'Plain and Simple Fun Facts About Office Supplies'

Plain and Simple Fun Facts About Office Supplies

Imagine a store where everything is free. Better yet, imagine a store where everything isn't just free, but where, regardless of the price, someone else pays for it. Now imagine that all you have to do to earn such free things is keep a job at an office, and use these things to advance your professionalism. Sounds too good to be true? It shouldn't, because this is what the rest of us call "a job", with the buyer being "your boss" and the random stuff being "office supplies".

You can take them home if you like, but the criminal justice system calls that stealing, at least in the 96 nations where I've researched it. If you also maintain a legitimate home office as a satellite to your work place, that might be okay. There are those who partake in this so-called "stealing" activity, but they are the most peculiar of all, since after all, 99% of the things freely provided in the work place have no value outside of it. I mean really, what are you going to do with envelops branded with your corporate logo?

But you can steal them, if you like, and that's no discredit to you. It doesn't mean you're a bad person by any means, just some sort of social deviant, miscreant or other sort of negative thing ending with the suffix of "ant".

If you have a home office, which I assure you that you do, and you have needs for these supplies, which I would likewise insist that you do, you owe it to your business, your office and your boss to take home all of the myriad things you need to insure your home office is as productive as the space you keep at work.

For example:

• You can take home ten boxes of staples, even if just to insure that your sandwich bags are sealed, your neck ties are properly affixed to your shirts and your many report pages are properly affixed to one another, specifically in the middle of pages.
• You can take home twenty or so rolls of Scotch Tape, even if just to insure that your Secretary's Day gifts are properly wrapped, your tie is affixed without the detriment of damaging staples, or that you multi-page reports are properly bound, even if improperly so with merely Scotch tape (since you took only staples, but no stapler.)
• You can take two or three whole boxes of paper supplies, even though you only need so many thousands of pages to insure that your 10-page report can fully print out at home without the possibility of running low on paper.
• You can order mad gaggles of toner cartridges for you home printer, even though you'll only need to print maybe 100-pages of office related documents per month, in sharp contrast to the many thousands of pages you'll print out of pictures of your children, random copies of your blog (about how much you hate your work) or many dozens of spreadsheets pertaining to your cat… maybe that last one is just me.

Regardless of your needs or purposes, there is a wealth of available products just sitting in the back storage room in wait for your rampant pilferaging, and it would be derelict of you to not act upon those needs.