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Bringing hope, peace and unity to the good brethren of the business supplies community The good father discusses German supermarkets, selling fishing waders and using binoculars to scout out new sales opporunities e are fast getting
convinced a lot of people that COVID can be
guess what they might need next. She’s been
the reputation of
contracted from your bare ankles - and those
reprimanded a couple of times by the police
being the German
waders have been flying out of here. People are
but, as she says herself, “If you don’t take
supermarket of the
wearing them in their offices and, although
risks, you don’t sell stationery”. Don’t forget,
office supplies world.
they are uncomfortable, and can get quite
at one stage people questioned why a pencil
We’re selling products
hot, we’ve been told that they are really safe
sharpener would be any use in the days
we wouldn’t have dreamed of back in the days
in the current circumstances. She has them
before pencils were invented.
of traditional office supplies; the warehouse
advertised with fly fishing vests as a good value
is packed with everything from boy scout
combo; the vests can hold your sanitisers and
Standoffish, are not too keen on us finding
uniforms to lava lamps.
masks and gloves all in the same place - and
new products as they then have to go
there is a magnet at the back to hold acrylic
and source them. It means they have to
COVID desk screens with metal edging.
make enquiries with suppliers from other
W
We managed to secure a job lot of fishing waders in 2017 which have been at the back of the warehouse and rather than let them
Sometimes we have to take a good look
Our dealer buying group, Office
industries and it can be very scary; they tell
stay there any longer Mrs O’ Reilly, who looks
at the world around us, and step out of
me that the people in other places talk very
after our HR, warehousing, distribution,
our stationery shoes, to see some real sales
professionally, and know what they have in
administration hygiene and catering, decided
opportunities. Mrs O’ Reilly regularly goes
stock, and can help them straight away.
to offer them at a discount as part of our
for long walks around the village - with
COVID range. Somehow, she has successfully
her binoculars - just to look at people and
I hope that sort of behaviour doesn’t spread itself into our company.
Two office supplies reps are sitting in the office when one says to the other: “I’m fed up with this. I bet I can get the boss to let me go home.”
JOKE OF THE MONTH
Pretty soon after this the boss walks in and the same rep climbs up to the ceiling and hangs upside down. “What are you doing up there?” says the boss. “I’m a lightbulb,” says the rep. “I think you’ve lost it completely,” says the boss. “I think you need to go home.” So, the rep leaves and shortly afterwards the other rep gets up and starts packing his briefcase to go home as well. “Where do you think you’re going?” says the boss. “Well you can’t expect me to work in the dark,” says the rep.
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