paul you ca not turn in your reports on four-by-six notecards jill told him after he handed her his reports typed carefully on twelve four-by-six notecards he had spent the weekend going to the office supply store to buy notecards and typewriter ribbon he found it surprisingly easily after his first payday replacing the ribbon in his typewriter this took approximately half an hour because he had to figure it all out on his own opening the package of notecards this took approximately four seconds although he still had to figure out how to do it on his own it was just easier carefully typing the reports he'd handwritten on letter paper onto the notecards he made many mistakes and threw away many notecards though later he used them for kindling so understandably he was upset he told jill all the work he'd gone to to type those notecard reports for her for the company she shook her head paul you do not have to do all that work at home just type it up on the computers here that's all you need to do thanks for the work though he nodded as she threw the notecards into the trashcan and left his cubicle