Tuesday, November 20, 2001

a script of one of my many conversations regarding work

*Sad little HP LaserJet 4Si dumping out hundreds of pages in my closet*
In walks the co-worker responsible for this.
Me: You know the front printer is much faster (30ppm instead of 6ppm).
Co-worker: Yeah but the front printer is broken. Megan told me to use this one.
Me: Did anybody tell me this?
Co-worker: No I don't think so it happened yesterday.
Me: Hmm let me take a look...(examines print queue where 50 jobs are bound up) Yep printer looks broken, it is throwing an error code.
I delete all the obviously duplicate jobs

So I go check out the printer... sure enough.. the copier functions work..but no printing...Oh look all the settings are gone. I start working on it.

In walks co-worker 2.
Co-worker2: You fixing the printer?
Me: Yep
Co-worker2: What's wrong with it?
Me: Doesn't seem to be talking to the network.
Co-worker2: Well the repair guy came and looked at it yesterday I think we should call him back.
Me: Yep if this doesn't do it.
Co-worker2: There is a big power switch here I thought about hitting it.
Me: Yep thought about that too.. first I am going to see about the embedded diagnostics.
Co-worker2: It has that?
Me: Yep that's what all these buttons and this little touch screen are all about.
Co-worker2: I think we should get the repair guy out again.
Me: Could be.

After waiting for the printer menu to come up (which nobody apparently had the time to do before) I choose "reboot server" The wait screen comes up.. and what do you know in 15 seconds it is printing again. By the time I get back to my chair the jobs piled up in the print queue are gone.

Gee why don't they ever ask me?

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