I do it to myself, I do, and that’s what really hurts
A coworker walked up to me as I stood in front of our office’s supply board, writing an order for yellow legal pads. She noticed that I was taking the time to copy the appropriate product number from the supply catalog, which, in theory, we are always supposed to do and, in practice, almost nobody ever does.
“Do you need a special kind of legal pad or something?” my coworker asked me.
“Well,” I told her, “if I don’t specify which ones to order, I find that we usually wind up getting white legal pads, or legal pads printed on really crummy paper.”
She stared at me for a moment before saying, “Sometimes it must be really hard to be you.”
23 September 2007 9:12 PM
Comments
If you settle for crummy office supplies, the terrorists will win.
Posted by Rachel on 23 September 2007 11:25 PM
At *my* job, we're happy if we even have paper! Sometimes we print on the backs of already used paper! Sometimes we have to print on birchbark tablets we harvest ourselves from the woods! And the printer is actually a chisel...
Posted by Lisa on 26 September 2007 6:10 PM
At my job, I learned the hard way that you cannot use the entire supplies budget to purchase a pair of scissors. The "hard way" involves a $.50 ruler repeatedly slapping my upturned hands. And its not the good kind of slapping.
Posted by Mary Jane on 30 September 2007 6:16 AM
I fully support your need for appropriate office supplies. Some people just don't have any discrimination.
Posted by Cdwag on 1 October 2007 5:51 AM