Naming Office Equipment: Our Weird Habit

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Math Is Hard said:
We have this thing about naming equipment in the office.

The printer/copier/fax is called Diablo II or Spawn of Diablo. It's a cranky machine that responds well to voodoo offerings like shiny pennies, red ribbons, and chicken bones. It is not nearly as troublesome as Diablo I.

Then there's Willis, a printer that constantly complains it is out of paper when it isn't, and gives other erroneous error messages. leading us to say "whachoo talkin' bout?".

Squeaky (another printer. I think this one is obvious).

The Works (the printer that always works. Well, almost.)

The Nommminator is our shredder. (Omnomnomnomnommm!)

We have 3 new laptops now, and I am trying to think of names for them. I guess it's like naming kittens, though - you have to give it some time for their personalities to emerge. But I am open to suggestions.

Anyone else do this with office equipment? Or are we just really weird?

Ok... (and I thought that I am crazy).
 
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Moonbear said:
if you submit any sort of review to their website, it actually asks what you've named the thing.

May I humbly suggest "Nicolette"?

I'll just lie low and let that sink in for a second... :rolleyes:
 
  • #33
I interned at a place that had a printer with a picture of Uncle Rico from Napoleon Dynamite taped to it. (It was a pun on the brand name--Ricoh.)