It's just Easier Tis Way

I was out of pens so I used my lunch break to jump the train and go to Staples and stock up. Why you are asking “is he going to use his lunch hour to purchase his own office supplies?” I have found that buying my own pens ad using them for my personal and office needs is just less complicated . Otherwise, I am always wondering when I have crossed “that” line of using office stuff for personal needs.
I sat through a couple of office audits a couple of years ago—you know State Gestapo goons, bookkeepers, bean counters going through everything at the office looking for anything, anything which can be used against you. They were not looking for me at the time. They were looking for one of my office mates. I think they wanted a reason to get rid of her. I was shocked and surprised at how efficient these guys were. They were methodical, calculating and even good humored about the whole process. In the end they got their girl. She took a powder and got away to another State agency where she is doing just fine. She is well liked, doing a great job and making more money then she was getting here. The point is they found something that was “not right.” a question was raised a smoking gun which they could use to “ask her to leave”

I use a lot of pens, I love my pens especially my Pilot P-700’s black. I use these P-700’s to write with, draw and sketch, keep my check books and in my State office work. I know if I had Marsha order in a box that I would sooner or later start using these pens for some of my personal use. And that would not be good. It would be that one little “smoking gun” which they could someday use to get me. Therefore I buy my own pens. It’s just cleaner that way.

I got to know one of the bean counters pretty well over the four months he seemed to always be at our offices. He was a big guy, local culture, ex-military. In fact he was ex 101st Airborne paratrooper! In fact he was a 101st Airborne bean counter. I did not know they even had such things . I called him Lou Grant—cause I thought he looked like Lou Grant except he did not have the “Shrek” ears that Lou had. I don’t know if I liked him as much as feared and respected him like you would a lethal animal or a steep cliff. Lou had little sense of humor that I could find—lots of “black and white” and consequences for actions. “We are not judging we are just brining actions to light” They were just the message barriers they were not the trigger men.

When the get me, and they well get me, when they want to, when getting me well serve their purpose. It will not be for ink pens or misappropriating state propriety. I purchase my own pens…it’s just easier that way.