2 students wanted to use up their 500 pages of free printing by taking blank paper from the printing room
Reddit user UrPokemon has recently posted a story on the Malicious Compliance subreddit—a subreddit dedicated to “people conforming to the letter, but not the spirit, of a request”—about how he and his roommate took an unconventional way to getting 500 pages of blank paper for free from their university. Completely legal, no stealing involved.
To give you context, the university in question has a policy of letting each student print out 250 pages per semester for free as part of their attendance. This should be used for things like assignments and projects.
Since the Reddit user and his roommate have their own printer, they ended up not actually using their share of free printing. Instead, they figured they can simply go to the printing room and redeem the 500 pages between the two in blank letter paper. Seems logical, right?
They couldn’t & were asked to go through the proper channels by printing something… which they did
People from the internet chimed in to share their own workarounds while attending college after hearing the student’s story.
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and its UP TO 250 pages, not 250 and only 250 pages.