So I was doing some mad Enron-style shredding this afternoon, all on the up and up, mind you (protecting clients billing data) and while doing so I really looked at my little shredder and its usage warnings. First, it can only handle up to 18 pages at a time and it can shred credit cards - great! And it lets me know that paperclips and staples are fine too. However, it seems to think that there should be no shredding of hands (ala Fargo) or solid ties. Which, ok, that's fine too I suppose - I prefer men in patterned ties anyway.
My problem is this - it claims, according to those little icons, that it can destroy CDs. And it can. What it does NOT tell you is the manner in which it does so - that when you shred a CD you should don protective eye wear and be prepared to be covered in little glimmery (and painful) splinters of CD guts....I stuck a CD in there and the next thing I knew, it was shooting out bits of CD all over the place at high velocity!
Quite the irritating and dangerous experience, to say the least. If I were a litigious person, I might be inclined to take some action to recoup my spilled blood - albeit just a few drops. Instead, I'm going to go pick CD out of my hair and shake my sweater! Sigh....
