Fun as an IT person

My regular day job is in IT -- actually I'm a software consultant, however I do deal with a variety of issues. Sometimes stories come up that I have to share. Today was one of those times.

I setup a process for a customer to run at 11:30 pm every night and send a log file to the printer at 11;55 pm. My customer was wondering why their print job was not printing at night as it was supposed to. So I go onsite this morning to meet with the customer and the IT guy who was also onsite. We cannot figure out why the print job did not print -- Windows shows it does, other print jobs print, the test page prints, etc. So we're standing around the printer discussing the issue.

Then one of the office staff says, "Are you talking about this?" and pulls out the print job from the recycling pile. Seems as though she was grabbing it off the printer every morning before the customer got in and putting it in the recycling pile because she didn't know what it was. (And of course, not telling anyone she was doing that!)

As much as I love real estate, days like today take the cake!