Sigh

[blossomingfire.livejournal.com]

Dear cruising the bottom of the totem pole faculty member,

Yes, I am in reciept of your request for a new laser printer because the one you have is "too slow."     Let me remind you that we assign printers by employment rank, and you're basically a step above a part timer.   As a standard, we assign people of your rank an inkjet printer, but since you were using a couple of cartridges a week printing out crap you never use, we were doing you a favor by giving you the printer you have.   Might I also remind you that the printer is in pretty damn good shape for its age (because really, it's hard to kill an HP printer made during the good ol' days of quality manufactured product) and you should be happy that you even have it.   As it is, the new dean has gone apeshit hiring people, and we have a shortage of lasers.  There are people who are coming in who are WAY ahead of you in the line, and the "fast" printers will go to them.  Besides, go somewhere else on campus and see if they'll give you your own printer - chances are you'll be 17th in line in the printer queue.

So no, we're not going to give you another printer.  Embrace your 6 ppm.

Thanks,
Blossomingfire

Comments

[gilmoure.livejournal.com]

Ah, HP II, III or 4? Those thing weigh a ton but last forever.

[blossomingfire.livejournal.com]

It's actually a 5p. Excellent little workhorse.

[jecook]

I'm still trying to "convince" work that the next laser printer that they decide to put in "asset recovery" should be "recovered" at my house... I could use an HP printer after LexBark died.