What a terrible experience. I've been there a handful of times prior to this. On a couple of occasions it's been fine. The staff was very nice. I remember roughly three months ago, I needed something printed and I was having issues with the website. So, I called and asked for the email address to the store so I could submit my request directly to them. Tom answered, and was far from helpful and thought it was absurd that I asked. I found that curious because the other times I had printed documents up, I submitted them directly to the store. He was pretty rude.
Fast forward to the present. I submitted some documents through the website. I had two separate invoices. I went in the store the next day. While I was waiting I already had an idea of how my experience was going to be. A lady was confused about the price of some paper. Tom was there and told her that the paper is .99 cents a pound. She replied that because the paper she was purchasing was thirty pounds, the price would be $30 roughly. Instead of agreeing, Tom decided to correct her with the exact price in a condescending tone that I was about to experience.
Now it's my turn to be waited on by...you guessed it, Tom. I informed him that I had to separate documents that I need to pick up, but I also had a request. I asked if he was able to print a mailing label out for me so I could mail those documents out. Well apparently, I asked him to explain the space-time continuum. He then asked if I wanted a FedEx label, to which I answered, no or else I would have asked for one. He finally understands the foreign language that I was speaking and told me that I would have to pay for a sheet of labels. That's fair and I've done it before. He told me I'd half to pay for the printing. That's fair and I've done it before. Then he tells me that he would charge me $1.25 a MINUTE to type the addresses up. I scoffed at the notion. I told him I've never been charged before, he responded, "Then consider yourself lucky."
I told him never mind and I would like to pick up my documents. He finds one, but not the other. He continues to look. He asks me questions as though I were a bumbling idiot. For example, "Are you sure you submitted it online." I showed him the confirmation to let him know it wasn't all a dream. I'm waiting and waiting. I then looked at Tom and said, "So, should I be charging you a $1.25 per minute." He shot back such a dirty look for a tongue-in-cheek comment. Obviously there was some truth to that. If Office Max thought there time was so important that they would charge me a $1.25 per minute to type up an address, is my time not as valuable?
He then asked if I could go back home and email the documents directly to the store (yes, because I want to make two trips and have the same experience). Remember at the beginning of this ridiculously long review where I indicated that Tom was beside himself when I called three months ago to email the store directly for some printing? Now, it's totally okay.
Tom's attitude was amazingly awful. The audacity of this man who was condescending to customers and low browing me. Sir, your economic worth is currently worth roughly $10 an hour. Your job can be fulfilled by a college or high school student who is getting some side money. He is not a CEO that has the weight of the world on his shoulders. He prints documents! I'm sorry I got elitist, but the point had to be made.
Bottom line, I never got all of my documents and now I have to go somewhere else. I would say if you want to save some money and deal with a nasty associate who tries to "sound professional," but is dripping in arrogance, then by all means go there. Now there's the added bonus of incompetence, so there is no point.
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