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damn copier stealer!

ElFenix

ElFenix

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i'm in the middle of a big job on the copier, and some dude comes along while i'm next to the copier switching files and starts copying a whole goddamn book! asshole! :|
 
Calmly walk up to the copier, unplug from the wall, bend one of the plug's pins so it can't be plugged back up, scowl at the copier stealer, then walk off.

 
Happens at work all the time. I just pull out one of the maintanence drawers and walk away. Takes the idiot forever to figure out why it stopped working for him.
 
Just walk back in, matter of factly grab a large object, toss it in the air a few times to get a feel for the weight, then walk up behind him and bludgeon him on the head as hard as you can, hopefully breaking his nose on the copier or the facing wall.
 
Hmmm... I'm actually that guy, some times.

There's a lot of demand for the copier here at school (1 copier, lots of teachers) Our copier is digital, of course, so it can remember dozens or perhaps hundreds of different jobs. Nonetheless, everyone feels compelled to scan one document, start 50 copies. Wait until the 50 copies are done. Fumble around getting out the next thing to scan, repeat.

If no one is standing at the scanner actively trying to scan something in, I just walk right up, program in my job in about 5 seconds, hit the enter button, pick my originals after they're scanned, and walk over to get a refill on my coffee. Usually I'll hear some protest about it, like "there's a line, you know" to which I simply comment "well, the copier was waiting for someone to program in a new job. No one was doing so. I'm not going to wait for the copier to wait for someone to get on the ball and learn that the thing has memory and can queue multiple jobs."
 
yeah, when I worked at an office as the copy monkey, I would have to make a BUNCH of copies...like, thousands sometimes. I would program in the whole selection (2 pages salmon, 2-sided, stapled, then 5 pages white, unstapled, single-sided, then 2 stapled legal pages, then 1 pink page...etc), then just walk away as the copier proceeded to correctly print all 1000 copies. Sure saved me a lot of time collating them by hand...which SUCKS.
 
Originally posted by: DrPizza
Hmmm... I'm actually that guy, some times.

There's a lot of demand for the copier here at school (1 copier, lots of teachers) Our copier is digital, of course, so it can remember dozens or perhaps hundreds of different jobs. Nonetheless, everyone feels compelled to scan one document, start 50 copies. Wait until the 50 copies are done. Fumble around getting out the next thing to scan, repeat.

If no one is standing at the scanner actively trying to scan something in, I just walk right up, program in my job in about 5 seconds, hit the enter button, pick my originals after they're scanned, and walk over to get a refill on my coffee. Usually I'll hear some protest about it, like "there's a line, you know" to which I simply comment "well, the copier was waiting for someone to program in a new job. No one was doing so. I'm not going to wait for the copier to wait for someone to get on the ball and learn that the thing has memory and can queue multiple jobs."
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That's a borderline call. 🙂 Technically you will be getting your output before someone else who was already standing in line, so in a way it's cutting line, but I certainly see your point. Their way is just going to take longer than it needs to.

If it makes you feel any better, I work with people who print from their PC to their local printer, then carry that over to the big copier to make copies. When I ask them why they didn't just send the entire job to the big copier in the first place, the answer is inevitably "I was afraid I wouldn't do it right."
 
Originally posted by: kranky
Originally posted by: DrPizza
Hmmm... I'm actually that guy, some times.

There's a lot of demand for the copier here at school (1 copier, lots of teachers) Our copier is digital, of course, so it can remember dozens or perhaps hundreds of different jobs. Nonetheless, everyone feels compelled to scan one document, start 50 copies. Wait until the 50 copies are done. Fumble around getting out the next thing to scan, repeat.

If no one is standing at the scanner actively trying to scan something in, I just walk right up, program in my job in about 5 seconds, hit the enter button, pick my originals after they're scanned, and walk over to get a refill on my coffee. Usually I'll hear some protest about it, like "there's a line, you know" to which I simply comment "well, the copier was waiting for someone to program in a new job. No one was doing so. I'm not going to wait for the copier to wait for someone to get on the ball and learn that the thing has memory and can queue multiple jobs."
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That's a borderline call. 🙂 Technically you will be getting your output before someone else who was already standing in line, so in a way it's cutting line, but I certainly see your point. Their way is just going to take longer than it needs to.

If it makes you feel any better, I work with people who print from their PC to their local printer, then carry that over to the big copier to make copies. When I ask them why they didn't just send the entire job to the big copier in the first place, the answer is inevitably "I was afraid I wouldn't do it right."
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LMAO, that's EXACTLY why no one will queue up new jobs in the copier and walk away here. As a result, they're not going to bother making the last few updates so we can send print jobs directly to the copier. (although, I'd love to see it happen - then I could walk into the room and pick up my copies as they come out between 2 other people's jobs)
 
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