Now, where is my red one?

[offbalance]

Dear Entire Working Population (and people I deal with on a regular basis):

I've been noticing a disturbing trend lately. Color me old-fashioned, but if I'm going to put loose sheets of paper together that will be together for a long time, I tend to use a staple; especially when there are many sheets and its an issue if they get lost. As such, I have to ask: "What's with the paper clips?" Is it a fear of commitment, did all of your staplers break on the same day? Why are we abandoning our old reliable friend, Mr. Stapler in favor of the untrustworthy paper clip? Now, don't get me wrong - clips have uses, but if you give them too much to deal with at once, they will get overloaded and drop everything.

Remember: The Stapler is your Friend.

Yours in Manillaville,

Me.

Comments

[redstapler.livejournal.com]

It's us against the world, baby.

[offbalance.livejournal.com]

For serious.

[tacologic.livejournal.com]

We rarely use staplers here. I don't want holes in my documents. And if I have to thumb through a bunch, I really don't like the weird bent corner that staples give you. Clips are the way to go.

[offbalance.livejournal.com]

I'm generally dealing with contracts that are usually between 12 and 20 pages. Bent corners and holes are a small price to pay for all the pages to stay together.

[alcestis.livejournal.com]

Manillaville is definitely not as much fun as Margaritaville.

[offbalance.livejournal.com]

Not at all! But it is possible to waste away in both.

[teany.livejournal.com]

Well, some documents are just too big for a staple (as was recently demonstrated by the 20-page zoning regulations I have that are falling apart. And I won't even try to staple the 40-odd pagee Board of Ed adgenda I got yesterday). Plus, if you have to make photocopies, removing the staple is a big pain in the ass, especially when you can't find that damn claw remover thing.

However, I agree that paperclips suck. Therefore, I have always been a huge devotee of the binder clip.

In fact, a newspaper recruiter once said someone who sent in their resume and clips put together with a binder clip, as opposed to some fancy folder thing, would always earn his respect.

[quodlibetic.livejournal.com]

Well, some documents are just too big for a staple (as was recently demonstrated by the 20-page zoning regulations I have that are falling apart. And I won't even try to staple the 40-odd pagee Board of Ed adgenda I got yesterday).

This is where a heavy duty stapler becomes your good friend (says the librarian who sometimes staples 40+ page docs at work.) Staple removal is still a pain in the ass, true.

I tend to not staple something until I'm fairly sure the paper collection is stable - I hate it when docs get a million little staple marks in the corner from stapling and restapling. Plus, my workplace seriously has enough paper clips to keep us stocked for at least another 7 years: years and years ago, someone made a huge ordering error and we ended up with probably 50 boxes containing 20 packages of 100-count paper clips (or something similar.) We've not bought paper clips in the 7 years that I've worked at this job. In fact, when I'm done with a paper clip, I throw it out - it's the only way that we'll ever get our supplies depleted.

(More than anyone ever wanted to know about my office supply situation - myself included.)

[herrsprengstoff.livejournal.com]

The one I hate is when they staple a 100 page document and they leave it all crooked so it will never be straight /sigh

The one reason I see for leaving documents unstapled is if you'll want to look at several pages of the document at once (I find this comes up a lot by me) - but it doesn't sound like much like the case by you.

People suck.

[squiddeh.livejournal.com]

When the use of staples is not prudent....the mighty Binder Clip is my friend!