Zombie_Babies
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Oh. My. God. This is hilarious ... and incredibly sad. When people talk about disdain for the legal system, this is the kind of stuff they're talking about. Er, at least some of the time.
What is a photocopier?
Thanks for that! 
The late Judge Jerry Buchmeyer had a column in the Texas Bar Journal that consisted of exerpts from legal communications, court hearings, pleadings amend depositions that ranged from the merely amusing to the amazingly ridiculous. Some have been posted on their website:
http://saywhat.texasbar.com
One of my faves was this one:
http://www.txpd.org/TPJ/18/law_disorder.htm
The late Judge Jerry Buchmeyer had a column in the Texas Bar Journal that consisted of exerpts from legal communications, court hearings, pleadings amend depositions that ranged from the merely amusing to the amazingly ridiculous. Some have been posted on their website:
http://saywhat.texasbar.com
One of my faves was this one:
http://www.txpd.org/TPJ/18/law_disorder.htm
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that was funny. And as played, that IT guy was either especially obtuse or was coached to be that way.
Anybody in IT knows that Xerox is common parlance for photocopier, as Kleenex is to tissue paper. So much so, it's a point of discussion in technology classes.
Zombie_Babies
First Post
Thanks for that!
The late Judge Jerry Buchmeyer had a column in the Texas Bar Journal that consisted of exerpts from legal communications, court hearings, pleadings amend depositions that ranged from the merely amusing to the amazingly ridiculous. Some have been posted on their website:
http://saywhat.texasbar.com
One of my faves was this one:
http://www.txpd.org/TPJ/18/law_disorder.htm
Heh, I figured you'd enjoy that.
Zombie_Babies
First Post
Meh, he lawyered up and was probably given specific instructions even during the interview. It was CYA crap and that's where the funny dies and the sad begins.
WayneLigon
Adventurer
The problem being that 'Xerox' is still a trademarked term and one they've fought long and hard to prevent becoming diluted and 'genericised' (aka, Zipper, Aspirin, Escalator). Being an engineer and thus used to very precise language, the poor guy is probably unwilling to say to a lawyer that his office (like most) routinely abuses that word. He probably thought it would open him up to a lawsuit.
billd91
Not your screen monkey (he/him)
Mmmayybe. But I think the way he kept saying that he wanted to answer the question correctly suggested to me he had received some kind of CYA coaching.
then, ironically enough, photocopier was the correct generic term for the machine that reproduces content from paper to paper.
He was coached, or he was a moron. As acted, it emphasized the moron angle to my eye. But I bet in reality, he was coached because the core dispute was whether the office could or could not give out data, which some felt was being "abused" by certain data collection agencies, who ironically, wanted digital copies, not photo copies.
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