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Originally Posted by TheIronMaiden
Whenever I have to go into an insurance office, I make sure to take a handful of pens with me when I leave. I don't care I will look the worker in the eye. I paid for these pens.
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Lol!
Okay, so during COVID, remember that time where we were wiping down all surfaces and sanitizing pens? Well...ain't nobody got time for that.
So my clients need to sign off on their tax returns, and some of them arent super techno-keen so they'd come in to the office, masked up, social distanced, the whole nine yards.
But I'm not sanitizing pens, screw that noise. So I ordered a crapload of the cheapest pens humanity has ever laid eyes upon from Amazon, I dont even remember what they cost but it was cheap like Borscht.
It was something like 1000 pens for $10 or some crap like that and I put up a sign: "Free Pen, do NOT put it back."
And that worked, it actually worked pretty well. But let me illustrate precisely how cheap these pens were and how the entire ordeal turned into a human experiment that rapidly descended into a cartoon.
It is some sort of inherent human nature that one removes the cap of the pen and places it on the butt of the pen, where one would naturally keep the cap whilst using the pen.
But oh no! These pens were so goddamned cheap that the cap actually didnt fit over the butt of the pen. These were the cheapest of the cheap, no logo just a white body with a black cap, not even a manufacturer's logo. At least BIC puts their logo on the pens. Not whoever these clowns were.
Initially I didnt think anything of it. I thought people were struggling or just didnt care but eventually I came to realize that these things were so goddamned cheap that short of a hydraulic press you are not getting that cap onto the back of that pen.
It is just not a thing that is going to happen.
So for 18 months I watched people struggle with this. It was...hilarious.
Just watching people grow more and more frustrated, you'd probably be surprised at how many people got angry and just threw the cap across the room. My receptionist and I started a betting pool. I bought a stop-watch and everything.
After a while it seemed cruel so we put up a sign saying that the cap doesnt fit on the back.
I'm almost out of them now, but man...COVID, what a time to be alive!