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Post modern Indian nouveau cuisine
23/04/2008 by April First.
Apparently if you leave a photocopier on for over 24 hours and it reaches over 120 degrees celcius it stops working. Completely.
It doesn’t come back to life even if you put an ice pack on it.
I never knew that until today. But it seems that Janice set up the computer network to work directly with the copier to print out all the extra copies of the school’s policies that were needed for tomorrow’s inspection.
Thus it was that after 10.45 we had no work to undertake since no photocopying could be done. However due to the overwhelming pile of paperwork nothing else could be found, and so we had nothing else we could do.
A steady stream of teachers came through the door asking for information about Thursday’s inspection, but we were unable to find anything because of the piles of photocopying everywhere, and so couldn’t help.
At 1pm the Head turned up. As a mark of our deepest respect and surprise we stood as one and watched him pick his way through the debris. He asked what was going on, and we told him that nothing was going on, patiently explaining that a sudden demand to increase the photocopying output of the office by 80000% without a) more staff b) three new photocopiers and c) two repairmen permanently on site, was doomed to failure. He said, “there must be something you can do,” and Janice said (rather unadvisably I thought) that we could copy the policies out by hand. The head asked how long that might take. Janice said that with luck we might get it done by April…. 2010.
Midway through the afternoon Janice told me that she had been to the new post modern Indian nouveau cuisine restaurant in town, and had seen the head there with a “young lady”. We all gasped in horror, expressed our complete dismay and disgust, and then asked for the fullest details, which were of a type that I could not possibly express here.
We sent a note to the head’s PA asking for extra staff to be allocated to clear up the mess in the office.
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