  The first time I told urlLink Jackie that I anticipated having work for her to do soon, I think I almost killed her. It was a Friday afternoon when she came wandering into my office looking for work to do (that's her specialty - wandering. She wanders in and out of cubicles and offices all day long). I was working on a big case (for me anyway), and I was going to need five copies of my brief and its corresponding twelve exhibits. It was a stack of about 50 pages, some stapled, some tabbed with post-its. There was a yellow sheet sitting on top of the pile, which gets initialed by each reader as it goes up the chain of review.
I proudly showed her what I had done, and with my most self-congratulatory tone, told her that as soon as I got the OK from my boss, I would need her to make a few copies for me. And then she freaked. Jackie : I can't copy yellow pages. Yellow doesn't show up in the copy machine - it just makes all the pages white. K : No, no... that's OK. That page isn't part of the brief. Jackie : Because I don't want to break the machine, you know?
I don't know what's going to happen if I put in a yellow page. I don't want to turn all of the pages yellow. K : Don't worry, I don't need copies of the yellow page. Just the rest here. All of those pages are white. Jackie : Some of these pages are stapled.
Are they going to be stapled when you give this to me? Because I can only put one page in the machine at a time, and if they're stapled, then I'm going to have to take out all the staples and then make the copies. Then I'm going to have to staple them together again, and I'm not sure if I can get the metal to go back through the same holes. It's going to be a lot more work for me. K : It's OK - I'll take all the staples out before I give this to you. Then you won't even have to worry about it.
Jackie : What about these tabs? The machine only makes rectangular pages. I can't make it put out any tabs. K : You can take off the tabs before you put it in the copier. They're just post-it flags. Jackie : Oh, no.
That's going to be so much work. I don't want to lose the tabs. What happens if I get everything out of order? K : I'll tell you what I'll do. I'll remove all the staples and flags, put the whole thing in a three-ring binder like this, and then you can just take that stack out and put the whole thing in the copier. Jackie : Where am I going to get binders?
And I don't think the machine punches holes in the paper. K : It does, but that's OK because I don't need holes. You can just give me the stacks of copies and I'll take care of everything else. Jackie : How many copies are you going to need? K : Five. Jackie : Oh no!
How am I going to do that? Now I'll be worried about this all weekend. I'm going to have to plan out the best way to do this. Uhhh - now I'll worry all weekend. K : (getting totally exasperated at this point) No, no, no... don't worry about it! It'll be easy.
You don't have to get it perfect. Jackie : Well, we'll see. (Wanders out muttering to herself. ) Needless to say, I did the damn thing myself. 
