Plain paper photocopiers. I'm convinced that they are actually psychokinesis amplifiers. You see, when they are installed everyone believes in them, and they work. Then someone has a bad day and the thing stops working -- after they see or hear that then everyone loses faith and it doesn't work for them. So they call a technician, who is convinced about his own ability to fix things -- and often it works for him without having to do anything! And does as long as he's around, once he's gone it stops working again. Unless he does something to convince the users that he's fixed it, that is, in which case they regain faith.
That is why the cry "but I did that and it didn't work!" is often true, when they tried it they didn't have the confidence. I 'fixed' a pirnter at work like that the other day, just opened the top, looked at it and told it not to be silly, closed the top again and it worked fine, it was probably just lonely and played up to get attention...
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Date: 2010-07-30 12:07 pm (UTC)That is why the cry "but I did that and it didn't work!" is often true, when they tried it they didn't have the confidence. I 'fixed' a pirnter at work like that the other day, just opened the top, looked at it and told it not to be silly, closed the top again and it worked fine, it was probably just lonely and played up to get attention...