My Printer Hates Me
Thursday, January 22, 2009.
For many years we had this old, but nice, Cannon printer in our office. I knew how to use that printer inside out—literally. I liked working with it, and it like working with me. We never had any major issues, and printing documents was a smooth pleasure.
But then, the Canon printer died.
Instead of buying another printer from the Cannon family, my boss got us a “brother” printer. But, not a “brother” like Cannon’s brother, but “brother” like the brand “brother.” This “brother” printer is more modern than our old Cannon printer. It is one of those all-in-one printers with printing, copying and color scanning capacity.
But, this “brother” printer hates me.
I don’t mean it hates me a little bit. I’m talking hate, as working hard to make my life as miserable as possible. I swear, this printer must have a plot against me.
For the past hour I’ve been trying to print a very simple one page document. But, this crazy printer is out of control. It has wasted about 30 pages printing illegible, non-sense stuff, and now it claims that it has a “jammed paper.” But, I cannot find any “jammed paper.” I fact, this is because there is no jammed paper. This printer is lying to my face! This “bro” is a lying printer. And it is not only lying to my face, I can feel it laughing at me too.
The printer is enjoying watching me get frustrated.
Listen to me, “bro”, if you don’t print the letter, I swear I am going to grab you with my two perfectly soft hands and launch you across the office. And in case you haven’t noticed, I hate you, too, “bro.”
Don’t you just hate when this happens?


How about a day without a boss???