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[–] [email protected] 26 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Imagining a bunch of guys in polos posted up on the corner. "Hey bro, I'll install your printer, $10".

[–] [email protected] 35 points 3 weeks ago (3 children)

I don't care how desperate things get. I will NOT do printer work.

[–] janus2 19 points 3 weeks ago (3 children)

I'm more desperate and will do the printer work

[–] [email protected] 17 points 3 weeks ago

Cheap labor in a nutshell

[–] [email protected] 6 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)
[–] janus2 5 points 3 weeks ago

🥵 please daddy let me siphon the ink out of the used printer cartridges to fill up my aftermarket resettable cartridges

[–] [email protected] 6 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

But will you install the printer......naked?

clicks a remote, and the room gets dark with a blacklight disco ball, and Barry White playing

I've taken the liberty of purchasing two snickers bars.....one for you.......one for daddy!

[–] janus2 5 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

sweet! relaxed dress code, free music and snacks, and a family workplace culture!? this is what us millenials want for our careers after all!

[–] [email protected] 7 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

How do printers get so fucked up?

Relatively new in IT and think they must mess up more than anything else

[–] [email protected] 6 points 3 weeks ago

Couple of things that I've observed. It's a combo of shit design and poor human behavior.

-the ones in an office setting take an absolute fuck ton of abuse from people who can't reload paper or replace an ink cartridge; I have seen punching and slamming on the regular -as a corollary to the above, no one fucking trains workers on copiers. The workers have to figure it out on their own. Violence is a natural response. -as a secondary corollary to the above, you can absolutely fuck with hated colleagues by removing their names from the user list simply by using the manual keypad (or changing the name from TooBeeSan to TooBeeNasty) -the ones in a home setting are persnicketty about color toner and are shit at Bluetooth connections (and thus also take a fuck ton of abuse)

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 weeks ago

Nothing more commonly fruitful than a misconfigured print server.