Electric Lib

The Joy of Copying

Oh work. Work, work work. With the promise of another paycheck, I was lured into work today (which for me generally means answering phones, typing letters or copying stuff at my mom's office, but don't underestimate me because it's my mom's office, I'm a very valuable worker!). Today my job was entirely copying. Kathy brought out three huge laywer-y files filled with more files filled with papers. Now, worst case scenario in copying goes as follows:

1) File is labelled with sticky note saying "all," which means every paper must be copied.

2) First clump of paper within the file is secured with a binder clip

3) When binder clip has been removed, large paper clip is revealed, separating the big clump into two piles.

4) Within the first of the two piles within the clump resides the biggest nightmare: giganitic staples which are not easily removed with staple remover (damn you, huge staples!).

5) Large staple has been removed and first pile is ready to be copied, but sadly, no. A little staple is found within the first pile and must be removed and then pile must be separated into two stacks.

6) Ready for copying! About to press start, oh... Out of the five million pages, only one is double sided.... Must set copier to double sided mode (which requires each page to go through twice, therefore doubling overall copy time).

7) Copy complete. Copy and original must be restapled and we're onto the next one.

That's pretty much the life of a copier such as myself (I'll save the copier malfunctioning stories for another day). But it really wasn't too bad, I finished all three gigantic files, and oh wait, mummy brought out two more. I almost finished them, but the copier got too warn out (seriously), and coincidentally, it was 5:00. My brain has since turned back on and is functioning very well. Posted by lib at January 24, 2006 09:38 PM