Life as a Roman bureaucrat had nothing in common with the limp officials who haunt our present-day conceptions of office rooms.
On the contrary: you had to have a lot of muscles.
To carry even a few files with carbon copies from one office to another, you needed the power of a coal hauler.
Because the writing material of the Romans was marble.
At least that's how the Asterix comics show, which for many people is the main source of their humble knowledge of the Romans.
In the volume “Asterix as Legionnaire” one sees in the writing rooms of the Roman legion how frighteningly high stacks of marble tablets lie on the tables of the barracks registry, on which the scribes chisel their notes.
Even the legionnaires' playing cards are made of marble.
This is of course nonsense ...