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This morning, there was a little klatsch of women in the breakroom getting coffee and chatting while I was putting my lunch in the fridge. The topic of conversation: the 50 Shades of Grey series. I had to weigh in about how horrible they are in terms of writing. Not just weak. Not just bland. Bad. BAD.
Still everyone was interested and wanted to read them. People's reading habits make me weep sometimes.
A little later, I sent a two-page document to the copier. I went to get it, and the machine was jammed. Thre is a speical circle of hell for those who don't clear the copier jams they caused. I removed about 5 sheets of paper, the job started up again. When I checked the tray, what was printing out: 50 SHADES OF GREY!
DUDE! WHO PRINTS PORN AT WORK??? ON A PUBLIC COPIER???
I chatted with my boss for a little (his office is across the hall from the copier room), and when I heard the machine stop, I went back over...to find ANOTHER jam. I performed copier surgery, things started up again, and the second book in the series is printing out.
One of the guys comes over. He's running reports, and the machine starts spittig them out. He'd sent them earlier. He retrieves them, leaves, and, you guessed it, the THIRD fucking book in series starts printing out.
It took me almost a half hour to print two fucking pages. You can imagine this did nothing to further endear this shitty series to me.
And you know, if you are going to print porn at work on a public copier, perhaps you should use the secure print feature so that you have to log in to start the print job. And perhaps you should print said books at like lunchtime or some other low-volume printing time.
Sheesh...
Still everyone was interested and wanted to read them. People's reading habits make me weep sometimes.
A little later, I sent a two-page document to the copier. I went to get it, and the machine was jammed. Thre is a speical circle of hell for those who don't clear the copier jams they caused. I removed about 5 sheets of paper, the job started up again. When I checked the tray, what was printing out: 50 SHADES OF GREY!
DUDE! WHO PRINTS PORN AT WORK??? ON A PUBLIC COPIER???
I chatted with my boss for a little (his office is across the hall from the copier room), and when I heard the machine stop, I went back over...to find ANOTHER jam. I performed copier surgery, things started up again, and the second book in the series is printing out.
One of the guys comes over. He's running reports, and the machine starts spittig them out. He'd sent them earlier. He retrieves them, leaves, and, you guessed it, the THIRD fucking book in series starts printing out.
It took me almost a half hour to print two fucking pages. You can imagine this did nothing to further endear this shitty series to me.
And you know, if you are going to print porn at work on a public copier, perhaps you should use the secure print feature so that you have to log in to start the print job. And perhaps you should print said books at like lunchtime or some other low-volume printing time.
Sheesh...
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I'm so sick of hearing about those books. So sick.
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Me too.
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Dude, I hear you. I am so bloody sick of hearing about that fucking CRAPPY ASS BOOK that I pretty much fly off the handle every time I hear the title spoken aloud.
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It's just...FOR THE LOVE OF GOD, WHY???
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I think it was our president's executive assistant, and yes, if someone caught it, it would. Like if I wanted to go to HR and say something, I'm sure there'd be a stink made about it.
However, as I print some personal stuff at work too (of the not-porn variety), I'm not gonna make waves.
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Would loved to have seen the one going for them. *winks*
Apart from this being a total nuissance it is too funny.
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It's like... I just wish the people all in a stir over the trilogy would focus less on the shocking sex (OMG! Women like to read about fantasy hardcore sexytimes too? Who knew!) and more on the fact that they're just so bad.
*snort* All of which is kinda secondary to the point of your post, which, yeah. Who the hell ties up the office copier during working hours for that crap?
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Sheesh.
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50 Shades is the big hoo-ha here right now, too. One of the women in my book club 1st 'discovered it', going on and on and... Yeah. I've read the 1st 2, disconcerted to say, but y'know. I was looking for pr0n, and then I thought surely the 2nd would dish out the kinky stuff sadly missing from 1. ...not. And it's SO horrible, from the bleeding virgin to the tortured, jealous-as-fuck control-freak billionaire, to the marriage proposal. No #3 for me. Gimme slash any day. Or at least some interesting and actually sexy het.
/mini-rant.
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I ran into another woman from work at Barnes and Noble. She was buying the second book. I want to shake all the women at work and say, "Here is where you can get GOOD porn with HOT sex."
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