Having to say, "two thousand and eight."
In 2011 I will be bringing back, "aught-one."
I thought "aught-one" referred to '01. So, technically, we'd be in "twenty aught-eight" right now, were you so inclined.
Anyway: our Left Item Log is a cheap three-ring binder full of paper along with twelve dividers (one per month). Since it's each cashier's responsibility to record any items left by one of their customers, a huge number of people wind up using this binder. What winds up happening is that one of these cashiers opens the binder up, finds the current date, writes down the items, and then closes the binder again--not stopping to move the pages back to their original position, meaning that now every page and divider to the left of the current date is bending and warping from being trapped between the metal rings and the front cover of the binder. This happens
every time someone uses the binder. EVERY DAMN TIME. It's been going on since March. I know, I know--there are these hard plastic spacers you can buy which will automatically push the pages into position, but... no. Fuck that, and fuck
them for being too oblivious to realize that their perfunctory binder-closing procedures are the reason half the pages in there have their holes ripped out. I shouldn't have to spend my own money or try to convince my manager to approve use of store funds over this.