Bartleby STILL not replaced by the Digital Revolution

As I may havce mentioned earlier, my temp job at the Corning Tower is in the Office of Risk and Insurance Management of the Insurance Department of the Administraive section of the Office of General Services, which I think takes up more than just the top few floors of the building. (The organizationl chart is clickable!) I noticed an invoice for service in some office of "Space Allocation" on 28. Me, I just file invoices and claims for service to office machines for seemingly every state agency in NYS.

The State Police make a lot of copies, apparently. Ikon seems to be their biggest vendor for copy machines. Their folder needs to be replaced, it's so overstuffed.

The smallest accounts are the DOCS accounts (the Prisons)...

Xerox sends four copies of their invoices, conventiently labeled along the upper right-hand margin for easy disposal. We only keep one copy, though we do make our own copies later -- along with many other documents. The cost of making our own copies with our own machine is cheaper than the time and space which would be required to save their copies and interfile them later with the appropriate documents, all of which need copying as a group later anyway...

Isn't it fascinating? I love office work!

--the Scrivener, (AKA Sub-sub Librarian)