OFM 66-Series Table/Desk With Pencil Drawers

Desk Jockey Daniel writes:

OFM? Oh F me...

65 iterations in the series prior to this, and the best you can do is a table-slash-desk? "But wait, it has pencil drawers!" What is this, seventh grade? In fact, I think that's exactly what this is. This looks like it was cobbled together out of the debris of other crappy desks in some seventh grade shop -ahem- industrial arts class.

Everything about this hermaphroditic piece of furniture is an insult to desks everywhere. It rolls around on wheels. WRONG. The drawers are super shallow, unable to contain several layers of clutter. WRONG. It's small enough to easily get into your car. WRONG! You can't even handcuff a person to this piece of junk!

Desk Jockey Al writes:

I dunno, I gotta disagree a little with Daniel here. Not a lot, mind you. This thing does not belong in any office, anywhere. There's no reason, at all, that any desk should ever have wheels, ever. But for some reason, the desk is growing on me. This, right here, is a sterling example of multipurpose engineering. Desk? I suppose, in a pinch. But it also makes a handy kitchen island! Maybe a nice little hobby work bench! At 55" wide, you can do some do-it-yourself surgery... or all of them at once! And with the special laminated top has a special feature not mentioned in OfficeDepot's website, and this is very very important: the steel and laminated wood covering doesn't hold DNA evidence.

And that's why this table/desk ensemble is $430.99.

MACHISMO

DJDaniel: This desk's only saving grace is the fact that you could throw it at someone in a fit of rage. -3-

DJAl: Daniel summed that up rather succinctly, but I have this to add: Wheels, man. That subconsciously says: you are a man on the GO, not tied to any office. Wherever you rest your desk is home! -4-

TIMELESSNESS

DJDaniel: It's almost like they designed this desk to look like it was donated to an inner-city school twenty years ago. How do I reach these kids? -2-

DJAl: First it's a desk. Next it's a wonderful place to do your cooking. Then, ten years from now, it'll be used to hold your old kitschy lamps at the garage sale. But at least it's useful for a lot of things. -4-

VERVE

DJDaniel: "The desk looked horrible. So we drilled a bunch of holes in the sides. Just to hear it scream." -1-

DJAl: If you showed this to my High School shop teacher (... well, not MINE, as I never took shop) he'd take one look at it, nod, and say "Well, that looks like a nice pile of shit you've got there". If my paternal grandfather, a professional carpenter, were still alive, he'd probably only comment on this two years after you showed it to him. Then, he'd just say "Wasn't that around when I blacked out that one time and woke up with blood on my hands, up my nose, and splashed on the ceiling?" If it was possible, I'd give this desk a 0, if only because the Hansen Cherry desk is marginally better than this. -1-

Final Rating = 2.5/10

A little tip, OFM: 66 is NOT a good number to attach to anything you want to sell, it's just asking for trouble.