Writes James in Chesterfield, Virginia: “Poor Fayette didn’t know that you must remove staples before feeding paper into the copier. Even though she is 70 years old and always brings fresh brownies on Fridays for everyone in the office, someone still felt the need to publicly (and anonymously) humiliate her.”
You know, because a simple “the copier is broken” would leave just too many unanswered questions.
related: Graham, this means you
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#1
Jennifer
Poor Fayette. Those Chesterfield folks can be downright snobby! If she worked in Henrico, she would have been spared the shame…
Dec 19, 2009 at 10:59 pm rating: 3
#2
grifyn
No one anticipated the day that their Fresh Friday brownie source would run dry.
Dec 19, 2009 at 10:59 pm rating: 32
#3
Anonymous Rex
Dude, seriously.
My elderly boss is forever accidentally trying to fax documents to 3 or whatnot because he keeps for getting how to operate our 4-in-1 machine–and then saying “This dang machine is acting up!” when he doesn’t get the copies he wanted.
But despite the aggravation involved in dropping everything to cancel his fake faxes because the error noise make us all stabby, nobody is out there trying to crush his spirit with misspelled call-out notes, man.
Fucking LIVE with it, Massengil.
Dec 19, 2009 at 11:03 pm rating: 39
#4
Hrm
Humiliating? Really? Unless this woman has the thinnest skin ever I hardly think “She broke the copier” is the office equivalent of being sent to the stocks.
Dec 19, 2009 at 11:05 pm rating: 0
#5
Silhouette
One hopes that James removed the note right after he took the picture and replaced it with another that didn’t name names. Otherwise, his concern over embarrassing a sweet little old lady seems thin.
Easier to mock the meanie internationally by taking a picture and emailing this site than to print another note?
Dec 19, 2009 at 11:12 pm rating: 27
#6
JJ
what an a$$hole
Dec 19, 2009 at 11:14 pm rating: 5
#7
obstacle
Incredibly rude. Anyone who does that is obviously countering their own feelings of inadequacy.
Dec 19, 2009 at 11:37 pm rating: 4
#8
infant tyrone
So what’s so hard about lifting up cover and putting paper on glass?
Glass grow teeth recently ?
Glass got that Swine Flu now ?
Spoiled, ungrateful heathens !
We useta dream of havin’ ta lift the cover and put a page on the glass.
And if we’d'a had a cover + glass, we’d'a worshiped the ground…
Sister Fayette remembers the bad old days…that was takin’ your page(s) down to grouchy Brother Erasmus, takin’ a vow of patience, and waitin’…
Come to think of it, Sister Fayette might *not* remember those days.
Dec 19, 2009 at 11:41 pm rating: 23
#9
debkatz
methinks Fayette will be putting something extra into the brownies next Friday…
Dec 19, 2009 at 11:43 pm rating: 5
#10
Tim Kolb
First will comes the public humility. Next will come the spitball attacks. Later, the duct taping of her office chair to the ceiling.
Dec 19, 2009 at 11:46 pm rating: 10
#11
Geek Goddess
No, Fayette didn’t really break the copier. If she broke it thoroughly, completely, once and for all, nobody would be putting papers on the glass to make copies, an emergency doctor would be picking glass splinters out of her bum, and we would be seeing a completely different ‘note’, complete with photocopies of body parts, here.
Dec 19, 2009 at 11:56 pm rating: 9
#12
KayOkay
Maybe it was Fayette who left the note, writing in third person!
Dec 19, 2009 at 11:59 pm rating: 7
#13
Canthz_B
The brownies tasted funny the following week.
Thankfully, Fayette didn’t break the toilets.
Oops! Sorry, debkatz (#9).
Dec 20, 2009 at 12:13 am rating: 0
#14
Katie
Yes, this anonymous asshole doesn’t know how to use spell check.
Dec 20, 2009 at 2:37 am rating: 1
#15
Jessica
OMG, that is shameless. What a rotten jerk!
Dec 20, 2009 at 3:18 am rating: 0
#16
infant tyrone
How did You get picked for this?
Merit?
Lottery?
Longest commute*?
Name farthest from Aaron**?
Penultimate person to break the copier?
And why hold the paper until the repair is made?
Copier repair isn’t always a same day affair, y’know…Well, You knows.
*Don’t forget, You lives in Raleigh (on the Wolfline, y’all)
**(Zelda got RIFFed.)
Dec 20, 2009 at 7:44 am rating: 0
#17
Critical Grass
I bet Fayette was the one who took the extra special swingline stapler too! Oh, we have to tell that to Miss Place. She’ll be so pissed…
Dec 20, 2009 at 8:22 am rating: 2
#18
Havingfitz
Why do I get the feeling someone’s about to get a mouthful of staples come next Brownie Friday?
Dec 20, 2009 at 9:31 am rating: 6
#19
Julia
Yes, Fayette broke the copier. But at least when Fayette did it, she didn’t break the glass panel from trying to Xerox her buttocks!
(Though that would be quite the sight!)
Dec 20, 2009 at 10:24 am rating: 0
#20
susitna
Poor Fayette. She now suffers more public humiliation at the hands of James. Now far more people than just a few office employees know that Fayette doesn’t know about the necessity of staple removal because she’s old. Shame on James!
Dec 20, 2009 at 11:56 am rating: 0
#21
Not Fayette
I wouldn’t eat next week’s brownies if I were you…
Dec 20, 2009 at 1:41 pm rating: 2
#22
The Copier Guy...
In my 22 years of being a copier repairman, I most vividly remember being called out to remove a paper jam, only to find a crunched up copy of some guy’s naked hairy buttocks. I gave the copy to the key operator and said, “Good luck finding out who the ass is that jammed the copier.”
The second worst ‘ass’ incident was being called out to clean up broken glass and blood from a copier that obviously had been sat on. Thankfully I had brought rubber gloves and methyl hydrate.
Far too many times, I have wanted to leave notes more scathing than this.
Dec 20, 2009 at 5:35 pm rating: 14
#23
Meg C.
Fayette is planning a new ingredient in those brownies for next Friday, for sure…
Dec 20, 2009 at 8:03 pm rating: 0
#24
oi
So is it true? now Fayette will be making funny brownies? isn’t that surprise? I mean have you heard that one before?
Dec 20, 2009 at 8:48 pm rating: 3
#25
Michelle
I think this is the meanest note I have seen here yet.
Dec 21, 2009 at 10:55 am rating: 1
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