Dear students

[owlmoose]

Standing around the printer, hoping that it will magically refill itself with paper? Yeah, that's not going to work.

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[dagas_isa]

There's always the sad kitty approach, where in there's a mournful gaze and some pathetic noises and some gentle soul takes pity and refills it?

[owlmoose]

I would understand if they had been making pitiful noises. That has, in fact, often been known to work. ;) But there were no sad kitty faces in evidence.

[cereta]

AHAHAHAHAHAHA yes. We have often said that if (some of) our students drove the way they approach the class, when they hit a roadblock, they would just stop and sit there.

[owlmoose]

I see that effect in action all the time. Like when they type a phrase into the library catalog search box and get no results. "Oh, you must not have anything, then." Which leads, of course, to rampant Wikipedia abuse.

[regann]

My coworkers do this as well. LOL.

[owlmoose]

I'm starting to think that the desire to ignore a chore and thereby let it become someone else's problem is one of the strongest forces in the universe.