My office supplies are always getting into fights. How do I get them to get along better?
Sir Barrence asked:
My tape dispenser is always criticizing my stapler by telling him that he “looks tacky”. They are always verbally and physically fighting. My ruler usually stays quiet through it all, but I can just tell he is bottling up all of his feelings and just might snap one day.
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My tape dispenser is always criticizing my stapler by telling him that he “looks tacky”. They are always verbally and physically fighting. My ruler usually stays quiet through it all, but I can just tell he is bottling up all of his feelings and just might snap one day.
How do I create harmony amongst my supplies?
February 8th, 2009 at 1:34 am
Maybe the ruler stays quiet because of a feeling that he or she can’t “measure up” to the other supplies, and the pencil ignores it and thinks the whole thing is pointless lol.
February 8th, 2009 at 1:44 am
Your ruler needs a girl/boyfriend. It’ll give s/him an outlet. Then again, maybe it’d be cruel to subject the new significant other to the ruler’s “stuff”. I’d make your tape dispenser an offer s/he’d find hard to refuse. As for the stapler . . . the fashion disasters–the plaid paired with chartreuse & violent pink stripes and those totally granny retro platform shoes–it’s a stapler thing, you wouldn’t understand.
I’ve always been entertained by having a meeting with the primary instigators where they are told that they can’t leave until they resolve this. Then I just let the fur fly.
February 10th, 2009 at 8:24 am
Simple: don’t put them near each other. Put them in different drawers or something.
February 12th, 2009 at 1:16 pm
Wow… Your stationery’s are alive? LOL
February 13th, 2009 at 4:47 am
Throw them all out and get new ones that aren’t alive.
February 15th, 2009 at 4:52 pm
You made me laugh. I needed a good laugh today. Lol.
February 16th, 2009 at 10:47 am
It sounds like the ruler has a superiority complex by not talking to others. He feels everyone else may not measure up to his standards.
The tape dispenser is wound a little too tight.
The stapler might have become a bit unhinged.
I suggest bringing in a mediator, like the coffee maker. She’s observant and her good ideas have been percolating for while.