I'm helping my tattoo artist get ready for the art festival this weekend.
Part of that includes having his pen and inks scanned to a cruiser, so if he sells the original he can always make prints.
So yesterday, we (his daughter and I) go to Office Max, we have 24 pen and inks scanned.
Except.
The employee, Nick, I think they said his name was, scanned them as PDF files, which are useless to a piece of art. And somehow, in the process, "moved or deleted" 32 other files.
So my artist went out and bought a whole new cruiser, so Round 2 didn't end up deleting more files, and fished out the 32 pen and inks we needed to scan again, and this time, his wife and I went to Office Max.
We told them what happened, and all of a sudden they couldn't scan his art because of the "sexual nature." We've been going there for years.
Let me start by saying, generally speaking, his art is not sexual. He is, among other things, a horror artist.
There is nudity in his art.
Nudity is not sexual in nature.
The manager, and then store manager, didn't look at the context of his art before they declared it sexual. It was THEM that sexualized the nudity in his art.
The store manager, when he finally, and reluctantly, agreed to rescan the art for us, opened the box of deleted files, picked up a piece that is in fact sexual, turned to me and said, "This seems sexual to me" or something like that, to which I informed him, that was something they scanned for us last year.
They went out of their way to not help us after they destroyed our files and wasted our money.
Yes, they finally helped. They told us there was no way they could get it finished tonight, with 5ish hours until close.
We need to be ready to set up by 7am tomorrow morning.
We called FedEx before leaving the store, spoke to a guy name Johnny.
He said they could do what they could, based on how many pen and inks we thought we had, (at this point we had not counted the pen and inks that needed to be rescanned) and to come on in. So we found the store manager and got my artist's art back.
FedEx was busier, with less help. Still, they were respectful of us, and didn't make any judgments of his art as they looked at it, just talked with us about what we needed. They were patient as his wife called him because they couldn't scan the file type he wanted, and we figured out an alternative.
They even called us when they started it, because the guy working (maybe Johnny?) had tried two different file types, and found that one of the ones we rejected actually gave better results, you got more detail.
We paid twice to have the same 56 artworks scanned.
FedEx had it done in two hours, and now our art show preparations are back on track.
Office Max, zero stars.
FedEx, 173 stars. read more