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When you thought the day was messed up....

Tonight was one of those nights, when you come to work feeling good get the let down and then it goes downhill, then up hill and up again.

I had a computer issue today with the printer. I couldn't print anything the queue was jammed, and the printer wasn't showing up at times. I recalled when I came in to relieve the previous shift that the person was putting a pile of paper into the shredder. The shredder had already stopped working once while I was waiting to relieve them. They had pulled the drawer out and pushed it back in, they seemed like they didn't want me to see them trying to shred this pack of papers. I noticed it looked like a forward on type email. Nothing for me to worry about. Well later on when I was working on a document I opened up the form file and it said that there was a problem with the printer spool and it wanted to report it to check for a solution. Then it also advised me there was no printer driver located. I was puzzled by this. But I continued on to my file and did what I had to do and when I tried to print it gave me another error. I tried things I thought might help including restarting. When in doubt restart the PC right? Not this time. I checked the connections on the pc and the printer connections. Everytime I would restart the PC and the printer would connect it would print about 15 pages of an email forward that was addressed to the previous shift employee's personal email.

I finally mentioned it to someone else and then they messed with it a while, and it printed another couple times. We had quite the stack paper by the time we got it fixed. The problem was the file was stuck in the queue and was refusing to delete it tried locking up when you tried to clear or delete it from there. Finally it was fixed. But when employee who fixed it saw the papers and I told them about what I had saw when I came in earlier, they advised me they would be putting all that paper for the employee that left the problem, in their mailbox. I bet when they come in they will think what is this I thought I had all that thrown out.

So I guess it turned out pretty good.

I did have a couple incidents but nothing major. An instinct turned out to be a good one. After receiving a hang up call, I tracked the number in our system and found it to be a person whom we have dealt with before on domestic arguements. As an officer arrived in scene one half of the issue had arrived at dispatch wanting to speak with an officer.

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