It's always amusing when someone gets fired and their desk has to be boxed up. It's like chum for the office sharks. You'd swear it was the last pad of sticky notes left on earth.
We usually have very well-supplied cabinets with all the office supplies you'd ever think you'd need (and nobody cares how much you take), but there are always a few items that they never have and never seem to want to reorder. Like staplers and tape dispensers. So when you have a new person show up, they have to use the ones by the copier until they can steal them from somebody else.