Today was an "interesting" day - if whatever could go wrong, it did.

First up, the copier - the new one - was jamming.  Old one worked fine, even with the horrid recycled paper we use; there's money for covid crap, but not for reasonable quality paper.  But i can't really blame my employer for wanting to save on paper; there are a few people, who would rather use their employer's resources, for non-work things, than spend a few bucks for their own paper and ink.  And yeah, i get it: not everyone has a printer at home; but comeon, if you need to make a significant amount of non-work copies, then get yer own puter stuff.

But that's not it.  The shredder is jammed up jelly tight clogged.  And now i know why.  Though it was, that i forgot to give it a lub.  Nope, all was well a few days ago, worked. just. fine.  Had to use it to shred a few work -related pages.  Though did intend to lub it, but got busy filing, and other job stuff.  Today, figured out what's caused the major jam ... last time, took me a few hours to clear it.  The plastic that covers the envelope address, which utility, insurance and credit card companies provide to us bill-payers, that plastic film wraps itself around, and just plays heck on the shredder teeth.  In other words, it dawned on me because of what i witnessed late last week.

Saw a co-worker with several envelopes and pages - looked like the stuff we get in our home mailboxes.  Stuff that is not wise to just chuck in the trash ... thanks, reprobates:( In other words, why spend the $100 or so for  your own shredder, when you can cart your stuff to work, and use the office one ;/  And seriously, our employer pays us decent - even us clerks.  This morning, that same person, who had a handful of opened bill-mailings/credit card solicitations late last week, told me the shredder was jammed.

Anyway, such trends, and frankly, a disproportionate percentage of time, the personal stuff is from ... well, that's politically incorrect, so, won't go there.

For years, the unwritten rule in the office was:  if - here and there - you need to use the phone (pre-cell days) to make a personal call, google up something (like where that hardware store is) make a copy of joleen's pie recipe - no problem, as long as the calls, the browsing, the copies were here and there.