Have you ever been so completely frustrated with that broken-down old photocopy machine at your workplace that you just wanted to destroy the thing?
Well, Cristina Westerby recently got to live out this office fantasy.
The program therapist at Crossroads for Youth in Oxford got to help pull the lever and drop the nonprofit agency’s old copier from a crane that had it suspended 60 feet in the air in an Ann Arbor parking lot.
‘It was loud,? Westerby said. ‘It smashed to pieces.?
No one will be prosecuting her for this wanton destruction of property because it was all part of the Motor City Copier Crush contest.
Westerby, a regular listener of the ‘Mojo in the Morning? radio show on Detroit’s Channel 955, entered Crossroads for Youth in the contest in which the winner receives a brand new $20,000 copier from University Office Technologies and gets to obliterate their old machine.
‘I’m still shocked that we won,? she said.
Located on a 320-acre campus along E. Drahner Rd. in Oxford Township, Crossroads for Youth is a private, nonprofit treatment agency that serves at-risk and disadvantaged children and youth through residential, day-treatment and community-based programs. It was founded in 1953.
When Westerby heard about the contest, she just couldn’t pass up the opportunity to help improve her work environment.
‘Our copier was horrible,? said Westerby, who estimated the machine was somewhere between 15 and 18 years old.
Crossroads? old machine produced poor quality copies and was constantly getting stuck, so much so that employees nicknamed it ‘Marley? after famous musician Bob Marley.
‘That’s because it would always be jammin?,? Westerby said.
Westerby, who’s worked at Crossroads for four years, was very pleased to be able to give back to an organization that does so much to help others.
‘It makes me feel great,? she said. ‘I love what I do. I love the agency.?