Money, Awkward and Work: Do it on company time

Do it on company time

By Ayeya - This FML is from back in 2009 but it's good stuff - United States

Today, I wanted to print out a 100-page game strategy guide using company's printer. While not wanting anyone to find out about this, I picked a time when I thought no one would be printing. My CEO ended up standing next to me for 10 minutes, waiting for his stuff to print after mine. FML

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donner1423 0

Friday 5 June 2009 2:10

Game strategy guide? 100 page? At work? Bound to happen.

cxal_fml 0

Friday 5 June 2009 2:15

why wouldn't you print it out 10 pages at a time - then even if you got caught no one would care?

Comments

2496rfr 0

Friday 5 June 2009 3:07

Lets just keep the ''fun''stuff for home...

Kyle4670 0

Friday 5 June 2009 3:09

FAIL: LOL. Hahaha in front of the CEO!!!

emorockerownage 9

Friday 5 June 2009 3:14

um there is a cancel button and YDI

skrabbler2 0

Friday 5 June 2009 3:15

lol this is absolutely hilarious - but I do have a hard time believing it 1 - Why would the CEO use the employee printer to print their stuff? All the places I've worked, the boss usually has his/her own printer. If there's a CEO, I'm assuming it's a fairly large company and that the CEO's can afford keeping a printer for themselves! 2 - Ten minutes for a hundred pages? Most company printers should NOT take that long. Maybe it just felt like ten minutes.

_HollieWould 0

Friday 5 June 2009 3:16

lmaoo, fail!

realggirl 0

Friday 5 June 2009 3:17

I'd have printed it in groups of 10 pages to ensure that something like that doesn't happen. -_-

lmpinto 0

Friday 5 June 2009 3:18

#55, I work in a multinational, and even our site's "big boss" has a desk in openspace like everyone else, and no personal printers... About the time, think about the situation - wouldn't it feel like 10 minutes for you too? ;)

EmbarrassedKlutz 0

Friday 5 June 2009 3:19

Jesus CHRIST!! You must be pretty ******* LONELY to print a 100 page game guide! Where are u gonna put that? The Internet?!

medical 0

Friday 5 June 2009 3:20

You wait till work is done for the day. YDI.

lmpinto 0

Friday 5 June 2009 3:20

#59, leave superstition out of this and think - you really think he would print it to put on the internet? That is one of the most inane comments I've seen in this site.