Documentation Discarder Gifts

Document Filing in the Post-Literate Era.

A disgruntled employee chain-sawes hois boss's desk in two.Boss says:'Alright Smith, I'll stop referring to the employees as 'oopsy daisies'.'

Organization is not rocket science!

"It's OK to close tabs. Just click on it. Once you realize that you don't need that many open, it'll get easier. You can do this!"

"There, all neat and tidy!"

"I always like to clear my desk off for the weekend."

'Fred's Office Supply? I'd like to order a dozen more desk bins and a step-ladder please.'

"My career's in shreds, but on the bright side, so are my files."

'ACE Heating and cooling' 'What's Hot' 'What Not'

'I tried to warn him - garbage in, garbage out.'

Trays on desk read: In/Out/Lose in the Shuffle.

'Fyodor Dostoevsky sends weeks describing Alexy Karamazov's quest for a white whale, and then discards the entire chapter."

'Never trust emails. You can't shred them.'

(No caption. Signs on file cabinets drawers read, "Files Saved to Hard Drive," "Files Saved to Disk," "Files Saved to Traveldrive," "Trash.")

"We do not usually acknowledge unsolicited manuscripts, but we want you to know that we tore yours into tiny pieces. Yours sincerely, The Op-Ed Page."

'I delete so much junk mail, my trash can icon turned into a dumpster.'

"We need a better piling system."

"Yeah, I keep a clean desk. Now all the mess is in the computer!"

'They'll never take my word for it -- You'd better put them in writing.'

"I hate people using the cloud."

"You call this a brief. It's thirty pages long."

Bureaucratic castle

Slam Dunking the Outtray

"I think he's going to be a bus driver - he loves cutting things up."

"I have a system."

Widgets, Inc: Inventory. . . Sales. . .RETURNS.

Constitution of the United States (First Draft)

E-mail

'There are five of ua, a high wall with razor wire: It must be something really valuable or secret we're guarding...'

Stress and Relief Desk Organizers.

'Yes, I'm gaining weight! Deleting spam all morning makes me really hungry for lunch!'

"Was delegation the only thing you learnt on that management course?"

'The buck gets lost here'.

The Desk Bins of Life: Birth, Whoosh! and Death.

In and Out