Copier/Printer Courtesy

If a print job looks to have multiple pages, common sense AND common courtesy says to leave it be until the job is done.  Ensuring the job will have no pages missing OR out of place for the person who must pick it up.

Unfortunately, common sense and courtesy seem to be lacking in the work place.  Bits and pieces of print jobs floating on counters like flotsam cast on the ocean.  To the person picking up the bitter pieces of this mess, this is a slap in the face.  An irksome job that demands retribution.

As an Admin, I do have some recourse.  I have an in with IT.  I'm going to get a code put on the color printer.  Limiting it only to mine and my boss's use.  We'll see how long it takes for the obliviots of the company to understand the one simple and finite rule...

YOU DON'T SCREW WITH SOMEONE ELSE'S PRINT JOB!

The Paper Fairy Doesn't Live Here

oes the Admin Gal have wings?  Do you really want her visiting you when she finds 20 unprinted jobs stacked up on the printer and the only excuse was 'there was no paper?'

I hate to break it to you folks ... but there is no Paper Fairy!  There I said it!  There is no magical being who goes from printer to copier waving their magical wand, filling the paper trays as they skip merrily along.

NO - what you have is a very cranky, annoyed and pretty pissy Admin. Who can not fathom why her co-workers fingers are broken.  Or why their brain-pans are so small that they can not perform a function that a chimpanzee could master in minutes. (Oh, and the monkey would be bored)

It doesn't take any more time to put in a ream of paper than it does to to go back to your desk and print to another machine.

Do yourself and everyone else a favor - FILL THE PAPER TRAY.  It won't kill you, but the non-existent Paper Fairy might.