I know this is the staffroom and not AIBU but I need some teacher like perspective. At my school (been there since Easter) we have to complete a specific assessment sheet for a piece of work per term (think A5 marking cover sheet - around 50 of them). This is all fair and reasonable and fits within the current work load BUT they are insisting they are printed on green paper. As teachers share a printer this is a huge faff because it means going round checking no one else is going to print, finding the special paper, loading it in the printer and then of course someone somewhere else in the building will print on it etc etc. It genuinely add another hour or so to the job and means you can't just do it as you go which is how I like to work. So I just shaded the entire marking sheet table green and printed it in colour. This has been flagged, during school monitoring, as not being acceptable as I cannot create bespoke versions. I've attempted to kick up a fuss but I obviously didn't go about it the right way. My LM nodded and said he'd look into it and now the whole school has got a very polite reminder from the head as to where the coversheets are kept and how they are expected to be used.
So WIBU to just print it all out on white paper and file it and if I'm asked to reprint on green just explain that is an admin task and the office (who are lovely and very busy people so I would feel bad) could either photocopy all my sheet onto green paper or I can send them the electronic originals. In fairness with super swanky office printers that no one else has access to it wouldn't be the same nightmare job. I realise I am slightly on my high horse but no will explain to me the need for green anyway. They are filed in their own folders so all the cover sheets in there are green so it can't be to make them stand out.
I like my school. I like the people I work for should just suck it up like everyone else seems to be?