I have removed 10 mL of staples from No Longer Employed At This Institution's "filing."
Here is how a normal person attaches related documents:
1) Stack documents neatly one atop the other
2) Insert one staple at top left corner
Here is how this individual attached related documents (and "related" in this case is used loosely: some of the bits of paper I found are for an entirely different fundraising campaign):
1) Stack documents in a staggered fashion so that the one on the bottom protrudes above the top of the next page up. Points for stacking three or more documents in this fashion. Do not forget to scribble indecipherable hieratic all over each document in red pen, and then highlight random sections of your scribble.
2) Staple each layer individually down the left-hand side of the stack, as well as at the top of each individual piece of paper, so that you achieve a sort of puff-pastry cliff of paper peppered with staples.
It's like a book! A little book of crazy.
The staples I removed from these lumps of inefficiency fill a 10 mL beaker to the top.
At times people will rise to the level of their incompetencies all around you. There are countless ways with which to deal with these folks; however, I have only one suggestion: persevere.
ReplyDeleteHey, keep this in mind for your Book Design class. I'm betting no one has been crazy enough to use this particular structure. If you make the stapling into interesting patterns it could work, and you'd get points for originality.
ReplyDeleteThe Buddhists say: My enemy is my best friend. Think about it.
Oh, she's gone. She's gone back to the bright and wonderful world of Corporate America, and I do so hope that she finds herself another assistant to write her emails for her and hold her hand because otherwise she may find herself at somewhat of a disadvantage.
ReplyDeleteAt this point I'm just bone-tired of cleaning up after her.
Please, please, please write a memoir of this work experience entitled "A Little Book of Crazy."
ReplyDelete@Jessica:.......I have been gathering material for just such a piece of work. And now I know what to call it!
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