Most expired thing in your office #milesysbanana

[mrs quoad]

Turns out the hand soap refills in our upstairs loo have been here since before some of our undergraduates were born

(And expired before most of them were out of nappies).



The eye-height medicine-style cupboard has been half-open since I first came to this building in 2013, and always looked a bit unloved. I sort of assumed maintenance or someone else kept tabs on it but, er. Maybe not.

And, er. Round 2: I cleared out the common room magazine rack earlier. It’s also been untouched since well before 2014, and the most recent addition was a New Statesman with Cameron and Milliband on the front cover. Most copies of Aesthetica (?!) and Private Eye went back to the mid-90s.

What’s lingering at the back of your work cupboards?

 

[strung out]

I've got a branded stapler for Bristol Polytechnic, which hasn't existed for 26 years

 

[marty21]

In my previous Council office, I saw a stapler which had an anti-apartheid sticker on it - so mid 80 to late 80s?

 

[Pickman's model]

some years ago i was cataloguing a departmental library when i found a copy of a hitler youth magazine from 1944. it was neither a history nor a german library.

 

[marty21]

The mid 80s stapler had been moved from the old office to the brand spanking new one as well

 

[Mrs D]

some years ago i was cataloguing a departmental library when i found a copy of a hitler youth magazine from 1944. it was neither a history nor a german library.

I find it very sad that our library stopped stamping return dates in the front of books, so you have no idea how popular a book is or was or wasn't. You just have the option to print a reminder slip.

 

[Pickman's model]

I find it very sad that our library stopped stamping return dates in the front of books, so you have no idea how popular a book is or was or wasn't. You just have the option to print a reminder slip.

you mean you have no idea how popular a book is or was or wasn't. for all you know all the stamps come from one person's use: and librarians can still see how many times it's been actually issued as opposed to stamped.

 

[Mrs D]

you mean you have no idea how popular a book is or was or wasn't. for all you know all the stamps come from one person's use: and librarians can still see how many times it's been actually issued as opposed to stamped.

I should ask for a graph of previous borrowings and borrowers over time when I take a book out then. Except we don't get to talk to a librarian when borrowing books any more.

It was quite thrilling to borrow something last issued in 1976, perhaps transferred from the County Reserve in 1982.

 

[Pickman's model]

I should ask for a graph of previous borrowings and borrowers over time when I take a book out then. Except we don't get to talk to a librarian when borrowing books any more.

It was quite thrilling to borrow something last issued in 1976, perhaps transferred from the County Reserve in 1982.

tbh anything which was last borrowed 42 years ago should have been moved to store or disposed of years ago.

 

[SpookyFrank]

My boss's views on women are the most outdated thing in my workplace.

 

[A380]

some years ago i was cataloguing a departmental library when i found a copy of a hitler youth magazine from 1944. it was neither a history nor a german library.

Was it in Basildon?

 

[equationgirl]

I have some old files on inventions from the 1940s. They were going to be binned. Plus a catalogue from the 1950s.

 

[dessiato]

The oldest thing in my room is me. I'm well past my best before date.

 

[Lazy Llama]

Found some Novell Netware 2 disks and a manual for Microsoft OS/2 v1.3