What office supplies are essential?

[NuclearNed]

A protractor. Just because few people have one. And when the worldwide zombie apocalypse starts and a protractor would be just the thing to save yourself from your zombified office mates, having a dusty one lying around in your desk would bring about the quiet confidence needed to survive while others are torn to shreds.

 

[zinfamous]

The office catapult. Never leave your space undefended.

 

[highland145]

The office catapult. Never leave your space undefended.

That's cool. Now if my customers will stop stealing my pens.

 

[InflatableBuddha]

I was trying to get through grad school with one pen. It broke yesterday. It still had 2/3 of the ink left too.

Aw, well if you're doing most stuff on your laptop, I guess that's possible. When I was in undergrad 10 years ago, a lot of people (myself included) had desktops and still took notes by hand so we blew through a number of pens.

 

[BoomerD]

Pens. There is no such thing as too many pens. I started this semester with like 40 black pens, and now I'm down to a dozen. I have no idea where the othe r28 went.

Heh-heh...I used to "collect" pens. By the end of the day, somehow, I'd have at least a half dozen more than I started with...plus, if I saw one just "lying around" somewhere...:sneaky:

 

[Leros]

Aw, well if you're doing most stuff on your laptop, I guess that's possible. When I was in undergrad 10 years ago, a lot of people (myself included) had desktops and still took notes by hand so we blew through a number of pens.

I've never liked taking notes with laptops. I've done all my notes by hands.

Once I got past my first two years of undergraduate classes, I started learning to take minimal amounts of notes. I'm not filling up notebooks like I did when I was taking freshman calculus or something like that. There have been some classes where I don't take any notes all semester.

 

[BurnItDwn]

I always like to have extra cat5 cable, screwdrivers, pens, an ash tray, a laser pointer, some marklars, and cigarettes around my home office.

 

[Check]

let's see what's on my desk....
Desktop w/ 2 monitors (The only thing I really need)
telephone
pen
notepad
sticky notes
stapler
tape dispenser

on my work bench next to my desk
25V power supply
soldering iron
multimeter probes (the multimeter was taken out to be calibrated a couple weeks ago and some ass decided he needed it more than me)
vacuum pump
scale
various electronics components
500W audio amplifier (half depopulated while I replace components)