Re: Re: Re: Lost in the Translation

...when bosses or coworkers can't be bothered to read the materials you've typed up.

And worse: when they can't read it on the screen -- they have to print it on paper! (There's a special place in hell reserved just for them.)

jdporter
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Re: Re: Re: Re: Lost in the Translation by halley (Prior) on May 01, 2003 at 19:01 UTC
I don't mind someone printing something substantive-- if they'll actually use the printed form. If they print their emails, that's wasteful... unless they're printing sixty emails of annual employee review drafts for proper note-taking during an offsite meeting. If they print a user manual, that's wasteful... unless they have a habit of bringing the manual to the restroom or cafe for a little more focus-time. Making and using paper isn't unethical. Leaving it in stacks just to collect sterile dust for a few months or years before being dumped into a greasy all-garbage receptacle... that's what deserves some negative karmic balance. -- `[ e d @ h a l l e y . c c ]`	[reply]

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Re: Re: Re: Re: Lost in the Translation
by halley (Prior) on May 01, 2003 at 19:01 UTC

I don't mind someone printing something substantive-- if they'll actually use the printed form.

If they print their emails, that's wasteful... unless they're printing sixty emails of annual employee review drafts for proper note-taking during an offsite meeting.

If they print a user manual, that's wasteful... unless they have a habit of bringing the manual to the restroom or cafe for a little more focus-time.

Making and using paper isn't unethical. Leaving it in stacks just to collect sterile dust for a few months or years before being dumped into a greasy all-garbage receptacle... that's what deserves some negative karmic balance.

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