{"id":499,"date":"2005-11-02T17:27:38","date_gmt":"2005-11-02T21:27:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.scaredpoet.com\/wordpress\/?p=499"},"modified":"2005-11-02T16:45:19","modified_gmt":"2005-11-02T21:45:19","slug":"i-guess-someones-copies-werent-done-right","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/scaredpoet.com\/blog\/?p=499","title":{"rendered":"I guess someone&#8217;s copies weren&#8217;t done right"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.kinkosworkersunite.info\/node\/143\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.kinkosworkersunite.info\/files\/lakeland3.jpg\" alt=\"kinkos-smash\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>As an ex-kinkoid, I take a perverse pleasure in seeing my old hell&#8212;er, place of work, getting destroyed.  From what we know of the details of this mess, someone (possibly an angry customer?) drove their car into the front of a Fedex Kinko&#8217;s somewhere in Florida, leaving the store a mostly-demolished mess.<\/p>\n<p>More pics <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kinkosworkersunite.info\/node\/143\">can be found here.<\/a>  <\/p>\n<p>The source is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kinkosworkersunite.info\">Kinko&#8217;s Workers Unite<\/a>, a website developed to encourage Fedex Kinko&#8217;s employees to organize under the labor movement and demand better training, better staffing, better pay and better equipment.  <\/p>\n<p>I must say, as someone who is skeptical of what unions have become today,  I&#8217;ve also seen Kinko&#8217;s go from bad to worse, both in working conditions and the general skill level of the workers.  Kinko&#8217;s used to be an okay place to work, until the <a href=\"http:\/\/paulorfalea.com\/\">Founder of Kinko&#8217;s<\/a> got filthy rich and retired.  He then sold the company off to an <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cdr-inc.com\/\">investment firm<\/a>, who then <a href=\"http:\/\/www.forbes.com\/finance\/mktguideapps\/personinfo\/FromMktGuideIdPersonTearsheet.jhtml?passedMktGuideId=29741\">brought in a CEO<\/a> who ended all technical training, laid off the IT, graphic design and training staffs, turned employees into &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.kinkosworkersunite.info\/node\/67\">team members,<\/a>&#8221; and sought to <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/McJob\">McDonaldize<\/a> the entire company. Ultimately the company was sold to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.fedex.com\">FedEx<\/a> who then completed the McDonaldization.  <\/p>\n<p>If <em>anyone<\/em> needs a union, it&#8217;s Fedex Kinko&#8217;s employees.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As an ex-kinkoid, I take a perverse pleasure in seeing my old hell-er, place fo work, getting destroyed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-499","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general-stuff"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/scaredpoet.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/499","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/scaredpoet.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/scaredpoet.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scaredpoet.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scaredpoet.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=499"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/scaredpoet.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/499\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/scaredpoet.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=499"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scaredpoet.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=499"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scaredpoet.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=499"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}