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I just received this box of pens, pencils, Post-Its, and notebooks that I had ordered at work.

What follows is the trail of 35 emails (in reverse chronological order), stretching over a year, to get them.

—–Original Message—–
From: Sherman, Stephen [GWM-O_T]
Sent: Thursday, April 03, 2008 12:15 PM
To: Sxxxxxx, Melissa [GWM-O_T]; Gxxxxxx, Luz [GWM-O_T]
Subject: FW: Mail Ready for Pick Up - Thanks

Luz, Melissa

The supplies arrived today. I suppose we are waiting for the move to 23 for the business cards, which is fine.

Thanks very much,

Stephen

—–Original Message—–
From: Sxxxxxx, Melissa [GWM-O_T]
Sent: Wednesday, April 02, 2008 3:30 PM
To: Sherman, Stephen [GWM-O_T]
Subject: RE: Supplies

Steve,

Since it’s only the LIC20 crowd that didn’t know how to get supplies, how about I intro the topic at the dept meeting as part of my announcement that the LIC20 team is going to move to 23rd floor post renovation. I will highlight the benefits of our team being on the same floor including access to supplies. At that point, I can turn it over to you to just verbally describe the who and how.

Sound good?
thx

—–Original Message—–
From: Gxxxxxx, Luz [GWM-O_T]
Sent: Wednesday, April 02, 2008 2:42 PM
To: Sherman, Stephen [GWM-O_T]
Cc: Sxxxxxx, Melissa [GWM-O_T]
Subject: RE: Supplies

Sherman,

Apologies, Fxxxxx delivered the supplies to Wxxxx Street by mistake. Supplies will be inter-officed.

Regards,
Luz

—–Original Message—–
From: Sherman, Stephen [GWM-O_T]
Sent: Wednesday, April 02, 2008 1:52 PM
To: Gxxxxxx, Luz [GWM-O_T]
Cc: Sxxxxxx, Melissa [GWM-O_T]
Subject: RE: Supplies

Luz,

Nothing else received yet.

Melissa,

Not sure how to present this process at our staff meeting on Friday.

Thanks,

Stephen

—–Original Message—–
From: Gxxxxxx, Luz [GWM-O_T]
Sent: Thursday, March 27, 2008 2:13 PM
To: Sxxxxxx, Melissa [GWM-O_T]
Cc: Sherman, Stephen [GWM-O_T]
Subject: RE: Supplies

Melissa,

Unfortunately, the supply order was return and credited to Cxxx’s corporate account. I will submit a new order immediately.

Regards,
Luz

—–Original Message—–
From: Sherman, Stephen [GWM-O_T]
Sent: Wednesday, March 26, 2008 2:28 PM
To: Gxxxxxx, Luz [GWM-O_T]
Subject: RE: Supplies

No, not yet.

Thanks for asking. Please keep me posted.

Stephen

—–Original Message—–
From: Gxxxxxx, Luz [GWM-O_T]
Sent: Wednesday, March 26, 2008 2:25 PM
To: Sherman, Stephen [GWM-O_T]
Subject: RE: Supplies

Have you received the supplies?

—–Original Message—–
From: Gxxxxxx, Luz [GWM-O_T]
Sent: Friday, March 21, 2008 12:13 PM
To: Sherman, Stephen [GWM-O_T]
Subject: RE: Supplies

Supplies were approved, therefore you should receive them next week.

—–Original Message—–
From: Sherman, Stephen [GWM-O_T]
Sent: Friday, March 21, 2008 11:49 AM
To: Gxxxxxx, Luz [GWM-O_T]
Subject: RE: Supplies

just the Plantronix so far, nothing else.

—–Original Message—–
From: Gxxxxxx, Luz [GWM-O_T]
Sent: Friday, March 21, 2008 11:42 AM
To: Sherman, Stephen [GWM-O_T]
Subject: RE: Supplies

That’s great news

Have you received the office supplies?

Regards,
Luz

—–Original Message—–
From: Sherman, Stephen [GWM-O_T]
Sent: Friday, March 21, 2008 11:41 AM
To: Gxxxxxx, Luz [GWM-O_T]
Subject: RE: Supplies

The Plantronix arrived today and is working just fine.

Thanks very much.

Stephen

—–Original Message—–
From: Gxxxxxx, Luz [GWM-O_T]
Sent: Friday, March 14, 2008 11:01 AM
To: Sherman, Stephen [GWM-O_T]
Subject: RE: Supplies

One last thing, the only available spiral-bound college-ruled notebook is a 3subject, 120 pages, size 11×9. Is this okay?

—–Original Message—–
From: Sherman, Stephen [GWM-O_T]
Sent: Friday, March 14, 2008 9:06 AM
To: Gxxxxxx, Luz [GWM-O_T]
Subject: RE: Supplies

Not really, but if mechanical pencils are cheaper or more readily available, then they would be fine.

Thanks,

Stephen

—–Original Message—–
From: Gxxxxxx, Luz [GWM-O_T]
Sent: Thursday, March 13, 2008 5:07 PM
To: Sherman, Stephen [GWM-O_T]
Subject: RE: Supplies

Sherman,

Would you prefer mechanical #2 pencils?

Thank you,
Luz

—–Original Message—–
From: Sherman, Stephen [GWM-O_T]
Sent: Thursday, March 13, 2008 3:56 PM
To: Gxxxxxx, Luz [GWM-O_T]
Cc: Sxxxxxx, Melissa [GWM-O_T]
Subject: Supplies

Hi Luz,

I understand from Melissa that you can order supplies for us. Could you get:

- a dozen black-ink ball-point pens
- a dozen #2 pencils
- 300 yellow Post-It notes, size 3 x 3
- a hands-free headset for my telephone (I believe Melissa concurs)
- 3 spiral-bound notebooks, ~150 pages each, college-ruled, size 8.5 x 11
- business cards

I sit on the 20th floor, near the northeast corner.

Thanks,

Stephen

P.S. details for the business cards:

Stephen Sherman
Vice President
xxxxxxxx
New York, NY 10xxx

voice: 718-xxx-xxxx
fax: 718-xxx-xxxx
email: stephen.sherman@xxxx.com

—–Original Message—–
From: Sxxxxx, Melissa [GWM-O_T]
Sent: Thursday, March 13, 2008 2:50 PM
To: Sherman, Stephen [GWM-O_T]
Subject: Re: camraderie etc.

Steve.

Supplies

We talked briefly about this late last year, where I mentioned xxxxxxxxx were the two admins for LIC. That’s in the past though (your email was from early 2007). Things are different now. We are all now under kxxxxx and should be able to seek assistance from vanessa or luz. With vanessa in midtown and luz downtown I understand why it was hard to get recent supplies. That said, you guys at LIC aren’t on a far away planet or beyond the reaches of interoffice mail.
For supplies, pls go to luz and ask her to send them to you. If you need anything she doesn’t readily have or is a little more expensive, pls go through me (eg, headset) first.

—–Original Message—–
From: Sherman, Stephen [GWM-O_T]
To: Sxxxxxx, Melissa [GWM-O_T]
Sent: Thu Mar 13 11:07:35 2008
Subject: camraderie etc.

Melissa,

How do we order supplies?

Specifically: pens, pencils, notebooks, Post-it notes, a hands-free phone, business cards, and erasable markers. Right now, we buy this stuff out of our own pockets or we do without.

I am forwarding my email trail from a year ago on this subject. Obviously, it’s a topic that no employee is comfortable badgering one’s boss about continuously. But here’s the latest example. The other day Tanya needed a pen. She came over to our area, and since my personal supply of pens that I had purchased myself had run out, Sam Exxxxx produced a box of pens that he had obtained sub rosa from Elaine in the Mxxxxx department.

Regards,

Stephen

*** I NEVER GOT ANY MORE INFORMATION ABOUT “THE PROCESS.” AFTER 17 EMAILS, IT SEEMED EASIER TO BUY SUPPLIES OUT OF MY OWN POCKET. THAT WAS HOW I LEFT IT FOR A YEAR. ***

—–Original Message—–
From: Pxxxxx, Vanessa M [CPB]
Sent: Thursday, March 01, 2007 3:24 PM
To: Sherman, Stephen [CPB]
Subject: RE: Access to p2p

ok - let me try to find out -

I’ll get back to you once I know the process

—–Original Message—–
From: Sherman, Stephen [CPB]
Sent: Thursday, March 01, 2007 3:02 PM
To: Pxxxxx, Vanessa M [CPB]
Subject: RE: Access to p2p

i do not have that option. i suspect there is a setup or authorization needed for me to see that.

—–Original Message—–
From: Pxxxxx, Vanessa M [CPB]
Sent: Thursday, March 01, 2007 2:59 PM
To: Sherman, Stephen [CPB]
Subject: RE: Access to p2p

once in p2p click on
Cxxx US IP REQUISITIONER

If you are able to get in there - then you have access -
We can meet tomorrow morning? - to walk you through it?

Let me know

—–Original Message—–
From: Sherman, Stephen [CPB]
Sent: Thursday, March 01, 2007 2:39 PM
To: Pxxxxx, Vanessa M [CPB]
Subject: RE: Access to p2p

I can get into P2P, but once there, I only see “Training Portlets,” and other options, but nothing that seems to say “Click here to order stuff.”

Does that sound right? Or are there other pieces of p2p that must be enabled?

Or, let me ask, once into P2P (which I am), what should I look for?

Thanks,

Stephen

—–Original Message—–
From: Pxxxxx, Vanessa M [CPB]
Sent: Thursday, March 01, 2007 2:27 PM
To: Sherman, Stephen [CPB]
Subject: RE: Access to p2p

yes, single sign on from employee portal - can you check if you have P2P … If you do, we can schedule time for me to walk you - if you don’t, then I can request access for you.

Let me know….

—–Original Message—–
From: Sherman, Stephen [CPB]
Sent: Thursday, March 01, 2007 1:46 PM
To: Pxxxxx, Vanessa M [CPB]
Subject: Access to p2p

Vanessa,

Thanks so much. When can you show me p2p? Or should I get set up on it first? Does it use Single Sign-on? If so, I have that ID.

Thanks,

Stephen

—–Original Message—–
From: Mxxxxx, Kristen [CPB]
Sent: Thursday, March 01, 2007 11:14 AM
To: Pxxxxx, Vanessa M [CPB]; Sherman, Stephen [CPB]
Subject: RE: Ordering Supplies

Great. Steve, please coordinate with Vanessa to get this done.

Thanks.

Kristen

—–Original Message—–
From: Pxxxxx, Vanessa M [CPB]
Sent: Thursday, March 01, 2007 10:38 AM
To: Mxxxxx, Kristen [CPB]; Sherman, Stephen [CPB]
Subject: RE: Ordering Supplies

I will be glad to show someone in your group how to order.
Let me know who has access to p2p or who would like to assign.
If they don’t have access I’ll go ahead and find out how they can get access to P2P (if they don’t already have) and walk them through it.

Vanessa ~

—–Original Message—–
From: Mxxxxx, Kristen [CPB]
Sent: Thursday, March 01, 2007 9:07 AM
To: Sherman, Stephen [CPB]; Pxxxxx, Vanessa M [CPB]
Subject: RE: Ordering Supplies

Vanessa, no one supports our group and as a result we have no supplies. Could you please show us how we order supplies? We sit on 20 and pretty much don’t have anything.

If I assign someone on my team, will you walk us through the process, etc.?

Thanks,
Kristen

—–Original Message—–
From: Sherman, Stephen [CPB]
Sent: Tuesday, February 27, 2007 1:18 PM
To: Mxxxxx, Kristen [CPB]
Subject: Ordering Supplies

Kristen,

While I was able to get my Plantronics hands-free phone unit working, I did want to find out how to order supplies, for future reference.

Per the attached email trail, Vanessa couldn’t help much.

Is there a way to order supplies? Maybe there isn’t. Perhaps that the idea.

Thanks,

Stephen

—–Original Message—–
From: Pxxxxx, Vanessa M [CPB]
Sent: Tuesday, February 27, 2007 12:57 PM
To: Sherman, Stephen [CPB]
Subject: RE: false alarm

really? …. but I don’t support Kristen’s group …. that’s why i’m confused…
I work for Todd Rxxxxxx and the Oxxxxx group..

—–Original Message—–
From: Sherman, Stephen [CPB]
Sent: Tuesday, February 27, 2007 12:55 PM
To: Pxxxxx, Vanessa M [CPB]
Subject: RE: false alarm

“check with the group” ???

Sorry to be dense … what group? I asked Kristen, and she suggested I contact you.

Thx,

—–Original Message—–
From: Pxxxxx, Vanessa M [CPB]
Sent: Tuesday, February 27, 2007 12:53 PM
To: Sherman, Stephen [CPB]
Subject: RE: false alarm

check with the group - I believe there might be an intern you can request orders from.

—–Original Message—–
From: Sherman, Stephen [CPB]
Sent: Tuesday, February 27, 2007 12:52 PM
To: Pxxxxx, Vanessa M [CPB]
Subject: RE: false alarm

Kristen Mxxxxx

—–Original Message—–
From: Pxxxxx, Vanessa M [CPB]
Sent: Tuesday, February 27, 2007 12:08 PM
To: Sherman, Stephen [CPB]
Subject: RE: false alarm

Hey Stephen,
Sorry didn’t get back to you sooner - was out on vacation…

Not sure who does the ordering in your group - what group do you work for?

—–Original Message—–
From: Sherman, Stephen [CPB]
Sent: Tuesday, February 27, 2007 9:59 AM
To: Pxxxxx, Vanessa M [CPB]
Subject: false alarm

Vanessa,

I was able to make my Plantronics hands-free device work. But, for future reference, I’d like to know how we order such supplies.

S

—–Original Message—–
From: Sherman, Stephen [CPB]
Sent: Tuesday, February 27, 2007 9:48 AM
To: Pxxxxx, Vanessa M [CPB]
Subject: ordering a Plantronics telephone headset

Vanessa,

Can you help me with this? What are the ordinary supply & equipment ordering procedures?

Thx,

Stephen