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[–] mavu@discuss.tchncs.de 88 points 1 day ago

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

[–] jballs@sh.itjust.works 94 points 1 day ago

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

[–] DandomRude@lemmy.world 145 points 1 day ago (6 children)

Has it gotten so bad that you have to send stuff to the manager to get it printed?

[–] x00z@lemmy.world 2 points 2 hours ago

Yes, just like asking for a fart pass

[–] Kage520@lemmy.world 7 points 11 hours ago (1 children)

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.

[–] DandomRude@lemmy.world 3 points 10 hours ago (1 children)

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.

[–] person420@lemmynsfw.com 6 points 9 hours ago (1 children)

They said store so I assume they work in retail. Why would a retail employee need a company email? And not allowing people to plug in USB sticks into an intranet (especially with POS machines) is just standard operating procedures.

[–] untorquer@lemmy.world 1 points 2 hours ago

Not to mention the hassle of a networked printer... Trained personnel only!

[–] JackbyDev@programming.dev 17 points 14 hours ago (1 children)

I could see a small office where the printer is just directly attached to one person's computer.

[–] DandomRude@lemmy.world 9 points 13 hours ago

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.

[–] bitchkat@lemmy.world 36 points 1 day ago (1 children)

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.

[–] Yareckt@lemmynsfw.com 11 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Did anyone ever tell you the back story for that rule?

[–] bitchkat@lemmy.world 27 points 1 day ago (1 children)

The general answer is every stupid rule was an over reaction to something.

And the owner runs it like a gas station and assumes everyone is stealing from the till.

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[–] SpaceMan9000@lemmy.world 76 points 1 day ago (3 children)

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.

[–] MonkderVierte@lemmy.ml 2 points 15 hours ago

Yeah, they often leave out the text in pdf forms. And the drive has to be formatted in a way yours isn't.

[–] Luccus@feddit.org 32 points 1 day ago (1 children)

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.

[–] example@reddthat.com 12 points 23 hours ago

because printers are evil

[–] bdonvr@thelemmy.club 17 points 1 day ago

And tons of companies block flash drive access now

[–] shneancy@lemmy.world 11 points 1 day ago

i always assumed the OP was just home and didn't have a printer there

[–] lost_faith@lemmy.ca 173 points 1 day ago

Gonna have to try this at least once

[–] Cobrachicken@lemmy.world 65 points 1 day ago (1 children)
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[–] andybytes@programming.dev 14 points 1 day ago

Context matter bruh hahahhahahah.

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