Memorandum to Mr. Rogers
I’m so happy to have found myself in your neighborhood. You are a delight.
As I was dying my very gray hair this evening, I ruminated on our file conversation of this morning and I have to ask you to keep an open mind, or consider doing your own filing.
I ask you to remember your telling me, “The typed pages go on the left, and the handwritten pages and things like that go on the right. I don’t know why it’s that way, but it is, and after 20 years . . .”
Mr. Rogers, of the good neighborhood, I have indeed discovered “why it’s that way.”
As I was culling Mr. S's files of, well, 75 years, I found files circa 1947, and they DID NOT AFFORD CLASPS ON THE RIGHT SIDE OF THE FILE. Hence, just as I suspected, we’ve been doing it that way since 1885 and, by gum, that’s the way we do it.
So, in answer to your question of “I don’t know why it’s that way, but it just is,” my answer is simply: File technology has much advanced in the past 122 years and the very wrong filing situation of the Grand Law Firm should be reconsidered by your fine legal mind.
In my defense:
When you open a book, do you turn it upside down and open the back cover, as to read it from end to beginning?
When you go to your file cabinet, do you enjoy having to push all the files from the front to the back, because the left-sided filing has fallen forward, in order to read the label on the file?
Well, do you?
I know you are the Boss, and you have a very important J.D. from Emory University, and you are esteemed with “Order of the Coif” and you are a Partner. But I, too, graduated from Miami University, and that is where I learned to file Very Important Documents.
Please let me know if you simply cannot live with the correct way of filing.
Thank you for your consideration.
Your faithful secretary,
Miss F
As I was dying my very gray hair this evening, I ruminated on our file conversation of this morning and I have to ask you to keep an open mind, or consider doing your own filing.
I ask you to remember your telling me, “The typed pages go on the left, and the handwritten pages and things like that go on the right. I don’t know why it’s that way, but it is, and after 20 years . . .”
Mr. Rogers, of the good neighborhood, I have indeed discovered “why it’s that way.”
As I was culling Mr. S's files of, well, 75 years, I found files circa 1947, and they DID NOT AFFORD CLASPS ON THE RIGHT SIDE OF THE FILE. Hence, just as I suspected, we’ve been doing it that way since 1885 and, by gum, that’s the way we do it.
So, in answer to your question of “I don’t know why it’s that way, but it just is,” my answer is simply: File technology has much advanced in the past 122 years and the very wrong filing situation of the Grand Law Firm should be reconsidered by your fine legal mind.
In my defense:
When you open a book, do you turn it upside down and open the back cover, as to read it from end to beginning?
When you go to your file cabinet, do you enjoy having to push all the files from the front to the back, because the left-sided filing has fallen forward, in order to read the label on the file?
Well, do you?
I know you are the Boss, and you have a very important J.D. from Emory University, and you are esteemed with “Order of the Coif” and you are a Partner. But I, too, graduated from Miami University, and that is where I learned to file Very Important Documents.
Please let me know if you simply cannot live with the correct way of filing.
Thank you for your consideration.
Your faithful secretary,
Miss F
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