See, if you knew everything, you'd be up there too
- TAGS:executive, printer
- IT TOPICS:Hardware, Management
Support tech pilot fish is called into an upper-management office for an emergency printer call: "My printer is no longer printing and I need immediate assistance!"
Fish hustles up to the executive floor, where he's relieved to discover the problem machine isn't networked. You have a stand-alone printer, so this should be no big deal, he tells the exec.
"I do not have a stand-alone printer," exec huffs. "It's attached to my computer."
And the actual problem? Sighs fish, "Stand-alone printers will print much faster if they actually have paper. On to my next call..."
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