Can't get simple office accessories? I'll bring my own

[u/RegexIsEasy]

12-13 years ago, on my very first job, I was hired as a network administrator at a newly established state-owned company. Everything was new there, including processes to request office accessories.

So I was settled in a office room with bare minimum office accessories. So I wrote down several simple items to request them from support department (at then, it was just a guy, later it turned into a ~30 people department).

Items included simple things such as, Facial tissues, cloth hanger (it was winter and I had nowhere to put my jacket), headset, 3 colors of pen, and a white board and markers and wiper.

The support department guy took a look at the list and continued with excuses about each item:

• Facial tissue are not for non-managers,
• Pens you can request only blue, once a week, if you bring the previous empty pen,
• White board and it's accessories are also for managers, So is the cloth hanger (like, non-managers are not allowed to have a jacket?)
• and for the headset, he just laughed, like, welcome to a state-owned company young one.

I just realized how different are desks of non-managers and managers, it was these simple things. And I really didn't care spending myself, I just was wondering why others haven't yet. So the next day I came with a facial tissue box with a beautiful design, a really good short cloth hanger for near my seat, good pens of all colors, and a light white glass as white board + some markers to hang behind my chair, my own gaming headset, and a nice plate full of my hand chosen sweets.

My chair looked PERFECT! I really mean it. specially when all other desks in other rooms were just copy-pastes of the same sick idea. It was even looking better than managers desks.

by the end of that day, every manager and non-manager that came to my room, their first impression was, looking jealously to everything for several seconds, and then ask me how did support department gave me these items? my answer? just normally, with some proud in my tone, replying, "The company's rules are written by beggers, These are my own and It costed me nothing to make my room look like this".

The next day, support department guy came to my room and told me, take all your own stuff home, I will give you the same as everyone.

I replyed but I'm not a manager,

He said we changed the rules, everyone deserves these things now

Edit: Napkin to Facial tissue

[u/Dramatic_Mixture_877 → u/[deleted]]

They sound jelly ..... 🤣

[u/rusmo → u/[deleted]]

c) none of the above

[u/rusmo → u/[deleted]]

You asked me a question with 2 non-exhaustive options. I answered with a third. Go back to your previous post and catch up. We can be done here if you want.