My boss just spent an hour rearranging this box of markers by part number.
Thursday, 13 Mar 2025
Exclusive insights, data, and analysis for financial market experts.
Search
Have an existing account?
Sign In
waiting for the next post “Just spent an hour arranging this box by part number and my employee just rearranged it by color instead”
plot twist, boss is color blind.
I’ve wondered countless times, why the fuck does Prismacolor number their markers this way lol
Boss wasted time sorting markers.
I guess it depends on the workflow which way makes sense.
My only counter to this is maybe it’s easy for ordering of new items?
I don’t know why these companies don’t use decimal fractions like library books (aka. Dewey Decimal System). Then you can have the numbers be in order AND you can still always insert a new color in-between existing colors.
Go back and redo it by rainbow colors. It’s very important you make and keep eye contact, to establish dominance
An hour? Now, I got the ‘tism so this is kinda my home court. But that’s taking me no longer than 10 mins.
We do this with paint and specialized markers, only when numbered.
Unless these markers are for art specifically, then I don’t see a point in him not keeping colors together.
But it’s numbered so we can pick the precise color, instead of “Oh hey can you get Ashy Gray and Ocean Blue.” Because let’s face it, some people don’t know their colors. It also looks like the deeper colors are towards the top and the pastel and lighter colors going down.
I had a boss once and she would do stuff like this all the time. It drove me nuts. I had to marker performance as poor during her annual review because of it.
To be clear, it’s infuriating that the part numbers don’t line up chromatically.
And yet it has errors.
Where’s 96
The real crime here is the manufacturer not making the part numbers follow the hue order tbh
Plot twist: OP is his own boss and also schizophrenic.
It’s probably 1000 percent easier to stock this way
Boss is on adderall
Sounds like something I would do! In fact, I actually did do a 120 ct. box of colored pencils like that. It didn’t last long for all the effort it took. Promise you that there is something else that the boss didn’t want to do.
?width=3024&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=a61a025f01e5c65c5b388280ec97d49bf8c449bd
It’s been an hour, have you put it back the correct way yet?
Oh boy. That took a lot of time.
That would suck if it were to be accidentally knocked over
I blame like 95% of this on the manufacturer
I hissed in Artist at this.
He’s artistic… I mean autistic.
to be fair that is prismacolor bitch ass for not making the number scheme match the color
Designer vs Engineer – the battle continues
So when you need a color, is it normally “need a shade of purple” or need “PM-171”
Whoever assigned the numbers needs to look at a color wheel
Not going to lie, I can kinda see why you would want to arrange by number from an inventory perspective. It’s easier to say you need to grab 1656 than it is to say pinkish red.
At least he’s doing something. Mine sits in his office all day watching Trump and conspiracy tic toc videos.
My questions is, where is the PM-2 and PM-3?
My only question is how the fuck does this take an hour?
Your boss is quite methiculous
Can I ask what kind of job do you work to have that markers collection? I thought that everyone should bring their own material or work gear without matter the field, except in a daycare perhaps, but it doesn’t seem to be that kind of environment.
My girlfriend just did this and it drove me absolutely nuts when the color order doesn’t make sense
Oh. Oh ho. Wow. I *hate* this.
Lawful evil
How the fuck are they in an artist industry and not understand swatching.
I would want to arrange it by color, then by part number. So if I need a specific blue, I go to the blues, then look for the part number for the specific blue. It might actually be more efficient than searching for the number only in a sea of distracting colors.
I think your boss is right. Easier to say use “marker X” than “the third red shade” lol
Somebody “had” to 🤭
Sounds like you had an hour to fuck around.