As I mentioned a few times over, we recently purchased a new Service Management tool (and as I’ve also mentioned, I think the implementation is driving me to drink – more than usual).  So I was sitting at my coworker’s desk and I noticed she had a pen given to her by an ITSM vendor, and I thought “damn, I lost that pen and I miss it.”  This thought then led to a memory in which we were at Fusion10 and when I was going through the goody bag each person receives, I came across a pen by another vendor (one in which I already didn’t like), and the pen was so cheap I happily dropped it on the ground since I didn’t feel it even deserved my energy to take it to the trash (I know that’s littering, but I was with coworkers and I was making a point; besides, I think one of them picked it up….and if you tripped on a pen on the ground, I’m sorry).

So here’s where I’m going with this rambling blog post; give away good pens.  In fact, give away great pens.  Make sure it’s got weight, preferably metallic and writes with a fine, crisp line.  If the “vendor that shall not be named” had only included a very nice pen that I’d be proud to use, I may have eventually forgiven them and quite possibly, endorsed their product.  But that’s not how it happened – they shall always be remembered for giving away crappy pens (besides other crimes against humanity).  Since this is my blog site, I appeal to all vendors out there, big or small, IT or cosmetic, foreign or domestic, alien or earthling, dog lover or cat lover…please please please, spend a little extra and hand out high quality writing utensils.  You never know when it can make the difference (and if you want bonus points, give me an iPAD 2).

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Started working in IT in 1999 as a support desk analyst as a way to help pay for food during college. Studied Electrical Engineering for two years before realizing biochemistry was more fun than differential equations, and so ultimately graduated with a Biology degree in 2006. Having (reluctantly) failed at getting accepted into dental school, embraced working in IT and has gone broke becoming an ITIL Expert. Likes to jog, sing camp songs, quote Mel Brooks movie lines and make dumb jokes and loves working for an Israeli tech company where December 25th is a regular work day.