Deskmate

My favorite song ever is “Burning Down the House,” and when I get into arguments with my deskmate at work (who knows far more about music than I ever will), I always argue for that one. ❋ Unknown (2009)

This seemed to delight Palin's momentary deskmate and Fox contributor, Geraldine Ferraro. ❋ Hank Stuever (2010)

Gareth (Mackenzie Crook), Brent's beanstalk lackey, is now in charge, but his old deskmate Tim (Martin Freeman), the everyman soul of the show, still torments him with pranks. ❋ Unknown (2007)

So I come in in a pretty pissed off mood, I see this email, I turn away from my deskmate who showed me the email, and I go about doing my own thing. ❋ Terrarose (2006)

Recently, when good-natured nine-year-old Carrie tried to ask her school deskmate, Meg, to please not talk as much while the teacher was explaining, the chatterbox Meg was angry at the little Virgo. ❋ Rick Brandon (2004)

Meanwhile, long-suffering Tim longs after Dawn the engaged receptionist and keeps himself sane by playing childish practical jokes on his insufferable, army-obsessed deskmate Gareth. ❋ Toby O'B (2004)

New desk, new deskmate, new boss, and I am so not happy about the whole new boss thing. ❋ Terrarose (2004)

Knowing my shift ends at 5pm, and my OT is until 5: 30, I declare to my deskmate, "This is my last call" ❋ Terrarose (2004)

De Quille, returning from the East after an absence of several months, found his room and deskmate with the distinction of a new name and fame. ❋ Unknown (2003)

I never met my deskmate, which I found peculiar—her shift started right after mine. ❋ Mike Daisey (2002)

She fascinated Meggie, used to fairness and freckles, for even Frank with his dark eyes and hair had a fair white skin; so Meggie ended in thinking her deskmate the most beautiful creature she had ever seen. ❋ McCullough, Colleen (1977)

The urgency of an old friend, a deskmate at school when they were ten years of age, determined him to undertake the perilous task. ❋ Kemp Plummer (1912)

The next day Mirabel Cotton was kept in at recess and "gently but firmly" given to understand that when you were so unfortunate as to possess an uncle who persisted in walking about houses after he had been decently interred it was not in good taste to talk about that eccentric gentleman to your deskmate of tender years. ❋ Unknown (1909)

I shall have to sit all alone, for I couldn't bear to have another deskmate after you. ❋ Unknown (1908)

He was deskmate to Blake, who carried on a tremendous campaign that session against the government's C.P. R. proposals. ❋ Unknown (1905)