February 16, 2011

On a Need to Know Basis

The following is a photograph of the crappy general purpose paper shredder I have at home.  Notice, in particular, the instructions for what not to shred in pictorial format (click photo for larger version).


Now, unless I am interpreting completely incorrectly, which is entirely possible, it would seem that NoviTech feels that I need to be instructed not to shred babies, human hair, water bottles, my own hand, ties or (most sensibly) paper clips.

Ok, in fairness I can understand that they're probably saying not to let children use it and perhaps not to use liquid on it for some reason but I'm really at a loss for the hair, hand and tie images.  Maybe just warnings to keep those things out of it if they are attached to you?  Sad that people need to be told if that's the case.

3 comments:

Anonymous said...

back at CNU we had a wide format super shredder. One of the programmers told me about an operator who's loose tie slipped into the teeth which caused his head to be slapped into the machine.

So no loose ties when shredding around the house. The same logic would suggest you wear pants.
~fhb

ameyer said...

I personally have always been a fan of informative warning labels.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/17367038@N08/2220807717/in/pool-safetysigns#/photos/17367038@N08/2220807717/in/pool-84694056@N00/

and the like. But I can't believe that you aren't supposed to put babies in that.

Paul McRae said...

Yeah, I was equally surprised. Especially when it is so clearly designed for just that purpose.