Odds I might bite off someone's head in the next 45 minutes: high

[featherynscale]

I'm posting from Kinko's at the moment. I've been here for the past two and a half hours, most of which has been occupied by trying to transfer a file from the station I'm sitting at to a station less than ten feet away so that the staff can burn it to a CD. There is a large sign next to me that declares "Use our CD Burn services and save paper!" which I stupidly assumed meant that this station had the capability to burn CDs. Well no. So the PDF that I made in the first 20 minutes of my residency here at the Overland Park Kinko's has to move to the station behind the desk. Ten feet away, across high-speed cable. Two hours later at $0.40 a minute, I'm still here. Fortunately I'm not paying for this adventure, and I'm making $24.00 an hour to sit here. Which I think makes my time worth $0.40 a minute as well.

That sound you do not hear is the last human bit of my soul expiring in a fit of ennui and evaporating, escaping into the bleakness of the copy center out my left nostril.

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Kinko's Hell

[rougewench.livejournal.com]

As it happened, I was trapped in Hell in a different Kinko's today. I went to photocopy two surveys (for a couple of Sonic Drive In restaurants in Louisana.

Well, they only have one oversized copy machine for blueprints, etc. When I got there, a little blond bimbette wait unit (with curly permed long hair and the crappy low rise jeans so prevalent today - which when she bent over did expose her cheesy thong, and too much glitter eyeshadow) was attempting to photocopy an entire roll of blueprints for two engineers from a TV station...the engineers were giggling over the bimbette link a couple of hyenas. She was so stupid that she didn't know how to clear a jam in this copier...I say stupid, because I was able to do so for her, having never attempted to do so on that particular model previously.

Well, I got to watch this chick not be able to run the copier properly, not be able to troubleshoot properly, not be able to clear a print que from a computer dedicated to running the print que, etc. for almost 45 minutes (for which a client of my firm got to pay my billable rate) and finally, after truly wanting to bitchslap her ignorant ass, I got to take 2 minutes to make my two copies, get lamely giggle at by the two engineers...who couldn't understand what a survey of a restaurant building was (when they had been dealing with engineering blueprints), have another wait unit not be able to run an invoice properly for me and finally get to escape...only to have to go back to work and have a hour less time to review both surveys that had to be completed today...

AAAAACK! IDIOTS! THEY'RE ALL FREAKING IDIOTS!

Sorry...just had to get that off my chest...so suffice to say, I feel your pain.


D.

[diermuid.livejournal.com]

Must have been an NT/XP network... I *LURV* working in unix... the separation between machines is so easy to work with.

Of course it takes me the better part of a week trying to figure out how to copy something to CD... 8-)

[kcwitch.livejournal.com]

well at least you got paid for it. that's a plus right?