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The original was posted on /r/maliciouscompliance by /u/Maximum-Employee6711 on 2025-06-06 14:34:42+00:00.
I worked for a tech company that prided itself on going “paperless.” We used cloud-based tools for everything. That is, until we got a new department head who insisted she wanted a hard copy of every weekly performance report on her desk “for accountability.”
Mind you, these reports were dynamic, full of hyperlinks, pivot tables, and live dashboards. I told her a printout wouldn’t reflect real-time data. She said, “I don’t care. Print it.”
Okay.
So every Monday, I printed the full 30-page report, plus all the linked tabs and graphs as separate documents. I printed at 100% scale, single-sided (she didn’t specify duplex), used premium color toner, and manually labeled each section. I even hole-punched and bound them in a shiny new folder each time.
This added two hours to my Monday morning routine and cost the company nearly $40 a week in materials. After three weeks, she asked why the supply budget had exploded and why I was “falling behind.”
I just smiled and said, “I’m spending Monday mornings preparing the hard copy reports, per your request.”
Now she’s back to digital.