ran out of staples

I ran out of staples today

My Swingline is bone dry

I ran out of staples today

It makes me want to cry

Will my paperwork be doomed

to never leave the room?

Will forever be its fate

to be joined with scotch tape?

Lo! Behold! In the drawer I have found

plenty of refills; how they abound!

*click* *click* *click* is my stapler's sound.

I run out of staples at least once a day. Reloading them has become something of a game to me. Actually.. I tend to make a game out of everything.

Like paper clips.

There must be some significant mathematical proportion between the turnover rate of incoming paper clips against outgoing paperclips

E.G.

(InPC/OutPC) = nature of work.

I have customers who require a Purchase Order (PO), an Invoice (Inv), and a Delivery Ticket (DT) before being able to recieve their bill. PO+Inv+DT= we get paid. In these cases I will often have the PO+Inv without a DT. These usually come last after the driver delivers. When this happens I have a PO+Inv matched together with a paperclip waiting in the customer folder for the DT.

When the DTs come in, they are usually paperclipped together based on driver load. I guess it helps them keep the papers together.

When I get the DTs, I remove the paper clips. I always use the removed paperclips when I combine PO+Inv. The new ones stay in a separate part of my desk.

So, to revise the equation:

(InPC/OutPC) = (PO+Inv/PO+Inv+DT)

If my proportion is high, then I'm recieving too many new Delivery Ticket packets that don't complete corresponding Invoice/PO waiting packets. I have too many PO+Inv waiting for a DT. Thus, I begin to use paperclips out of my own stock.

Sometimes the proportion is low and I have a pile of incoming paperclips on my desk. This means that I didn't have that many PO+Inv waiting for a DT at the end of the day. This is a good thing. It means I had alot of completed sets.

I'll try to track the trend to see if it remains true.