The company kindly requests you refrain from breaking the photocopier during the office party. This article is great. Office repair calls go up 25% for the holidays.
I was talking to someone that I was talking to at work. Out of the blue he says I wonder if I can copy my butt. He swings up onto the platten and presses the button and it doesn’t move. All that happened before I could react. The repair guy had to replace a broken wire that moved the platten.
…one thing leads to another and the next thing you know, your testicles are glued to a hamster and you’ve cracked a filling. We’ve all been there, haven’t we?
I did. I was doing a project for a class, and I photocopied various body parts of mine and did some writing with it. I didn’t sit on the glass, though. I held myself mere millimeters from it and hit the button. It was very acrobatic of me, if I do say so myself, and the result is nicely obscure. When you sit right down on it, the level of detail is somewhat unappealing, I must say.
I used to work at a copier dealer/repair place, and we had one customer that had two consistent problems – a jamming document feeder, and an insistence that the metering was wrong and he was paying way more for his toner contract than was normal.
After several trips out there to repair the feeder and double-check the t-meter, the repair guy figured out what was going on, when he found several hundred copies of the bottom of a Tim Horton’s box (solid black everywhere else, because the lid was up, natch) in the trash.
Turned out that the cleaning crew was warming up their doughnuts at night by putting them on the copier and running lots of copies.
How f*d up can you get? Don’t they know people put their asses on that glass?
Oh we could trade stories! I worked at one of the bigger copier resellers in the Seattle area.
People don’t seem to realize that glass isn’t much thicker than old fasion window or picture glass.
There are also the toner clean-up calls that are either so stupid you want to go remove the air they’re wasting from the building or so funny you have trouble finishing the call.
One woman called in tears because she got toner on her “Pooh Shoes” I wonder if she had a pair for tinkle too.
But the mere mention of sitting on photocopiers (along with testicle and cracked references), brings to mind this (alleged) office surveillance video. It always slays me