Today, I was Resourceful
Apr. 20th, 2010 12:35 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
elrhiarhodanGot into the office at 7:30 this morning, and before I could get my first cup of coffee, one of the country managers (based in a place that is considered one of the deadliest in the world) was pinging me via IM (isn't technology wonderful).
He needed a copy of a document, but it needed the corporate seal on it (which I keep). Problem is that the seal is the old fashioned squeezy kind that makes an impression, which would be useless on a scanned and emailed document. To make the seal visible, you need to use carbon paper with it.
WHO THE FUCK KEEPS CARBON PAPER ANYMORE? We don't even have a typewriter in the office.
So, at 7:45 am, I'm scrounging through my desk drawer, looking for something that could substitute for carbon paper. Remembering the old grade school art class trick, I thought maybe if I rubbed a soft lead pencil on a piece of paper, that could work. But you need to have soft lead pencils...
I actually thought I did and was sifting through the detritus that built up in the back of the drawer over the past three years when I found a palette of eyeshadow! A smudge of the horrid dark gray brushed lightly against the raised impression, et voila! The seal was perfectly visible for the scanner. Country manager highly satisfied.
I wish it could say that the rest of my day has been going that well, but frankly it hasn't. Why isn't it Friday yet?
He needed a copy of a document, but it needed the corporate seal on it (which I keep). Problem is that the seal is the old fashioned squeezy kind that makes an impression, which would be useless on a scanned and emailed document. To make the seal visible, you need to use carbon paper with it.
WHO THE FUCK KEEPS CARBON PAPER ANYMORE? We don't even have a typewriter in the office.
So, at 7:45 am, I'm scrounging through my desk drawer, looking for something that could substitute for carbon paper. Remembering the old grade school art class trick, I thought maybe if I rubbed a soft lead pencil on a piece of paper, that could work. But you need to have soft lead pencils...
I actually thought I did and was sifting through the detritus that built up in the back of the drawer over the past three years when I found a palette of eyeshadow! A smudge of the horrid dark gray brushed lightly against the raised impression, et voila! The seal was perfectly visible for the scanner. Country manager highly satisfied.
I wish it could say that the rest of my day has been going that well, but frankly it hasn't. Why isn't it Friday yet?
