Office Chatter

As my time here at Euroffice comes to an end and I embark on a new career path I have been thinking about certain things that I will miss. Especially as I am going sailing I will not have access or even a need for the products and items I have come to rely on here in the office.

The water cooler is a centre point of any office; people mingle around it drinking water and catching up on the most interesting, hot, jaw dropping gossip. But have you never noticed the cooler is somewhat boring! The bog standard, run of the mill water cooler is anything but “sexy” and I for one think that’s a shame!

A fact that everyone must face as they start to get older is you are your parents, it’s inevitable you will pick up some of their qualities and mannerisms and I for one have noticed that I furrow my brow, squint and play with my face when deep in thought...... Just like my mother!

When I was  a child my parents had a home office, a mysterious room that my brother and I weren't supposed to go into into. Of course, as typically curious, rebellious and cheeky kids, whenever we were left to our own devices we went straight for the office, opening drawers and climbing under the desk. Hitting the keys on the keyboard, dialling numbers on the phone and pretty much just snooping – being very careful, if we moved anything, to put it back in place. 

For all of us who have had to do THOSE jobs in an office - the filing, the printing, the mailing and the dreaded stapling together of documents – we know about the tedium and vacant stares that inevitably accompany these tasks. We constantly look for the fastest way to get these jobs done whilst still keeping some kind of sanity and trying desperately to make them entertaining.

I love office stuff, in fact I know a whole two rooms full of people that love office stuff, but I have a friend who LOVES office stuff, So much so she had to avoid supermarket aisles and office supplies stores like the plague for fear of debt and ridicule especially when she was out with others...

Losing a treasured stationery item is always hard, be it a pen, pencil, ruler or stapler. You spend hours hunting, wondering and obsessing over where it could have got to, turning everything on your desk upsidedown and going into every nook and cranny you could possibly think of...