Dear Local Printer Entitlement Tool

[ptstech.livejournal.com]

1.  As a matter of fact, It wasn't my decision to discontinue local printers for all but a select few. (I did, however, agree with it wholeheartedly)
2.  No, I cannot troubleshoot your local printer now that it has died, as I was instructed to simply pick it up and map you to the nearest networked multifunction unit.
3.  No, I don't know how much color printing you do. (but I bet your boss does, since his tally of the toner costs contributed to the decision made in #1 above)
4.  No, I cannot simply order another printer, or toner, or "whatever's gone wrong with it."  See #2 above.
5.  No, I don't have the super secret, IT-only stash.  I do LESS printing than anyone here, mainly because I can, you know, open documents ON MY BLOODY SCREEN AND READ THEM!
6.  Finally, it doesn't matter how they did it at your last job - you're not there, a fact for which I suspect they are eternally grateful.

Go get a cheese wheel to go with all that whine and GO AWAY.

Wishing you a visit from the Flaming Orbital Anvil of Death,
Me

Comments

[kathygnome.livejournal.com]

Printers, ugh. Printers. I feel your pain. I share your pain.

[superbus.livejournal.com]

I actually told someone that at my last job; basically, that he couldn't have a local printer because it wasn't allocated by his boss, and I didn't care what his job purpose was. I also told him that I myself used a shared printer that only printed in black and white (his shared printer was colour).

It should be noted that when it came time to lay off a tech in '06, the CEO overrode my boss, saying he wanted the other guy because he was more "friendly" with the internal workers. Considering that place is now out of business, that's what we call a blessing.

[mix-hyenataur.livejournal.com]

i share your pain

We aren't 'friendly' when we folloe rules.

[xforge.livejournal.com]

We have an entire department where everyone has a personal printer AND there are a half dozen workgroup machines AND 8-10 high-end Canon copiers networked and served as printers. Every time I talk to *any* senior IT department member or project manager they ask me when we're going to start pulling personal printers outta that place, and my eyes just kinda glaze over and I sigh.

[billysapphire.livejournal.com]

Sounds like where I work. People are just babied so much it annoys me. They whine about costs but hey, ink and toner don't cost anything, right?

[japester.livejournal.com]

Go get a cheese wheel to go with all that whine and GO AWAY.

Wishing you a visit from the Flaming Orbital Anvil of Death,
Me


awesome signoff. awesome.

[zahatroy.livejournal.com]

excellent articles, useful for me. keep writing and happy blogging.

[dofidane.livejournal.com]

Great writing! I want you to follow up to this topic!?!