Do You Ever See Other People Using Fountain Pens At Work?

[amberleadavis]

Most of my clients i work for are elderly couples. Most of them still have fountain pens on their desks. There's a client of mine, with her house filled with all things vintage. Her husband, born in the year 1930's, took his fountain pen to write and i was like oh my.....what a nice cursive handwriting! I took a look at his fountain pen...and wondered whether or not it's still being sold in the market. So vintage!

 

 

Very cool.

[jsolares]

I work from home, so unless i work by the mirror, then no i haven't seen other people using a fountain pen at work , and the times i do go to clients meetings i've yet to see one.

[richila]

My students were curious about my Jinhao 450X, so I brought in a set of Jinhao 599s for them to use during a journaling assignment. It was great to see my principal's face when he did a walk-through and found all of my students writing with fountain pens. (He thought my 450X was a Mont Blanc.)

[peterg]

I'm using my pens for some temporary work. Hope they don't go ballistic when they realise I'm not using the ball pens they supplied!

[Orpilorp]

I recently pursuaded a supplier to get a fountain pen, so he went out on his own and bought an X-Pen Tulip. Last week he was going to take me to lunch but instead we went to a pen store where I convinced him to get a Kaweco Classic Sport. Now he has 2 pens and 2 inks (Diamine Avocado and De Atramentis Document Brown).

 

Today that supplier brought a manufacturer's sales rep to my office, and when the meeting was just about over the supplier brought up th etopic of fountain pens, and then he started to tell the sales rep that he needed to get some pens. They left my office talking about pens and inks.

 

Mission accomplished.

[amberleadavis]

I recently pursuaded a supplier to get a fountain pen, so he went out on his own and bought an X-Pen Tulip. Last week he was going to take me to lunch but instead we went to a pen store where I convinced him to get a Kaweco Classic Sport. Now he has 2 pens and 2 inks (Diamine Avocado and De Atramentis Document Brown).

 

Today that supplier brought a manufacturer's sales rep to my office, and when the meeting was just about over the supplier brought up th etopic of fountain pens, and then he started to tell the sales rep that he needed to get some pens. They left my office talking about pens and inks.

 

Mission accomplished.

 

 

We are so proud of you!

 

Ink up and Carry On!

[mrhr]

actually at my new job (since june) there's like 4 other people that I know of that use fountain pens, it's cool. there are even warnings on the walls about not writing with fountain pens on carbonless copy paper lol

[ThirdeYe]

I have never seen another co-worker use a fountain pen, aside from ones I've converted.

[FOUR X FOUR]

Until today I had never seen another person using a fountain pen. The bank manager had a fountain pen in his shirt pocket. I didn't think it was an FP. However, I did look nice and I eventually asked him if that was an FP. He said yes, and I asked to see it. It was a late model Parker. He didn't seem as enthused about it as me so I just let it go and handed it back to him

[robert1962]

Nope.

[sharonspens]

I work from home, so unless i work by the mirror, then no i haven't seen other people using a fountain pen at work , and the times i do go to clients meetings i've yet to see one.

Or, you could have several mirrors, then it would appear that the whole office is using FPs (and copying your sense of style)!

[jkingrph]

I am semi retired and do part time relief work as a pharmacist, so no, I am the only one over a fairly large area I have seen using a fountain pen. The techs and clerks that work for me only use ballpoints, and sometimes I work in a specialty psychiatric clinic/pharmacy and none of the physicians and nurse practitioners use fountain pens.

[antarmukhee]

When my friends see me using fountain pens many used to express nostalgic memories of their school age. When they express "wow! I too liked fountain pens" or "where did you get this", I just hand over my pen to them and say "Take this, it is yours".

Some times when this happens I spread out my collection of pens and give them the choice to take any (except for one or two of my favorites).

At least 8 of my friends have started using fountain pens regularly - they use the pens I gave them and the ink at my desk...

[uemuraw]

A fellow who works in the suite next to my "high-rise" office was walking downtown past my "courthouse square" office. I've known him for a couple years now – neighboring tenants. I noticed he had a pen that looked like the FPN Conid limited edition to me, so I approached him. Turns out that it was a custom-made fountain pen. We chatted for about 15 minutes about pens, which bored my daughter to no end – she said it's much more fun to write than to talk about pens. Or if you're going to talk, at least be somewhere that you can see them write.

 

Clever girl. She's got a point.

 

So now, that makes about 6 other (regular) fountain pen users within a two-block radius of my courthouse square office. Practically a mob, in my estimate.

[amberleadavis]

A fellow who works in the suite next to my "high-rise" office was walking downtown past my "courthouse square" office. I've known him for a couple years now – neighboring tenants. I noticed he had a pen that looked like the FPN Conid limited edition to me, so I approached him. Turns out that it was a custom-made fountain pen. We chatted for about 15 minutes about pens, which bored my daughter to no end – she said it's much more fun to write than to talk about pens. Or if you're going to talk, at least be somewhere that you can see them write.

 

Clever girl. She's got a point.

 

So now, that makes about 6 other (regular) fountain pen users within a two-block radius of my courthouse square office. Practically a mob, in my estimate.

 

 

OOO smart kid!

 

And now you a have enough people for a real pen posse.

[J85909266]

My supervisor was an avid Uniball rollerball user, and I noticed his understanding of a nice pen.

 

I gifted my him a Medium nib Pilot Metropolitan and a pack of black carts, and he uses it completely faithfully. He absolutely loves it, and tells me all the time that he gets a ton of attention in leadership meetings about it.

 

As far as i know, we are the only people in the office building using them.

[amberleadavis]

Good job! I love seeing fellow enablers.

[jabberwock11]

No recording devices or writing tools are allowed in my work place. With that said, there are a few select places that are used for non confidential clerical work, but even in those areas the pens and paper do not leave. Seeing a pen would be surprising, a fountain pen would scream: 'Please, fire me!' or even worse, 'Please, prosecute me!'

 

I have yet to see a single fountain pen (other than mine) in any of the jobs that I have worked. Most people find it very odd that I use fountain pens, and it can even become an unacceptable distraction. More often than not I have avoided the use of fountain pens in my places of employment...it makes me wonder if there are other "secret" fountain pen users out there.

[etaylor33]

I've been retired a couple of years now, didn't start re-using FP until a little over a month ago. I don't remember ever seeing anyone using a FP at work. I worked for the phone company in a reliability center and everybody wrote stuff down during their shift. I would definately have noticed anyone using a FP as I was very particular about the type of writing instrument I was using, even though FP's never interested me back then. Even now, out and about, I never see anyone using one. I'm the only one that I now that uses one and it amuses my wife. I think I got my grandson hooked though. He used to have a Jin Hou (sp) he traded for with another classmate of his and he recently bought a Faber-Castell,(with his own money).

[Seele]

The hand specialist who attends to my finger's severed tendon uses a fountain pen; first time I saw him he was writing upside down as his cartridge was close to being exhausted. I pulled out my rather humble - but tuned to perfection - Fellowship Black Bird and he found it to be very pleasant indeed. Next week I'll see him again and I'll bring him some spare cartridges.