Societal Observations

The other day the printer stopped working at my office. By the time I got physically to the printer, three coworkers had already gathered around it, poking and prodding it, trying to coax printed documents from it. By the time I power cycled the printer, four more coworkers had joined the fray. By the time I decided to reset the print spooler, all hell had broken loose. However, I managed to handle the problem and put it to rest.

At the next staff meeting when IT came up I said, "Well, we had a situation last week when the printer stopped working and everybody went all Lord of the Flies on me."