Mar
18
Huge print job people
Filed Under at work
People who send huge print jobs to the only printer in the office (or near your desk) during the middle of the workday
People who have a shred of consideration for their fellow worker
So this is one of those things I’ve been meaning to bring up for a while and it just refreshed its relevance the other day when I was trying to print out a quick 1-pager. I walked over to the printer, and here was this girl printing out 5 copies of a presentation that itself was probably 50 slides long.
“It might be a while,” she says. “Big print job.”
“What is that for?” I ask, pulling up my calendar on my phone, ready to change my status to Tentative for whatever meeting is going to subject me to a 50-slide presentation where I’m told that one thing went up and another thing went down.
“It’s a budget meeting. Tomorrow, with Bill. I think you’re in it, right?”
Tentative set. “I’m not sure. I might have a conflict.”
Sorry dude, I’m printing War & Peace real quick. It’ll be a minute.
I’ve come up with a few names for this behavior, just now:
- Hewlett-Packing – “Dave is Hewlett-Packing again today. You might want to use the Bizhub if you need your print this year.”
- Canon Blasting – “Is that you Canon blasting the multifunction? I’m just trying to make a copy, bro, and you’ve got that thing busier than the free condom bowl at the Tri-Delt house.”
- Mi-nolta gonna get your print today
- Being an asshole
I do realize it says a lot about how nerdy I am that I can come up with such pun-tastic explosions of hilarity on the spot…about office printers. I’m okay with that.
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I love “hewlett-Packing” I intend to use it often