I work for the college in the computer lab, sorting the printouts and manning the help desk. In my experience so far, there are a few distinct types of computer users who stick out from the rest of the typical, average users. For example, there are the people who like to print out everything of any sort of semblance of relevance, such as every single email in their inbox, or every page of a professor's website. These users like to print single-page documents every 2 minutes so I am constantly forced to trek back and forth from printer to mailboxes to sort their papers.
There are those who are so impatient, that not 2 seconds after they hit the print button, they are standing in front of the desk, and demand that I hand them their papers personally, instead of waiting for me to stuff them into the proper mailbox.
Some users apparently can't read (why are they printing then?) and don't realize that all printouts go to the print station, and so frustratedly hit print seventy-three times, waiting for the papers to magically appear in front of them, causing the queue to backup as the printers obediently churn out copy after copy of the same thing.
Then there are some users who are blissfully unaware of printer limitations or how to change Powerpoint slides from full-page to hand-out mode, and so gleefully print 300, white-on-black powerpoint slides and then wonder why their papers aren't ready in 30 seconds.
Ironically, there are some users who mistakenly print on 1-sided, although the default is 2-sided, in a mistaken attempt to conserve paper, and then print it again, only this time on both sides, again, to conserve paper.
just a few of the lovely users here who make my life interesting. without them, my night would be so humorless
There are those who are so impatient, that not 2 seconds after they hit the print button, they are standing in front of the desk, and demand that I hand them their papers personally, instead of waiting for me to stuff them into the proper mailbox.
Some users apparently can't read (why are they printing then?) and don't realize that all printouts go to the print station, and so frustratedly hit print seventy-three times, waiting for the papers to magically appear in front of them, causing the queue to backup as the printers obediently churn out copy after copy of the same thing.
Then there are some users who are blissfully unaware of printer limitations or how to change Powerpoint slides from full-page to hand-out mode, and so gleefully print 300, white-on-black powerpoint slides and then wonder why their papers aren't ready in 30 seconds.
Ironically, there are some users who mistakenly print on 1-sided, although the default is 2-sided, in a mistaken attempt to conserve paper, and then print it again, only this time on both sides, again, to conserve paper.
just a few of the lovely users here who make my life interesting. without them, my night would be so humorless
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