At my job, I work alone during my shift and I work at a desk that is shared by co-workers who work the other two shifts.
Pens, staplers, scissors, and stationery supplies are all shared by anyone using the same work station.
I have taken to hiding a black Sharpie with my personal supplies because whenever I reach for the Sharpie in the shared work station pen holder …IT’S DRIED OUT AND RAW AND WRITES LIKE CRAP BECAUSE MORONS PUT IT IN THE CUP TIP POINTING UP! TIP POINTING UP!!!
Seriously. Put the marker in the cup with the tip pointing down, then when you need to use it you’ve got a lovely moist full of ink marker with which to enjoy a pleasurable writing experience!
If you store it tip down you can’t tell what color it is when you are searching for it. The cup on my desk has at least 7 colors of Sharpie in it. I’m not going to dig through all of them looking for the red one.
Apparently more than I have, as here I am, glancing over at my desk top container of varied and assorted writing implements, Sharpies, highlighters and regular markers amongst them, only to see that they are for the most part, stored cap up. Horrors!
Designer and pen-o-phile here: I store the skinny Sharpies point down, because the thin line needs to be “juicier”. The larger Sharpies (termed “Fine Point” by the myopic Sanford pen peeps) I keep point up to get a cleaner, “less juicy” line.
I’m betting the OP has older markers that are on the way to drying out. Then you need “Tips Down!” (the rallying cry I imagine him bellowing throughout his workplace)
Interesting that OP refers to Magic Markers in his thread title, but then the post, and all subsequent posts, are talking about Sharpies.
This. And furthermore, if one actually reads what they say on them, they actually say “Store Tip Down” on them. (To be sure, it’s in letters too small for you to notice unless you actually look for it. I only know because the store clerk pointed that out to me when I bought them.) The other colors don’t say this. But they don’t say “Store Tip Up” either. Maybe those don’t matter much.
By the way, who makes Magic Markers these days? My old nearly-dry ones all have the Avery logo on them, but the new ones I just bought on-line from Office Depot don’t. Are they not made by Avery any more? Did they sell the Magic Marker brand to some generic company?
