folder shortage How difficult is it to run an office these days? I don't mean run a business, I'm just talking about an office. No really, I don't know. My chief role is that of chair-sitter and occasional-phone-answerer, not office-supply-getter and copier-fixer. I'm pretty sure there are people whose jobs are solely to stock office supplies and keep printers, fax machines, and copiers running. I'd guess that the person at my office must be even lazier than I am, because I cannot recall a single day when I have not had a run-in of some sort with a piece of office machinery. My biggest enemy is the printer. I have two printers for when I need to transform a document from computer image to ink-on-paper. I default to one, but I can choose either. Why is it then that at least half the time I can't get either one of them to print my stuff?

I can understand the printer problems. Printers are complicated pieces of machinery that are prone to breaking, as are all things computer-related. What I can't understand is the folder problem. I'm not talking computer folders, I'm talking about pieces of folded yellow cardboard. Yes, it's totally old fashioned to actually use these things, but we all use them here. It's part of the job. We're a big group of old fashioned 22 year-olds here. What of it?! Anyway, in a desperate attempt to actually become more organized (this is no small feat), I have tried to keep all the files I've been working on in nice yellow cardboard folders. But about two weeks ago the nice yellow folders disappeared. No big deal I guess, I'll just staple the papers together until they get more folders tomorrow. But tomorrow came and went. Still no folders. Now it's been weeks and there are still no folders. My drawer is now stacked with unorganized piles of stapled papers. I can't tell which ones belong to whom without sorting through them. There are no tabs nicely labeled with homeowners' names and loan numbers. I can't pull out one file without pulling out everything.

I'm frustrated and scared. What if I have to buy my own folders? That's just not done. That's why we work for these horrible, evil corporations instead of starting our own mortgage companies. It's because of the free staplers and folders. And possibly the GM discount. All I know is that one of these days I need some frickin' folders.
  ¶ monger187 wrote this on 11/12/2004