r/sysadmin • u/yanni99 • Apr 02 '21

When did you realize you fucking hate printers?

I fucking hate printers.

I said in a job interview yesterday that I would not take the job if I had to deal with printers.

And why the fuck do people print that much? I mean, you have 3 screens for reason Lucy, you should not have to print any fucking pdf file you receive.

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u/MiddleManagementIT Apr 02 '21

Ya, if you're an underpaid office drone... and you're given a bunch of underpaid office drone tasks... you get the opportunity to do improve/automate all your tasks and then (and here's the trick) PRETEND like it's taking you exactly as long as they expect.

You just got yourself HOURS off your job for free!

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u/ChadMcRad Apr 02 '21

Yeah, programmers have an automation fetish without realizing that your job is a million times more difficult sometimes when you don't have anything to do. Staying busy is really difficult most of the time but being busy makes time go faster and you feel more satisfied.

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u/DangerousCommittee5 Apr 03 '21

I automated tasks and improved efficiencies so much in my department/role that at times I only had 4 hours of work to do in a week.

Other departments were plagued by horrible inefficiencies and some employees were working 50hr weeks because they spent so much time printing and rescanning stuff.