I witnessed an 'interesting' meeting at work today. Lots of arguing and drawing of diagrams, using both a whiteboard and large sheets of paper on an easel. Both drawing surfaces have their own distinct pens. Can you see where this is going?
In the heat of the discussion, someone puts one of the red permanent pens down in the tray for whiteboard markers. Of course, someone picks that pen up and makes large drawings over the whiteboard. Oh crap.
After I leave, the mistake is realised and they try to wipe it off with a whiteboard eraser, smearing it down the board. By the time I come back the whiteboard looks positively satanic, as if someone had drawn strange pagan symbols in blood. Lovely.
I go to get the whiteboard cleaner, but before I come back someone else has started splashing Akvavit (!!) over the board. This act got one manager a little upset - Akvavit is very expensive. The Akvavit helped to erase the marks, but didn't really remove the ink, so our board started to become a nice shade of pink.
With the proper cleaner and a little elbow grease our whiteboard is now cleaner than it has been in months. Was fun getting there.
2 comments:
If there's a whiteboard in a room then there should NEVER be permanent markers in the same room. Whiteboard markers work just as fine on white paper.
Nostalgia - I miss the older whiteboard markers that had xylene or something in them. Good heady stuff to take a whiff of when trainees were giving me a hard time. Made me feel much more relaxed!!!
Our permanent markers are located on the easel, which is placed between two whiteboards. The markers point out the sides towards the whiteboard...
For what it's worth, the new markers have quite a strong whiff to them too. More likely to knock you out than make you relax though. :)
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