The other week
we heard a weird foghorn type noise coming from outside the office. We were bored and started making up a story about how the Titanic had risen from the icy depths of the sea to take revenge on the nation that had commissioned her. A colleague drew a crappy Paint picture which I then decided to print out and stick to his monitor. The particular machine I decided to use to do this didn't print out the first time. Ok, fine. I'll send it to a different printer. No problem. Printed out, stuck on monitor. Done.

In the print room, meanwhile, there is a large line printer that we use to print out branch labels, cheques and P45s. It has to be manually made ready before it'll print anything. The next day, another colleague goes to print out some labels. He hits the "print rdy" button and the machine whirrs into life.

And out comes a giant print out of the Zombie Titanic, complete with "Rargh, I'm coming to eat your brains Andrew" legend. All over the expensive labels we use.

Which was quite funny. Except that the effort of doing so killed the printer. It started printing out gibberish. Apparently they had to spend most of the morning trying to fix it.

Oops.

The saving grace is that he hadn't been trying to print out cheques. We have to take waste cheques up to the Finance department as they need to account for them all. I doubt they would have appreciated a ream of cheques with a giant fuck-off boat printed on them.
( Kroney, Wed 20 Aug 2008, 16:01, Reply)