Recently, with the school’s renewed efforts to keep students from being distracted by their electronic gadgets, I’ve come to confiscate several cellular phones. Well, the truth is most of them were not really confiscated by me but rather by other teachers. But being the adviser of the responsible class where the owners of these items belong to, they eventually make their way to me.

Anyway, the surprising thing about the whole thing is, I’ve been an adviser for almost 4 years already, but I’ve never gotten this many confiscated articles before. And since it falls on me to keep all items safe and organized, I had to catalog each one - brand of phone, model, condition, owner, date of confiscation and even the person who confiscated it.

It sounds simple enough, but surprisingly, a little over 5 is already becoming a hand-full. This and the fact that I still have to submit a report describing all instances of confiscation, plus the usual work load of a teacher (which by the way is already a huge one) is already quite bothersome.

I can’t believe it would come to a point when I would be wishing that there was an inventory tracking software available for this kind of task or at least a dealer that provides one like HLSM’s online microfiche. Because there are available ones for other stuff like motorcycle parts and such. I just bet it would surely help.