Comment Sad Stapler Tale (Score 1) 583
OK, you're all talking about the movie instead of staplers. Right behind me is the reference desk.
On it are arrayed a grand total of four staplers.
There are three black ones and one cream one.
There used to be one or two burgundy ones (who says red staplers don't sell. I'd imagine burgundy ones are fairly common.) but they must have
circulated on to someone's desk.
The reason we have four staplers is one of them is always broken. The worst part is that students using the things try to fix them. "No!" I always
say. "Just use another one." In my mind's eye,
I see a student with bloody fingers from trying to manually extract a jammed staple. Even worse is
a student employee trying to fix a broken stapler.
There is a good fool proof and very annoying (to the right people) way to fix a jammed stapler. Take it, open it as if you're going to staple
notices to a corkboard. Then fling it hard against the bottom of a bookshelf or a wall. Watch heads
in the work room behind the desk turn. Watch
students go yikes.
Then pick up the stapler and use it. Chances
are very very good it works. The toss and impact
dislodge the jammed staple and gets the other
staples into line, and nobody risks bloody
fingers.
OK, and for being so sweet and patient and putting up with my post, you are all invited for a virtual tour of my office.
http://nakedmolerat.org.uk/office/
On it are arrayed a grand total of four staplers.
There are three black ones and one cream one.
There used to be one or two burgundy ones (who says red staplers don't sell. I'd imagine burgundy ones are fairly common.) but they must have
circulated on to someone's desk.
The reason we have four staplers is one of them is always broken. The worst part is that students using the things try to fix them. "No!" I always
say. "Just use another one." In my mind's eye,
I see a student with bloody fingers from trying to manually extract a jammed staple. Even worse is
a student employee trying to fix a broken stapler.
There is a good fool proof and very annoying (to the right people) way to fix a jammed stapler. Take it, open it as if you're going to staple
notices to a corkboard. Then fling it hard against the bottom of a bookshelf or a wall. Watch heads
in the work room behind the desk turn. Watch
students go yikes.
Then pick up the stapler and use it. Chances
are very very good it works. The toss and impact
dislodge the jammed staple and gets the other
staples into line, and nobody risks bloody
fingers.
OK, and for being so sweet and patient and putting up with my post, you are all invited for a virtual tour of my office.
http://nakedmolerat.org.uk/office/
