I was working in my office when my boss came in and told me that his printer was broken. He asked me to go and borrow one from somewhere. I was puzzled, as the printer on his desk had been working fine the day before. I wondered if he had tried to customize it and broken it in the process.
I didn’t know where to borrow a printer from, so I decided to go to the next room. I asked the person in that room if I could borrow their printer. They said yes, but told me to fill it with copy paper before I returned it.
I took the printer back to my boss’s office and plugged it in. It started up right away and I was able to print out the documents that he needed.
The next day, I came into the office and saw that there were now two printers in my boss’s office. One was the printer that I had borrowed from the next room, and the other was a different printer that I didn’t recognize.
I asked my boss about the second printer and he told me that someone else had borrowed it from another department. He said that he didn’t know who had borrowed it, but that he was going to ask around.
I was a little bit confused by this. I had thought that I was the only one who had been asked to borrow a printer. I wondered why someone else had also been asked to borrow one, and why they had chosen to borrow a different printer than the one that I had borrowed.
I also wondered if it was ethical for my boss to ask me to borrow a printer from another department without asking them first. I knew that it was important to be respectful of other people’s property, and I didn’t want to do anything that would be considered wrong.
I decided to talk to my boss about my concerns. I told him that I had thought that I was the only one who had been asked to borrow a printer, and that I had been a little bit uncomfortable about borrowing it from another department without asking them first.
My boss listened to my concerns and he apologized for any inconvenience that he had caused. He said that he had not realized that it would be a problem to borrow a printer from another department, and that he would make sure to ask them first in the future.
I was glad that I had talked to my boss about my concerns. I felt better knowing that he understood my point of view, and that he would be more careful in the future.
I learned a valuable lesson from this experience. I learned that it is important to be respectful of other people’s property, and that it is important to speak up if you have concerns about something that is happening. I also learned that it is important to have open and honest communication with your boss.
— hiro (@hiro_osaka_jp) June 8, 2023
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