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07 March 2008

Annals of Office Printing Abuse What have you printed out from work this week for your own personal, non-work use?!→[More:]

Today, I have printed:

- three New Yorker essays of at least five pages! three!
- a few recipes for this weekend

post by: mdonley at: 06:41 | 14 comments

Driving directions. On a virtually daily basis.

posted by mykescipark 07 March | 08:15

Cover letter, resume, and application materials for a different job. Heh. (OK, my current one is a temp gig, so it's not quite *that* egregious, but still.)

posted by kat allison 07 March | 09:30

A friend printed his wedding invitations at work.

Almost everyone has done the resume thing, I'd bet.

posted by mullacc 07 March | 10:29

I printed a barely SFW photo and stuck it in a coworker's cube for a prank.

posted by desjardins 07 March | 10:31

Lots and lots of scholarship apps.

posted by danf 07 March | 10:35

This delicious cookbook, Celebrity Table, in which Mario Batali recreates some favorite pasta dishes of some celebrities. Even better, every time the book is downloaded, Second Harvest gets a dollar.

posted by caddis 07 March | 10:41

We printed our wedding invitations at work as well.

posted by gaspode 07 March | 11:08

I've been pretty good recently. Other times? Hundreds of pages of reading material for classes. The copiers here all require a billing code to work, so it's a little harder to scam free copies, but they haven't worked out how to recoup every thin penny out of the printers yet.

posted by Joe Invisible 07 March | 11:20

In one day, I printed off PDF copies of "Design Patterns," two IBM Redbooks about Portal application development, and (note the delicious irony) "Getting Things Done." All told, about a ream and a half of paper.

posted by middleclasstool 07 March | 11:21

The only thing I really ever print is New Yorker articles because they run so long and me reading my computer screen for 45 minutes at a time makes my boss suspicious that I might not be working.

posted by triggerfinger 07 March | 13:41

This post reminds me that I must print APA formatting guidelines. Because my professor last night told us not to bother buying the official book, since it would be silly to do so when all the guidelines were online. She then told us to print out the websites and bring them into class next week.

I am making a frowny confused furrowed-brow face.

posted by occhiblu 07 March | 13:45

I'm unemployed but my girlfriend is very good about stealing her office resources for me. Lately she's printed me Prelinger's Guide to Sponsored Films, the documentation for Apple's Color color-correction app and the Modul8 VJ software, and a couple indy RPGs that were distributed in PDF format. The best thing is that she's got a velobinder at work, so these will all actually last on a bookshelf.

posted by jtron 07 March | 15:39

a 4-page 2008 bike racing schedule from the ACA website. That a colleague just asked me to make an extra copy of for him (he's on my cycling team).

posted by lonefrontranger 07 March | 16:16

xkcd strip

But I did put it on display on my office door, and it's a genuine concern, so I wouldn't say it's personal, non-work use.

posted by qvantamon 07 March | 17:25

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