Office exchange of the day

Telephone solicitor calls the office; we're supposed to get rid of them, but the employee who answers this particular phone call is being polite. Solicitor is pitching their document-related services—I don't know exactly what, probably copying and filing and storing and so on.

Solicitor: What kind of business are you in?



Employee: Electronic publishing.



S: Oh, so you must have a lot of documents.



E: No, actually, hardly any.



S: Really?



E: Really. It's electronic publishing.

And that was the end of that phone call. We really do have an almost-entirely-paperless office; for 14 employees and 20 computers, there's only one printer, a fax machine that doesn't work, and no copier. I don't think my computer is even connected to the printer; I haven't tried to print anything since we moved into the new office in January. The key word is, indeed, electronic.