Meaning that I'm begging off with a similar excuse. I'm not moving, but I am in a new, and somewhat visible cube. People can't quite sneak up behind me, but they can sneak up alongside and see what's happening on my monitors. This is more annoying than job-threatening, because I'm usually reading something, testing something, or writing something. Nothing to enthrall the casual passerby.
What is annoying is that when one of the programmers arrives in the morning, he pulls up the blinds. Thus appears a big, bright splotch of light just at the rightmost edge of my vision. Again: Not critical, but annoying. A little wall of some sort will fix both problems. I just need to find/build something. Maybe some of that stuff used to line the back of aquariums? That would be more interesting than plain cardboard, at least.
Likewise, I'm facing a low wall, which means that I'm also facing a somewhat busy access route along the front of the cubes. Even when I'm staring at my monitors, it's a bit distracting every time someone walks by. I either ignore them, and look exactly like I'm ignoring them, or else I make eye contact, and that's only non-awkward when they're actually coming to talk to me. So: Another wall is required.
Sadly, I discovered that GM screens aren't large enough. Two or three might side-by-side might work, but I think that I only own two, and one of those is packed in the attic somewhere.
I work at a videogame studio, so that fact that a wall of DM screens would be intensely geeky isn't a problem.
I am proud of my solution to a poorly-designed desk: A 10"x24" veneered plywood shelf that slots in to my desk via raised mending brackets. Without this, my right arm hangs off the edge of the desk at an awkward angle. The only solution offered was an articulated armrest, which worked fine when I was using the mouse, but was crap when I needed to type. A few trips to the hardware store, a bit of drilling, and few more trips, a bit more drilling…anyway, after that I've ended up with a highly workable solution. My coworkers were duly impressed, even though it's actually a fairly simple thing. Honestly, I think that most of them just aren't used to solving problems with wood and power tools.
Once I round off a couple of corners and edges, this thing will be perfect. At which time, I'm sure, there will be some sort of official solution, rendering mine obsolete.
I'd take a picture, but it's just a shelf with metal bits screwed into the bottom. We're not talking about a hand-carved, ornately decorated piece of furniture. Nope: Standard Home Depot shelf, some screws, some metal plates, some nuts and washers. Good enough to solve a problem; not required to look pretty. Although the top looks ok; it's not like there are huge bolts sticking out of it.
The other solution would have been to move my monitors to an inside corner of the cube, but then I'd be sitting with my back exposed to the world. And as solutions go, that's a pretty damn crappy one.