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[MLeoDaalder]

So Alan was given _2_ staples in Januari. Must be a mostly paperless office!

[knightgunther]

I love how companies will do this and end up wasting more time and resources and money then just giving the supplies that their employees actually need

[Thermalions]

Worked at a bank where the supervisor locked up the stationery cupboard and you had to return your used up disposable pen in order to get a new one issued.

[overload_grim]

Man, they really captured that dystopian vibe

[chaikaomoua]

Lord of the Staples sounds like a trilogy in the making? One staple to bind them all.

[dark]

When all companies do that, suddenly you'll miss the good old Techtown.

[rpbuck]

Okay, funny...but... Once upon a time I was the mailroom/supply guy, and _every_ employee in our medium-sized office would instantly raid the supplies when a new shipment arrived and then hoard stuff in their desks. If you waited a day, every kind of supply was just gone. [typing correctuon tape was always in huge demand...yeah, that long ago]. I was young and idealistic...I tried to be fair and not let everything disappear in a single day, but I was reduced to telling people to 'just ask around' when they needed something.

[jonrenielnorca]

I'm just awestruck by the amount of production put into this short

[ezrabaeza]

I love how she gave him a, “half ration”, of staples, which was just one. Implying that a ration of staples is 2, and that they think he could subsist upon that for 6 months

[neilbarnett]

I worked for a computer company where the engineering manager kept losing his pens, I worked out that every minute he spent looking for a pen cost the company 10p, let alone the inconvenience and looking bad when you have a customer trying to tell you something. The only thing was, the office girl had the keys to the stationery cupboard, in which were the pens, which cost 5p each. "I aren't giving you any more pens, I gave you two last week!", she'd say.
Well, being engineers, we engineered a way to get into the locked cupboard when she was out.

[Trojanpige]

They were stingy like that at my last job as well. They refused to buy A4 papers and told us to reuse old papers. Printers got jammed on several occasions and they had to pay technicians to repair due to that 😂

[mrdanthepan]

Then here comes the CEO's son in full black plate armor. "I'm The Lord of the Staples. Do not dare challenge me. Or thou shall receive, a paycut."

[aarond]

Now we see why Milton bought his own stapler. And burned the place down when he didn't get it back.

[YoungGandalf]

He should have just stuck with garlic farming.

[michael_pilot]

Smart. When it's this unpleasant to obtain supplies, employees will purchase the necessary supplies themselves

[Andy-Christian]

The HL2 storm trooper taking the other guy away is hilarious.

[AlanLivingston-qtml]

Should have come to see me. I bought a box of staples around 30 years ago. Still not even half empty, I've got plenty to spare 😂

[AMD]

Where I used to work, it wasn't that we weren't given staples, it was just that they were of exceedingly poor quality and would always collapse when trying to staple more than 3 sheets of paper. I just bought my own box and kept them in a locked drawer rather than using the cheap ones they provided. In the end $5 for a box that would take years to go thru was worth it to me.

[blumoogle]

Where I work, you can leave a pile of cash on the desk, no one will touch it except to clean around and under it before putting it back. If it's stationary, even chaining it to your desk won't prevent it going missing within minutes. I know which department has all 9 empty staplers in their drawer, 4 punches, all the highlighters and like 4 pairs of scissors.

[Aurochhunter]

Used to work in a hospital lab, which demands a large supply of paper to print out our test results. Normally this wasn't a big deal, until that day our usual delivery was delayed. you'd think it would be a simple matter of buying more paper from an alternative source, but apparently there's a procedure to follow to do that. Something along the lines of: Making note of getting paper from an alternative source, checking how much that will cost, cancelling the next delivery from the usual supplier to avoid an abundance of paper...etc.