Paper faeries?

[dalesys]

I want to disremember the first gummeration of copiers, and how finicky they were... Often only one end of a ream would feed, if and only if you had the "right" side up and had fanned the ream without bending any of the sheets... or their edges.

This can be why some old farts want a properly annointed priest/priestess of papier to refill the tray.

[mharbourgirl]

I want to disremember the first gummeration of copiers, and how finicky they were... Often only one end of a ream would feed, if and only if you had the "right" side up and had fanned the ream without bending any of the sheets... or their edges.

This can be why some old farts want a properly annointed priest/priestess of papier to refill the tray.

I'm trying really hard not to remember just how messy it was ADDING toner to the early copiers. Or how miserably slow they were. Finicky is putting it mildly, innit?

I don't have to worry about paper faeries anymore. We have two multifunction machines in my office. The machines are my responsibility, and I take it as seriously as I take everything else. Too seriously, that is. My co-workers are well-trained in the art of putting more paper in the machines. In the right trays, even! They're pretty bright, I gotta say. I keep the toner cartridges locked up just in case, but they're all too afraid of me to dare doing anything more than add paper to the machine. See, the only time they've ever seen me lose my shit is when the machines are acting up, and since they're Xerox machines (not my idea, stupid corporate company-wide contracts), they act up all the time. Me going postal over some new quirk of the copier isn't a pretty site, and they'd all like to avoid seeing it again, so they don't mess with stuff they don't understand. I'm like, 'You have a Ph.D. in geology. If I have questions about rocks or groundwater, I'll be all over you. I, however, am a professional office administrator, and when it comes to office stuff, I am God. I won't tell you how to analyse strata, you let ME do MY job.' Worked out well so far.

[Pagan]

I'm trying really hard not to remember just how messy it was ADDING toner to the early copiers. Or how miserably slow they were. Finicky is putting it mildly, innit?

Still streaks ahead of a mimeograph machine.

I was a student employee in the Biology dept office when I was in college. This means that I got to make a stencil (the ozone that came out of that thing!), put it on the mimeograph, make the copies, put 'em in the coallator (huge behemoth of a thing), coallate, staple, stack.

No so bad for one or two, but come finals week, I'd be doing upwards of 300 copies, 10 pages each for the intro sections and 7 or 8 other exams, anywhere from 4 pages up and around 100 copies. My hands were so full of paper cuts by the end of that that the soap I used to get the mimeo ink off with stung really bad.

[fma_fanatic]

I'm trying really hard not to remember just how messy it was ADDING toner to the early copiers. Or how miserably slow they were. Finicky is putting it mildly, innit?

I don't have to worry about paper faeries anymore. We have two multifunction machines in my office. The machines are my responsibility, and I take it as seriously as I take everything else. Too seriously, that is. My co-workers are well-trained in the art of putting more paper in the machines. In the right trays, even! They're pretty bright, I gotta say. I keep the toner cartridges locked up just in case, but they're all too afraid of me to dare doing anything more than add paper to the machine. See, the only time they've ever seen me lose my shit is when the machines are acting up, and since they're Xerox machines (not my idea, stupid corporate company-wide contracts), they act up all the time. Me going postal over some new quirk of the copier isn't a pretty site, and they'd all like to avoid seeing it again, so they don't mess with stuff they don't understand. I'm like, 'You have a Ph.D. in geology. If I have questions about rocks or groundwater, I'll be all over you. I, however, am a professional office administrator, and when it comes to office stuff, I am God. I won't tell you how to analyse strata, you let ME do MY job.' Worked out well so far.

If you remember the opening scene of 9 to 5, we had one of those copiers in our elementary school and I know the ladies in the office hated it with a passion.