Printer Raid
How Not to Update Old Printers and Fax Machines
A Printer Raid by the IT Department
They came in and took every desktop printer in our department.
“It felt like the FBI came in and raided us.” They took antique fax machines too. Are we supposed to reprint all of our blank forms with new fax numbers?
Stressed voices raised their concerns. Shell-shocked faces walked around the office. Some lamented, “Why didn’t they warn us it was today?”
The IT department came in prepared for war. They towed double-decker carts and big bins on wheels.
The powers from above decided all personal printers shall be scrapped — and so it was
The new and fancy ginormous Volkswagen, I mean printer; cost me 23 minutes trying to print a screenshot onto one page. That’s preposterous in this day and age. The elephant sized networked share printer couldn’t do it.
I walked back and forth too many times to count. What should have been one black and white page, kept printing over 2–4 pages color double-sided.
Someone else couldn’t get it to print lined up labels and spent 27 minutes walking back and forth to the elephant in the room.
