Get a Bic

Now that I've spent the last month or two in an office environment, there's one thing I've noticed that puzzles me. Who are these people who come to meetings or training sessions with absolutely nothing? You're not coming to see a Broadway musical and these aren't spur of the moment occurances. You go to these things to communicate what's going on with your side of the work and learn what the other side is doing.

Clearly, no need to bring anything with you.

Maybe it's because I'm still fairly fresh out of school, but I tend to show up with at least a pen. If nothing else, there's typically a sign up sheet to prove you were actually there. And sometimes I even use it to write things down that I might refer to later. Who is surviving this long in basically any business without a writing tool of some sort? Even better, the odds of people not having a pen seem to get better as the amount of Post It's on their desk increases. Hmmm...

But I do enjoy the smug satisfaction I get when some distinguised silver haired man has to lean over and politely ask to borrow my Family Guy pen.