Notes I didn't think I would have to leave for my coworkers...

[eris esoteric]

This printer drawer is broken. Please do not put paper in this drawer until it is not broken. Thank you.

On the advice of my coworker, I refrained from any use of the "f" word, and any speculations about the intellectual capacity of people who would REPEATEDLY load a broken printer drawer.

[poseidon]

Oy vey.

Yes, you are not alone in the Stupid CoWorker Universe, Eris.

Back in the day (now I sound like an old fart) when I worked for a living, we were sharing printers. Our office of 60 shared three printers, everyone would be divided into zones.

We had people who would print their documents and leave them in the printer for hours at a time before coming to pick them up. So, you'd print something, and have to "find" it in this huge stack of paper.

Like clockwork, if you didn't run to get your paper as soon as it printed, someone else would come and do the following:

1. Take the entire stack back to their desk, and then take a few hours to peruse through the pile, leaving you wondering where the hell your print job went; or

2. Grab some paper, flip through it, see what they weren't looking for was in that stack, go grab another, do the same thing, grab another, etc. But, these morons weren't putting the paper back in the order it was printing out. So, if you've printed up, say, 40 sheets in one print job (which isn't unusual), you'd have to flip through every one of those damned piles looking for all the pages to your single document.

I got so fed up one day that I e-mailed the entire office, telling them to be a whole lot more courteous (not careful, courteous) when they pulled their print jobs, and to demonstrate some basic consideration for others and not waste everyone's already overtaxed time.

It took everything I could muster to avoid using profanity in that e-mail, too.

The hilarious thing is that everyone congratulated me for writing it, presumably even the offenders.

What was even funnier is that it stopped no one, and the farce continued.

I'm glad that I don't print to community printers anymore.

[Greenify13]

Well then I geuss that I am lucky that I use the printer that is within the confines of my office and I am the only one that uses it. Which is good because I myself can print 100 + worth out. Anyone fromthe outside offices and sections that need to use it have to ask me first, and they leave with all of their paperwork and only their paperwork.

[jenninca]

LOL - Our staff of 60 uses two printers, which are all the way across the building from EVERYONE'S classrooms. You can't leave your class to go running to the printer every time you print something, so there is always a stack of paper waiting.

The most annoying thing, though, is that it seems like something is always wrong with one of the printers, so you print, go down to get it, don't find it, go back, print to the other print, go down to get it, etc. I get my exercise on the days when I have stuff to print!

Cindy

[murasaki]

Nine of us share one printer; more when another of the community printers is down. I use another printer if I need to do something in color.

We're pretty polite. If you can tell to whom a document belongs (especially when people print out emails with their names at the top), we usually drop it by their office since we're all on the same corridor. Things don't tend to stack up that often; unlike the other floors, we don't have a "stuff no one picked up" box next to the printer.

[pippadaisy[$]]

You know what can help? One of those file holders...



Then you just sort the docs into the sections

[poseidon]

LOL, that's figuring that you can actually FIND the docs.

Our "in" boxes were right there in front of the printer. Unfortunately, it was oftentimes impossible to discover what printings belonged to whom.

[Greenify13]

Is there no possibility that you could put a header on some things. I mean if it is something that only you or your office is going to use if put a header or footer on it. It might make things a little easier to locate.

Christine

[poseidon]

Greenify13 said

Is there no possibility that you could put a header on some things. I mean if it is something that only you or your office is going to use if put a header or footer on it. It might make things a little easier to locate.

Christine

Not now, no, because I no longer work there.

Also, not now, no, because in the insurance biz, you want to be VERY CAREFUL about doing anything to change/manipulate incoming documents.

[marcus_tol]

People love printing marathon jobs where I am on the common printer. Would it kill them to print their 200 page manual outside of work hours? I seem to remember a system at a previous place that let you crank up the priority of your document and slip in your 1 page in the middle of their job....

[amykhar]

would you really want your one page in the middle of their 200?

I worked at a place that you could cancel other people's print jobs

[Helen_B[$]]

That has possibilites...

[mtbat]

eris, I left the same message more or less. it didnt help

Have I mentioned recently how happy I am that I no longer work in a hotel?