Here’s one whale that isn’t a fail. It’s a simple, fun way to keep your stuff organized on a desktop. Each whale is handcrafted, oiled an numbered with reclaimed wood.
Product Page ($65 via Holycool)
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If your life involves lots of scratching an measuring, you’ll be pleased to know that there’s now a wooden ruler that doubles as a backscratcher. The device measures over 12″ in length and offers both standard and metric increments. Currently it’s listed as “coming soon”, but you can use that time to imagine what it will be like to reach inaccessible areas of your back and perform hands free ass scratching.
Product Page: (£4.99, or about $8 via Gizmodo)
Much like we saw with Milton’s red Swingline, the entertainment industry has once again served as a springboard to launch real life office supplies. Thanks to NBC’s partnership with Quil.com, fans of The Office will be able purchase Dunder Mifflin copy paper – starting with a special sale price through January 31, 2012. Needless to say, the box is something you’ll want to keep around for those days when you daydream that you’re not actually an office worker, but rather an overpaid celebrity who pretends to be an office worker.
Product Page: ($34.99 via Buzzfeed)
These sticky note pads feature 200 pages of either pixelated grabby hands or thumb signals. As convenient as these may be, they forgot to complete the series with pixelated middle finger sticky notes – which would be perfect for passing messages to that douche who stole your Snapple out of the breakroom fridge.
Product Page: ($4.99 – $8.99)
As the name implies, the “Wrongulator” is a calculator that gets everything wrong all of the time. Just toss a few of these in your accounting department and watch the mayhem ensue.
It is, quite possibly, the cruelest and most dangerous prank you could ever pull at work. Well, it woud be if they still used regular calculators.
The major issue is that it is unclear how close the phony answers are to the correct ones. Sufficed to say, if every problem I typed in ended in the result 8008 I would know something was up. Being immature, I would also laugh.
Product Page ($7 via Technabob)
This “Bandit” ruler by Sebastian Bergne is cleverly designed as both a ruler and a weapon that will fire rubber bands – giving you the upper hand in cubicle battles, while simultaneously helping you waste time and office supplies.
Product Page: (£19, or about $30 via Dezeen via Gizmodo)
There’s no doubt that most people would prefer sitting on their asses all day playing Minecraft rather than working, but when that’s out of the question, you can still do the next best thing and get office supplies with a Minecraft theme. For example, this 600 page, 3†x 3†x 3†pad of sticky notes will reveal textured cracks as you peel away each note, but without an inventory or any of that pesky cobblestone residue. It’s also an officially licensed Minecraft product – if that means anything to those of us who aren’t profiting from it.
Product Page: ($9.99)
A manager and a former employee of a Kent, WA, Office Depot have been charged with stealing more than $2.1 million in ink and toner supplies from the location since 2007, which they allegedly sold on eBay. The store installed cameras, which caught the manager carrying ink cartridges out to a former employee who was waiting in the parking lot.
The former O.D. staffer was arrested with $6,750 of stolen store goods in his vehicle. He told police that the pair had earned at least $500K by reselling the pilfered products on eBay.
Police indicate that the actual amount was likely much higher, as that man’s PayPal account had received more than $1 million since the thefts began. The pair is believed to have sold stolen laptops, cameras and other electronics as well.
(SeattlePI via The Consumerist)
