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    Heading into the end of the year, We reviewed our IT budget and discovered enough extra cash to accomplish a task we wanted to do for years. Upgrade our printers. We had a variety of B&W laser printers(age, model, mfgr, condition), ink jet printers and several new color copiers/printers/scanners. We discovered we could get rid of all the ink jets and replace many of the old B&W printers with new laser printers.

    We got the Adm. Assts and managers together to determine printing needs and set off to create a plan. Myself, network guy and help desk guy were taking in hallway about some of the changes we recently made to our draft plan. In particular we were discussing the fact the some staff had their own ink jet, then 10 feet away another ink jet at the next desk and a under utilized thousand dollar printer sitting ide most of the time.

    Well, that was Friday AM. By Friday afternoon I had about 40 frantic emails/voice mails from users demanding to know why IT was taking their printers. Network guy and HD guy we all in similar situations. Seems someone overheard us, told someone else part of what they heard, who told someone else...

    We decided to kill the rumor and send a company wide email explain that yes, we will make changes to printing to save costs, what they are we don't know yet. Calm down. Well that didn't work as I got about 40 new emails just begging for me to give them a hint. I did a copy-and-paste reply to all of them, logged off for the day (hey, it was 4:54) and went home. I really am afraid to read my email Monday.

  • #2
    Mm. Don'tcha love rumors?
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    • #3
      Get your bosses permission, then send them an open reply " Don't worry. Naturally if we have to remove any printers, those closest to the rumormongers who are spreading lies would naturally be the first to go." Would be funny to see how many people suddenly have nothing to say that isnt directly work related.

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      • #4
        Quoth Teskeria View Post
        Get your bosses permission, then send them an open reply " Don't worry. Naturally if we have to remove any printers, those closest to the rumormongers who are spreading lies would naturally be the first to go." Would be funny to see how many people suddenly have nothing to say that isnt directly work related.
        Our Finance Director (my boss) and our HR head did indeed send a email telling everyone to SUTF until we tell them what is going happen, only then can that report to us if it will cause any legit problems.

        In reality, all we are doing is putting a networked printer or copier within a minute or less walk for most users, unless they have high volume or confidential printing needs. Poor things.

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        • #5
          I guess the question is, how are they supposed to get ink for their same printer at home now???? ...... Only slightly joking, had a boss who liked the bulk discount that the company got, which I guess would be fine if he was paying them for the cartridges he needed at home which I wasn't too sure on.

          I have this same problem with my mother, have a wonderful office jet or whatever it is in the front room that sits there because she wanted to buy the same printer her friend had instead of have me find one that was similar but had that wonderful think called network printing built in so her laptop works on it, Instead she uses my shared printer.
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          • #6
            Ugh.

            Rumors. Fun times.

            My company opened up a satellite warehouse in another state, and that somehow translated to "The company is moving out of state!"

            I work with a bunch of idiots.

            ^-.-^
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            • #7
              Gah. I remember when my last company was moving to the whole "no personal printers" bit. I didn't care, since I had no need for another thing on my tiny desk. However, I did work in a department that printed pretty much nothing other than confidential data (ie, payroll). The higher-ups wouldn't listen to us when we said that networked was fine, but the printer(s) had to be secured.

              We finally got the printers we needed when we threatened to start printing the executive payroll checks to the mail room....
              "If your day is filled with firefighting, you need to start taking the matches away from the toddlers…” - HM

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              • #8
                Send an office wide email like this one:

                It has come to the attention of the I.T. department that there is a rumor going around that printers are going to be removed from individual workstations. We would like to, at this point in time, make it perfectly clear that all printers in this office are company property and not owned by any individual.

                Should we decide to take such action, please be assured it is for the benefit of the company as a whole and the decisions are made at the discretion of the I.T. department and NOT at the individual users.

                <this part you might not want to put in, but it feels good to type it>

                To summarize, if we decide to remove a printer, that is our choice, one that is made with a lot more thought put into it than the average (l)user, and there is fat fuck all you can do about it.

                Have a nice day,
                Your I.T. department
                "Shoving I.T. up your ass."

                I AM the evil bastard!
                A+ Certified IT Technician

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                • #9
                  Big boss is considering a similar move. Except, I think I've got him convinced to add in an "except in IT" clause.
                  SC: “Yeah, Bob’s Company. I'm Bob. It's my company.” - GK
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                  • #10
                    Yay Story time:

                    It was way back in the grand old year of 2006. We decided to frak all the users and roll out high speed color high volume printers to each floor. Then yank all of the individual and small area printer. Most of these printers where HP LJ4s and older.

                    First the new shiny Color LJ printers went in. There was ohhs and ahhs. The the old crap came out. Some of these printers needed to be removed with crowbars because the lusers just would not give them up. Most of the time the main answer was;

                    "The printer is all the way over there."
                    "Its to far to walk."
                    "I have <random disability> I need a desktop printer."

                    Then we rolled out new shiny laserjet printers for speical people.

                    "Why does, <person who does HR> get their own printer and not me"
                    "This is so unfair, they don't need their own printer to do payroll"

                    Even after it was all said and done for months we got people whining.

                    "It takes to long to print to <a printer that does 200 pages a minute with a 400 page job> then walk over to get it. I need a <printer that does 20 pages a minute> next to my desk."

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                    • #11
                      Quoth Daskinor View Post
                      Some of these printers needed to be removed with crowbars because the lusers just would not give them up.
                      I'm assuming the crowbars were used in the Gordon Freeman manner?
                      Last edited by lordlundar; 11-19-2010, 08:53 PM.
                      I AM the evil bastard!
                      A+ Certified IT Technician

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                      • #12
                        Quoth Daskinor View Post
                        Some of these printers needed to be removed with crowbars because the lusers just would not give them up.
                        If I had to do this, I'd be removing the printers after hours.

                        Thankfully, IT doesn't buy people local printers. Each department is responsible for buying the printers, AND consumables. Heck, we don't even buy our own. When usable printers are removed from offices (like, upgrades), we can nab the printer. That's how I got a Laserjet 3330 All-In-One.

                        If an edict gets passed down that users can't have local printers, I really doubt that we'll pull them out of offices, but just wait for them to die.

                        And maybe help them along a little.
                        SC: “Yeah, Bob’s Company. I'm Bob. It's my company.” - GK
                        SuperHotelWorker made my Avi!!

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                        • #13
                          Quoth lordlundar View Post
                          I'm assuming the crowbars were used in the Gorgon Freeman manner?
                          Gordon.

                          Shame on you.

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                          • #14
                            Quoth roothorick View Post
                            Gordon.

                            Shame on you.
                            Freudian slip,

                            And fixed.
                            I AM the evil bastard!
                            A+ Certified IT Technician

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                            • #15
                              Quoth Daskinor View Post
                              "The printer is all the way over there."
                              "Its to far to walk."
                              "I have <random disability> I need a desktop printer."
                              When my office finally 'consolidated' (fancy word really meaning "got rid of the shit") our printing services, we got one large HP laser jet printer, but put it on the other side of the room. Why? Well, for one, that was the only place it would really fit. For another, that's because the boss told me to put it there. For months after that, several people bitched and moaned about having to "walk all the way over there" to get their reports.

                              My reaction? Cry me a fucking river. We're talking a move of less than 5 feet. At least the main printer you use is on the same floor. To get my trade reports, I have to go down a floor, and hope that the dot-matrix POS didn't jam up again. Do you see me complaining? Shut the fuck up.
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