Why can't men clear paper jams?!

[imsorry]

it's not rocket science - the machine tells you what to do.


Yet, every day I hear "Can you help me - the machine is jammed"

This from the species that can take a car apart and put it back together

 

[BabyTigger99]

Give it a wham!! We always get slammed with these paper jams! (sorry, I love that Staples commercial, get out your Easy Button!)

I know what you mean, but in our office, it is replacing the toner in the copy machine!

 

[SwedishMeatball]

Why can't men clean out the lint catcher??

 

[mickeyboat]

They are genetically incapable of using the copier, let alone fixing a jam.

Every time a guy walks up to the copier and wants to make something other than a single-sided, single copy, they flip out. I can't even tell you how many times I have said "Repeat after me. Put the paper in and push the green button."

Denae

 

[dadto1]

Why can't women just do anything without first coming to the DIS and starting a thread to complain about it?

 

[GoofyDad869]

Speaking as one of my gender...

Why can't women check to see if the seat's down before sitting?

Scurries away...

Seriously, I know what you mean about paper jams. It's really not hard. Heck, our copier even shows you where to check for the jam.

 

[SwedishMeatball]

Why can't women just do anything without first coming to the DIS and starting a thread to complain about it?

Hey, don't you have oil to change or something??

 

[motherhen17404]

I don't think it is just men who have that problem. I worked for a company that was run by 3 very smart women. On my day off I got a call, they wanted me to call the copy repair man. The copier was cutting off the copies, so something must be wrong with the machine. There were 3 women working on this problem for over 2 hours by the time they called me. The next day when I went in it took me 1 min. to fix the problem. They had the paper in the tray turned the wrong way! I just had to laugh, 3 women with 4 PHD's between them and they could not figure out how to turn the paper the right way in the paper tray. I just shook my head. Just goes to show you book smarts are not all it is cracked up to be!

 

[mickeyboat]

Why can't women just do anything without first coming to the DIS and starting a thread to complain about it?

But you see, we don't complain about everything! It's every third or fourth thing you people do during the course of the day that tips us over.

I mean imsorry probably had to put the new toilet paper on the dispenser, pick up the socks next to the hamper, find the coffee cream in the fridge and then fix the copier. Personally, I find her very tolerant.

Denae

 

[Zandy595]

it's not rocket science - the machine tells you what to do.


Yet, every day I hear "Can you help me - the machine is jammed"

This from the species that can take a car apart and put it back together

For the same reason they can't find anything in the fridge, even when it's right in front of their face.

 

[SC Minnie]

The same reason they don't know how to put paper IN the machine!

I used to share a printer with one of our VP's. The printer was near my desk and his office was five feet away. One day I noticed he kept coming out and looking at the printer. After about the 4th time I asked him what was wrong. He said the printer isn't working. I got up, walked over to the printer, and looked at the message screen. It read-- Paper Empty. I put paper in the printer and he ended up with about 4 copies of whatever he was printing. Its a good thing we work for a paper co!

 

[Cantw8]

imsorry, men know how to fix paper jams. They just like us to lean over and do it so they can check out our butts RIGHT, GUYS?

 

[GoofyDad869]

imsorry, men know how to fix paper jams. They just like us to lean over and do it so they can check out our butts RIGHT, GUYS?

Shhhhhh.

 

[Aidensmom]

The men around my office don't know how to start a new pot of coffee, but they sure know how to use up the last of it.

 

[salmoneous]

imsorry, men know how to fix paper jams. They just like us to lean over and do it so they can check out our butts RIGHT, GUYS?

Basically.

 

[CapeCodTenor]

Don't lump all men into this...this hunk of a man can not only fix a paper jam, but fill the machine with paper, fill the toner and go from single to double. I'm smmmmokin'! Let me tell you, you don't want to be around me when I start using the machine's staple function...I really look good then. Hey, I even put the seat down.

ETA: It helps that I use to work in a copy center for the past 6 years.

 

[HaleyB]

You guys have me busting up. Too funny.

 

[CapeCodTenor]

imsorry, men know how to fix paper jams. They just like us to lean over and do it so they can check out our butts RIGHT, GUYS?

I can neither confirm nor deny that statement.

 

[Cantw8]

Don't lump all men into this...this hunk of a man can not only fix a paper jam, but fill the machine with paper, fill the toner and go from single to double. I'm smmmmokin'! Let me tell you, you don't want to be around me when I start using the machine's staple function...I really look then. Hey, I even put the seat down.

Easy, Big Guy. Hey, my eyes are up here

 

[imsorry]

Why can't women just do anything without first coming to the DIS and starting a thread to complain about it?

Don't make me come thru this screen!!!! I started the thread AFTER I fixed the jam!