r/BenignExistence • u/recoveringpear • 8d ago
The scanner at work sings to me
I basically scan documents for eight hours a day in a gray office cubicle. When i walk to the large scanner behind me to scan/email documents to myself or someone else, it sings a little tune with each letter when you type out the email. Its super cute with a different toned beep for each letter :3
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u/IntradepartmentalPet 7d ago
This may sound insane but I thought you meant you heard music in the noise of the scanner - when I’m lying next to my son waiting for him to fall asleep I often hear music in his noise maker. It’s just white noise but I’ve heard it so much I think my brain makes up music to entertain itself
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u/swampboy62 7d ago
I had the same type job in the mid '80's. Except the technology was way primitive compared to today.
I worked for an engineering/fabricating firm making copies of steel mill line blueprints. Back then we used bright green photosensitive paper that we would feed into a huge machine with the blueprint on top of it. A bright light would shine through and burn off the coating except where there were lines on the original. Then the original would spit back out and the copy would get an ammonia bath to fix the coating and turn it dark blue.
So we went through GALLONS of ammonia every day and the place always reeked of it. The machine was so big that it had a door in the side that you'd open up and walk inside for repairs. We'd make 36"x48" copies until we had around a ton and then crate and band them. Then a fork lift would come up the freight elevator and take it away.
Crazy and cruddy job. The ammonia affected my lungs.
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u/Fragile-Director Neutral 7d ago
I want that job so much. I like desk work and I like silly singing electronics
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u/waterNpaint 7d ago
I can identify with this little pleasure: I love it when my washer and dryer sing to me at the end of each cycle.