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A few years ago, IT rolled out a new “cost-saving” policy: all printing must be in black and white. No exceptions. They even locked down the printers so you literally couldn’t choose color.
Fine. We grumbled, but went along with it. Then came the big quarterly presentation. Our exec team had spent weeks putting together slides full of colorful charts, graphs, and visuals. On presentation day, our department was told to print out 200+ copies for distribution.
We did exactly what IT told us to do. We printed everything in crisp, glorious grayscale.
All those red vs. green charts? Now just gray vs. slightly darker gray. Pie charts? Identical-looking circles. Key highlights? Completely invisible.
The execs flipped. You could hear the frustration all the way down the hall. “Why does this look like a bad photocopy from 1993?!”
We shrugged and said: “IT’s policy. Black and white only, no exceptions.”
By the next morning, color printing was magically restored. And IT never tried that “no exceptions” stunt again.