“My buddy has to share his office with the only color printer on the floor,” says Murray in Birmingham, Alabama.
(Based on this note, I wouldn’t be surprised if he shared his office with a Louisville Slugger, too.)
related: Yes, it’s a longer walk to the copier. Yes, it’s a shorter walk to the bathroom.
extra credit: Office Space Printer Montage [vimeo.com]
47 responses so far ↓
#1
Quite Contrary
I used to sit near the ladies room. The mens room was in an odd location relative to the ladies room. Thinking the mens room was in an obvious location near the womens room, people would ask me where the men’s room was. They finally stopped when I started answering, “I don’t know. I’ve never been in it.”
Oct 12, 2011 at 10:14 pm rating: 38
#2
tyler
first!……. and i feel his pain
Oct 12, 2011 at 10:14 pm rating: 1
#3
tyler
nevermind… only second and third..
Oct 12, 2011 at 10:15 pm rating: 1
#4
ansco
Did you check the ink cartridge? I noticed that wasn’t on the list. How about the paper tray is it empty? Did you try the reset button? Huh, well did you? Did I.T. have a replacement one use in the mean time? Did you ask? Well huh. I can go on an on if this was in my office, I’d deliberately try to drive this guy crazy after I read that note.
Oct 12, 2011 at 10:18 pm rating: 32
#5
Jenn
perhaps but what proof do they have???
Oct 12, 2011 at 10:21 pm rating: 2
#6
Mishee™
They are lucky the note is handwritten, cause if it was printed out I would’ve called bullshit.
Oct 12, 2011 at 10:43 pm rating: 47
#7
Jay
Baz – I was thinking the exact same thing. Obviously if they’ve asked her once, they are not going to ask again whether she said “it’s on the other side of the floor” or “I don’t know, I’ve never been in it.” Both responses = no question from this questioner next time. Maybe she just thought she was being clever and it never occurred to her that the people who got a straight answer from her also never asked again.
Oct 12, 2011 at 11:17 pm rating: 3
#8
matt
This is not PA. There are no personal attacks, barbed comments, no sabotage and no excessive exclamation mark use. It is just pre-empting the questions people will natural want to ask if the machine isn’t working.
Oct 12, 2011 at 11:54 pm rating: 5
#9
Tesstarosa
I think the “Yes, it’s really not working” as the first item on the list makes it PA.
Oct 13, 2011 at 12:45 am rating: 22
#10
Canthz_B
See, I told you Donald Rumsfeld would land on his feet!!
Oct 13, 2011 at 1:44 am rating: 3
#11
expire
The person should have that note printed in colour (I’m thinking that rainbow ‘word art’ from msword) just to really mess with everyone
Oct 13, 2011 at 5:31 am rating: 3
#12
nick
This could SO be my note. I have the misfortune of sitting right next to the copier/printer/fax in our office, with absolutely NO sound barrier around it, so the noise alone puts me close to my snapping point on most days. Then, whenever it jams, needs paper, needs toner, or someone just doesn’t know how to use it, they assume that I am able to help them, solely based on my proximity to the stupid piece of crap.
Oct 13, 2011 at 8:09 am rating: 26
#13
Kim
I lol’d because I’m dealing with a similar issue this morning. Elevator next to my desk decided to stop working. I contacted Operations and put an ‘Out of Order’ sign with a note that Operations were aware of the problem onto the elevator doors. And everyone is still asking me if anyone has been notified. *head desk*
Oct 13, 2011 at 8:17 am rating: 9
#14
baseball sue
As someone who sits next to the copier, I completely understand the note. I have advanced degrees in my field so that I don’t HAVE to deal with copiers on a regular basis. Sitting next to the copier is my own personal hell. And each and every day, I field questions about said copier, usually answering “I don’t know” which surprisingly pisses people off.
Oct 13, 2011 at 8:31 am rating: 21
#15
The Elf
Why is it that the printer always breaks whenever I have something to print that cannot wait? Then I rush down to the other printer, and that one is broken too. Then I go to another floor, and that one is broken. Oh, there have been days when I’ve wanted to pull an Office Space.
The printers and I have a love/hate relationship. Okay, more like hate/hate. Since I’m at the printer fiddling with it most often, people have assumed I have some mystical way to fix it. I don’t. I don’t even have keys to the supply cabinet to change the toner. I completely sympathize with this note. Totally passive-aggressive, but so totally accurate too.
Oct 13, 2011 at 9:12 am rating: 8
#16
HAHA
I seriously feel this guy’s pain. Last corporate job I had, the main printer was located right next to my department’s Dilbert city..People would jam the copier and walk away, need paper and ask us, need toner and ask us, need help and ask us. Our department wasn’t called The Printer Assistance department. One of the boneheads that worked for me wasted more time being helpful to the printer deficient people..Finally had to put up a similar note directing people to fix it, supply it, copy things all by-your-overpaid self AND have a talk with my time wasting employee. Finally had the powers to be move it to the other side of the call center. We had our own printer anyway.
Oct 13, 2011 at 9:58 am rating: 6
#17
Somebody Else
Team Note-Writer, but I’m deducting points because he didn’t group all of the Yes comments together. He would have gotten a perfect score if only he had organized his thoughts more thoroughly …
Oct 13, 2011 at 12:47 pm rating: 3
#18
Ashley
Well they all seem like answers to valid questions.
I’ve come across things at work that are “out of order”, I seem to be the only one that questions these things. Sometimes all I have to do is plug it back into the wall or make a simple help desk phone call. Some people are lazy and dumb.
Oct 13, 2011 at 7:43 pm rating: 8
#19
Mark
I’m glad I clicked on the vimeo link just for the three months of troll-feeding in the comments about the rap music on the clip’s soundtrack. It was fascinating and disturbing, like a train smashing into a Dunkin Donuts.
Oct 14, 2011 at 11:37 pm rating: 0
#20
Matthew
Lol, I like the lord one. Most Americans don’t know the difference between ‘Your’ and “You’re’
The office one is cute too. We all I.T. people are tired of asking the same questions again and again about broken printers in the office.
Oct 18, 2011 at 10:04 am rating: 0
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