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Industrial espionage

Want to destroy productivity in a busy office?

It seems the answer is to surreptitiously switch an order for regular Post-it® Notes with one for Post-it® Z-Notes.

Now I'm sure these things make a lot of sense if you have the appropriate dispenser, but without the humble pad of sticky notes becomes a cascading display of colour that's hard to put down. What's more, they double as quick Christmas decorations. Or, if you work them fast enough, a convenient fan. All this while driving your colleagues insane.

Personally I like to think that someone at 3M is employed to convert regular pads into Z-Notes by turning alternate sheets through 180°.

From all around our office today has come the flutter of paper tumbling back to desks. Don't laugh. It's the summer and it's hard to get motivated.