Wednesday, March 23, 2005

Kinko's never ceases to suck

There's dozens of copy places all over the city. Why am I complelled to keep going back to this hell hole? Probably because they have the a very convenient location and the lowest prices on the color copies which can be made discretely.

I go into today. I needed one color copy. ONE. I figured I'd be in and out in a moment. I get there. They have two machines. There's one guy making about a million copies at one machine, and this other fool who wants to make a two sided copy at the other but apparently hasn't the cranial capacity to master this Xerox Machine. The guy with the million copies finally finishes and leaves. The lady ahead of me on line rushes the machine so fast that she actually cornered the previous user and he almost had to limbo out of the corner to get out of that place. This lady is apparently a teacher and is making copies of about 400 pictures by students. Meanwhile I am STILL standing there with my one capy needing to be done. The dumbass at the other machine managed to jam up his two-sided copy and is trying to find help. After about another five minutes a woman has a look at that machine. She has no clue. She calls over another tech. It takes him five minutes to fix the jam. He takes the page that dude was copying and walks off without a word.

That guy who jammed the machine is standing there with a dazed look on his face. He was confused obviously. Afterall the tech walked off with his paper and didn't sat anything. We don't know if the machine works or not, whether he's doing something for this guy or not. WTF?!??!1 So I see the confused guy walk off to the main desk to see what's up. The teacher is still making her copies and the line is getting longer. I don't know if I can use the machine. The tech didn't say whether or not it was functioning. So after about another 5 minutes of so I decide take a shot at the jammed machine. Put in my card, made my copy and was out of there. I was out of the office for thirty minutes for one copy.

Typically poor service, as always, at Kinko's. It was like that Chapelle Show bit.

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