a retarded office space type story...
So anyone that works an office job knows how important it is to have a stapler. You just need one. When I started here I did not have one (insert office space comment here) and since I was a Contractor I don't think they were going out of their way to get me any office suppies.
So anyway, a coworker left so on his final day I asked him "Can I have you're stapler?"... so that's how I got one. It's this really old ugly WWII looking stapler. Looks something like this. But it worked, and that's all that mattered. So now I have this stapler... this old crusty thing at my desk... the only one like it here.
So there's this really annoying boss. Not directly mine, but sometimes does oversee my work. Office Space boss to the max. Anyhow, one day I'm at my desk and go to use the stapler and its not there. I look over to the desk across where the printer is and there's my stapler... someone must have been using it. No big deal. So I go over and pick it up and put it back on my desk. Later, annoying boss picks up some copies from the printer and comes by my desk and asks "Can I use your stapler?" and I'm like "yea of course."
So here's the kicker. Then he says to me "Do you happen to know what happen to the stapler we have by the printer?" Now, I've got this crusty old stapler. He's talking about the crusty old stapler. Like somehow he's asking me the question in this way to give some sort of an A-HA response? So basically he thinks the stapler belongs by the printer (which it doesn't) and he KNOWS I have the stapler now, so why the fuck is he asking "Do you know what happened to it?" Like how fucking annoying passive agressive is that?
So anyway, a coworker left so on his final day I asked him "Can I have you're stapler?"... so that's how I got one. It's this really old ugly WWII looking stapler. Looks something like this. But it worked, and that's all that mattered. So now I have this stapler... this old crusty thing at my desk... the only one like it here.
So there's this really annoying boss. Not directly mine, but sometimes does oversee my work. Office Space boss to the max. Anyhow, one day I'm at my desk and go to use the stapler and its not there. I look over to the desk across where the printer is and there's my stapler... someone must have been using it. No big deal. So I go over and pick it up and put it back on my desk. Later, annoying boss picks up some copies from the printer and comes by my desk and asks "Can I use your stapler?" and I'm like "yea of course."
So here's the kicker. Then he says to me "Do you happen to know what happen to the stapler we have by the printer?" Now, I've got this crusty old stapler. He's talking about the crusty old stapler. Like somehow he's asking me the question in this way to give some sort of an A-HA response? So basically he thinks the stapler belongs by the printer (which it doesn't) and he KNOWS I have the stapler now, so why the fuck is he asking "Do you know what happened to it?" Like how fucking annoying passive agressive is that?