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Greetings from the end of my first day here at J H I!  Aside from the normal first day paperwork awaiting me on my desk, I had a special gift from the staff – my very own Swingline Stapler.  

So why the fuss over a stapler?  During my interview with the staff, staplers somehow came up in the conversation (perhaps we were discussing Office Space?), and I mentioned that my previous office had about 50 staplers, and not ONE of them actually worked!  They all looked at me in sheer horror (what, did this not happen everywhere or was it just me?) and quickly set the record straight, “Well, all of ours work here.”  Hence, the one-of-a-kind Swingline on my desk as my official welcome to J H I.  I don’t know about the rest of the staplers in the office (as I have no intentions of actually testing all of them), but this one is in excellent working condition – and it happens to look pretty sweet on my desk.  How’s that for creative inspiration?