When we joked about MSNBC peons printing out resumes at the cable net's Secaucus headquarters in preparation of their near-certain slashings (courtesy NBC 2.0 and the merging of MSNBC and NBC News operations at 30 Rock), we were only kidding. We spoke in jest. We made an obvious anecdotal hypotehical. We didn't expect it to actually happen — but a MSNBC insider tells us at least one PA has been caught siphoning GE-owned paper and printer time to spit out "about a dozen" copies of her resume and cover letter.

"It was late in the day [last week]," we're told, "and I doubt she thought anyone would notice, or even care. But she didn't know if anyone was at the printer, since it's situated in a partitioned-off area away from the cubicles. So when she went to go pick up her resumes, a producer type who was also printing something out and rifling through the papers coming out of the printer saw the resume copies."

We're told the exchange between the two consisted only of a quizzical look and a warning that "she probably shouldn't be doing that here." Or, at the very least, send your resume to the printer used by pages to deliver scripts to on-air anchors. Almost nobody uses that one.