A spiritual right of passage?

It possibly means that any job involving large amounts of staples is mind-numbing. There are no such things as omens, just superstitious coping strategies, so your empty box does not mean you are out of ideas,out of luck,or out of trouble. You are simply out of staples!

I think it's really up to you. If YOU feel perceive it as a sign then it is. We all have signs that only mean something to us and no one else. To others an empty staple box is just that an empty staple box but I understand that you are a spiritual person and probably look at things with that sort of angle.

If it were me, I would perceive it as a sign and then I'd pull out my deck of Tarot cards and do a reading on myself.

Bright Blessings!

Weird. I can't remember ever running out of staples. It seems I always leave a job before I need to get a new box. Going through an entire box (assuming there aren't several thousand staples in your desktop) would indicate to me that you have at least found a comfortable position.

I'd certainly give the possibility that you have found your path some serious thought.

Maybe you should stay where you are, at least until somebody borrows your stapler and doesn't return it.

Rite of passage? It's a turning point. You've crested. It's all downhill from here. Your best years are behind you. No more moving around,no more new experiences. You just sit at the same job until you retire and subsequently die off. That colorful youth is reduced to meaninglessness. So is everything else. All of creation is now rapidly devolving into a monobloc and all because of you. You should be ashamed of yourself. First you screw up your reality with a miserable little staple situation which you then expand into some kind of cosmological deal that sucks everyone and everything into it like a black hole. Thanks a lot,pal. Let me if I can do you a favor sometime.

So what you're saying is, you measure the passing of years in staples. I think that's sad. You are a sentient, sapient and self aware creature capable of something that no other creature on this planet has ever been able to do - creative thought. And how do you use this wondrous ability? Stapling. A mundane task that a trained monkey could do.

"Um, excuse me- that's my stapler."

hehehe . . . I love Office Space!

What are you doing so often to run out of staples? My goodness I don't think I've ever had to order a new box for myself, and I was at my last job for over 3 years.

Congratulations, I guess?? :0)

I think you just learned a lesson that nothing in life is certain. Not stable - or should that be staple.

silly silly

it means invest in Staples or staples or

maybe it just means invent a new stapler

or

a new kind of staple

No one thought that there was gonna be something other than pull tops for cans until pop tops came along

and can you find a pull top anywhere?

hahahaha

It means someone forgot to buy staples. Nothing more and nothing less.

I have 3 boxes of them in my drawer, does that mean that I have to stay in this job until they are gone?