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Thursday, May 26, 2005

I'm not stupid, asshat!

So, to bring everyone up to snuff, I worked for a year in a professional copy center. I have a pretty good idea of how to run things. In fact the only reason I wasn’t supervisor there is I went to college, and couldn’t be there during the day. So then I come here. The management reminds me of a child running a lemonade stand, and indeed it’s treated as such. Ever see a kid in a lemonade stand? All you have to do is act sad, and say you don’t have any money and I bet you’d get a free glass. Same idea here, we don’t even charge for black and white copies!!! There is NO communication between shifts, NO access to the work anyone else has done, the full time chick has all jobs emailed to her personal email account, rather than the one set up specifically for the copy center, and NO ONE other than me has any copy experience! Because no one else has experience, the copy center student workers are treated with such condescendence that it makes my blood boil thinking about it. I got an email today for color copies (one of the few things we actually DO charge for. It went like this: “Can I please get a color copy of these two banners? Please open the files in paint. Then do a page setup and set it up for 8.5 x 14 legal paper, portrait. Thank you.” The files sent over were both in JPEG format. First off…if you want a good quality color copy, you NEVER use Microsoft Paint! Second…8.5 x 14 legal paper? I’m sorry, is there more than one kind of 8.5 x 14 paper? It IS legal paper don’t be redundant. I’m not completely inept, thank me very much!