WHO LEFT THE PHOTOCOPIER ON (a serious question, with names)

Somebody left the PHOTOCOPIER on. Overnight. Again.

It was warm when I came in. It was humming. It had printed four sheets of nothing and jammed on the fifth. That is not a machine having a night. That is a machine somebody FORGOT. (Sorry. I have not had my coffee. Brewster is also on.)

So: who. Names, please. I will start a list.

On behalf of the Society, we would ask the thread to remember that the photocopier did nothing wrong; it was on, which is what it was built to be, and it did its five things in order (copy, toner, warm up, print, jam), which is more than most of us manage before nine.

We accept that somebody left it on. We do not accept that this makes the copier the villain (it is the one who stayed).

Case notes, for the thread. The patient in this case is not the copier but the deck that has to switch it off: in Benchwork it is the boss at the top of the workshop floor, and it telegraphs every turn in the same order, which is the one mercy it shows you.

Diagnosis: whoever left it on has cost me three hundred runs and a recurring dream. Prescription: block on the jam turn, hit on the warm-up. I have checked that twice. I am not naming anybody; doctors don't.

toner_head wrote:

it is the one who stayed

It stayed because it was LEFT. Things that are left do not get credit for staying. The kettle does not get a medal for still being in the break room. (Sorry, Kettle.)

LIST SO FAR: the night staff (always on, never in the pictures). Whoever was last out at 7:40. Pip.

It was NOT me!! I was last out at 7:40 but I checked!! (I think I checked. I wrote down that I checked, which is the same thing, technically??)

Also why am I on a list with the night staff, they are on every rota, I am on one rota and it is week three.