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I swear, you hold their hands, you pat them reassuringly, you try to solve their problems, but then they rear up and bite you head off because you didn't do what they wanted. Considering they don't know how to tell you what they want, until it's too late, it's really sol for them.
Anyway, I try to stay away from the copy machines. Not that the machines are really evil, just the management is evil for getting those machines. I try to stay away because I just get sick of helping people with the machines. Yes, I'm being a bitch. But when people just stand there and want you to do the work (scan the card, place the book in the machine, press "start" and retreive the copy, then repeat 40 pages), I think they should pay me to do the work. And telling people how to copy, ugh. There are a lot of steps. And there are written instructions but why ruin a perfectly fine pair of eyes with reading?
Oh, and then there's the color copier and the b&w copiers. And sometimes the color one doesn't work, though it must be bad karma then a mechanical problem.
Anyway, I pass the color machine, which is next to 2 b&w copiers, as I go to return some magazines to the first floor.
DMF: oh, you should stop and help that guy. It looks like he needs help.
DMF: Get on going, get on going, don't stop to help him.
So what I do? stop to help him. Note, he is looking around the machine, which I recognize as the "where did my copy come out of?" look.
: me
dickhead: dh
Me: Hi, do you need help?
dh: yeah, the copier wont' print.
me: ok, let's see. Ok, you have to press this button 2x.
I point to the button. He doesn't press it.
dh: This machine takes a $1.
me: yes.
dh: I need my copy.
So I press the button 2x. Then I noticed t hat there is another request in the queue.
Me: ok, here it is.
dh: But I wanted it in black and white!
Me: ok, the b&w machines are these 2.
dh: but when I scan my card they don't appear. I know what the library is doing, it's swindling people's money!
Me: do you still have the job on the computer? We can choose the b&w option.
dh: I didn't press the color option (on the computer he was on).
So the guy seems to be fuming but not really acting like he wanted my help, so I started to leave.
dh: hey, come back here!
me: what?
dh: someone owes me $1!
me: you didn't tell me you wanted b&w, you told me you wanted your copy. I helped you print it out.
dh: But I didn't want color! I don't like your attitude!
me: fine, I'll get someone else. But you should learn to communcate.
Wow, guy has an attitude but he wants me not to have one. Good luck, buddy. And someone else did refund his $1 (by adding money to his card, not actual cash) but I took out $.15 cents, since he did keep the copy. $.15 is the cost of b&w.
Anyway, I try to stay away from the copy machines. Not that the machines are really evil, just the management is evil for getting those machines. I try to stay away because I just get sick of helping people with the machines. Yes, I'm being a bitch. But when people just stand there and want you to do the work (scan the card, place the book in the machine, press "start" and retreive the copy, then repeat 40 pages), I think they should pay me to do the work. And telling people how to copy, ugh. There are a lot of steps. And there are written instructions but why ruin a perfectly fine pair of eyes with reading?
Oh, and then there's the color copier and the b&w copiers. And sometimes the color one doesn't work, though it must be bad karma then a mechanical problem.
Anyway, I pass the color machine, which is next to 2 b&w copiers, as I go to return some magazines to the first floor.
DMF: oh, you should stop and help that guy. It looks like he needs help. DMF: Get on going, get on going, don't stop to help him.So what I do? stop to help him. Note, he is looking around the machine, which I recognize as the "where did my copy come out of?" look.
: medickhead: dh
Me: Hi, do you need help?
dh: yeah, the copier wont' print.
me: ok, let's see. Ok, you have to press this button 2x.
I point to the button. He doesn't press it.
dh: This machine takes a $1.
me: yes.
dh: I need my copy.
So I press the button 2x. Then I noticed t hat there is another request in the queue.
Me: ok, here it is.
dh: But I wanted it in black and white!
Me: ok, the b&w machines are these 2.
dh: but when I scan my card they don't appear. I know what the library is doing, it's swindling people's money!
Me: do you still have the job on the computer? We can choose the b&w option.
dh: I didn't press the color option (on the computer he was on).
So the guy seems to be fuming but not really acting like he wanted my help, so I started to leave.
dh: hey, come back here!
me: what?
dh: someone owes me $1!
me: you didn't tell me you wanted b&w, you told me you wanted your copy. I helped you print it out.
dh: But I didn't want color! I don't like your attitude!
me: fine, I'll get someone else. But you should learn to communcate.
Wow, guy has an attitude but he wants me not to have one. Good luck, buddy. And someone else did refund his $1 (by adding money to his card, not actual cash) but I took out $.15 cents, since he did keep the copy. $.15 is the cost of b&w.
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