OK - Is this person lying?

[Al Neri]

Background:

I'm in an MBA Class with 4 people - 3 guys and a girl, Roberta, who is a "consultant" for a financial company. She speaks of her job in a pretty esoteric manner.

All semester long, when it came time for my group to hand in a paper one of us printed it out. It just so happens that me and the two guys cannot print something out and bring it with us because we have something to do after work.

Today I send her an email, hey Roberta, can you print out the paper for tomorrow - the three of us can't, she writes back:

I don't have printing access here- the client couldn't hook it up. Are u guys going home in the morning. You can print it there?

She has used this excuse all semester... is that possible? I can't imagine working somewhere as a consultant or not and never being able to use a printer.

Does this make any sense, or is she lazy?

 

[Capt Caveman]

Lazy b/c she could always save the paper online an access it from a computer with access to a printer.

What's the excuse for you three guys? Lazy too?

 

[rivan]

Not everyone needs to print stuff, though yeah, it does seem odd.

 

[bonkers325]

does she do any of the group work? its just printing, maybe she actually cant print

 

[Al Neri]

Originally posted by: Capt Caveman
Lazy b/c she could always save the paper online an access it from a computer with access to a printer.

What's the excuse for you three guys? Lazy too?

Originally posted by: Capt Caveman
It just so happens that me and the two guys cannot print something out and bring it with us because we have something to do after work.

RTFOP? 😕

 

[Capt Caveman]

Originally posted by: Don Rodriguez

Originally posted by: Capt Caveman
Lazy b/c she could always save the paper online an access it from a computer with access to a printer.

What's the excuse for you three guys? Lazy too?

Originally posted by: Capt Caveman
It just so happens that me and the two guys cannot print something out and bring it with us because we have something to do after work.

RTFOP? 😕

You guys don't have a computer with access to a printer? She has an excuse, I'm still waiting for yours.

 

[BoomerD]

Since hitting "print" doesn't entail a whole lot of effort, I can't see this as her being lazy...
I went about 6 months without being able to print. My Epson had crapped out on me, and I was too dammed tight to buy a printer I really didn't NEED...Finally, I stumbled into a good deal on a Canon and bought it. (no more Epsons for me. I've thrown away too dammed many, and when it costs more to buy new ink cartridges than it does to buy a whole new printer...)

 

[Al Neri]

Originally posted by: bonkers325
does she do any of the group work? its just printing, maybe she actually cant print

she really does no work.

the one thing she really did all semester was produce one slide for a presentation.

The best part was that the presentation was to prove that NetFlix's Collaborative Filtering lead to higher profits vs. other companies.

I don't remember the particulars, but her slide actually showed that since NetFlix revamped their Collaborative Filtering their profits went down slightly, Blockbuster's went up, and the two no-name companies' profit went down (probably because they sucked - they both were penny stocks trading on pink sheets).

When I said to her that her slide, while the intent was good it doesn't support our claim it actually hurts our claim, she suggested that we only include NetFlix and the two other companies and just leave out Blockbuster... probably the biggest name in the rental industry. I wonder if anyone would have asked.... hmmm... I see netflix, company x and company y - why isn't the biggest name, Blockbuster, included?

😎

 

[bsobel]

Very common for consultants onsite to have very little network access, and since they more around so much many times people dont bother with printers/etc.

Now why she cant print from home, who knows...

 

[QED]

Doesn't sound that unusual to me. For some of the companies I've done consulting work for, they didn't even give me network access, much less access to a printer-- and this was when I was doing IT work! Some companies are strange like that.

 

[dartworth]

I had to look up esoteric


besides that, this thread fails...

 

[imported_Baloo]

Originally posted by: Capt Caveman

What's the excuse for you three guys? Lazy too?

BAM!