Paper Stacker Gifts

'Yes, your papers seem to have lots of citations, but I've checked: They're all self-citations...'

Full'pending' tray at Apathy Institute

"Yes Sir, I'm still working on the 'ins and outs' of their proposal."

'Sometimes I wonder what I's do without you!'

"You said it was OK to make our office more like home. Well, this is how I live at home."

Whats ticking away in YOUR filing system?

A paperwork machine spews endless paperwork

IN box...OUT is wastepaper basket on fire.

"So we are agreed then, most of the targets we've set staff are completely unreasonable and we should just scrap them."

'I'll be late for dinner, dear, I'm up to my neck in paperwork.'

Storm in the out tray

Food Chain, Inc: 'UP...DOWN'.

"I was drawing a whale, but I ran out of paper."

"Right, before we look at the covid figures for today, do we need another sheet of paper?"

"Simplified application form? . . . This IS the simplified application form!"

'As far as clock watching goes, you take the biscuit.'

'On your marks. Get set. Go!' - 'Come on! Keep going! You can do it!' - 'Yay! You're 8 hours closer to the grave!' - 'Oh, God.'

'That's my 'job security' barometer.'

InIn by-products.

'I think it has reached critical mass.'

"I thought that modern communications systems were meant to be more efficient...That they would cut down on waste and duplication."

Bureaucracy gone mad!

'Good new. . . we're moving you to a bigger desk!'

"I've heard of being organized, but isn't this a little obsessive compulsive?"

Desk trays: The Good - The Bad - The Ugly

Bureau of the Damned

Whelmed and Over-Whelmed

In and In Too Deep Desk Organizers.

'Welcome aboard, Bob. Your job is to figure out what the hell happened here.'

Work avalanche

'Of course I'd never fire you, Nelson. You've been working here for such a long time, you've become part of the furmiture!'

'Bring me an in basket and an out basket and some paperwork to shuffle between them.'

"So from the top. If they need urgent help it's form AC/765c, criticl interventions are CV/U657's and..."

"Hello darling, what do you do for a living?"

'Too long at his desk...we're going need surgery to cut him free.'