I have never screamed so much out of frustration as I just did in my car because of the workers at this location. All of the workers in the photo center (except for Deborah and the other older women) are so f***ing moronic and/or lazy that I want to be a manager there just to fire them. I have been trying to get my graduation announcements (drafts and completed card) since mid-June. IT IS NOW THE END OF AUGUST. The red tones/hues of the same exact photos on each card have been different almost every time. *I order the greeting cards as proofs/drafts before dropping $$ on a full set of the same size card to make sure everything is right.* By the time the color finally got straightened out, I had to leave for 2 weeks so there was no sense in placing an order I couldn't pick up.
But once I returned, I immediately placed my order and it said it would be done in 4 days mid-afternoon. After 5 full days, 1 whole day after the estimated pickup date/time, I stupidly assumed that my completed order would be ready. **I normally always wait for the confirmation email or check for it prior to leaving, but since it'd been over 30 hours past estimated pickup time- I didn't think there'd be a reason for it to not be done. Well guess what? THEIR PHOTO PRINTING MACHINE BROKE!!! They had no one to come in and fix their machine for about two weeks. I was told to order it from a different location if I needed it done so badly. So I did, a full set of 40. And the quality of their machine was so horrendous that when I brought in my proof of the exact same photos, and compared them side by side, the worker was astonished and said that this location (the one I'm writing about now) must have the newer machine. She confirmed that every Walgreens will have a slightly different setting to their machines, especially if they have the newer model.
Once this location finally fixed their printier (ended up getting a new one according to multiple workers), I had to go through the whole color process again. (I couldn't just get these done at a different location because the closest other location with a photo card printer is 6 miles away, and when I tried to do it there, their color settings turned my pictures green.) And once they finally, finally fixed whatever setting. It was time to pick up the final draft to just make sure everything was working as it should be. When I go to pick up my order, guess what? There are black ink blotches all over the card and completely ruin the pictures. After showing the problem to the younger girl working, she acts like she couldn't care less and says if I want it fixed, I will have to reorder it. So as I go on my phone to do exactly that, she says "it won't be ready until tomorrow though because the existing orders have to be done first." It wasn't even 4:30 at that point and they only had 3 orders to complete- I know because I was looking directly at the screen prior to her coming to the counter.
I was going out of town for the weekend, so I wasn't able to get my redo card until several days later. Went to pick up my redo card and wouldn't you know it, black ink lines across the top of my cards and random ink dots covering photos. When I showed the lady the problem, she said it was probably just how the machine read my photos. *The photo has less than 15% of black in it, so the photos aren't the problem.* She offered to reprint it immediately to see if it would happen again. The new card came out with no ink stripes across the tops, but there were still some black ink dots in other new random spots now. I just accepted the L and told myself that it is just getting all of its quirks out. So I placed my final card order to be picked up tonight so that I could still see the final proof before the big order I intend to place tomorrow. The estimated pick up time was 10:08, when I got there at 10:38, I was told (by the younger girl) it couldn't be printed and I'd have to wait until tomorrow. When I asked why, I was told that they can't print photo cards during the evening.
How f***ing hard is it to turn on the machine, and just press three buttons. I have seen it done enough times from waiting to be helped that I could do it myself. Just admit you're lazy/don't want to help, and gtfo. It's not that she doesn't know how to do it either, she is one of the workers trained to use the machine; which I know from coming in so much and being told which photo staff can and can't do what. Overall, this has been so frustrating because every time it seems to finally work out, something goes wrong. I have wasted so much money at this point because I didn't learn until this week that you don't have to pay for your photo order if you aren't 100% happy with it. Had I known- I wouldn't have bought the terribly red-toned, green-toned, ink stripped, or ink dotted cards. read more