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[sketchydave.livejournal.com]

This is a fun one. I have one of the biggest offices in my department. So much so that my office has been renamed a "media lab". Because of this anything and everything that has something to do with technology is housed here under my watchful eye, including the color LaserJet.

The accountant came in and his job hasn't finished printing. He said the printer says to "Load Tray 3". I'm in the middle of something and I said to pull out the drawer and add more paper.

Let me pause a moment. Most everyone in the office (and world) has had to add paper to a printer at least once in their lives. Apparently not him. So I have to go and try to replace the little plastic piece that tells you how much paper is left. He ripped it out of the machine thinking it was a lock on the drawer.

And yes, I also had to put the paper in for him.

Comments

[alphabeter.livejournal.com]

Hope you let a boss know.

If he can't wipe his ass, I wouldn't want him handling my money!

[sketchydave.livejournal.com]

If he was a tech, yeah thats a problem. But his job is to add and subtract and fortunately that requires 0 mechanical ability. Which is a very good thing.

[byh.livejournal.com]

I bet he had written in his CV "computer literate and willing to learn". If so then why not ask just about anyone how to load paper?

[alphabeter.livejournal.com]

So the monkey can use a calculator.

Whats sad is he probably gets more than you.

They must think its smarter to pay someone to shuffle the numbers around than to really pay someone to keep the toys working so they don't have to spend more on the 'special' people.

Stupidity-its a vicious circle.

[jecook]

Ouch. that's a neat trick.

Then there was the Color laser printer that was THREE DAYS OLD that I had to tear apart the fuser on because the lusers tried running an iron on transfer through it... ::rolls eyes::

[the-s-guy.livejournal.com]

Sounds like there's a need for a training session for that group, so that their "valuable time" isn't wasted looking for a three-year-old when the printer runs out of paper, and they don't keep putting multi-thousand-dollar equipment out of commission.

[sigurther.livejournal.com]

Hope that's at least coming out of his paycheck.