Re: Not here...
"At home we are swimming in the damned things."
Back in my dim dark youf I worked for a govt department (post office) as a tech. Nobody really paid too much attention to pens - you had them in your pocket for stuff and invariably they went home. Some went on longer trips. If you showed up at a remote site and there were no pens for the logbooks/dead pens, you left yours there, etc.
Every so often someone would show up with a shopping bag full of the things collected from home and dump them in his desk drawer or a tray in the workshop and the cycle would start over.
On the other hand, companies which made a fuss over missing pens never got them back.
Biting the hand that feeds IT
