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Oct. 13th, 2005 04:25 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
ivyficI have to send a bunch of files to an offsite archive at work. So I picked up all these boxes and labels and barcodes and forms and things and brought them up to the file cabinet. Then I looked at the box.
I've never seen a cardboard box designed like this one. And it had no diagram on it explaining how to assemble it. No arrows or anything. I was baffled. It did, however, have a number for the company.
So I called it.
A nice woman picked up and I asked her how to assemble her companies boxes. She laughed at me. Apparently, these are patented "easy-to-assemble" boxes. "You just look at them and they assemble themselves," she told me. Then she put me on hold and got someone else to come and help me.
I'm assuming from the amount of time that took that she told everyone else in the office first.
So another woman comes on the line and tries to instruct me. Turns out you just push down on the thing and *poof* box. No wonder the first woman laughed at me.
I've never seen a cardboard box designed like this one. And it had no diagram on it explaining how to assemble it. No arrows or anything. I was baffled. It did, however, have a number for the company.
So I called it.
A nice woman picked up and I asked her how to assemble her companies boxes. She laughed at me. Apparently, these are patented "easy-to-assemble" boxes. "You just look at them and they assemble themselves," she told me. Then she put me on hold and got someone else to come and help me.
I'm assuming from the amount of time that took that she told everyone else in the office first.
So another woman comes on the line and tries to instruct me. Turns out you just push down on the thing and *poof* box. No wonder the first woman laughed at me.