“It’s just plain sad.”
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Why? They are on duty — if they can’t have a “duty officer” sit near enough to the printer to hear it “go off”, they can use that Rube Goldberg mechanism FOR THEIR CONVENIENCE (e.g., so they can watch movies or work out or whatever else they are doing).
Why is fire alarm alert printed off? Why don’t they get a phone call. What did fireman do before printers were around?