Well not quite. I did manage to unjam the heavy duty stapler with a pair of scissors and two paperclips.
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Heh that's so funny. I'm the one in our office who can unjam staplers or the copier. Yet I'm not AT ALL mechanically inclined.A lion however, will only devour your corpse, whereas an SC is not sated until they have destroyed your soul. (Quote per infinitemonkies)
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I've done my share of that.
Also I was once pressed into training new hires how to unjam the photocopier. One of the first things I showed them was to heed the warnings on various parts--they were real and not just to make it hard to sue.I'm trying to see things from your point of view, but I can't get my head that far up my keister!
Who is John Galt?
-Ayn Rand, Atlas Shrugged
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Same here.
I have two male managers who are NOT mechanically inclined, bless their hearts. I've done that with my old heavy duty stapler more times than I couldn't count until the poor thing got to the point where it basically wouldn't unjam.
Gave it to Grasshopper, he fiddled with it for maybe a full minute, gave up and gave me a new stapler in the box.
Just don't ask me to fix the baler . . . it's way bigger than me and the pull down door has a bad habit of jamming up. And guess what the baler decided to do today after one of the stockers had just made a bale and reset everything (including the chains in the back and laying down a large flat piece of cardboard sheet)
If you guessed the door jammed up and wouldn't come back down, you get a cookie.
And of course, it couldn't have happened to anyone else but our notorious Butt-Head, who came back there w/a cart full of boxes to crush.
In typical Butthead (more like Boomerhauer-ese) fashion, he mumbles "DG the doorbrooke again" as he's fiddling with the door trying to get it down.
"I don't know, Butthead. Shortstuff just made a bale. It was fine just a few minutes ago before you came along and broke the thing again."
Outside of the baler, I can work on a stapler/handhelds/fiddle with software on the workstations (most notably Word, as I've have had the occasion to play secretary/typist for a manager or two during the years) fiddle with the all in one office printer/copier/scanner in the office. Pretty much anything office equipment-y and I'll take a stab at it but if I can't fix it, you had better call the Helpless Desk to get a tech out here (and that will usually take 2 days to get someone to come by and attempt to either fix it or totally FUBAR it.)Human Resources - the adult version of "I'm telling Mom." - Agent Anthony "Tony" DiNozzo (NCIS)
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