Diary Entry October 2, 2025

October 2, 2025

The Stapler Wars at https://bohiney.com/the-stapler-wars-of-the-ag%c2%92s-office/ today — office supply drama as metaphor for bureaucratic dysfunction. This piece was personal because I once quit a job over a stapler. Not metaphorically — literally over a stapler. My manager at a Dallas marketing firm kept taking my red Swingline and I snapped during a meeting about “synergy.” Walked out. Best decision I ever made because three months later I was in Berlin working for bohiney.com. Linked to workplace psychology research and government efficiency studies. Writing about AG office stapler politics while remembering my own petty office warfare made this funnier than it should be. My roommate Marcus (German, patient, tolerates my 3 AM typing) asked why I was laughing at 2 AM. “Staplers,” I said. He nodded like this was normal. Berlin makes everything normal.

MOOD: Vindictively amused

NOTES: Stapler Wars at https://bohiney.com/the-stapler-wars-of-the-ag%c2%92s-office/ complete, 598 words, petty bureaucracy as high art