babbling blue

At work we have these giant Xerox Workcenter Pro scanner/copier/printer/etc beasts that do pretty much everything short of making you lunch (unless you’re on the Japanese porn star diet, in which case they do that too). The problem is, they never work worth a damn. They’re always jamming and getting stuck. The one on this part of the floor has had to be “reset” by the Xerox guy at least twice already this week. I know this because I sit about 12 feet away from it and I’ve heard him telling people that it was “. . . resetting, it’ll be about 5 minutes” twice. I can often hear the thing cranking away–”attempting to recover”, according to the display. It’s not clear what it’s attempting to recover from. My guess is a hangover. If these machines are secretly alcoholics, that could go a long way to explaining why they’re so dysfunctional. And loud.
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