Wasting paper

I was trying to print something on 1 of the color printer that some of us share at the office, and I had to wait for about 20 minutes because someone ignorant decided to print out 236 pages of some company's financial statements. While this is somewhat normal, the part of it not was that someone didn't even try to see if the printer had any paper, before printing the 236 pages again, just because he/she thought the printer was jammed. I mean, seriously just read what it says on the printer screen. If the printer says LOAD PAPER, go get paper and load it into the printer. Pressing the PRINT button on your screen multiple times will not get you your papers until you load paper. The person basically wasted about 300 pages with some pages that were already printed. I just don't understand how people can be so damn lazy as to get paper to feed it onto the printer, and then pick up their handouts.

So being ruthless as I am sometimes, I canceled the person's print job three times since they were printing the same thing over and over again. Fed the color printer with paper and got my own printouts.

I am pretty civilized in the office and I usually don't mind feeding the printers with paper if I'm on the way, but sometimes I just don't understand how people can be so damn stupid. I never get involved in office politics unless people are holding up the printer with the same printouts multiple times, and wasting paper. That's just about the only thing that I vent about. Sometimes I use the back side of any papers that are left over, provided they don't carry any confidential data.

Bottom line, just don't waste paper. It really is a waste. I think there should be some sort of by-law or even policies about the number of papers you can buy in a given time.