THE EXCLUSIVE PEN
 I have this thing about pens, don't ask me how it started,
but I still can't find the right one for my delicate hand.Its either the wrong colour, style or weight. Do they, can they, custom make a pen which is personal to the writer's hand like any other haute couture item. However this pen would flow across the page of the bonded writing pad, so I can be satisified with not what I've written, but how and sanctified! Therefore, this pen wouldn't be lost, walk from my desk nor chewed upon. I admit, I admit, I want that Exclusive Pen!! |
A new survey by a leading pen manufacturer found out what makes office workers threw screaming tantrums, stoop to confrontational behaviour and even set traps for colleagues. Yep, pen-pinching.
An extract reads from the article(1): "....We know its those seemingly trivial day to day aggravations that sometimes tip people over into screaming rages." He says "we carried out a light-hearted survey into office life and its come up with some startling facts and figures. We're surprised at just how strongly people feel about their pens - locking them in a drawer at night and leaving inferior 'decoy' pens on their desks etc...."
Okay, I could have told them its
a very serious personal matter in office life, people have been known to go home, burst
into tears and leave jobs because their pen was lead astray, liken it to infidelity.
As it says further on in the article: how many have stormed over to your colleagues desk
and demanded depending on severity: "Give me back my pen/desk tidy/fluffy gonk/box of
fun size chocs etc.,!!!!"
Also ask any CEOs/Chairmen or senior management to borrow their pen and see on their faces and hear the reply you get. They guard their pens like status symbols which is built to run like car with a throbbing back-mounted engine and ready for acceleration responding to the least pressure of thy hands.
REFERENCE SOURCE:
(1) OS Magazine, August/Sept 2000 issue on page 42.