door is probably a bad idea anyways - does not send a welcoming signal to the rest of the folks who might walk by.

[paulwilky76]

I sit with my back facing the door, but I can't move sideways because of the length of my modem cable!

[texasaxel]

Originally Posted by KnowItAll

Sitting with your back to the door is probably a bad idea anyways - does not send a welcoming signal to the rest of the folks who might walk by.

I completely agree ... and if I decide to change it back it will for that reason and not because of some good fortune bad fortune idea ... I just wanted to see if they have a case based on feng shui rather than just my rude manners

[KnowItAll]

I have never cared too much about the feng shui -- (most of that can be fixed with a couple of goldfish swimming around your office or a few coins under the carpet near the door).. so, I'd bet thats her way of telling you (or the ancient sages way) that you're being rude turning your back to everyone in the office.

[Mr Scott]

Originally Posted by texasaxel

I have a trivial problem that I want your opinion on:
my back faces the door.

Sounds perfect. You can ignore people coming into your office.

[larac]

Out of interest do your officies abide by Feng Shui?

Ours does and each year we have a Feng Shui master come and rearrange things. Backs to doors I get but we have little gold pigs on desks, and odd statues on windowsills, one year we had a garden in the office, now we don't, we used to have these cool industrial floors, now we have carpet, one guy has to have a green desk and another was even told his birthday brings bad luck to the company so he needed to put red string over his front door to keep the bad luck at his house nad not bring it to work. At CNY we have a pig chopped up in our lobby and so much insense the first year nobody even mentioned this and I thought the building was on fire there was so much smoke.

[hullexile]

If you have your back to the door then people can see you're browsing geoexpat, etc and not doing work, sounds like a bad idea. So my feng shui idea is always have your computer screen facing away from the door