29th May, 2001.

God save me from getting as stupid as my cow-orkers.

One of them wanted to know if she could print through my laserjet (3 metres from her desk) rather than have to keep walking 4 metres across the room to the centrally networked printer.

So now she's entering some details into a database, printing off one page, walking around here to collect it, taking it back to her desk and putting it into an envelope.

She then enters some more information, prints off one, page, walks around here to collect the printout, takes it back to her desk and stuffs it in an envelope.

Then she enters a little bit more information, etc...

There's obviously something broken in her head that prevents her from realising that it would be much simpler to enter all the data in one go, collect all the resulting printouts together rather than singly, and then putting them into envelopes.

While it's true that I could suggest this to her, I already suspect that the answer will be "Because I find it easier this way" and that any attempt to impose common sense on her work practices will just end in frustration.