In this post E.R. world

Now that the TV show E.R. is over (never saw a single episode), more people will have to turn to the harsh realities of their own lives. Here is a real situation that occured at my job yesterday.

A coworker of mine came into my room and said he had to show me something in the copier room. I went in there with him and the printer (which is for everyone to use) was just printing, and printing, and printing. My co-worker said he printed two pages and has been in here for almost 10 minutes waiting for it. Finally the printer stops printing what it was printing, and prints his stuff. We look what was printed and it was 125 pages of all the foreclosed homes in Wisconsin. (Editor's note: I was not on the list, sweet.)

My coworker thought this was a ridiculous waste, which it was, so he left a note:

"Really?Really?"
Is printing 125 pages necessary? Is this even work-related?
How about we all do our jobs instead of wasting company resources."

About 1 hour later the person who printed this sent out an e-mail (by the way we correctly guessed who did it). Thee-mail basically said that no one had the right to tell them what is work-related and what is not. (This person teaches English). They said they were not in the wrong, blah, blah, blah. Earlier this year, right before the election the same person printed 45 pages of a Barack Obama blog. Some people just never get it.

Why can't people just shut their mouths and do their jobs? I mean is it that difficult? Also, why send out that e-mail? Why make it everyone's business?

It reminded me of an episode of The Office earlier this year in which Pam puts up a not by the microwave because people keep leaving it filthy and no one cleans it. After she puts up the note people are angry at her note, not that people were leaving the microwave dirty. Her coworkers wrote comments on the note and even called an office meeting about leaving notes.