""One day the printer had a paper jam, so one of the marketing 'geniuses' decided he would fix it," Louis told Who, Me? The marketing genius decided he needed pliers to do the job, so visited Louis's team and asked to borrow the tool. "We thought nothing of it and he didn't mention what he was doing, so we handed them over," Louis wrote. Whether the marketing genius fixed the paper jam is lost to history."
"Louis, however, remembers clearly that he later found the printer broken beyond repair and with oil seeping throughout its innards. "We think he turned the printer onto its side, or back, which sent the oil gushing out and basically shorted out the entire thing," Louis wrote. "It also made a huge mess on the table where the printer sat and took hours to clean up.""
"Which is how the company acquired a color printer, to satisfy the marketing department's desire to illuminate sales presentations with fancy charts and graphs. This story comes from the time before color laser printers. The machine Louis's company acquired therefore used what he described as "large blocks of crayon that were melted and mixed with fuser oil and deposited on the paper." That oil lived in a tank deep within the printer's chassis."
A leasing company purchased a color printer to help the marketing department produce colored charts and graphs. The printer used wax-like pigment mixed with fuser oil stored in a tank inside the chassis. A marketing employee attempted to clear a paper jam and borrowed pliers from IT without explaining the work. The employee apparently tipped the printer, releasing the oil which shorted the machine and soaked the inside and the table. Cleaning took hours, and the printer was irreparably damaged. The company replaced the printer and posted a warning forbidding anyone outside IT from performing repairs.
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