Pen and Ink

Bleed through hasn't been a problem. I guess it would depend on the porosity of the paper. The ink dries so quickly that it doesn't have a chance to bleed through the recycled printer paper or legal pads I tend to use.

Our company generates so many useless reports that I cut the sheets in half and make notepads for the crew to use. That paper is fairly sturdy and holds the ink rather well.

 

That's good to know, I'll give those pens a try. The notesbooks that I mentioned ad nauseam use good quality paper.

Mentioning reusing scrap paper, I'll repeat something that I recently posted. In one of my thrift store books I found a two page love letter from one woman to another woman. The writer used scrap paper. One page was her resume, the other her references; both included her name, address, & phone numbers.

 

The reports I recycled are just bullshit wastes of paper to begin with. Mostly, they are simple recaps of end-of-day maintenance files and lists of no real value. I don't reuse anything that contains sales data or other significant information. The company claims to be going "paperless," but we go through more than a ream of copy paper and a case of 2 part invoices per week.

 

I worked in litigation support for many years. One company used antiquated software that was originally used for obtaining records by authorization and used an affidavit or certification. When the company decided to jump on the asbestosis litigation and open an office in Texas, they weren't fully aware of the amount of paperwork generated by using subpoenas.

Example: Obtaining 10 sets of records by subpoena for just one plaintiff, with 30 attorneys of record (not uncommon in large class action lawsuits involving muliple defendants), generated nearly 3,500 pages of documents. Multiply by that 50 plaintiffs a week and you get.........a shitload of paperwork.

If the antiquated software had been reconfigured to allow us to list multiple receipients on one set of papers we could've cut the papers by two-thirds, easily. Many of the defendants were't active in the lawsuits. We had their attorneys begging us to stop sending them the Notices Of Intention because they were getting buried in papers. Some even threatened to file papers with the court requesting a stop to the paperwork.

But no, the corporate office was too cheap to pay someone to tweak the software and it worked just fine for them. A big factor was they had a hard time finding anyone who could do it because the software was so phuqing old!!