how to get a whiteboard in 19 easy steps

1. Ask boss "Can I get a dry erase board?" He says, "Sure!"
2. Boss finds out where to get it and what part number to order
3. I write a PO
4. Boss signs and turns in PO
5. White board show up couple days later
6. With no hangers
7. I ask around, people say "Just steal them from the empty cubes"
8. I poke around, no hangers
9. I ask somebody on the second floor, they have a spare
10. An empty cube on that floor has a coat hanger
11. I take coat hanger (not the wire kind) and saw off the hook part and 
drill a holl in it using a non secure bench vice, a hack saw, and drill in the 
lab that used to be battery powered but now has two wires sticking out the 
battery compartment that you plug into a high current power supply.
12. I borrow some screws and nuts from equipment engineering
13. I assemble white board with vice grips from our lab and hang in cube
14. I visit supply room in search of pens/erasers
15. Found pens and a very dirty eraser
16. I try it out, eraser doesn't work worth beans.
17. Google tells me to wash it with soap and water
18. Wash eraser in restroom
19. Working whiteboard setup complete

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4 Responses to how to get a whiteboard in 19 easy steps

  1. The other mommy

    wait…I didn’t get that first part, could you go over that again??
    lol, sounds complicated

  2. Tamera Davis

    Here –
    1. Ask secretary (me)
    2. Secretary orders white board, hangers, pens, eraser and cleaning liquid
    3. Comes next day with hangers
    4. Secretary hangs.
    5. Done

    You need a secretary. 🙂

  3. nice work! do you have a photo of it?

  4. DadC

    Say……., could I borrow that drill??

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