File It Under Stupid
Stupid things I do, work April 23rd, 2009Making some room in my desk drawer today, I came across my interesting filing system. I do enjoy a good alphabetical one, as it’s kind of helpful.
I do not know under what circumstances I thought it would be appropriate to file My Laptop Order under M for, you know, "My."
Discuss.
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April 23rd, 2009 at 5:04 pm
I would probably do the same thing. What’s wrong with filing it under M for ‘my’? It’s only logical.
Or maybe I just have the genes.
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April 23rd, 2009 at 5:06 pm
You know: A for horses, B for mutton. C for yourself…
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April 23rd, 2009 at 5:08 pm
I just looked into my home office file drawer. I have tabs that say “Links” … “Origins” … “TC” … “Inquiries” … I have not opened these in years and have no idea what’s in them or why. I think I’ll add a new one, though … “My.”
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April 23rd, 2009 at 5:11 pm
It’s called “Creative Filing”… it doesn’t work, but it is more artistic.
April 23rd, 2009 at 5:18 pm
Very nice ! At least you have some sense of organization and you file things.
Me ? I stuff papers and bills wherever I find space
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April 23rd, 2009 at 5:19 pm
“F” for File, “P” for Paper. Works for me!
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April 23rd, 2009 at 5:20 pm
That? Is hilarious!
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April 23rd, 2009 at 5:32 pm
Maybe you were in a special mood and skipped “L” for “Laptop” accidentally?
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April 23rd, 2009 at 5:44 pm
As long as YOU understand it Cathy, that’s the main thing.
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April 23rd, 2009 at 5:50 pm
hi Kathy,
You must be a pretty selfless person if that’s the only thing you have filed under “my”… or is there a “me” section too that we don’t know about?
If I had a “stupid” section, I’m afraid it would take up most of the filing cabinet.
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April 23rd, 2009 at 5:52 pm
I use a similar filing system. As you can imagine, I spend a lot of time looking for files.
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April 23rd, 2009 at 5:59 pm
Well, I suppose it could be someone else’s laptop order so you’d have to state that it was yours and not theirs right???
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April 23rd, 2009 at 6:12 pm
Regan — Um, I’m goin’ with the genes. Be afraid. Be very afraid.
Ken Armstrong — Totally. Makes perfect sense to me.
Jenny — LOL. “Inquires” is good. You’re not totally gone yet.
Tiggy — My mom is creative with her recipe filing, too. It’s a system only she understands. Hey, wait. Maybe it is genetic and I got my “skill” from her.
Jaffer — Sadly, I do that too (at home). I’m so organized at work, but here, the hell if I can find anything.
Mama O — Why do we need all these folders anyway? I never look in them.
Momo Fali — I dare you to show me your files. That is, if your new dog hasn’t eaten them yet. I was glad to read your BIL fixed your laptop cable. You got lucky on that one.
Angelika — OK. I’ll go with that.
Mark — I actually do know to look there if I have to refer back to my laptop order. “My” is so ingrained in my head, I’ll never forget it. Anyone else looking for it? Lotsa luck.
What? No special Trade Show Guru name for this comment Steve — I don’t know why I felt so specially attached to that file folder. There are lots of other “me” things in there, but only the laptop got special labeling. LMAO at my own stupidity.
Anne — Not only do I want to just throw stuff in a drawer, I sometimes want to set the whole thing on fire and start over. Who’s with me?
Babs Beetle — They’ll have to know whose it is. Because of the “my” part. So obvious, isn’t it?
April 23rd, 2009 at 6:16 pm
It’s sometimes hard to know where to file something but I must admit, I’ve never filed anything under “My.” Best to file things under general words rather than specific names of companies. I was so glad when my dad actually asked me to help him set up his personal files. He did pretty good though, I didn’t have to change too much.
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April 23rd, 2009 at 6:29 pm
Could you do me a favor and check that file to see if I put My laptop receipt in there? I filed mine somewhere for safe keeping and well…..
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April 23rd, 2009 at 7:39 pm
Is it possible that you had information for many laptop orders, and wanted to differentiate yours? Maybe? At least you discovered it, and not your boss. My last major mis-file was unearthed by my manager, who went around the office asking everyone who last did the filing. VERY embarrassing.
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April 23rd, 2009 at 8:10 pm
What does that mean though? My lap top order, as in one that you purchase that is on order? OR, how it is set up as in it’s order. With that info, is how I would ultimately file.
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April 23rd, 2009 at 8:30 pm
Kathy,
It is tons better then my old desk was, i had one file that was about 6 inches thick called “tech sems” we had these once or twice a week with packets about 30 pages each time and i was there a year and a half…you can guess if i needed to reference something i was lucky to find it before the customer gave up on me solving their issue!!
April 23rd, 2009 at 9:17 pm
I file my taxes under “A”, for A**holes…true story
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April 23rd, 2009 at 9:49 pm
I think you were having a perfectly blond moment. Yep, I have those often. Bwahahahahahaha.
Okay, filing is a four letter word. Ask any file clerk. They file without thinking about it. So you saw the M and went for it.
Okay, maybe this is better. You had one too many shots and you just shoved it in the drawer.
How am I doing?
Have a terrific day.
April 23rd, 2009 at 9:57 pm
It was just a brain fart.
I probably would’ve done the same thing. heh heh heh
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April 23rd, 2009 at 10:20 pm
You were just preoccupied with Windy.
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April 23rd, 2009 at 10:30 pm
I suppose if you did everything that way it could work… My Bills, My Receipts, My Junk I’m Never Going to Look at Again….
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April 23rd, 2009 at 10:46 pm
Hey, as long as it makes sense to YOU. My Laptop as opposed to His Laptop. Avoids the confusion of having them both filed under L for Laptop, I guess.
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April 23rd, 2009 at 10:48 pm
What a hoot! I’m surprised you don’t have a whole series of “my” folders. My house, My car, My stupid filing system… hehe.
April 23rd, 2009 at 11:17 pm
Ever watch Are You Being Served? There was an episode with a new secretary who filed everything under “A” — A file, A letter, A bill.
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April 24th, 2009 at 4:02 am
Simple. You were in automatic mode. You saw the M and dealt with that first, then the Y, then the L … and so on. You filed properly, your mistake is in what you wrote on it in the first place!
I guess you were in automatic mode then, too. Did you do it before your morning coffee? LOL!
April 24th, 2009 at 5:24 am
Karen — Yeah, but you sound like an expert. Can you come over here and fix me up?
Mary Wehrle — I love looking through files when I clean them out. It’s a little trip down memory lane and an interesting study in how my brain was working on that day. I’ll let you know if I find your receipt.
absepa — Yes, I actually do have a three-inch wide folder for my clients’ orders. That must be why I started with “My”, although it would make it real hard for someone else to find it if I ever left. The good thing about that is I wouldn’t be there to feel embarrassed about it.
Carla — Oh, now you’re making my head hurt.
Melissa K — I have a couple giant folders like that that keep growing and growing, hence the need to clean out. I practically throw my back out when I have to pull them out. Oh, and they always split the hanging folder. Those things need reinforcement, not?
Steve — I’ve done the same thing with filing certain emails. I won’t say here what I’ve named some folders, but I get your drift. Makes me feel better to file some things that way.
Comedy Plus — All of your reasons are plausible, although I’m brunette, so can a brunette have a blond moment?
Crazy Working Mom — Oh, yes, I have many, many of those. I brain fart at least once a day.
John J Savo, the Authoring Auctioneer — Oh, guess what? Windy took a turn for the worse on Tuesday. I’m waiting to see if it’s really as bad as it looks. She appears to have shredded more and there may be a piece missing. But sometimes the wind wraps her around a branch, and then later she unwinds. I give it a couple more days. Sometimes she fools me.
flit — Yeah, a friend on Facebook suggested I had everything filed that way at home … my mortgage, my car receipts, my taxes. Might work, really.
Chris — I love how you guys try to make me feel better. It’s heart-warming.
MaryLou — It’s actually worse at home. I live out of a giant pile of paper on the kitchen table. Every now and then I forage through it to see if there’s anything important in there. Like money.
Ladybugg — No, but hilarious!
Jay — If I was thinking, I’d have started it with my last name so that anyone looking for something later would understand who it was for. But I’m never thinking that far ahead or for too long.
April 24th, 2009 at 6:52 am
It’s always good to distinguish “My” Laptop from just “Laptop.”
But why wouldn’t you label the file “Laptop Orders”?
Oh, Kathy.
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April 24th, 2009 at 7:10 am
The alphabet; it’s hard!
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April 24th, 2009 at 7:45 am
Hmmm. This is like my security system. Which consists of me putting things away so safely that no one will EVER see them again, least of all me.
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April 24th, 2009 at 7:45 am
That’s funny and kind of sad. LOL
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April 24th, 2009 at 7:46 am
Hey that filing system looks good – you should see Mom’s! Sometimes her stuff doesn’t even make it into the file folder!
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April 24th, 2009 at 8:25 am
Gosh, I can’t criticize. I have a very well known “pile system” I use. Piles of papers stacked in a random order where my brain somehow memorizes where something is. I like to think this is keeping me from getting Alzheimer’s. When really, it’s only keeping me from having surfaces on my desk.
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April 24th, 2009 at 8:46 am
My wife got a “D” in filing in college.
She has a tendency to file everything under Misc.
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April 24th, 2009 at 10:26 am
I usually use my table as my filing cabinet. I am using the random algorithm for the sorting system.
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April 24th, 2009 at 10:51 am
Forget alphabetical… let’s just discuss the fact that you filed it at all. My laptop order would simply be a smushed up receipt crammed into a junk drawer somewhere. Hey… shouldn’t that be how you do it?
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April 24th, 2009 at 1:52 pm
Hmmm, as long as you filed “His Laptop Order” under “h” all is okay in my book!
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April 24th, 2009 at 2:13 pm
Kindly do not disabuse me of the notion that ‘Mini Hubs’ are tiny hand drawn cartoons of your beloved. Cause what they really are probably isn’t as fun.
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April 24th, 2009 at 2:56 pm
It makes sense to me.
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April 24th, 2009 at 4:25 pm
You need a “search” button on your cabinet drawer, hey they can put em on a PC why not stick one on a metal filing cabinet
?
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April 24th, 2009 at 5:00 pm
i think so i have save my all work on my laptop its a advantage for me i really be searching very easily own threw laptop……..
April 24th, 2009 at 6:17 pm
Oh, my goodness, I thought I was the only one who did this. It works as you rely on your own kooky names for things and not other people’s.
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April 24th, 2009 at 6:55 pm
LOL @ discuss.
I do love alphabetical order – it’s the only way. Any other way hurts my brain.
Which is why you need to do this:
Laptop Order, My
April 24th, 2009 at 8:16 pm
I’d probably have done the same thing…or maybe put it under “S” for “Stupid Laptop Order”, especially if I’d had any problems…which I probably did
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April 24th, 2009 at 8:35 pm
I don’t know….I think “My” is an exceptional filing method. If you think about it, if you had not filed the laptop order under “My,” it would have been lumped in with all the other laptop orders…
“Laptop Orders, Hers”
“Laptop Orders, His”
“Laptop Orders, Mine”
“Laptop Orders, Theirs”
Heaven forbid you had a repair need and you had to look it up…might take hours…
April 24th, 2009 at 8:43 pm
at least you have it after MWI Hubs, whatever that means!
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April 24th, 2009 at 8:47 pm
If that’s how you think of it, then that’s how you file it. Easy is best.
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April 24th, 2009 at 9:11 pm
Well, at least everything isn’t filed under “T” for “The”. I had a secretary once who tried to do that….
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April 25th, 2009 at 5:15 am
If we even had a filing system I wouldn’t say a thing about “My Laptop Order” being filed under M. The way our system works is to take important papers, find an empty space on a shelf, desktop, kitchen cupboard or coffee table and drop it there. Then six months later when you need that paper spend three days cleaning off those surfaces until you find what you’re looking for. Then when when you’re done with it, repeat the above process.
You have “a” Junk Drawer…we have a kitchen full of junk drawers. I have found tampons, toothpaste, old eye glasses and condiment packages from chinese restaraunts in with the silverware. I won’t even try to describe what’s stored in the lower cabinets under the sink and counter tops.
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April 25th, 2009 at 5:56 am
JD at I Do Things — Because that would make too much sense. I have other laptop orders in there, so it would have made sense to put my name on it because once it leaves my desk it ceases to be meaningful to anyone but me. See how much thought I should have put into it before?
Daisy the Curly Cat — It is hard! So many letters! And they have to be in order! Sigh.
Wendy — I’m still looking for my HS senior yearbook. I was holding onto it because there’s a picture I wanted to scan and put on the blog. I must have saved it so carefully I’ll never find it again. Still fuming about that.
Lauren — Such is being me.
Sniffie and the Florida Furkids — She’s in good company. Early in our marriage, my husband and I bought sturdy filing cabinets and filed carefully. We have 15 year old paperwork in there and the rest of it is scattered about the house. Ugh.
Jenn Thorson — I knew a woman like that once. She worked behind towers of desk paper. We stopped making fun of her when we’d ask her for something and she’d assess the piles for a second and go right to the page we needed. Freakish!
GoingLikeSixty — That’s great. Then you only really need one file folder and don’t have to be stressed by alphabetizing. As Daisy says, the alphabet is HARD!
Bleuken — Same here. I only review the piles when they start falling over.
Jeff — It kind of is how I do it at home. I like to appear organized at work, but home is another matter. We have about 5 junk drawers or boxes where random things go. Despite screaming “Where’s the …?” over and over, we haven’t changed the “system” in years. We can’t be helped.
earthtoholly — Consistency is key.
Shieldmaiden96 — Oh, that’s so funny! Got a chuckle out of the “mini hubs” when I showed it to him. And you are so right. Mini hubs are extraordinarily boring and un-fun.
Joe — Then can we file this under “Awesome?”
Alan — You know, when I have to search for “my” laptop order, I know exactly where to get it. If I made more sense out of the label now, I bet I’d never find it again. My search method needs to stand as-is or I’m screwed.
Amy Grindhouse — Which is why I’d be very embarrassed if anyone had to go looking for stuff in there. I think if I ever leave that job, I’m just going to shred everything and let someone else start anew with what I suspect will be a much better filing system.
DrowseyMonkey — Oh, see, now that’s what I should have done. Can you come over and fix the rest of my drawer?
Mary at Holy Mackerel — I think the trick is to name it whatever we want, as long as we remember the first letter. The problem is if your system has to, you know, makes sense to other people.
BabaBooey — And you should see the big file I have for every other person who bought a system. Shoved in there willy-nilly. I really needed to file them under the names or departments who bought them, instead of by most recent. It’s a bitch trying to find things.
storybeader — It’s actually “mini hubs” and they’re small boxes used to split a single network connection out to multiple computers. I know. Boring.
Grace — Oooo! I like that motto. I’m sticking with it!
Maureen — You reminded me of something. Years ago I had to uninstall/reinstall a piece of software. Searching for it under Add/Remove Programs, I found it under “T” for “The XYZ System.” Laughed my head off.
Lee — That’s pretty much how it’s done around here. Piles, boxes, shelves and drawers. I did want to buy a nice decorative wooden file cabinet to put an end to that, once and for all, but it wouldn’t fit in my car so I canned the idea. One day we’ll be organized… (p.s. Throw the condiment packages away. They can probably kill you by now.)
April 25th, 2009 at 12:56 pm
Sounds good to me. What? Something wrong with that?
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April 25th, 2009 at 3:48 pm
You must have been following my way of filing.
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April 26th, 2009 at 2:46 am
That’s like filing your tax return copy under “D” for “Don’t forget to do your taxes.” Priceless.
Thanks for dropping by, I am pulling for you on your weight loss goals. By the way, I am thisclose to dropping Entrecard myself–looks like you’re doing fine without it so far.
peace,
mike
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April 28th, 2009 at 6:30 pm
Lisa (Jonny’s Mommy) – Not a thing!
Dorothy Stahlnecker — But I bet you can still find everything you need, right?
Mike Foster — Very much like it. I’m doing well with WW, averaging 2.3lbs a week for the three weeks so far. Got a long way to go, but slow and steady wins the race. I think EC is on life-support. I give it three months, if that.
April 29th, 2009 at 11:28 pm
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May 1st, 2009 at 6:19 am
“M” for my? And to think you share an office with a librarian!
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May 10th, 2009 at 10:20 am
a secretary who filed them under T for The? LOL nice!
July 7th, 2009 at 2:44 pm
When I tried to log on to my notebook, a box saying “there are not sufficient resources to load” my account with the default something-or-other popped up. The box had a timer that was going to close the box, and then when it closed it would not log me on. I couldn’t turn it on normally so I cut the power. When I turned it back on I logged on fine?
I read here PC Error but couldnt make sense?
January 7th, 2010 at 2:51 am
I love to fix my things up like in alphabetical order – it’s the only way. so that my brain won’t explode and smoke coming out of my ears if i saw my things so messy.
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May 15th, 2010 at 7:32 am
I actually do know to look there if I have to refer back to my laptop order. “My” is so ingrained in my head, I’ll never forget it. Anyone else looking for it?
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