Yes There Are Stupid Questions

I mostly agree with the statement "there's no such thing as a dumb question", but today I heard one that made me mad because it was so stupid.

We had an all employee meeting at work. Someone actually blocked out time in the agenda to tell us about the "new" recycling bins, and how to use them. First of all, recycling has been around since I was little...so I think we all know how to recycle. Then, somone actually raised their hand, and said "Excuse me, but I just wanted to point out the slots in the recycling bin for paper are small...what do we do if we have larger paper, say 11x17 or a drawing? Can we get something done about that". I looked at Paul beside me (not you, Paul Hart) and said "You have GOT to be kidding me...did he just ask that?".

Apparantly some people don't know that you can do this thing with paper called tearing it. It will go from one big piece, to a lot of little pieces, hence it will fit in the small hole.

What a waste of time. So later this afternoon I was drafting and Paul walked up with a big sheet of paper and said "Dave, this is pretty big...what should I do with it?". HA!

Sometimes work actually feels like "Office Space"