by the end of the first 2 weeks of my internship last summer i was cursing "die, copier", after the first month i was cursing "die, scanner"...they just didn't like me.
Liz, beloved, I am thinking you have probably not been in the middle of a "three hundred copies, double-sided, 180 page, TOC plus index, collate and sort the manuals, and the shipping company is here to get them off to Japan by five o'clock" deadline run, and had the machine go bananas on you.....
Oh, well, see. This is one of the times where the evil = sexy rule does not hold, because copiers are too large and boxy to properly fit into any leather pants. Good, working, not-screwing-up copiers are sexy. Bad ones are just sort of lumpish and irritating and boring.
You know what's great, though? Postage machine. I spend hundreds every week through the one at work, I do a lot of mailing. It allows me to feel very extravagant.
I got permission from the senior partners, back when I ran a lawfirm, to send out manuscripts on their dime. I don't think they realised what it costs to send essentially a ream of paper via overnight mail.
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Date: 2003-07-03 06:06 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2003-07-03 06:29 pm (UTC)Man, nothing brings out the Luddite in me faster than large expensive office equipment.
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Date: 2003-07-03 07:39 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2003-07-03 08:23 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2003-07-03 09:53 pm (UTC)Liz, beloved, I am thinking you have probably not been in the middle of a "three hundred copies, double-sided, 180 page, TOC plus index, collate and sort the manuals, and the shipping company is here to get them off to Japan by five o'clock" deadline run, and had the machine go bananas on you.....
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Date: 2003-07-03 11:42 pm (UTC)You know what's great, though? Postage machine. I spend hundreds every week through the one at work, I do a lot of mailing. It allows me to feel very extravagant.
mmmm, postage machines....
Date: 2003-07-03 11:45 pm (UTC)