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Become the office hero by hiding the good stapler on Monday and finding it by Wednesday

Workplace recognition schemes reward the colleague who solves problems, and have no mechanism at all for checking who caused them.

First thing Monday, slide the good stapler behind the printer. Let the office search, speculate and draft an all-staff email, then, around Wednesday lunch, find it and hand it back with a modest shrug. Field notes: nine weeks, nine recoveries, one employee-of-the-month certificate. In week ten an intern found it on Tuesday, and now runs the recognition scheme.

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