Oh Yeah!  Heard that one!  Great and thanks for sharing. I had a doctor
client once who would take files home and put them in the trunk of his car
for "security".  When a file went missing, the staff would go out to his car
and generally find 2 -6 "missing" files.
Bet others have great stories to share as well.

On Thu, Oct 21, 2010 at 12:26 PM, John Annunziello
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> It's been fairly quiet today, so I thought I would share this true to life
> story.
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> We often forward our offsite records on to staff in boxes so that they can
> be kept together and chance of loosing them diminishes.  Our records group
> had forwarded records onto one of our departments a couple of years ago
> for review.  They were put aside until "time permitted".  Last year we
> inquired as to how they were doing.  "Oh, we gave them back to you" was
> their response.  As our records group handles many boxes, we searched high
> and low for this box both in their department and ours.....to no avail. We
> contacted our offsite storage vendor to see if a box had mysteriously made
> it's way to them without a barcode.  They searched and found nothing.
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> Today, we got a call from the department that originally had the records.
> "We found them" they said sheepishly.  Apparently, someone needed the box
> and for the past year and half, it has been used as a footrest. Duhhhhh!!!
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> Now I know why I've lost my hair through the years.
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> John Annunziello, CRM, ermm
> Manager, Records and Information
> Toronto and Region Conservation Authority
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