I had to justify to my managers manager why I needed to spend £7 on stationery. Stationery. Some biros, some staples and a box of envelopes.
One of my colleagues chairs broke and she was told to apply to charitable funds to get a new one.
Everything is held together with sticky tape and blu tac (literally and figuratively)
We have four members of admin staff bunched into a desk meant for two, because there is no money to pay IT to put a new port in on their desks.
Waste toner cartridges are on lockdown. If yours is full you should take a scalpel, cut the seal open, empty it and then stick it back together and put it back in the printer. Don't worry about all your printing then being covered in smudgy ink. We're broke ya know.
And some fucking idiot turned up to A&E today...because their arm has been hurting for two months and they are off on holiday tomorrow and could we sort it please.
I'm thinking of starting an anonymous instagram account to get all this crap out.
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