Festive Photocopier Funnies

With The Royal Society for the Prevention of Accidents warning people not to sit on photocopiers as it could lead to serious injury, Directors of Aberdeen-based Capture Imaging reveal what role the photocopier plays at Christmas parties.

Capture Imaging provides a document management, copy, print and scan solutions service to the North-east and have secured the rights to supply the award winning Konica Minolta brand to Scottish businesses.  With a combined industry experience of over 30 years, Directors Colin Yule and Robbie Cheyne give a rundown of experiences.

• Approximately 30% of Konica Minolta engineers claim to have been called to fix the glass plates of the office copier during the Christmas period.   At one office party, a bulky male member of staff at a customer’s party decided to photocopy his rear end.  Shortly after pressing the green button, he heard an alarming crack. Before he could get off, the entire glass cover broke trapping him inside the innards of the photocopier. Despite the fact that he had several sharp shards of glass sticking into him, he apparently thought it was rather funny even throughout the time it took for paramedics to help prize him out.

 

• Capture Imaging once took a message requesting an engineer to fix a photocopier that had been ‘jammed by a male groin’ – immediately the engineer visited the site to discover it was a photocopy that had jammed the machine of the mentioned body part and luckily not anything else! 

 

• A Capture engineer was called out to investigate a problem with a photocopier at a local business - it transpired that the machine was jammed by multiple copies of an employees’ breasts the morning after a Christmas party.  To discover the identification of the culprit, the picture had been scanned and emailed to all staff. 

 

• It isn’t just Christmas time that Capture receive entertaining requests regarding their machines.  “A most memorable call made was from an employee concerned about the levels of dangerous radiation emitted by the photocopier.  Confused we investigated further and explained that yes, photocopiers do emit a very special form of radiation – and this was simply light!” 

 

• On another occasion, we heard through the grapevine from a customer that a member of staff had got down to her last piece of photocopier paper.  To solve the problem, she proceeded to photocopy the final piece of blank of paper in an attempt to produce more.  Strangely enough, this didn’t work!

 

Remember, a photocopier is for life, not just for Christmas