To bribe the printer?

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So tomorrow is D day (dissertation hand in) and I foolishly assumed that if the deadline for the electronic hand in was 16:00 the hard copy deadline would be them same.

NOOOOOOO this is not the case the hard copy deadline is 13:00 which makes getting my dissertation printed and bound in time really bloody tight!

So WIBU to turn up at the university print shop before they open (to guarantee my place at the head of the queue scare away anyone else who needs any printing done ) with a massive box of celebrations as an incentive big fat bribe to get my work printed and bound before the dead line?

I don't understand - can you submit either way? Or do you have to do both?
Good luck though

Do it. Anything is worth a try. You get more being nice. Good Luck I remember smiling very sweetly at the IT help desk when my printer broke on my dissertation deadline.

Yeah not U to go and be nice, but I get there are plenty other disorganised people needed emergency binding too...

Not the best idea, purely because you're unlikely to be the only person with this problem. In your position, I'd go to your nearest indie print shop/stationers that does printing OR (if you can) go to university/a friend's tonight to print out so binding is your only task for tomorrow. Unless it has to be comb/spiral bound, there are some quicker options that you can buy while it's being printed to save time - I used one of these, and my friend used a clip-in softback binder. Both were fine (although I particularly like the springback style, which is under £10 from Ryman's.

Actually, I would go to a massive Tesco tonight and buy their cheapest printer (and have done this in the past to make an essay deadline), plus whatever binding option they have as a back-up in case you can't get it bound in time tomorrow. I know it's expensive, but having 10% deducted from your dissertation mark (5% per working day at most universities, so it'd be 10% by the next morning) could well cost you a lot more than £70 in the long term.

Oh Nom I would be so happy if I could do a s you suggested but I can not bind it myself, it has to be hard bound the specifications are not ones that I would be able to meet printing at home otherwise I would.

whois Normally I would never leave something this late, but due to robbery (thread in legal) I had to recreate all my written work and empirical research so was essentially cramming eight months worth of work into eight weeks, which meant I didn't get finished along with proof reading until this evening.

SPB yes both have to be submitted.

It will get bound tomorrow the issue is will it be ready for 13:00 or will it be thirty mins to an hour late.

which is why I thought bribery might work

Poor you - what a horrible set of circumstances, congratulations for getting it done! Did you meet your deadline? I'm surprised you didn't apply for mitigations, you could probably have got an extension for that!

You would think, Nom, but often it's not the case. Mitigating circumstances don't apply to stolen laptops etc at our uni, as you're expected to have everything backed up in case of loss/theft. As if anyone backs up their laptops. It's pretty tight.

Good luck OP, it's a horrible feeling rushing round to meet deadlines but it will feel amazing once it's done!