Your stomach drops. You’ve met the enemy: the shredder stuck.
The whir becomes a whump-whump-whump . A low, mechanical groan. And then, silence. shredder stuck
You peer into the slot. There it is: the culprit. A single sheet, folded like origami, wedged sideways. Or worse—a rogue sticky note, its adhesive now acting as industrial-strength glue across the blades. Somewhere beneath the plastic casing, the steel cutters are locked in a death grip, unable to rotate forward or backward. Your stomach drops
The Grinding Groan of a Stalled Machine