notices

fridayJune 5 2020

Turn on the computer.

Copy the file to the computer in the cellar.

Adjust that computer remotely.

go down to the plotter room in the cellar.

Change the paper on the platter

change the ink.

and then press the button, after having

entered" print".

Let the machine work.

Go to the coffee dispenser, one floor up.

Put in one Euro, for a big cup.

And return to the office, on the same floor.

read the mail, good news and bad.

Drink the coffee.

And go back to the plotter room in the basement.

Take out the roll of paper, now printed with

the plans of the building, and a list of professors

and instructions as to how to find them.

Cut the roll into pages, each oneDIN A1.

Put them on a trolley.

Wheel the trolley through the building.

On the top floor, open the first frame, take out the old notice.

Put a red sticky dot onto rhe new notice,

and put the new notice into the frame.

Four snaps, and the information notice

is up. to date.

Repeat, eight times on this floor.

Take the lift down, repeat another seven times.

Take the lift down to the basement, replace

one of the signs there.

Collect and cut the six newly printed

posters in' the basement.

Take the lift to the first floor

And so on, and on, for three hours

until all the signs are replaced.

It is a buffoons work, but it made

the time go faster.

'Not boring, and the pay is the same.