Kinko's Land

Haven't blogged in a while. I've been busy working at Kinko's Land making copies for people. The store is normally dead in the summer, but out of nowhere it just picked up like crazy. We've eaten a lot of pizza and drank lots of pop. One of the most interesting experiences I find at my workplace is dealing with customers. I have met many kinds of people in my day at Kinko's and have made some observations.

There are customers who...

• know more than you about copiers and technology in general.
  
• are perfectionists that notice a blue colour isn't blue enough.
  
• throw down their keys on the counter and demand copies right away.
  
• don't have a clue what they want and take forever to decide.
  
• want you to decide.
  
• expect you to pull out the "Kinko's Magic Wand" and instantly create the impossible.
  
• tell you how to do your job.
  
• will pay extra for even faster service.
  
• are easy going and will pick it up next week.
  
• spend half an hour deciding what they want when in fact they don't want it anymore, wasting everybody's time.
  
• walk past the counter into the main production area asking for service. We just point them back to the front and ask them to wait their turn.
  
• say we have bad service and will never come back. We see them the next day.
  
• ask, "Is Kinko's really owned by FedEx?" when there's a giant sign on the wall that says FedEx Kinko's.
  
• totally forgot they placed an order and it sits there for months.
  
• tell you their life story and how they came to the point where there at of why they are making copies.
  
• show so much cleavage that I think a boob will pop out.
  
• ask us to read their faxes for them over the phone.
  
• got angry cause we don't have typewriters.
  
• are drunk or hung over and still managed to make it to Kinko's.
  
• have an instruction manual of how they want their copies made.
  
• want us to make them fake IDs.
  
• have nude pictures of themselves and want copies made for their boyfriend.
  
• ask us why we charge more than our competitors across the street. So we ask ourselves why are you here?
  
• tried to flirt with me cause I'm a hot asian guy.
  
• know exactly what they want making my job easier :)

Peace.