I added more qualifications and skills to my resume today. In the course of one hour this morning, I fixed the big network printer, fixed our new high-tech copier, and found a box of pipe fittings that nobody in the building had been able to find for two days. I feel so much more valuable now.
It's a never ending battle between our department and everyone else on the first floor that uses the manufacturing printer. It seems no one else knows how to load a new box of paper except our department. So what do they do? When that printer runs out of paper, they just use one of the purchasing department printers, and leave the other printer empty. We run reports from 8:00 until 4:30 all day long - if the hallway were carpeted, I'm sure our department would have worn a path to the printer. I'd guesstimate that 98% of the reports and information printed on this printer is from my production department. So when we go to the printer and find it out of paper, we don't mind loading a new box of paper since we use it the majority of the time. But it's the other 2% of usage that really hacks us off -- when someone else doesn't take the time and courtesy to load a new box of paper when they see the printer empty.
The paper we use in this printer has red on the edges of the last 20 or so pages, to ALERT the user that the paper is getting ready to run out. When one goes to get their report from the printer and sees the red on the edges of their report, the thoughtful thing to do would be to drag a [heavy] box of the paper over and load the printer, so the next user won't be forced to cuss when the paper runs out in the middle of their report. But no. This doesn't happen. I guess our department is just damned to eternal paper loading.
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