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Bringing hope, peace and unity to the good brethren of business supplies The good Father on ponds full of filing cabinets and feeling hot, hot, hot! don’t know about
in there for years. I know it’s not very
you, but we’ve been
environmentally friendly but I never
experiencing a bit
thought that anyone would ever be
ago and even though we have about 100
of a heatwave in
jumping in, and its products that are
of them on back order we refuse to tell
the village recently,
either faulty or unsellable - things like
the customers that they will never arrive,
something none of us are used to. Pens
filing cabinets that we told customers we
hoping that, when they do get delivered
are drying up, letter trays are melting
couldn’t get keys for so that they would
in November, they’ll keep them for next
and the guys in the warehouse have
buy new ones, and empty ink cartridges,
year. We’ve used this tactic in the past
been picking the goods without any
which no-one has ever found out how to
and sometimes products don’t come
clothes on, which is a health and safety
dispose of properly.
into stock until the next year when they
I
nightmare. If some of the customers
Mrs O’ Reilly, who looks after our
as she chucked it back in. We ran out of fans about a month
need ordering again; I can’t tell you how
knew they would be appalled, but
green, environmentally friendly, goods
it’s cheaper than having to install air
department, jumped in and jammed her
conditioning that would probably
toe into an old typewriter, which she
be putting on my winter cassock and
never be used again.
then retrieved from the pond. She was
waterproof sandals again so I don’t
absolutely devastated to find out that’s
get too stressed about the heatwave.
are starting to jump into to cool down
what I’ve been doing and, given her
Everything changes in life and in
- this creates a slight problem for me
green credentials, she made me sign an
the stationery world, quicker than
because we’ve been dumping products
agreement that it would stop happening
you might think.
We’ve got a village pond that people
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simple that makes things. We know that by next week I’ll
