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I hate college students
Dec. 9th, 2002 01:16 pmNot all college students, and not all the time. But it's Finals Hell(tm) right now, and what with me working at the Kinko's closest to the University of South Carolina campus, we get all the thick-skulled idiots who absolutely have to wait until the last minute to go and do their final projects. Add to that fun the increasing regularity of our colour copiers/printers being broken, and it makes for all sorts of joy.
Then, add to that the increasing tendency of other customers to be about as sharp as a bag of wet mice, and it's making for such a fun week.
Rules for coming into Kinko's late at night:
1) Don't lie to me. By that, don't tell me you called here when you didn't. Don't tell me that you talked to me, because I don't get that many calls at work. Don't tell me that you're only coming here because "your printer is out of ink".
2) Don't ask for a discount just because you _think_ you deserve one. If you actually have a discount card, or a coupon, that's different. But don't think that you're entitled to one just because there are no other customers in the store or any other odd fucking reason you can think of. Likewise, don't ask for free copies just because it's an advertisement for a party or a band.
3) If I tell you we can't do something, we can't. I have no reason at all to lie to you.
4) Don't try and "make things easier for us". 99% of the time a customer tries to make things easier for us, it makes it harder for us. Don't put all your single-sided originals back to front so we know what you're talking about. We work at a fucking Kinko's for God's sake. I think we have a handle on what double-sided copies are.
5) Don't ask for the fucking impossible. If you bring in some taped-up piece of shit looking collage, and want copies of it but without any tape lines on it, then I fucking suggest you not use an entire roll of Scotch tape on it. Likewise, don't come in at five in the morning and ask for 200 copies of a thick book in two hours. It can't be done.
6) If I tell you we don't support a file type, don't bring the file in only in that file type because you think I might be wrong. Likewise, if you don't call first to find out, you have absolutely no rights to get pissy because we don't support some odd-ass little program that was written back in 1986. (Yes, this happened.)
7) As a general rule, I do not interrupt jobs that are bringing several hundred or several thousand dollars into the store so you can get one copy of some art project done. Don't ask.
8) If you're bringing in a thesis/dissertation/long-ass paper to get printed from a disk, save it all as one big file, if at all possible. Just because you feel the need to separate your 17-chapter dissertation into one file per chapter does not mean I feel like opening each one individually to print them out. Page breaks are your friend.
That's all I can come up with now... and besides which, my food is getting cold.
Kierthos
Then, add to that the increasing tendency of other customers to be about as sharp as a bag of wet mice, and it's making for such a fun week.
Rules for coming into Kinko's late at night:
1) Don't lie to me. By that, don't tell me you called here when you didn't. Don't tell me that you talked to me, because I don't get that many calls at work. Don't tell me that you're only coming here because "your printer is out of ink".
2) Don't ask for a discount just because you _think_ you deserve one. If you actually have a discount card, or a coupon, that's different. But don't think that you're entitled to one just because there are no other customers in the store or any other odd fucking reason you can think of. Likewise, don't ask for free copies just because it's an advertisement for a party or a band.
3) If I tell you we can't do something, we can't. I have no reason at all to lie to you.
4) Don't try and "make things easier for us". 99% of the time a customer tries to make things easier for us, it makes it harder for us. Don't put all your single-sided originals back to front so we know what you're talking about. We work at a fucking Kinko's for God's sake. I think we have a handle on what double-sided copies are.
5) Don't ask for the fucking impossible. If you bring in some taped-up piece of shit looking collage, and want copies of it but without any tape lines on it, then I fucking suggest you not use an entire roll of Scotch tape on it. Likewise, don't come in at five in the morning and ask for 200 copies of a thick book in two hours. It can't be done.
6) If I tell you we don't support a file type, don't bring the file in only in that file type because you think I might be wrong. Likewise, if you don't call first to find out, you have absolutely no rights to get pissy because we don't support some odd-ass little program that was written back in 1986. (Yes, this happened.)
7) As a general rule, I do not interrupt jobs that are bringing several hundred or several thousand dollars into the store so you can get one copy of some art project done. Don't ask.
8) If you're bringing in a thesis/dissertation/long-ass paper to get printed from a disk, save it all as one big file, if at all possible. Just because you feel the need to separate your 17-chapter dissertation into one file per chapter does not mean I feel like opening each one individually to print them out. Page breaks are your friend.
That's all I can come up with now... and besides which, my food is getting cold.
Kierthos