Thursday, January 03, 2008

Office Efficiency

Today I received a two-page, itemized bill, detailing the charges I’ve accrued from photocopies and other office expenses over the past five months. The grand total: the equivalent of thirteen cents (0.13 US Dollars) for two photocopies.

If I’d only made two photocopies, and it took two photocopied sheets of paper to charge me thirteen cents...

5 comments:

Unknown said...

I tried to write you back but you DELETED YOUR WALL! Arrgh. I'm ticked.

this post made me laugh but I have been nit-picking apart the grammatical mistakes, fyi.

Live In Contrast said...

You should send that to Scott Adams. He's always looking for good Dilbert fodder.

drh said...

I’m listening, Karin.

Jed Carosaari said...

So, if you'd had only one page, would you then have paid 6 1/2 cents?

drh said...

I try to give to Caesar what is Caesar’s. However, I might also try, respectfully, to convince Caesar that he’s being ridiculous.