If you ever want to see what preachers call the "excesses of life", look at this: paperwork. That's another pet-peeve of mine! Billions of sheets of paper each day are copied and recopied, and collated so perfectly in offices around the world. Then these beautiful reproductions, still hot off the xerox machine, are processed by office workers. Some copies get shipped off. Others are scanned. Some get to the morning meeting. But these sheets are the lucky ones. Most of that paper take a lonelier course- they get exiled into storage. Sad sad sad... the reds go in one room, the greens in another.. the whites get passed around.. this is the real segregation in the workplace.
I'm riling about this mainly because it's 10pm, and I'm still at work. I'm fine, of course, it's not often I get to blog at work, but the real reason why I'm here is paperwork. Lots of it! Since the office doesn't have those thousand dollar copiers that automatically sorts staple punch and collate, I have the privilege of doing it all by hand. So archaic. Yet, I've mastered the skill of copying so well that I can collate 5 different hundred page double-sided stapled hold-punched documents faster than ANY copier on earth. Seriously, I'm the Gary Kasparov of the Xerox-world. Put me up against Deep Blue. =)