Although to be fair, it wasn’t immediately apparent. One of the numerous piles of paper on his desk had toppled over and the invoice got buried in the subsequent avalanche. The fact that he hadn’t noticed should tell you something.
the other side of the mountain
difficile est saturam non scribere
the other side of the mountain 
we’ve got a physicist who pulls out his desk drawers and uses these to build higher vertical piles of shit. his office is a fire hazard (been written up by the fire inspectors routinely). yet i’ve seen him locate a scientific paper from halfway down the third stack on the left behind the door…
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daisy: At least he only puts them in his desk drawers…
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This is a bit of an embarrassment but I get like that sometimes. My wife can instantly find something that I’ve spent hours searching for. She enjoys the advantage.
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UB40: Ah. The lesson to be learned here is not to get married.
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Now you tell me. Too late. By the way, love the UB40 tag. A favorite band of mine who have just reformed and are out on tour! Where’s my weed?!
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UB40: But I thought you said they had reformed.
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Why couldn’t he look through his own avalanche? Sheesh.
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robin: He was in denial about there ever being an avalanche.
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Trees suck sometimes.
~m
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~m: So do vacuum cleaners.
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Ah. The first available-surface-method-of-filing. Don’t knock it. No I mean really.
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p.culiar: I always tread very carefully.
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We put all our documentation on the G: drive. The top level has over 50 entries in it, each one having another 50 folders ad infinitum. It’s a great place to “put” work that hasn’t actually been done. “It’s on the G: drive, under HR\policy\contractors… no, Policies_08\contrac…, um no maybe 2008Policies\HR\cntrcts…?”
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mountain man: The virtual equivalent of a desk. Nice.
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Oops, forgot to change my on-line persona.
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idle layabout: But do you really want to change?
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Paper avalanches are so much to play with.
Particularly if you whip them through a shredder. Just sayin’.
🙂
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peas: True, although I’d need a wood chipper to deal with this lot.
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You betcha…
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A small strategically lit fire…and a number of your problems could be solved. I’m just saying.
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dolce: You been listening to Johnny Cash again?
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I think he’s already lit a strategic fire, Miss Dolce Devil 🙂
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nursemyra: Sizzle.
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I’m keeping all my stones firmly in my pocket – I spent 30 minutes today hunting for an email I had written the other day which should have been in the file – only to find it in the file together with a new fax that had come in this morning that was in response to said lost email. All neatly stacked in very unavalanche-type pile.
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charmskool: Actually, that fax was on his desk. I sent it back.
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Oooh….office origami, nice.
If you fold those pieces of paper just right it may look like your boss is actually doing some work. If this is too tall an order for origami, try paper mache and just create a shelter for him to hide out from the world in.
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revo: Cool idea. With enough origami cranes, we could do The Birds meets The Office.
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I am always amazed at the people who are in higher positions. I just don’t get the concept of being supposedly so intelligent but having no common sense. If we weren’t here for them, they would sink faster than the Titanic.
I however can always find something for someone else but never my own stuff.
Must make me a higher up and I just didn’t know it.
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hisqueen: I foresee much advancement in your future.
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your comments boxes are confusing. they seem to need science for complete understanding.
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dorothy: And yet you have managed admirably. Perhaps it’s similar to driving a car, even if you don’t have an intimate understanding of internal combustion engines?
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i just input info into box and out it came. like magic. or science. maybe it is like a car. or television. or ice cream.
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