Power

Let the man finish
because I'm really into it
... And there you have it.

Friendly reminder: if you need to print something, your local Library more than likely offers a printing service! Fees are usually measured in single-digit cents per page, if there's any to begin with.

I love that he knows you so well, that he immediately goes to "sick power play", I think this says good things about you :)

Has it gotten so bad that you have to send stuff to the manager to get it printed?
- I could see a small office where the printer is just directly attached to one person's computer.
  
  Yes, that's probably how it is here. Still, it's strange, considering that most reasonably modern printers are fairly easy to set up for any company network.
  Presumably, not much is printed here, as there is hardly any need for it anymore.
- I've seen offices where only a few people were able to connect to the network printer and just ask people if they can print it.
  Usually they've tries using flash drives but many large printers are also terrible at reading pdf files from them.
  Edit: Should note that most of these people were smart and were able to follow instructions. However the big office printers can be an utter pain at times.
  
  It's amazing that the faster Ethernet gets and the more powerful network devices become, the fewer things we can do.
  Why wouldn't just about everyone get the ability to print on the device whose sole purpose is to print things? If everything is set up right, you can even set per-user policies so Jarrett doesn't waste ink printing 50 AI pictures of kittens to hang in his soulless office cubicle.
  
  And tons of companies block flash drive access now
  
  Yeah, they often leave out the text in pdf forms. And the drive has to be formatted in a way yours isn't.
- I had a job where they disabled access to all printers. If you needed a hard copy, you had to email the document to the printer admins and they would print after reviewing it.
  Similarly, they were too cheap to pay for zoom licenses so if you needed a meeting longer than 40 minutes, you had to email the zoom admins with the list of attendees and they would create it.
  But getting a repeating zoom meeting scheduled was virtually impossible.
  
  Did anyone ever tell you the back story for that rule?
- Yes, just like asking for a fart pass
  
  Alright. You got me. WTF is a fart pass?
- At my work it's just an intranet with no outside email access. Only the store manager has that. You also are not allowed to plug in USBs to anything. So if you want something printed that was not emailed on the Interoffice mail, you have to email it to the store manager.
  
  I guess you either work for a company with highly sensitive data, or the IT people are overdramatizing a tad bit.
  I also believe that IT security is important, but it should remain reasonable.
  Sounds to me like more of a power play by management than a sensible security concept.
- i always assumed the OP was just home and didn't have a printer there

At least the manager seemed to have a good sense of humor about it.

Gonna have to try this at least once

Hehe
- killed me

Context matter bruh hahahhahahah.

Microsoft office 👻
- i HATE microsoft. am a software developer. but literally corporations make you use their shit. how could you even avoid it? having no job or something?
  
  i wish Libre's spreadsheets weren't such ass compared to excel...
  
  Ye duh
  
  There are many software solutions but people just pretend they don't exist. Herd mentality. If you water a plant it grows.
  
  ? How? -> LibreOffice

And we're back to "dump everything into c/memes" again... Stop being lazy.
- "Stop having fun!"
  Is it only a meme if it is shared elsewhere before it is posted to a community about sharing memes? Is c/memes limited to sloppy seconds?
  
  I get his argument. I personally don't mind it, but people are trying to curate their feeds better. Memes should ideally be for memes.
  This better belongs in whitepeopletwitter. Do we have one on Lemmy yet?
- Not at all the point but whatever. Twist it however you want.
- This is a no fun zone! No smiling here! Do you think this is a happy place? This isn't a happy place, get back to work!
- You seem like a deeply unpleasant person
  
  And you seem like a judgemental asshole, since we're forming opinions from single sentences.
- Unfortunately, both this community and the shitposts community allow people to post whatever, per the community rules. This one has no rule about what a meme is, and shitposting explicitly allows whatever.
  I used to care too, but it's just wasted effort.
  
  True.