Don't steal staplers lightly

Borrowing someone else's stapler to fill an urgent paper-fastening need is a normal part of office life. You're standing by the printer, your own stapler is languishing in a drawer the other side of the office - frankly, using the nearest available device is simple common sense, even if the poor sod who sits near the printer gets a bit het up when you accidentally take his stapler back to your desk and lose it under a pile of cost projections.

However, it might be dangerous to assume that you can make good  your error by giving him any old stapler out of the stationery cupboard: research published in Harvard Business Review this month has identified a group of people who are "highly demanding and very much involved with paper tools. These 'stapler aficionados' [are] willing, even eager, to pay a premium for a stapler that [can] handle constant heavy-duty use without ever breaking down."