I remember that whenever a printer crashed at my university, its queue would fill up as people kept queuing additional copies of whatever document they were try

I remember that whenever a printer crashed at my university, its queue would fill up as people kept queuing additional copies of whatever document they were trying to print. Thankfully the permissions on the print queue were loose enough that we lay users could purge the impatient people's documents from the queue rather than waiting for the printer to churn through their duplicate requests.