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  • #1

    You're telling us how long to take to make copies?

    Here's the text of an email someone sent us:

    I would like to request photocopies of certain pages from the October 1963 Houston area television guides (which were presumably included within the local Sunday newpaper), specifically those pages that show the movie listings for each week of October. I would be happy to pay for the research, photocopying, and mailing, which I hope would take you no more than 15 minutes Please let me know how to proceed. Thank you.


    I hope would take you no more than 15 minutes?!?! Maybe you should come down here and make the copies yourself.

    We are backlogged, and it would take more than 15 min. thank you very much.
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    Tags: 15 minutes, fast, time
  • #2
    If it didn't take more than 15 minutes, it means one could use google instead of contacting a library. Guess some people don't realize there was a time before internet and that research actually requires...well...research.
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    • #3
      Ah yes. The customer that tells you not only how long an order should take to do, but also how long the que is. All without actually, you know, being employed at (in my case) Kinkos.

      I wish I had a nickle for every moron who believed that if he said "my order should take no more than five minutes" it would magically make it so. I always wanted to say "How the hell would you have the foggiest idea how long that would take?"

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      • #4
        Or even how long it will take to fix the PC, TV, DVD, VCR, etc......
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        • #5
          They seriously want the TV listings for October 1963?

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          • #6
            Quoth jerkface11 View Post
            They seriously want the TV listings for October 1963?
            I was wondering that myself. What on Earth for?
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            • #7
              Quoth depechemodefan View Post
              ...I would be happy to pay for the research, photocopying, and mailing, which I hope would take you no more than 15 minutes...
              You know, if you just happened to have those copies of the television guide already out when you got his email, and if you had absolutely nothing else to do, and if you were sitting at the computer when the email showed up, and if you had mad skillz at working the copy machinery, you just might be able to get that done in 15 minutes. But there is no way you could have it mailed to the idiot within that time frame.

              At my new job, part of my job description includes handling the mail. I had this exchange with a co-worker a few weeks ago.

              Evening, about 20 minutes before the end of my shift.
              CW: Hey, can you mail this form to X Client?
              Me: Sure, I'll just add it to today's outgoing mail.
              CW: Thanks!

              The next morning, about 20 minutes after the beginning of my shift.
              CW: Hey, did you mail that form to X Client yesterday?
              Me: Yes, I dropped it off at the post office on my way home with the rest of the mail.
              CW: Oh. Well, they haven't gotten it yet.
              Me: Naturally. And they won't for another day or two.
              CW: ... If I print off another copy, can you scan it into a pdf and email it to them for me? They really need it today.
              Me: Not a problem.
              Me, thinking: WTH? If they need it right away, why would you want it mailed? I know when I need something delivered quickly, the US Postal Service (as much as I like them) is one of the last options to come to my mind.

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              • #8
                Quoth jerkface11 View Post
                They seriously want the TV listings for October 1963?
                I just don't know. Maybe he's arguing with someone about a movie that came out in 1963? Or maybe "that movie appeared at the Tower", "no that movie appeared at the Majestic!" Or maybe he's writting a movie about Oswald in Houston in October 1963, and in a scene Oswald is watching tv, and so the sc has to make sure Oswald is watching something that is actually on...ugh.

                And I'm stuck trying to figure out if he means the movies out in the cinemas or the movies shown on tv. And we have three major newspapers in 1963, so does he want us to look in all 3 papers? And what about the minority papers?

                Quoth HawaiianShirts
                You know, if you just happened to have those copies of the television guide already out when you got his email, and if you had absolutely nothing else to do, and if you were sitting at the computer when the email showed up, and if you had mad skillz at working the copy machinery, you just might be able to get that done in 15 minutes. But there is no way you could have it mailed to the idiot within that time frame.
                I'm hoping he just meant it would take 15 min. to copy, but knowing the scs...

                Oh, he sent the request March 31, and put the deadline as April 10. I'm imagining the spineless super will give him the copies for free since we did not make the deadline. So I'm making sure as many pages could be fit on on copy as possible. Even if the lettering is tiny (but legible).

                Evening, about 20 minutes before the end of my shift.
                CW: Hey, can you mail this form to X Client?
                Me: Sure, I'll just add it to today's outgoing mail.
                CW: Thanks!

                The next morning, about 20 minutes after the beginning of my shift.
                CW: Hey, did you mail that form to X Client yesterday?
                Me: Yes, I dropped it off at the post office on my way home with the rest of the mail.
                CW: Oh. Well, they haven't gotten it yet.
                Me: Naturally. And they won't for another day or two.
                CW: ... If I print off another copy, can you scan it into a pdf and email it to them for me? They really need it today.
                Me: Not a problem.
                Me, thinking: WTH? If they need it right away, why would you want it mailed? I know when I need something delivered quickly, the US Postal Service (as much as I like them) is one of the last options to come to my mind.
                Oh gawd, I hope CW isn't the same idiot who thinks when he deposits money at the bank, he gets the same bills back when he makes a withdrawl.
                Last edited by depechemodefan; 04-23-2009, 03:17 PM. Reason: adding
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                • #9
                  Maybe it's for a school project of the crappy shows that were on TV at the time?
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                  • #10
                    It's probably to settle some stupid bet.

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                    • #11
                      Quoth HawaiianShirts View Post
                      I know when I need something delivered quickly, the US Postal Service (as much as I like them) is one of the last options to come to my mind.
                      There was a time when you could write a letter to a friend int he morning , drop it in the mail, and have their reply back by dinnertime.

                      Um. Provided you lived in the same town.

                      And it wasn't a very big town.

                      I think that ended sometime in the forties.

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                      • #12
                        The US Post Office is the *worst* service to use if you want something sent quickly. I've had mail get to *Australia* sooner than it gets across town! Those of you who participate in the Christmas card list have heard me say that
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                        • #13
                          Will this help?


                          http://www.tv.com/search.php?type=11...wshows&qs=1963
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                          • #14
                            Quoth Sheldonrs View Post
                            Will this help?


                            http://www.tv.com/search.php?type=11...wshows&qs=1963
                            I would forward it to the patron, but I'm lazy. All he wants is copies, heck, I'll make copies. $25 worth of copies. But I get paid first.
                            Time! Time! Time is what turns kittens into cats.

                            Don't teach me a lesson; all I learn is that you are an asshole.

                            I wish porn had subtitles.

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