Message #455

[twhfan]

Thanks for the tips.  I love your motto about procrastination, Worker Bee!  I could easily adopt it as my own!



I've gotten through a few piles, only 4,765 piles to go.  (kidding!)  Having been in this culture of "save everything" for so long, it feels strange to throw things out.  It's definitely making me a little nervous.  Does it sound safe to toss something (other than legal documents, etc.) that I haven't used for a couple of years?  One year?  Six months?



I've never been allowed to purge things before now (I've been here for ages, but this was my first real admin job), so please excuse me if I sound dumb.  All my bosses have been real pack rats so I'm finding some very interesting things.  One of my bosses constantly lost things so I made 6 or 7 extra copies to compensate - when he would come to me I would smile that admin smile and hand him another copy.  Problem is I never knew for how long he would keep asking me for the same packet, so I didn't throw my extras away!  



Maybe when I finish, I'll have so few papers left that they'll think I really don't need my own office after all! :-)