That sounds right

I know enough about our company's copier to clear jams, as well as the fact that it's FAR more likely to have an issue if our office manager is out of the office. Which seems to be the case for every maintenance issue, though it's possible with others that she's just so good at noticing and taking care of problems quickly that we never notice them when she's around. (The copier does it deliberately though, it hates the rest of us.)

I haven’t had to make copies for work for almost 10 years!!

Yeah, I’m not sure I even know where the copier are anymore.

Argh, my Amazon Prime subscription just auto-renewed. I meant to cancel that but I had no idea when it actually happened, thought it was later in the year for some reason.

I have a copier/scanner/laser printer about three feet to my left.

My boss basically only edits things printed out.

Bill payers here print out invoices and make paper files.

I need to print out packets of outline notes for all my students for practically every class. So, depending on the semester, that can be up to 150 packets of 8 pages each, three times a week. Multiply that by however many professors and instructors there are, add in exams, and that copier is in pretty much constant use. We do have a second one, but it's slower and a lot more temperamental.

Wow hil, do the students want them on paper vs electronically?

Yeah, I figured you would have actual need of a working copier.

Remember Father Guido Sarducci’s 5 minute university? “Supply and demand” etc. I have a few bits and pieces from business school that stuck in my head like that. One of them is “you can cut out the middleman but you can’t cut out what the middleman does“ and a lot of people making decisions about where to make organizational cuts do not understand that principle (to the extent that any thought is put into those decisions, which certainly varies greatly)

I have the rest of the day off! And Monday morning! I originally planned to take all the Fridays in February off as a little birthday present to myself, but something came up that needed to be done on Fridays so I changed it to Friday afternoons and Monday mornings, and the last two Fridays I’ve ended up working later than planned. This morning my boss messaged me to take off early to make up for it and I actually am doing it. I think I will go back to bed because that is an extremely attractive option at the moment