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so this student is driving me crazy. he's studying for the LSAT, and he got this brilliant idea that he would give us his book full of LSAT tests if we'd photocopy them for him. anyone with any admin experience knows that photocopying pages out of a book is a pain in the butt. so my boss agreed to this arrangement, and asked me to do the photocopying.
unfortunately, i was under the misguided impression that it was just one or two of the tests (about 30 pages each). but he keeps showing up, day after day, wanting me to copy another test. i've worked my way through about half the book now. and TODAY he brought in A DIFFERENT BOOK that he wanted me to copy a test out of. this is a book HE IS KEEPING.
i just know that i'm going to end up photocopying the ENTIRE book. which is just such a waste. i feel like shaking my boss and telling her that she can take the cost of the book out of my paycheck and just buy her own! GUH. so in a fit of irritation, i constructed the following list, which, while fun to contemplate, i will probably not actually act upon (damn my door-mat nature!):
1. Copy each page so that the words along the right margin are cut off.
2. Skip a page or two while copying.
3. Fail to collate the pages into the proper order, but staple them together anyway.
4. Copy a different test than the one asked for.
5. Spill some sort of slightly-staining liquid (coffee works well) all over the test. (Make sure it is dry before he picks it up so he doesn't notice right away.)
6. Fold up the bottom right-hand corner edge of the pages just a little bit, so they all stick together, like miniature dog-earing.
7. Adjust copier so that it is on the lightest ink setting possible.
8. Put a post-it on the glass of the copy machine before making the copies, so that there is a post-it-sized blank spot on each page.
9. Fail to staple or paperclip the test, telling him all staples and paperclips have run out (if he asks).
10. Copy the answer key from a different test, and staple it to the test.
unfortunately, i was under the misguided impression that it was just one or two of the tests (about 30 pages each). but he keeps showing up, day after day, wanting me to copy another test. i've worked my way through about half the book now. and TODAY he brought in A DIFFERENT BOOK that he wanted me to copy a test out of. this is a book HE IS KEEPING.
i just know that i'm going to end up photocopying the ENTIRE book. which is just such a waste. i feel like shaking my boss and telling her that she can take the cost of the book out of my paycheck and just buy her own! GUH. so in a fit of irritation, i constructed the following list, which, while fun to contemplate, i will probably not actually act upon (damn my door-mat nature!):
1. Copy each page so that the words along the right margin are cut off.
2. Skip a page or two while copying.
3. Fail to collate the pages into the proper order, but staple them together anyway.
4. Copy a different test than the one asked for.
5. Spill some sort of slightly-staining liquid (coffee works well) all over the test. (Make sure it is dry before he picks it up so he doesn't notice right away.)
6. Fold up the bottom right-hand corner edge of the pages just a little bit, so they all stick together, like miniature dog-earing.
7. Adjust copier so that it is on the lightest ink setting possible.
8. Put a post-it on the glass of the copy machine before making the copies, so that there is a post-it-sized blank spot on each page.
9. Fail to staple or paperclip the test, telling him all staples and paperclips have run out (if he asks).
10. Copy the answer key from a different test, and staple it to the test.