Copy Boy

Copy Boy is a running joke we have. (Read with Teddy Roosevelt type voice) “Copy boy, come here and do our bidding!” People treat us like assholes. If you want us to help you, please be respectful. When people treat me bad, I just screw up their stuff or pretend I don’t know what they’re talking about! Or take a really long time to do it. Some people are real jerks. I told one customer that we had to have a street address to ship his package. He said he didn’t give a damn what I needed. So I shipped it anyway and took his money. Who knows if it ever got there got there?! Like my co-worker says, “Hello name tag, goodbye dignity”!

Copyright

Another big one is people that want us to copy copywritten material. A lady was just in the other day who wanted us to copy a bunch of old albums. When informed that we could not do it she was flabbergasted. “You mean these old albums are copywritten?” One was Simon and Garfunkel. Both of whom are still alive and collecting roaylties. One guy wanted us to reproduce a whole magazine. Number one, since color copies (on regular paper, not to mention gloss magazine paper) are $.49, it would cost more to copy than to just buy another copy. Number two, it’s illegal.

I’ve been to this Kinkos. I used to live in Hollywood. I can only imagine what kind of customers they get!!!

Fed Up with Kinkos Customers

I work at Fed Ex Kinkos, and we have to deal with the dumbest people on Earth! One guy couldn’t spell the name of the company he worked for while we were looking up his account. I don’t know how many times I have been asked how to send a fax. Come on! What century is it? It has instructions on the fax machine. Duh! Or, “Can I make a color copy from a black and white copy?” Yeah, sure genius. We’ll have the magic color fairy come and fill in all the colors in your black and white copy.

I’m sure people are this dumb everywhere, but we do alot of stuff at Kinkos. Copying, Binding, Passport Photos, Shipping, Computers, Software, etc. So there are many more dumb questions we get than a restaurant, for instance, would. Alot of it is just that people want us to do their stuff for them. Sorry, but I’m not faxing your papers dummy.