Ladies and Gentlemen I give you.....
THE HAMMER
So named because one day I came back from lunch to find the RLS that I worked for using it to drive a nail to hang a picture.
Dave Karoly, post: 411988, member: 94 wrote: They usually only issue Smartphones to people who never leave the office but I managed to overcome that about 4 years ago.
My second flip phone broke so I asked for a smartphone. After some hemming and hawing they found one that wasn't being used because the assignee preferred to use his own. So I got the first hand me down. Then a year or two later my coworker lost his and by then they were only issuing smartphones so he got a brand new one. Mine has been limping pretty badly so when IT said it is obsolete, can't connect to outlook 365 I asked my boss for a new phone. His boss offered another slightly newer hand me down but my boss, to his credit, said no get a new one because the hand me down will be obsolete next year and we'll be doing this again. So they did, thought I'd encounter more headwinds than I did but they've been finding more dollars for equipment the last few years.
did you get the "active" model by chance? i don't/won't usually do this, but that active model is stout, from a purely anecdotal perspective. and i don't even know/care/understand the OS thing, i just know the better half dropped hers off the bridge into the downie river last august about 9 p.m.. of course neither of us was going to go crawling around in the river at that point, and i pretty much wrote it off as dead and gone. she gets up the next morning at dawn, goes out and wades around under the bridge in that frigid water, and comes back with her phone about 20 minutes later. worked fine, and after taking the paper-thin case (really just a screen protector) off and drying it out, you'd never know it ever left its box. i was stunned (happily, i might add- not having to shell out for a replacement). i've broken 3 or 4 iphones just crouching down the wrong way in the field.
Edward Reading, post: 412085, member: 132 wrote: Now THIS is a stapler:
How can that be a stapler. It is clearly labeled as a SURVEYOR.
ppm, post: 412122, member: 6808 wrote: How can that be a stapler. It is clearly labeled as a SURVEYOR.
Just don't use the one that's labeled EXPERT MEASURER
flyin solo, post: 412119, member: 8089 wrote: did you get the "active" model by chance? i don't/won't usually do this, but that active model is stout, from a purely anecdotal perspective. and i don't even know/care/understand the OS thing, i just know the better half dropped hers off the bridge into the downie river last august about 9 p.m.. of course neither of us was going to go crawling around in the river at that point, and i pretty much wrote it off as dead and gone. she gets up the next morning at dawn, goes out and wades around under the bridge in that frigid water, and comes back with her phone about 20 minutes later. worked fine, and after taking the paper-thin case (really just a screen protector) off and drying it out, you'd never know it ever left its box. i was stunned (happily, i might add- not having to shell out for a replacement). i've broken 3 or 4 iphones just crouching down the wrong way in the field.
It is supposed to be more water/weather resistant than the average phone.
it did better than an iphone in a $100 waterproof case. at least better than my iphone in a $100 waterproof case that i bought.
For those of you with arthritic hands, this model really helps.
Swingline makes other office products, too. 
I need a new can opener. A good one. Hand crank is fine.
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Here's my "light-duty" one.
I have a black 'staples' stapler.
Funny how I got it... I needed a stapler at the time, and I went into the local pet store for some dog biscuits. Bought some biscuits and paid with plastic. The cashier stapled my receipt to the credit receipt. And put the receipt in the bag...
Got home and it turns out he threw the whole darn stapler in the bag with the receipt!!!! So that's my stapler.
Rich., post: 412455, member: 10450 wrote: I went into the local pet store for some dog biscuits.
Rich., post: 412455, member: 10450 wrote: he threw the whole darn stapler in the bag with the receipt!!!!
So, you didn't return the local small businessperson's tool to them on your next visit? Replacing that stapler likely negated the profits from your transaction and several others.
What if you left a tape measure or sledge at a job? Wouldn't you hope it was returned?
While topo'ing a section of creek bottom last week I found a nice Buck Folding Hunter in its case lying on top of the mud. It couldn't have been there more than a day, as the rain would have splattered it otherwise. It's not a place I would expect anyone to have been walking, especially give the amount of rain we've had lately (my boots were soaked through). I posted a message on my Facebook page (it only went out to local folks) asking if they knew anyone who'd lost one recently, but so far no responses.
Sergeant Schultz, post: 412527, member: 315 wrote: So, you didn't return the local small businessperson's tool to them on your next visit? Replacing that stapler likely negated the profits from your transaction and several others.
What if you left a tape measure or sledge at a job? Wouldn't you hope it was returned?
I have had many clients that must have needed a measuring tape or hammer.
Well, I guess that makes it all right then.