Wednesday, 25 November 2009

Office Shredder

It seems to be a truth universally recognised that an office shredder is like the opposite of a tardis - no matter how big it looks from the outside, its innards will barely have the capacity needed to contain a single sheet of shredded A4. There is also a ratio between frequency of shredder use and ability to unblock/empty the shredder which means that the poor unfortunate who shreds one sheet of paper a month will inevitably end up with the top half sticking out, a grinding whirring noise coming from within and the opportunity to do severe damage to their fingers trying to rectify the situation, whilst regular shredders will claim not to know how to empty it and will flee at the first sign of trouble to either abuse an alternative shredder or resort to scissors in an attempt to cover-up their hopelessness.