Funny stuff

[vernacular_life]

My office had supply cutbacks when I was out. That meant xerox paper was under lock and key, only 'budget' post it notes and pen refills as opposed to real pens, cause a refill cost 50 cents each versus a $1 pen. I think they spent about 1000 pens arguing about it.

Well, the boss who insisted on Pen Refills had a problem yesterday.

He lost his pen.
He went to the supply cabinent, and, yup, no pens, just refills.



He then asked the secretary to order pens, because "Who can write with a refill?!?"

Comments

[go-dawgs.livejournal.com]

LOL! That's too funny!!

[onelargecat.livejournal.com]

LOL.

[lavidamd.livejournal.com]

Ha-ha. This made me laugh. I work for economists. We don't have a draconian law against the department buying office supplies, but it is, well, I'll call it cultural. It's almost a joke at this point. It makes it really easy to buy gifts for office-mates at Christmas and for special occasions. You would not believe how many cutsie post-it notes and memo cubes I have. Every time there is a festival I got on a crusade for free pens and pencils. It's sad, really.

[njlorelei.livejournal.com]

It sounds like the Nazi supply manager where my husband works. She stopped buying sponges for their office kitchen because she said they just ended up stinking in a week because people didn't clean them or left them wet. So now they used about 50 times as many paper towels to clean things which I'm sure in the long run costs more money.

[vernacular-life.livejournal.com]

not to mention the wasted paper and additional trash!

I dont get some people sometimes....