Today, I Killed a Tree

[Andara Bledin]

As my title says, I do whatever it is my boss gets in his head that he wants me to do.

Yesterday, the instruction was to print out everything on a website, including the sites in the links. There were only five links, so that should be too hard, right?

Today, late this afternoon, I took an hour to get the first four done. It took over a ream and a half of paper, and the print itself took two hours.

He has a computer at his house. He has a laptop. I could save the pages for him so that he could read them any time he wanted, but no. I have to print out hard copies of everything.

I didn't even try to start the fifth site on the list. I took a quick glance at it, and it promises to be more involved than the first four put together!

*sob*

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[justZu]

He wanted you to print out entire websites? Does he have anything approaching a good reason, or does he just not understand the concept of bookmarks?

[Rapscallion]

If it linked to Google, you're in trouble...

Rapscallion

[protege]

...or a certain railroad site titled "Fallen Flags." Several thousand locomotive and freight car photos, plus the locomotive manuals, schedules and other stuff...might take a few months and several dozen boxes of paper.

*hopes the boss doesn't find that site*

[Andara Bledin]

No. Nothing that links to Google (I'd refuse on the grounds that I know what I'm doing better than he does), and no image-intensive sites, either.

It's some site about verious western, eastern, and alternative treatments for cancer. The last one from the links appears to have about 15 different sections, and each section has at least a dozen subsections. This is going to eat a huge massive chunk out of my day.

Oh, yeah. And we're low on paper in the office... down to our last case... and the person who gets the paper is out until next week.... >.<

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[AirHostess]

Poor tree

[Shabo]

Well, when you do run out of paper, you can politely chide your boss for making you use the last of it... then point out there are other ways to view websites besides printing them out.

I will admit, if I am doing a research paper, I have to print it all out. I can't focus when I'm staring at a computer screen. But I try to cut and paste what I need if the pages/articles are really long, and I put my research into recycle afterwards.

[digilight]

Is your boss by any chance an attorney. This sounds like something that attorneys do (I've seen alot of web printouts included in case exhibits and whatnot over the last few years).

[MadMike]

At least he didn't tell you to print out the entire internet.

[Irving Patrick Freleigh]

Thanks to corporate policy, we have to kill trees anytime we want to make signs to put up in the backroom.

We used to dig old signs out of the trash (the large 7x11 ones), or pieces of paper that had been written on one side, and use the other side to make instructional signs, signs for backroom locations, directional signs, etc. Now corporate policy dictates that any signs we make must be typed and computer-generated. Just because it looks more purty that way.

[Rolling Star]

I will admit, if I am doing a research paper, I have to print it all out. I can't focus when I'm staring at a computer screen. But I try to cut and paste what I need if the pages/articles are really long, and I put my research into recycle afterwards.

I do that all the time. If something is more than 3 pages, I'll cut it down any way I can to conserve paper. I hate wasting paper...

[Andara Bledin]

I'm still printing that stupid thing. I got about 50 pages out on Wednesday, then the site locked up my browser, and I was busy, so I never got back to it. Was out yesterday.

I still have at least a ream's worth of wasted paper to go on it.

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