I don’t think it’s genius at all.
Many are saying it is a “time saver.”
Time saver for who? It’s not a time saver for the person who has to reload the paper when it runs out during their copy session.
Also, the paper will have image hickies on it. And, depending on what it is being used for, it runs risk of jamming if rerun through the copier.
Anyone with a dissenting opinion is being called a “boomer.”
I want to post my reply by showing an analog clock and write, “I have no time for this discussion.”
I think we have finally plumbed “the bottom of the barrel.” Just how lame do you have to be to prefer to let a machine count blank sheets for you?
If not for the copy machine this same person would probably grab a pack of paper with 250 sheets and counted 200 of them knowing the remainder would be the 50 they needed. That’s how young minds work today.
Ummm, you grab about 100 and it takes 5 seconds. And they are pristine. 50 doesn’t mean exactly 50.
When we ran low on paper on the second floor we simply put blank sheets into the Fax machine and got new paper from machine on the first floor. Voila!
It’s not the first time I’ve been called a “Boomer”.
What was meant as a slur, is a red badge of courage for me.
It actually is smart.
HOWEVER, If you want to grind Gen-Z to a complete halt:
1) TAKE THEIR CHARGING CABLES
2) Change the PASSWORD
3) Shut OFF Electricity. (I used to pop the breaker to the Router when the kids were not going to bed)
That’s just called being an ass kisser. I would have taken my time to count them out, definitely stop to talk to a couple of co-workers before heading over to lazy ass boss man’s desk. I would then set them on his desk, with a mumble of “Here.” If he wants to waste my time then I will waste his. I have more important things to do than doing your own job you lazy asshole.
Genius gem zβer probably couldnβt count to fifty on their own.
Different Tim,
That’s how Government workers would do it.
I wanna be an intern to learn how to be a demanding prick.
Equally disturbing are all the comments affirming the “genius” of this Gen Z(ero) stunt. However it’s likely that this person is a victim of public education and common core math so it’s possible that several minutes, if not hours, were saved by using the machine. God help us.
I only do it that way during Earth Week.
Yeah, but can the genius read a handwritten note in cursive which has instructions for how to drive a manual transmission car?
Didn’t think so….
I guess those rubber tips that go on the index finger to fast count money, paper, etc., are no longer around. Gen Z paid intern doesn’t pay for machine repair bills. But, I am convinced that paid intern doesn’t know how to count. A bank teller would have it counted out in about 10 seconds.
It’s hard to count sheets of paper with a phone in one hand.
How to stump a Gen Z:
Recent example. The total was $7.23, I handed her $22.25. She seized up and said, “this is way to much”.
I said, “Trust me, the machine can figure it out”.
Kids aren’t taught estimating any more.
AI is going to eat their lunch.
They depend on machines and tech for just about everything.
Those 50 sheets are covered in invisible ink.
Sorry about that.
AI-INKSTER
Copier techs love billing for paper jams caused by unnecessary usage of machinery like this. If the machine had jammed in the middle of the job, that would have neen an expensive bit of cleverness.
Speaking of unnecessary cleverness, is anybody else here here annoyed by the βgas-savingβ engine shutoff at idle on all the cars now? Seems like a boon for the guys who replace batteries and starter motors. Although It seems most people ignore that feature.
Definitely NOT a genius move, especially if the company was leasing the copier through a third party office equipment supplier; those blank pages would have cost money. And unless the copier they used was a high-volume copier, it probably took about 2 minutes to perform that task (most small office copiers run 25-35 copies per minute).
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Thatβs just stupid.
Lazy moron is all I can think of about this paid intern. She would have to look for another internship after that stunt.
@Thirdtwin – auto-shutoff on idle,
I wonder if they actually calculated gas usage comparing idle running for a minute vs stopping, then starting the engine and charging the batteries again (I believe most have two).
There is definitely energy loss in charging the battery.
Starting the engine will take more fuel than idling for x number of seconds – depending on x of course. Although it may be small with direct fuel injection, but it would be much larger with carburetors which took a lot of fuel to start.
This ‘feature’ has a ‘feel good’ quality to make people think the car is better for ‘mother earth’ (isn’t that what life today is all about???!) with the potential of actually wasting energy.
I think the OP’s “genius” comment was actually sarcasm.
I would have told them that I can’t use warm paper and told them to take them away and bring me cool paper.
Third Twin, our Maverick has a shot off button to stop that more than annoying virtue signaling shut off during idling.
When these things are required they cause all sorts of other problems that weren’t there before.
I would’ve FIRED such a genius.
Smug asshole unnecessarily costing me money 3-4 ways.
This would be the asshole that wastes everyone’s time sanctimoniously preaching about Globull Warming. Bye!
And these pieces of shit are taking over the world. And they are all dipshits — the people who think it is genius are fucktards, and the fucktard who can not count is a fucktard. All equally worthless.
Sometimes I’m amazed at how brilliant these whippersnappers think they are compared how little they really know. Talk about lazy.
Brain damage.
For fun, I would have created a stick figure animated flip-book at the bottom of the pages.
Under normal circumstances I’d say it’s kind of a lame move.
If, however, the intern was multi-tasking and getting something else done simultaneously, then it’s a good move.
I had a girlfriend who once used an empty microwave to time something cooking in the oven for 15 minutes.
The fucking empty yet running microwave got damn near hot as the oven.
I imagine my blood pressure was also at it’s very peak.
Unbelievable!
Here’s my question….
Why did she need exactly 50 blank pieces of copier paper?
Was it to fill the tray of her printer at her desk?
The time wasted in utilizing the copier to produce these cost more than the sheets of paper.
Just bring the boss lady an opened ream and let her use what she needs and then take the rest back to the copier and fill the tray…
Question:
Did she work in the Law offices of Rube & Goldberg?
boss was arrested for requiring counting.
remember, math is racist.
Zoomers. Sigh.
@LBS; It was the law office of Inure, Recktaum and Offen.
Thinking outside the box … like a sixth grader. Gen Z probably wouldn’t survive an Apocalypse.
I thought everything went paperless.
Here’s approx 60 sheets of paper, keep the extra.
Now go and mix me a can of polkadot paint.