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Things must be bad. Our district controller asked for cost cutting measures. I emailed her one and 9 minutes later she put it into effect.

Posted by ceregon Nov 12 '08, 14:22

We aren't buying any more printers. We have a great network and people can share. Maybe when the California legislature gets its act together we'll buy new printers.

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Did you get any kind of reward money? -- nm - TaurusII Nov 12, 14:27 6
- Nope, just doing my part. I don't think the public sector does rewards like that. - ceregon Nov 12, 14:31 3
  - Pity. -- nm - TaurusII Nov 12, 14:43
  - where do you work, again? -- nm - znufrii Nov 12, 14:32 1
    - I'm a research analyst for a community college district in northern california. -- nm - ceregon Nov 12, 14:49
- no cause he recommended no more reward money - Pippy Nov 12, 14:31 1
  - Save that one for last. ;^) -- nm - TaurusII Nov 12, 14:40
Excellent. I love it when I suggest something and it's immediately embraced. Except for those times when it turns out not to be such a good idea. -- nm - mara Nov 12, 14:25 5
- "Hey everybody, watch this!" -- nm - Bad Idea Mara Jeans Nov 12, 14:31 4
  - *laughing* Real-life example: my department got into trouble after we started Twittering refrence questions. -- nm - mara Nov 12, 14:42 3
    - (bad idea jeans and "watch this" are my favorite two foreshadowing phrases.) - Max Nov 12, 14:52
    - ooh, scandalous. I didn't hear that that experiment ended poorly. -- nm - Beryllium Nov 12, 14:44 1
      - No, I didn't say much about it. -- nm - mara Nov 12, 14:52
I wish I could do that. I think have the same ratio of phone to people as printers to people. It's the toner cost that bugs me -- nm - oblique Nov 12, 14:24 4
- True, but we have close to 300 printers for 400 people, 40 different models. And people wonder why we have overhead -- nm - budice Nov 12, 14:26
- My entire floor, some 16 people, has only a single printer. And we barely use it. -- nm - Beryllium Nov 12, 14:25 2
  - Well, that's because only two people know where it is. ;) -- nm - the liioulu with dry umbrella Nov 12, 15:13 1
    - (This is not untrue. :)) -- nm - Beryllium Nov 12, 15:21

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Things must be bad. Our district controller asked for cost cutting measures. I emailed her one and 9 minutes later she put it into effect.

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