A paper free office? what paper free office?
Do you remember how we were promised, a decade or so ago, an office without bits of paper? That the computer would get rid of the need to hoard paper and documentation.
Where did it go wrong, I seem to have just as much, if not more than before, I am not good with paper, documents seem to take on a life of their own the moment I put them down and its not helped by the fact my filing is lax. Some bits of paper distract me more than others, it is of course the bright interesting ones, they are like panicking bystanders at the scene of an accident, they draw the attention away from bits of paper with urgent and serious needs, the quite ones, in buff coloured envelopes, that lie motionless and unopened, at the bottom of the pile; documents like my tax return.
The taxman (or women) has stuck to me like a leech *
there is no longer anything complicated about my finances, I no longer need to fund my accounts golf holidays,by paying him to fill in my forms, it’s now all straight forward, I go to work, submit my time sheet, go home, get paid, end of story, now please dear tax person, go away and leave me alone, I’ve got so many bright interesting things I want to read, but I suppose, as the deadline for submitting tax returns (30th of January) is bearing down, I’ll just have to find the dull bits of paper to prove the point.
* Sorry dickiebo, if you were squeamish about like last weeks dead mole photo, your not going to like this one
