There are 3 kinds of people in this world

I go with diagonal because you can bend the corners pleasantly and not awkwardly

i'm the second / middle option

Oh sweet child. I’m so thankful the universe has been this kind to you. There’s also the slightly annoying “stapled the backside” person, then there’s the “pit the staple way below the margin so that you have to destroy it or remove the staple to see the whole page,” and then there’s the maniacs that only put one peg of the staple through the paper and the other hangs off in space. The document squirms in your hands as though it’s alove and bent on destroying itself, if you aren’t careful it will gladly draw your blood as well. And I can’t forget the “booby trap” stapler- the one that it looks like it’s on there but they didn’t bother to do more than breath on the stapler so the staple isn’t through all the way but looks like it is and comes out at the worst moment it could. There’s also the “chaotic neutral” stapler who puts the staple in any crazy direction and might not even line the pages up but at least it’s solid, you can read the whole thing, and it isn’t waiting to stab you.

I‘m the middle one

i like to go the full length of the stapler and put the staple as far into the centre of the paper as possible, just to watch people question "why?"

Im all of them tbh