Jane has to make 300 copies in the next 5 minutes because her a$$hole boss is breathing down her neck and blaming the company's lack of success entirely on her. She's doing her best, but the originals he gave her are crap, and he keeps coming back every 20 seconds to say, "You got those copies done yet?"
Just when she thinks she's got the job all set up and the copier seems to be doing the bulk of the work fine, she gets a jam. She has to start part of the job over now (maybe because she doesn't realize how the copier will auto correct this stuff). In the middle of all this, the boss pokes his a$$hole face in and says, "What's the problem now?"
Knowing she can't kick her boss in the face because she'll get fired, she takes her anger out on the machine! She says "This stupid thing is jamming now!"
What she didn't count on, was that this, now, is also her fault--because she should have called in the service man... her being psychic and knowing the machine was scheduled to jam just at that point. So now, she does call the service man, and she doesn't have time to calm down and think this through rationally.
Later that day, or even the next day, the service man shows up. She's calm now, but realizes she can't just take back what she said; she'll lose face not just to the service man, but to her coworkers and boss as well. So she sticks with her "this machine is a piece of crap" story.
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