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I Believe You Have My Stapler

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the chisel-point dept.

yack0 writes "After three years of demand and countless calls, emails and letters, you can finally buy a Red Swingline Stapler. Hooray! As noted in this wall street journal article and confirmed by this page at the Swingline Stapler web site you can now pick up a Red Swingline stapler for merely twice the price of a plain black stapler. However, a colleague of mine says that the online order form is reading around $16 for his right now. Now all the cubicle dwelling prairie dogs can get one step closer to burning down the building." The red stapler has become some sort of cult icon at this point.

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  1. DOD version... by paiute · · Score: 5, Funny

    is black and shows up on radar smaller than a pelican. Only $56,000 each.

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    1. Re:DOD version... by Bios_Hakr · · Score: 5, Funny

      Did you ever stop to wonder if a pelican (I think it's a sparrow in actuality) traveling at 700 miles/hour would tip off a radar operator? I'm no military genius, but I think small, 700mph birds are a sign that something is afoot.

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    2. Re:DOD version... by sugrshack · · Score: 4, Funny

      that depends.... is it an african pelican or a european pelican?

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  2. My cube-mate had a case of Office Space by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    Yesterday he had 4 bosses/managers/etc come tell him the exact same thing --- that he didn't correctly stow away his oscilloscope in the proper location; but he didn't cause he wasn't finished working with it yet! Truly an Office Space moment.

  3. Ahhh office space, will you ever learn? by Timmeh · · Score: 5, Funny

    Slydell: So we just went a ahead and fixed the glitch.
    Lumbergh: Great.
    Portwood: So um, Milton has been let go?
    Slydell: Well just a second there, professor. We uh, we fixed the *glitch*. So he won't be receiving a paycheck anymore, so it will just work itself out naturally.
    Porter: We always like to avoid confrontation, whenever possible. Problem solved from your end.

  4. excuse me... by edrugtrader · · Score: 5, Funny

    i was told i could first post between the hours of 7 and 8 pm... sharon posts while she files, so i don't see any reason why... i'll burn down the building.

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  5. You leave me no choice by wcspxyx · · Score: 5, Funny

    I'll just post a link on /. and burn down your web server....

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  6. Ahhh Office Space by Paul+E.+Loeb · · Score: 5, Funny

    I believe my favorite line would have to be:

    PC Load Letter! What the fuck does that mean!!

    1. Re:Ahhh Office Space by SkulkCU · · Score: 3, Funny


      Nag.. eh... Nag... uh...
      Not gonna work here anymore, anyway.

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    2. Re:Ahhh Office Space by Bouncings · · Score: 5, Funny
      From Swingline.com:
      500 Internal Server Error

      /b2c/:

      null
      java.lang.NullPointerException
      at jrun__util__Errorpage2ejsp13._jspService(jrun__uti l__Errorpage2ejsp13.java:268)
      at allaire.jrun.jsp.HttpJSPServlet.service(HttpJSPSer vlet.java:40)
      at allaire.jrun.servlet.JRunSE.service(JRunSE.java:10 24)
      (it goes on like this)

      In summary: INTERNAL SERVER ERROR, WHAT THE FUCK DOES THAT MEAN!?

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  7. If you never saw the movie... by Bogatyr · · Score: 5, Funny

    follow the IMDB link to learn about Office Space.

    PETER GIBBONS
    'So I was sitting in my cubicle today, and I realized, ever since I started working, every single day of my life has been worse than the day before it. So that means that every single day that you see me, that's me on the worst day of my life..'.

  8. All around the country... by GriffX · · Score: 5, Funny

    Office managers are putting on their O-face. You know: Oh! Oh!

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  9. Office Space creates Anarchy by stewartj · · Score: 5, Funny

    I work at motorola. Motorola is undoubtedly a huge source of inspiration for things like Office Space, and *especially* Dilbert. During out "Employee Well-Being" week they showed Office Space in one of the break rooms. It created anarchy when people saw the reality of their office lives!

    1. Re:Office Space creates Anarchy by Peyna · · Score: 4, Funny

      You would be surprised how much the movie Office Space applies to non cubical jobs as well. While working a factory I experienced many similar things to the movie. Such as, if I messed up, I had 5 people telling me about it and reminding me about it. And there was a lady one line over that would talk on her phone and had the most annoying laugh in the world (and this was a pretty loud factory too!). There's more than that, but it was pretty amazing how it paralleled to even a factor job.

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    2. Re:Office Space creates Anarchy by scott1853 · · Score: 5, Funny

      I worked at a Xerox factory after high school. I only had one boss tell me I wasn't doing something right. The next day though, there were posters ALL over the clean room with clipart people showing the right and wrong ways of doing it. Talk about overkill.

    3. Re:Office Space creates Anarchy by delcielo · · Score: 5, Funny

      You know, the only reason I don't watch that movie very often is that it's TOO realistic. Watching that movie is like going to work.

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  10. **���'s in eyes moment** by The_Guv'na · · Score: 5, Funny

    ...merely twice the price of a plain black stapler...

    /me runs off to buy black staplers and red paint.

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  11. Re:I hate to tilt at windmills, but by Peyna · · Score: 4, Funny

    Seemed the other way around to me. 15 minutes of that boy meets girl crap, except it was better, because his pickup line was "do you like kung fu?".

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  12. Umkayy? by di0s · · Score: 3, Funny

    Hell, Lumbergh fucked her...

  13. Comment removed by account_deleted · · Score: 5, Funny

    Comment removed based on user account deletion

  14. Peter -- Check Out Channel 9 by TheRhino · · Score: 3, Funny

    Hey, Peter, forget this article, check out what's on Channel 9!

  15. Re:Cultural Icon by IxnayOnTheIxnay · · Score: 4, Funny

    Errr, so the pre-WWII workplace insisted on multicolored objects?

    Seeing as color wasn't invented until the late 1930's, how could it?

  16. Re:Cultural Icon by ZaMoose · · Score: 3, Funny

    Here's the funny thing about Livingston's Band of Brothers performance. I heard an interview with him on a Philly radio station and he commented that after the first few episodes of BoB aired, his agent started getting calls from scouts asking "Wow, Rob was great in Band of Brothers. But can he do comedies?"

    Heh.

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  17. I guess the server... by A_Non_Moose · · Score: 3, Funny

    "Has a case of the 'Mondays'"... .....

    Has anyone ever said to you "Looks like someone has a case of the 'Mondays'"?

    Naw. No. Shit, no, man. I believe you'd get your ass kicked.
    .

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  18. mmmm...yeeeeeaaah.. by c1pher · · Score: 5, Funny

    so if you could just move that article to the end of the posts, that'd be greeeeeaat, ok. Thanks a bunch /.

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