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All the time. I 'lose' my pens all the time, but I only buy the same kind of pen and I buy them in large quantities. So when I "lose" them I'm really just movin

All the time. I 'lose' my pens all the time, but I only buy the same kind of pen and I buy them in large quantities. So when I "lose" them I'm really just moving them to another place where I spend time. Next time I'm there I 'find' that pen. Eventually some of them do run out of ink, although they've been moved from office to bedroom to car to work to bag and back many times. I have probably 100 or so of these pens saturating my environment. I mercilessly throw away pens that show up in my workspace but aren't my type of pens. This seems wasteful but I hate random pens of varying quality. You seem to never unexpectedly find high-quality pens. I buy high-quality but ultimately disposable pens that end up costing about $2/ea so if one is ever accidentally stolen it's not a huge deal, plus I can recognize my pens from afar so I just casually grab them back from coworkers.

pavel_lishin 8y ago
I buy Pilot Precise v5 pens, and hoard them jealously. If someone wants to borrow a pen, they can have the shitty one I picked up from a bank.
- ryanianian 8y ago
  Those are about $1/ea, which is annoying if you're losing them to 'theft' them all the time, but if you end up losing only a few a month and occasionally get them back when you see them on coworkers' desk and ask "hey is that my pen" then it may not be worth the anxiety of hoarding or burden of stocking a pile of shitty loaner-pens.
- lozaning 8y ago
  For all of the numerous faults of my employer, the fact that our office manager only buys the nice Pilot G7 pens in massive bulk makes up for more than I would ever admit to them. It amazing because no one tries to borrow your good pen because all pens are good pens in our office!
  - ryanianian 8y ago
    Word to this. It's amazing how much something small like spending an extra $1 on something you use all the time can do to improve the perception of quality and care. I felt so much better about my working-environment once I got rid of cheap tools I didn't like to use and upgraded to things that cost 10% more but are 100% more enjoyable to use.
  - lb1lf 8y ago
    The V5 and G7s are nice; I have also been pleasantly surprised by the Pentel BL77 rollerball pens we’ve had in the office lately; dirt cheap (otherwise, sigh, we wouldn’t have had them), writes well, long-lasting and even refillable. Comes in loads of different colours. I mostly bring my own pens to the office, though - my grandfather gave me a Lamy fountain pen when I was a kid, figuring it would learn me to write properly. I’ve been a fountain pen addict ever since.

pavel_lishin 8y ago

I buy Pilot Precise v5 pens, and hoard them jealously. If someone wants to borrow a pen, they can have the shitty one I picked up from a bank.

ryanianian 8y ago
Those are about $1/ea, which is annoying if you're losing them to 'theft' them all the time, but if you end up losing only a few a month and occasionally get them back when you see them on coworkers' desk and ask "hey is that my pen" then it may not be worth the anxiety of hoarding or burden of stocking a pile of shitty loaner-pens.
lozaning 8y ago
For all of the numerous faults of my employer, the fact that our office manager only buys the nice Pilot G7 pens in massive bulk makes up for more than I would ever admit to them. It amazing because no one tries to borrow your good pen because all pens are good pens in our office!
- ryanianian 8y ago
  Word to this. It's amazing how much something small like spending an extra $1 on something you use all the time can do to improve the perception of quality and care. I felt so much better about my working-environment once I got rid of cheap tools I didn't like to use and upgraded to things that cost 10% more but are 100% more enjoyable to use.
- lb1lf 8y ago
  The V5 and G7s are nice; I have also been pleasantly surprised by the Pentel BL77 rollerball pens we’ve had in the office lately; dirt cheap (otherwise, sigh, we wouldn’t have had them), writes well, long-lasting and even refillable. Comes in loads of different colours. I mostly bring my own pens to the office, though - my grandfather gave me a Lamy fountain pen when I was a kid, figuring it would learn me to write properly. I’ve been a fountain pen addict ever since.