How Many People Use Fountain Pens At Your Workplace?

[electricpowerman]

I thought I was the only one who used a fountain pen at my workplace, until today. Apparently word had been getting around about my choice of writing instrument and a colleague in another work area revealed he is also a fountain pen user. So naturally we had a chat about pens and ink and so on! Now that there are two users we might have more than the usual "no chance" of getting some fountain pen ink in the stationery cabinet. lol...

 

Are you the only one using a fountain pen at your workplace, or are you surrounded by users of fine writing instruments?

[MidnightBlue]

Me and another guy......guess we're the only ones out of step...and out of touch with progress. But, we con't care. Thanks

[mallymal1]

There's just me...

[Yuki Onitsura]

Just me and one other person in the English staffroom. She only has the one pen. I think it's a Parker Sonnet.

 

Yuki

[rockydoggy]

I've known for a while that one of my colleagues is a user, and I gifted him some fountain pens + a couple of bottles of ink for a favor he did for me. Two of the pens were attractive but relatively inexpensive Chinese pens that I'd tested and tuned up; one was a workhorse, mid-level Parker. He was especially grateful for the ink--he'd been using only cartridges and was open to diversifying. Another colleague saw me taking notes with a fountain pen and mentioned how she wrote with them when she was growing up overseas. I plan to give her one of several Sheaffer school pens I have on hand to help revive her habit. I'm keeping my eyes open for potential converts as well.

[Bobby Check]

I am slowly converting the rest of the lawyers in the office.

 

Just one lawyer to go!

 

Bobby

[Kaptenmork]

For very long time I thought I was the only one, the guy with the MB that only sit on his table I dont count, I never see him actually using it, but recently I noticed one of the managers using a shiny pen, probably a Cross Townsend

[pmhudepo]

I work for an IT company. Note-taking is done with ballpoint pens, except by me. Most of the work consists of reading and creating Word, Excel and PDF documents, writing computer source code (Notepad++, Visual Studio etc.) and using lots of management tools for databases, webservers, Windows etc.

 

Best part of using a fountain pen is that nobody even wants to borrow my pens, much less keep or misplace them

[Sirvinya]

None, not even me. Pens are provided by the workplace, so I leave my fountain pens at home. Ink has to survive autoclaving processes and I can't be bothered to hunt down something that'll survive that when ball point works.

 

At home though, I use nothing but fountain pens.

[WendyNC]

We have three one-person businesses in an office suite. I've got a Safari in the hands of one of my colleagues.

 

A different business owner in the building has been using his father's P51 since I got him, the pen and Ron Zorn together at the recent Triangle Pen Show.

 

The owner of our building loves Lamys and has several varieties.

 

Maybe it has to do with working in a building which is more than 100 years old.

Edited June 21, 2011 by WendyNC

[Akishira]

I tend to carry two FPs in my work rotation- little cheapies (currently a Pilot Petit1 and Pilot Knight) that will survive a fall or alcohol swabbing if needed. Glorious purple!

 

Haven't managed to convert anyone yet- a lot of people here think they know how to use FPs but don't really (pressing down like ballpoints or writing upside down), and are too afraid of busting nibs to use FPs at work. Have had at least a couple of the doctors comment about my FPs though, but they turned down my offer of FPs for various reasons. :\

[pelman]

just me currently.

 

Although our office manager is slowly liking the sound of my pen as it glides across the paper and she wants to get one. I will give her one of my eyedropper pens to enjoy.

[penemuel]

Just me. One of the IT guys used to have one for signatures, but he retired, so I'm it.

 

We, of course (as a government office), have cheap-arse pens in the supply cabinet, but I even bring in my own pencil (an ancient Pentel click pencil with .5 lead) and ballpoint (EnerGel liquid gel .5 needle tip) because a) they at least write without skipping or smudging badly and B ) they write small enough. The supplied pens either skip constantly (yay leftie plus cheap workmanship...) or are too large to write clearly enough in small areas on forms. (Everything that goes on personnel files gets scanned, and it needs to be readable after that, so the smaller the point the better.)

Edited June 21, 2011 by penemuel

[PozzSka]

Just me...except my mother will occasionally use one to sign her name to something if she's in my office (family business).

 

She always comments on how different it is, and how it's so weird to her.

 

I just smile. I have a few Platinum Preppys on the way, maybe I'll fill one up for her and just leave it on her desk.

[gregamckinney]

My workplace is a big place, and I'll never even meet 95% of the folks.

Of those I've met/ seen/ know, though, there is only one other. He is the proof that even evil folks use FPs, not just all us angels.

 

I've run into about 1 person at each of my previous employers who were FP users.

 

greg

[vickiehof]

The staff at our small medical office exchange token gifts at Christmas. Two years ago, I gave everyone an inexpensive fountain pen (that actually was a very nice writer), a bottle of ink, the web address for this forum and other pen sites and some instructions on how to use and fill fountain pens as a "starter kit". For a while, I noticed one of the doctors was using his for his doctor's notes, but now they've all back-slidden to using ball points. I only use a ball point for carbon-less multi-page forms.

Edited June 21, 2011 by vickiehof

[Cyhz]

For a long time it was just me. But, I was recently able to convert one other with a Lamy Safari.

[SHK]

Only me.

[RLTodd]

None others ever.

 

This goes back to 1962.

[johniem]

Just me. Only four employees here and three of us are part-time. The boss just grabs one of the ball points from the cup on the desk. The kids couldn't care less.