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Huge print job people

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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