LOL -kinko's
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- Jaline0
haha:
"Pyle says "whether or not there's a funeral service, the family can count on great service" from his staff."
- richie_gunnz0
This one is good too:
- fooler0
I was at kinkos the other day trying to DL about 30 old zip discs onto my HD...what a nightmare that place was...
Design students trying to do projects, asking the kinkos staff to help and/or do it for them. A couple trying to make their own wedding handouts for a wedding that was happening in a few hrs. Every print needed to be redone. "Bump that up more...that's a mistake, it doesn't fold right..." The poor staff are basically production artist for the incompetent.
- mg330
Weird... that's not in theprint version. Thought they were always the same.
Duped by The Onion, say it isn't so!
- barbtastic0
when i was in high school i worked at kinkos for 4 hours... this lady started screaming at me at the top of her lungs because i would not write her resume for her... they told me that they would not be able to pay me the $10/hour as promised, only 7... i spent the whole time fixing the macs and trying not to stab stupid people in the face.
went to lunch and never came back!
- ninjasavant0
I worked there through college. Best place to work as a design student, I had the best looking projects in the class. PLUS, since I was the computer guy, I never had to work the copiers, could tell customers as much, AND I stole so much work from them it was insane.
When I finally left I seriously did the f*ck you, f*ck you scene from Half Baked.
- level2b0
I worked at on in highschool, from about 16-19 years old. Awesome place to work as a designer, it was really slow – so learned how to use Photoshop, Quark, etc. Plus, had access to all the cool printers, made my own zines, learned the printing proccess, etc.
I could never be a Kinkos customer though, would drive me insane..
- mg330
I take band poster artwork there to be printed, 11x17s, full color, easy enough?
Yeah right.
They're all well and nice people there, but I always feel like they think I'm giving them instructions on how to build a jet engine.
- niconico0
GOD.
kinko's is on the top of my list of places i wish would disappear.
it takes them 5 hours to produce ONE b&w 11 x 17, and god help you if you need color.
even when the place looks like a ghost town. i swear, the manager at my local one barely knows how to use the binding machine.
i once told him i needed to compare the print color with a pantone swatch... AND HE HAD NO IDEA WHAT PANTONE WAS.
i hate that place. i bought my own damn printer.
- fowler0
i think kinkos only works when you're actually employed by them. even after working there for like, 5 years off and on, they still fuck up my stuff.
the best part of working there is trading with other people for cool shit. tattoos, sushi.. everyone always needs copies..
- doesnotexist0
ha, i actually work at kinkos right now part time, i know what im doing but no one else does.
everyone that comes in never knows how to set anything up properly, i spend more time fixing customer's mistakes so they dont get all bitchy and demand the job be redone then actually doing work.
- doesnotexist0
and yeah, i steal so much shit from there. posters, making magazines, prints, great hookup as a designer.
- fooler0
in school i took a project in there , they printed it, I looked at it and asked them to bump up the cyan. The guy came back and said the machine didn't have a "cyan" adjustment. Just "cane". At least make these people pass a basic vocabulary coarse.
- fooler0
Chappelle plays the manager in a Popcopy (clearly a Kinko's) store training tape...Hilarious and pretty much true!
- fowler0
dude, thanks, i've been meaning to check that out for a long time
- doesnotexist0
fooler, that's the craziest thing ive ever heard. not even someone in my store would say that.
- skelly0
that place is the fucking worst ever. i spent about 40 bucks to make 1 11x17 print.
first you put like 10 dollars on your card, because you know, it's only one print. then the computer takes 3 minutes to "log in" tick tick tick...
then acrobat takes 5 hours to open, tick tick tick...
then another 2 minutes to open my document, tick tick tick
then my card runs out of money and it logs me out. nice.
reapeat the whole process and get a print with a big black streak down the page. then it wouldn't eject my CD.
kinkos can die.
- sk8sam240
Enter response: I work at Kinkos too, as a design student it does come in handy when I have projects due, although I can not stand having to deal with other co-workers that have no idea what CMYK colorspace is or customers who expect you to be able to run their job right there and then.... god... i need to find another job
- coffeesoy0
holy shit dont get me started on kinkos.
Generally 95% of kinkos employees are jerks but stay away from the Kinkos in LA on Vine. i had the WORST customer service in my life from there. it was really quite amazing how badly i was treated.
Was up early in the morning to get an 11X17 print done in time for school. I ended up spending an hour and a half just to get a print at which point i was already late for school.
during that time there was one employee in particular that seemed like he went out of his way to treat me like shit. he was making personal offensive comments when he knew damn well i was pissed off. he knocked down my external HD with an empty paper tube that he was playing around with. and at one point he was litterally hiding from me when i called him for help.
I went fucking crazy. i nearly trashed the place before the manager came out to speak with me.
this was back in May yet i still have to urge to go back and fuck him up when i think about that day.
Anyway, the manager was cool. he gave me an 80% coupon. If anyone wants it let me know.