[Werk] With reference to the recent unpleasantness ...

[dancefloorlandmine]

To alert people to the fact that headed paper is about to be run through our printer, we select a daily animal, and yell out the name when someone runs headed. (We used to say "headed", but too many people ignored that, because they'd got used to it as a background office noise. I suggested flashing orange lights and a big klaxon going "AWOOOOGA! AWOOOOGA!", but that was turned down ...)

Following on from recent events in Croydon, todays animal is "Football fan".

Disclaimer: And yes, I know this only applies to a very small number of fans, and the majority are perfectly normal people who just happen to enjoy watching 23 men running around a pitch in pursuit of an inflated bladder (a modern version of "the unspeakable in pursuit of the inedible", perhaps). But it made us laugh, and means we can today call out "a pub of football fans" when printing several pages, or "a Croydon of football fans" when printing a mail merge.

Comments

[elves-uk.livejournal.com]

football, bah humbug, should be banned!

[steer.livejournal.com]

We used to say "headed", but too many people ignored that,

How about saying "I'm am currently giving head" in as lascivious tone as possible. That should be hard to ignore.

[d-floorlandmine.livejournal.com]

Hard to ignore - but possibly leading to disciplinary hearings. [grin]

[vatine]

Well, a print batch is a "job", so a "job" on "headed paper", should be a "head job" and that is so incredibly technical that *no* one (especially no one at Sands-Moorefield University of Technology) could complain. So I suggest you train your colleagues to scream "HEAD JOB!" at the top of their lungs whenever headed paper is going through the printer.