The Paper Shredder

The MD of this firm I worked in was not particularly bright, rarely came down from his eagle's nest and was a bit of a recluse.

He did grace us with his majesterial buffoon-ness one day.

Our office junior was standing next to the paper shredder when the MD came in, in a bit of a rush.

"Do you know how to work that thing?" he asked the junior

"Sure." says the junior.

The MD handed him a very thick report - well, this needs to go into it - it's highly confidential, so don't think of even looking at it."

This proved difficult but he managed to feed it into the machine. As it silently shredded the document deep within it's mechanical bowels our MD nodded with satisfaction. After a while he looks puzzled. We all tried hard not to laugh when he enquired of the junior,

"Okay, so where does the copy come out?"