Thursday
29Mar2007
The false economy of cheap staplers
Thursday, March 29, 2007 at 1:06PM
Some things that aren’t as good as they once were. One such item is the humble office stapler. Forget Curly Wurlys and Wagon Wheels, the one thing that has devolved the most over the years is the stapler.
Why do they (meaning the stationers and their Chinese minions) make such rubbish staplers nowadays? Or, more to the point, why does my employer buy such rubbish ones?
The amount of times over the past couple of weeks a staple has buckled at an angle (I’m doing a lot of photocopying and stapling at the moment), leaving the pages less than secure, is becoming a joke.
It has to be a false economy.
I suggest a small team should be given a one-year budget to do a cost-benefit analysis on staplers. It’s the only way.
Why do they (meaning the stationers and their Chinese minions) make such rubbish staplers nowadays? Or, more to the point, why does my employer buy such rubbish ones?
The amount of times over the past couple of weeks a staple has buckled at an angle (I’m doing a lot of photocopying and stapling at the moment), leaving the pages less than secure, is becoming a joke.
It has to be a false economy.
I suggest a small team should be given a one-year budget to do a cost-benefit analysis on staplers. It’s the only way.
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