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Re:“My wife has complained that OpenOffice will never print ... by jeffrallen on Monday January 27, 2020 @02:22PM (#22162780)
If you'd kept asking the 5 whys you'd have gotten to the real problem: noisy machines in open offices. You should have thanked the lady who put the paperclips on the fans.
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Re:“My wife has complained that OpenOffice will never print ... by DoubleGlazing on Monday January 27, 2020 @03:21PM (#22163381)
That office was brutally loud. 100 people in a low ceiling office. The a/c was bad, but the plotters the engineering guys used were particularly brutal.

We also had dot matrix printers churning out triplicate documents.

They were lucky, us in IT were technically working illegally due to the noise in our part of the building. So many fans in so many server racks. Plus super cold a/c.

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