Thursday, September 20, 2007

The Printer-Paper Connection

What is it with the people who tell you, usually just by shouting the single word "paper" at your back, that the printer needs more paper, but then stand directly in front of the printer so that you cannot open the paper drawer and insert the stack of paper without asking them to move? Do they think the paper will magically teleport into the printer? That it will disappear from your hands and the print jobs will start coming out?

If only! I would love it if I could just mentally will the paper into the printer from the shelf upon which it is stored. How nice would that be when you're on the phone with a patron and you've got another patron at the printer shouting at you that it's out of paper and demanding immediate service? It would be sweet.

I would like to give the printer blockers the benefit of the doubt and think that perhaps, just maybe, they think the paper doesn't go into the front of the printer, but the back or side. But these people are invariably the ones who have made sure the printer is out of paper by pulling out the paper drawer.

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