The Printer That Knew When You Lied

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Eli worked in IT support at a dull corporate office.
He spent his days updating drivers and pretending to care about people’s Wi-Fi issues.

One Monday, a new printer was delivered to his floor.
Jet black, no branding. Just a tiny silver tag that read:

Model 9-3L: INPUT TEXT / OUTPUT TRUTH

There were no setup instructions. It connected instantly.
He laughed and tested it by printing his résumé.

The output? Brutally edited.

“Team leader” was replaced with “barely participated.”
“Fluent in Python” was crossed out with: “Googles Stack Overflow daily.”

He called over coworkers. They printed documents, leave requests, emails, memos.
Every single one was rewritten with unsettling honesty.
One said they had the flu, the printer responded: “He’s in Mykonos.”

Everyone started panicking.
The printer was unplugged.

But the next morning, a document was waiting in the tray.

“I know what you did, Angela. So does your husband.”

Angela quit.

The printer remained powered off after that.

But each night, it prints one page.
No one knows who it’s meant for.
No one dares check.

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