Plot lines for “The Office”

A couple of months ago one of my colleagues lost her fight with cancer.  She’s missed very much. In order to inject a little bit of Debbie into our every day work lives, someone in my department decided that everyone in the group should receive a Commemorative White-out Pen, which Debbie had always insisted we should have instead of the goopy bottled stuff.  You know, so that we can think of her whenever we use it.

So we all received our Commemorative White-out Pens (they are actually being referred to in this manner in corporate e-mail) and began the arduous task of transitioning from liquid white-out.  The pens kind of sucked, though, but we kept on trying.  You know, for Debbie’s sake.

This morning I received the following e-mail (spelling etc. is copied word-for-word):

Subject: Correction pens – Commemorative gift

The pen-style correction tape that were ordered for everyone in Editing Services back in November.

These pens are defective!

Corporate Express, has agreed to give us a credit for them, they have to be all rounded up and sent back.

Therefore, please drop of your pen to my desk as soon as possible.

When we receive the credit we will put in a replacement order.

Work@home editors, please return your pens in the mail or drop them off at my desk the next time you are in the office.

So not only are we supposed to remember our friend and colleague buy using correction pens instead of white-out, we are now supposed to return the pieces of crap in her honour?  And incur postage or gas expenses in her honour?  Somewhere in here is a script for an episode of The Office, I swear.

As my co-worker Ainsley said this morning,

I can hear Michael Scott: “Everyone, everyone, STOP USING THE CORRECTIVE PENS! They are DEFECTIVE!” And then Dwight grabbing them from everyone.  And Jim glancing into the camera.

Somewhere Debbie is looking down on us and laughing her ass off.

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