"It's like it's trying to tell us something," quipped Sarah, a copywriter.
But no one was listening. The crisis had been averted, and the office could finally focus on the day's tasks.
Meanwhile, the office manager, Rachel, was growing increasingly frustrated. With a big meeting looming, she needed to get the printer up and running, pronto.
As the morning wore on, the printer's antics became the office's main source of entertainment. Coworkers gathered around the printer, watching in a mixture of confusion and amusement as it spat out garbled pages of gibberish.
"It was just a driver issue," he explained. "The update to version 25 must have caused a conflict. I had to tweak a few settings and—"