This is why we can't have nice things!!!!!

[tanzap82]

This sounds a bit like me - I am brilliant at breaking copiers. If there is a random way to break the machine I will find it!

Although, I am always the person the engineers trust to go rooting around to try and fix it.

Wierd

[DGoddessChardonnay]

Did they ever hear of reading the instruction manual thoroughly BEFORE using it?

Don't you mean the De-Struction Manual?

They probably filed it under "G" for garbage.

[Seshat]

I have the clumsiness (though my myotherapist - aka muscle specialist - is reducing that, yay!). But at least I'm careful to try to minimise the effect of clumsiness, and I don't blame anyone else when I do break things.

[tropicsgoddess]

The typical end luser (s).... get some big machinery or technological product , break it and demand a free replacement.....

[MoonCat]

Three days, huh? That takes talent.

I leave the copiers at work alone. You can easily remove a paper jam on these, IF the paper is still sticking most of the way out. Other than that, I let the office admin person know when there's a problem.

Seems to me that the more sophisticated these machines get, the easier it is break something. Which is why reading the instruction book is a great idea.

[charred]

Did you post this on Reddit too?

[Dave1982]

No, why? Is a similar story there?

[charred]

Yeah. Lurking somewhere in /r/talesfromtechsupport is fairly similar account of people destroying a copier while trying to clear a paper jam.

Found it!

http://www.reddit.com/r/talesfromtec...gs_themselves/

[Dave1982]

Yeah that wasn't me.

[Sparky]

Dammit Jim, I'm a doctor! Not a copier un-jammer!

[An Haddock]

I have the clumsiness (though my myotherapist - aka muscle specialist - is reducing that, yay!). But at least I'm careful to try to minimise the effect of clumsiness, and I don't blame anyone else when I do break things.

See, that's why I use desktops... I spill a drink on my keyboard, I plug in a new one. Cost: $5. My hands are starting to get... iffy... in my old age. Not arthritis (knocks wood) but sometimes they feel a little numb.

[Aethian]

See, that's why I use desktops... I spill a drink on my keyboard, I plug in a new one. Cost: $5. My hands are starting to get... iffy... in my old age. Not arthritis (knocks wood) but sometimes they feel a little numb.

I'd get your wrists and fingers checked out.

[Lovecats]

I have Carpal Tunnel and my hands get that way alot - the numbness. Started in my right (I'm right-handed) around 94 and a few years ago I started having the same problems in my left. My Chiropracter has helped that a lot.

[An Haddock]

I'd get your wrists and fingers checked out.

It's circulation... I can almost guarantee it. Can't afford medication, so I'm pretty much living every day like it's my last until my inevitable heart attack.

[Dave1982]

I was back at this account yesterday covering a scheduled day off for someone.

As a joke, I asked off-hand "so did Ambulatory Surgery break their machine again yet?"

CW: Yep.

Me: Are you serious?

CW: Yes.

Me: What did they do this time??

CW (with palpable irritation): The same thing!

Me: Are you shitting me???

CW: And now they're trying to say we sold them a lemon.....