Is it like this in every office?

[EnderJE]

A few reasons why.

1) They see themselves as important and fixing the copier is not important. So, they'll try to get someone else to fix it or go print at another copier.
2) They don't want to get dirty.
3) Asking you for help is their way of boosting your ego.
4) They want to look under your skirt when you bend over.

 

[TheProject]

Has nothing to do with gender, at least at the company I work for. If you're in the position of ordering supplies/office manager/office assistant, they figure you must know how to fix them too.

 

[Raina]

But I'm not. I don't order any of that stuff. Or know where anything is in the supply cabinet. That's not my job!

 

[-SD-]

I would have assumed the opposite if i was a guy in the office.

 

[Miss24k]

At least they didn't ask you to make coffee.. that'd be grounds for a people's elbow.

I was asked this last week, and I didn't even respond just left the room laughing.

 

[TheProject]

But I'm not. I don't order any of that stuff. Or know where anything is in the supply cabinet. That's not my job!

Did it used to be your job? Did you fix it for them once?

Hell, I'd ask them why they're asking you.

 

[chefbone]

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Fug yeah!!!!

 

[Seashell]

I was asked this last week, and I didn't even respond just left the room laughing.

lol.. thankfully they know better here.

 

[Scotsman]

Why is it that all of the guys in the office assume that because I lack a penis, that I know how to troubleshoot problems with fax machines and printers? Do a lot of men think that little girls are pulled aside growing up and taught the skills needed to fix office equipment? Just wondering because this happens daily and I have no idea.

I guess I'm a bad woman.

Tell them all to go to hell.

Well it's assumed at my office that I know how (and want) to fix everything from the air conditioning to the god damned cappuccino machine. Apparantly no one else who works here is capable, so some days I get like five office lackeys coming to find me to fix: the shredder, stapler, A/C, coffe maker, their car, their door, thier electrical problem. etc.........

Not that I'm bitter or anything.

 

[TheProject]

Tell them all to go to hell.

Well it's assumed at my office that I know how (and want) to fix everything from the air conditioning to the god damned cappuccino machine. Apparantly no one else who works here is capable, so some days I get like five office lackeys coming to find me to fix: the shredder, stapler, A/C, coffe maker, their car, their door, thier electrical problem. etc.........

Not that I'm bitter or anything.

Well, if you weren't so damned snuggly.