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We can never find staplers in our building - or hole punches for that matter. So feel free to send some over :)
Kirk | 20.06.12 - 7:28 a.m. | #
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I work in a team that has been similarly downsized and moved around in recent years like flotsam on the organisational tide. We have a similar stationery scrapyard. Its presence didn't stop my boss walking up and down the office yesterday saying "who's pinched me bloody stapler?" Er, we have about a dozen in that cupboard... do help yourself.
THC | 20.06.12 - 7:30 a.m. | #
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OMG DG, I did exactly the same at Christmas time when we had a major office downsize. I spent an entire day gathering stray stationery from desks and nooks and crannies in the office, and, like you, ended up a stapler show box, and a holepunch shelf. And, amusingly, over 6000 paperclips for a staff of 4. When we hired a new office manager 2 months later I had to warn her that it was unlikely we'd be needed to order stationery... ever again!
| 20.06.12 - 7:40 a.m. | #
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Do you have a red Swingline, by any chance?
Jamesthegill | 20.06.12 - 8:39 a.m. | #
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>>"You're not surprised, I'll bet."
Not in the least. This whole blog testifies to your OCD. Nothing wrong in that, though.
| 20.06.12 - 9:27 a.m. | #
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Jamesthegill:
I could set the building on fire.
:)
Greg | 20.06.12 - 9:44 a.m. | #
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surely we need a picture of this fine memorial?
roym | 20.06.12 - 10:29 a.m. | #
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DG, I volunteer in a local primary school 2 days a week and your office detritus would be considered precious booty in the average state primary school, so if you need somewhere to offload it all let me know.
kev hennessy | 20.06.12 - 11:48 a.m. | #
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I just looked down at the heavy black stapler on my desk. It has my name taped on it, but it is in the handwriting of my then 8 yr old daughter who visited my office many years ago and decide to make sure no one took my stapler. She is 29 now so I can't possibly remove her handiwork (and will probably take that stapler with me whenever I leave).
Mary | 20.06.12 - 12:07 p.m. | #
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Kev, we were thinking about offering our leftovers to a local school, but a teacher I know said you'd have to do it 'on the sly' as otherwise there may be H&S problems or some such ridiculousness... !!
EskimoPie | 20.06.12 - 12:48 p.m. | #
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You must bury them under running water and drive a stake through each, before they arise reborn as vampires and start leaving twin puncture marks on people's necks.
Audrey | 20.06.12 - 1:10 p.m. | #
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You can't put second hand stuff in your stationery cupboard? How daft. If it can be reused, why throw money away on new?!
Andrew Bowden | Homepage | 20.06.12 - 4:13 p.m. | #
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Yes, a picture please!
surreyguy | 20.06.12 - 4:41 p.m. | #
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this post SO NEEDS A PICTURE!
go back to work tomorrow and take one straight away
botogol | 20.06.12 - 4:57 p.m. | #
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BTW - I always refer to those little tools as "unstaplers"
I love the little moment of puzzlement, and then the click of understanding that using this term produces :-)
botogol | 20.06.12 - 4:59 p.m. | #
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Enter them, and the rest of the cupboard, for next year's Turner Prize, dg.
Gordon | 20.06.12 - 7:00 p.m. | #
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This is the perfect occasion to introduce "Knolling" into you repertoir.
jpelling | 20.06.12 - 7:57 p.m. | #
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The "occasional mysterious overnight disappearance" of some of your co-workers is very worrying. I hope the same fate won't befall you, DG.
Great Aunt Annie | 20.06.12 - 10:31 p.m. | #
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"My" stapler bears the name of someone who was asked to leave the business four years ago. Focuses the mind, one could say, when collating documents.
In the same cull I picked up an excellent chair and a bigger monitor from departing colleagues. Downsizing does have its benefits...
Novaelius | 20.06.12 - 11:08 p.m. | #
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People don't use ringbinders anymore- is it because they use those horrid clear plastic wallets? Really hate those, they attract cathairs like magnet and they're a hazard on the floor too. Did you know most staplers have a small and very basic unstapler at their back? I didn't until a couple of years ago. I don't know why this post only has half the number comments the dangleway one does. Maybe it's the lack of nicknames, or maybe it's because you neglected to say that people can use a stapler to express ideas by connecting sheets of paper together, or use them as a viable commuter gadget.
Anna | 21.06.12 - 1:15 a.m. | #
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The iron stapler will be replaced by e-staples. They will be affixed from the corner of tablet computing devices and have the added flexibility of organizing, coding, setting dates, alphabetizing and downsizing human based staplers.
They are laser based, as I understand it. A penetrating beam of coherent light will laser the pages together, saving all the inefficiency of regular staples.
John | Homepage | 21.06.12 - 2:28 a.m. | #
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I've got a stapleless stapler, no I don't mean it is empty, it punches a small strip of paper and folds it back through a slit that it also creates.
Barry | 21.06.12 - 7:39 a.m. | #
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I have an aversion to regular/standard size paperclips. They are useless things.
Good staplers though are worthy items. I am surprised your now departed colleagues didn't take their stationary supplies with them when they left. They must have been very honest people.
When I worked in an office stationary was a perk of the job. When I became self employed buying stationary was a shock. How much for a roll of sellotape!!!
Amused | 21.06.12 - 4:55 p.m. | #
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