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While this UA did solve my problem, I think he typified most other UAs: friendly, sympathetic, but often lacking the knowledge necessary to assist people having problems. Ask them anything that's technical (as opposed to asking for a form or a stapler), they nod and keep on smiling, but they are not going to be your White Knight...

Author: By Haibin Jiu, | Title: P.C. CORNER | 1/12/1994 | See Source »

...never seen anything like it before," says his sister Melissa, 13. He collected transit uniform shirts and equipment, read motormen's training manuals, drew pictures of the different trains and rode the subway for hours ; at a time. At home Keno would sit at a desk and, using a stapler as a make- believe throttle, pretend to drive through routes, calling out stops and taking on passengers. "For hours he would do this," says his father Francis Thomas, a construction worker...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Great A Train Robbery | 5/24/1993 | See Source »

...pretty anal," Fung says. "I'm so anal that I have to have my stapler pointed in one direction and flashlight in another on my desk...

Author: By June Shih, | Title: We're Anything Butt! | 10/26/1991 | See Source »

With that, he glanced nervously about him, produced a stapler from his backpack, and forcefully united his Chick-wich and the underside of the dining hall table. It may still be there...

Author: By Richard A. Primus, | Title: This Isn't a Stickup | 2/12/1991 | See Source »

HAVE YOU GOT A LICENSE TO OPERATE THAT STAPLER? A U.S. firm that wanted to install photocopiers was told to obtain a special permit from the local fire department. When the same company tried to order typewriters, recalls its office manager, "the Soviets said, 'We can't get those. We'll do that next year...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Joint Misadventures | 4/10/1989 | See Source »

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