I Dream of.... Common Sense

I have a little rant to share - just a quick one concerning people who don't understand the whole "Print" function on the computer. We have 12 computers in the lab. We have 2 printers which those 12 computers connect to. 6 connect to the one on the left, 6 connect to the one on the right. Pretty easy. Now - I think it would also be easy to ascertain that for 12 computers, you do not need 12 printers. That's basic knowledge right?

Wrong!

These people will push the print button 3 or 4 times before turning to us at the desk and say, "It's not printing." Yes it is... in fact, it's printing.... from... the... printer. We really threw a curveball at you there, didn't we? And now you have 3 to 4 copies of the 10 page document you were trying to print. It seems that they think that if the paper doesn't appear before them, that it didn't perhaps print somewhere else. Now I ask you this - where do they expect the paper to come from? The monitor? Maybe from the floppy drive? Or did they expect to fold their arms and wiggle their noses and have the paper magically pop into existence in front of their very eyes?!

It could happen!