F Minus by Tony Carrillo for October 12, 2012

Why couldn’t green tie have used a paper clip? Hope those weren’t in the budget.

I don’t know what it is about modern office staplers. They always go bad so quickly. I have a very basic Bostich stapler from the 1970s that has never missed after thousands of staples. Why is it so hard to make a good stapler now days?

A red stapler! maybe harder to steal? Stands out like a sore thumb? Oh, it’s too early in the morning for this!

I’m waiting for the “Corporate Elite” to replace electric lighting with candles!

Perhaps the red signifies being in it.

…and it’s the Red Swingline!

@Mr. FelixOH yeah! Who DIDN’T have one of those? I wonder what I ever did with mine?

just spit the papers together

I heard Swingline didn’t make a red stapler in that model until after Office Space came out and people wanted one.

I have an Acme No.2 (made about a century ago) that works fine. It can even staple a folded 11×17 booklet. The problem is that they no longer make staples to fit it. Planned (or unplanned) obsolescence breaks budgets.

I keep an electric stapler and electric pencil sharpener in my home office- as a long time designer/drafter I got used to those luxuries. I love to have all my pencils perfectly sharp (I wind up with so many “automatic” pencils that fail and have to toss them. I use many #2s for sketching things.

Mostly all of my kitchen gadgets are RED however. The mixer was a long ago present from this same lover. Kitchenmaid mixers have always been the best and I now have their toaster and much more.

and a red one no less!