I’m not a big fan of practical jokes, but that one’s actually making me chuckle out loud at the thought of someone standing at the printer, telling it to make five copies. 
I’m trying to quit my temp job today (tired of living on ice packs, hot compresses, and painkillers), and of course my temp agency isn’t returning my call (which is the norm - it takes a couple of days and multiple calls to actually speak with someone there). Stupid agency. Stupid temp job. Stupid needing to work for a living instead of being independently wealthy. 
And if it works, there’s someone surfed into the copier, telling it to make copies.
The point is to sit and laugh at the folks trying to use the voice control.
‘Five copies on legal’
nothing
‘FIVE copies on LEGAL’
nothing
‘FIVE COPIES ON LEGAL FIVE COPIES ON LEGAL FIVE COPIES ON LEGAL’
nothing
:smack:
We have two overgrown fratboys in that room, I now know whom to suspect.
Roddy
Hmph. It’s more fun if you can make it spit out the five copies on legal… sometimes.
Hmph. I’ve been too busy to surf the Dope much today and didn’t see this until it was too late to implement it here. Considering my grandboss’s idea of an April Fool’s Joke was to message one of my co-workers sisters and tell her that [young, unmarried Co-Worker] is pregnant …
(Yes. She really did that. Thankfully, co-worker’s sister knew what day it was, and knows my grandboss’s sense of humor, and laughed at her.)
Aww, MAN! I was off work today, too! I am so saving this for next year.
Apparently, today was quite fun: they put toilet paper and cans on the boss’ car, they hid the manager’s chairs, and they put salt in someone’s coffee pot. They made two pots of coffee and put his name on one: he took the other. The one with his name on it was fine: the other one had about 30 packets of salt in it. He took his first drink while on a conference call. 
NONONO!!! Don’t mess with coffee!!!
I’m good with April fools day, I’m good with pranks for people who pull pranks, but messing with the coffee is totally out of bounds.
For my rant…I work for the government. Our computers get upgraded every 5 years. I now have Windows 7, which I love. Our very old Zebra printer doesn’t work with W7. I have to do all my label printing from older comps now (which is a major pain) and when I complained, I was told that it would take all of the office comps to be W7 before they would buy a new label printer for the office.
I offered to buy a small personal label printer with my money, the same little lable printers that are on desks everywhere but in the warehouse and was told no.
Their reasoning was that if I had asked the person who does purchasing for the county to order one for me, and it came in a sealed package to her, MY printer might have malware or something and its not allowed.
Well, I quit my job by email yesterday. I suppose at some point they’ll actually get in touch with me. I don’t really care, actually - I’m working two days next week, then I’m not going there any more. They can get in touch with me or not.
Dear co-workers from far-off exotic lands:
Please do not blow your nose into the sink, especially while standing several feet away. At least not while I’m watching.
And if you absolutely must make a withdrawal from your booger-vault, please have the decency to rinse it down the drain. The last thing I want to see while I am attempting to wash my hands is one of your snot-rockets slowly petrifying on the counter.
Thanks!
That is beyond gross.
:barf:
Now clean that, young woman!
Soap Opera Boy has blocked his wife from Facebook. She’s talking about betrayal and stuff. I’m not friends with her, but I read her reply to a friend’s post. I need to get off of Facebook.
So, how long do I wait for the return phone call, discussing why I have quit my assignment? Going on a day and a half now. I suspect she’s out of office, but didn’t bother to set any out-of-office notices on either her phone or her email. I’ll call again this afternoon and find out if she’s even got my messages yet. I friggin’ hate temp agency contacts who don’t return calls. My last one at this agency was great, then she went on maternity leave and the jerk I have now is terrible at returning calls, and never, ever picks up her phone.
You don’t have access to the idiot’s manager? Or a main number for the local office of the agency, where you could call and say, “PersonX isn’t returning my calls or emails and I have something urgent to discuss–could you please connect me to her manager”?
Side note: When someone isn’t getting back to me, I find it very helpful in my next email to include something along the lines of, “I’ll be looping your manager in on my next attempt to contact you in case you’re out of the office.” Never fails to get me an immediate response. (Or, I just forward the chain to their manager, asking if they can help me since the person they manage is apparently out.)
That’s my next call - getting re-directed to someone to tell me if she’s out or just her usual incompetent self. I have the ultimate trump, though - I just stop going to the assignment. That’ll probably get me a return call.
Cleaning out the office of my coworker who just left for greener pastures (in the “got another job” sense, not the “sent the dog to ‘live on the farm’” sense), I discovered why it felt we were always running low on certain supplies. The woman was a fucking packrat for certain things, especially notepads and binder clips. God damn, woman, thanks for making my life that much harder. (Among my many hats is being the purchaser for our office.) Bonus credit: She was the one who was always complaining that we didn’t have enough notepads. MAYBE YOU SHOULD HAVE CHECKED YOUR DRAWERS FOR THE DOZEN HALF-USED ONES YOU ALREADY HAD, BITCH.
I do miss her, though. 
When I respond to your email on how to get access to a specific system with:
- Fill out the form found here (with a URL) and CC your boss when submitting so he can approve it
- Here are the details that need to go into that form
- Once they’ve installed the software here is your user ID and password
- Do NOT forward this message as your user ID and password are included
WHY am I surprised when 2 hours later I receive an email from your boss saying “I approve” that when I read down the thread I discover you’ve done nothing more than forward my original email to your boss.
I’m tempted to reply “I’m sorry we’ve determined that you’re too stupid to have access”
Not only that, it sounds like the boss is too stupid to approve access.