I know, it doesn’t have anything to do with Kerry or Bush, but I am SO PISSED at my office manager right now, I can’t even figure out how to tie our dilemma to the election.
My office has NO LEGAL SIZED PAPER. Which is something we use. A lot! I noticed we were running low about a week and a half ago, so I made sure to tell the office manager. Her response? “We do have paper. It’s over there.” She was right too, we did have a box. ONE. We go through a box of paper in a day! She finally got around to ordering the fucking paper yesterday. Which means we’ll go for a week scrambling to figure out what to do because we HAVE NO PAPER. (I have no idea why it’s not overnighted.) I told you we were low on paper days ago!
And the worst part? This happens every single time! She never, ever, ever thinks to order paper before we’re out. I was trying to catch the problem before it started this time, but she managed to wait til we had one box anyway!
God fucking dammit, office manager, I really like you and you’re a nice person, but why can’t you just order the goddamn paper?
P.S. Fuck you too to the several coworkers at the work sponsored party last night who acted like complete dicks. Thanks for reminding me why I skipped the last one and while I’ll skip all future events. Being a civilized and pleasant coworker is going to be tough now that I know what assholes you are outside of work.
I work in the absolute booniest of the boondocks and we get deliveries next day from office supply places. Waiting a week for such blows my very small mind.
Where do you get your paper? My office orders everything through Corporate Express and they get it to us next-day. We’re a college paper, so I doubt we’re spending anything extravagent to get supplies overnight.
Why don’t you talk the powers that be into dumping that hirribly outdated format of paper and joining the 21th century? I work for a law firm and I’ve never had to use legal sized paper. In fact, the whole industry has dumped legal format paper, and the only people still using this old vestige of the early 1900’s is the Real Estate industry, oh and some cellphone companies for all of their fine print…
Damn I hate Legal paper!
Sam
P.S.- Tell your office manager to pull her head out of her ass and find a supplier that delivers in 24 hours or less.
Legal sized paper is 8.5" x 14". Letter sized paper is 8.5" x 11".
And now you know.
Sam, I work for a mortgage company. We need paper, people need to sign things. And we’re legally required to send hard copy disclosures, we can’t just email docs.
As for why we can’t get it overnighted, I seriously have no idea. I used to be an office manager, and I always had it overnighted. Inevitably, it takes days to get paper here. It gets lost. The office manager has to call and ask where it is. It is so goddamn stupid! It’s a big office and I don’t have any say in what vendor we use, so I can’t really do anything by whine on the SDMB.
That’s ridiculous. Not on your part - on your office manager’s. And, for God’s sake, surely you have an office supply store nearby? Why can’t she go out and buy some after getting whatever signed that needs to be signed? If she’s in charge of ordering shit, she’s also in charge of making sure she orders it on time so you don’t notice it’s gone.
I was pretty sure you worked in Title, Mortgage or Real Estate. Still, they need to update a bit and start using standard format paper-it honestly fucks the works up around here! You can E-mail title and mortgage documents, but if your mortgage company doesn’t support a forward-looking policy such as E-mailing docs to title companies and Signing Agents, there’s nothing you can do.
Sam, who accepts E-mailed mortgage and title docs for signing for an extra $25
Wrong, GaWd – the whole state legal system in Louisiana still uses that hideous long paper. Which isn’t surprising, considering that Louisiana has yet to join the 20th century in most things, let alone the 21st.
Heh. This reminds me of a story from my banking days. I worked for the division that oversaw the “in store” branches. Ours were located in large supermarkets. A panic stricken branch manager called me one day and said “We’re out of legal paper and we have a customer coming in to close a loan in 15 minutes! How am I supposed to print out the docs? Can you drive some paper out here to me?”. I replied “Uhm, you’re in a supermarket. Why don’t you walk over to the office supply section, buy a package of legal paper, and turn in an expense report”. Her reply: “Oh”.
I’m not necessarily wrong. Maybe Louisiana hasn’t caught up, but California, and all of the states I’ve seen documents from have been on standard paper.
The industry as a whole has, from what I can tell, dropped the usage of Legal format paper. Thankfully. Hopefully we don’t get a run of docs from Louisiana now!
I recently bought my first house.
Many of the papers I had to sign (and later file away) were on legal size paper but the printing on that paper only took up a letter sized amount of space.
At first I thought that the extra space was for changes, but was told that I couldn’t make any changes or we would scrap everything and start over.
