Yup. I’ve worked in offices with those heavy old sturdy things, and nothing staples like them.
When I worked for the gummint years ago, a guy in my office had a 1920s-era stapler that had, fortunately for him, fallen off the inventory lists many years earlier. He would let us use it, but it had to be at his desk, and I kid you not, he locked it up at night. And who could blame him? In the two years I worked in that office, it never jammed once single time.
Amen on the refiller. Those copiers that hold five reams of paper? Why was it that in every office I’ve worked in that had one, at least once a day I would fill the thing to the brim, and yet next time I went back to it it was empty again? Is there a copy paper thief who sneaks in in the night and steals all the paper?
Hole punches are a bane of my existence, too. I am responsible for the archiving of our newspaper; we keep digital archives, of course, and microfilm, but we also keep hardcopies back a year, bound on these newspaper-sized binder-type things (according to the side of them they’re called “Handy Newspaper Files,” they sit on an A-frame when filled, and the company that makes them, H.B. Rouse & Co., now makes tool parts…God I wish I could find them. They aren’t ANYWHERE). I have gone through so many freakin’ hole punches. I had one disintegrate IN MY HANDS, AS I WAS USING IT. Just fucking fell apart. How ass-lancing is that?
I’ve never had problems with correction tape. And oddly, I don’t have problems with our printer/copy machine/fax machine. Never have. Everyone else does, though. They’ll be having problems, I’ll walk over, it’ll start working again. Apparently I have the Magic Touch for the printer.
~Tasha
I missed the edit window by like five seconds. 
Pertaining to staplers, I have an almost brand-new all-metal Swingline that works PERFECTLY. Never jams. Ever. And as far as I can tell, it’s only $10-ish.
~Tasha
Staple guns.
Oh, Og, the staple guns . . . eyes goes blank
I once had to tour the entire site hotell - every gorramn room; there’s 2980 of them - and staple up new fire evacuation instructions. Two sheets of paper on every, single damn room.
And the gorramn staple gun kept jamming.
SCREEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEECH
I hate those little narrow black ones – I’ve tossed them against walls. But the big old grey metal ones are great. I found one that punched larger holes and took it with me when I left my last job.
It was either that or the electric stapler, and I figured they might come and get the stapler but nobody but me ever used that wonderful old punch.
In the consulting biz, we call them “clients”… 
The problem with staple removers is the chewed-up staple gets stuck in the remover. So you need another remover to remove the removed staple from the remover.
I don’t use regular staplers, I use an Ace Clipper.
Yeah, the first time I used the stapler nothing happened and “dammitthisthingdoesn’twork” ran through my mind in the split second before the “pow!” and then I said “Ooooh!”.
Puny Ace Clippers, we use those for closing paper bags. My Rapid 31 could staple through that. Okay, well not really, but I just stapled 90 pieces of paper through it with out a problem. But they where credit card receipts. I can also go through about 20 (cardstock) time cards, without struggling.
My problem with the Ace Clipper is that (enter name of anyone of the many dumbass employees I’ve had over the years) insist on putting their hand around the entire thing thus bending the metal inwards to the point where you can get your hand through it. I’ve constantly straightening it back out and explaining how to use it properly but they just don’t get it. I think I’m gonna put spikes around the outside of the hand gaurd thing.
