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Jan 23, 2006 13:32

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celluloidgeek January 25 2006, 03:49:47 UTC
You don't get the I am naked and/or loving it and/or taking pictures of other people naked and/or loving it and I can't get all the attention I deserve about my bits on film if they aren't done in 1 hour and therefor I can discuss the pictures with the person serving me because I know they have seen them because they were done in 1 hour people?

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shaddi2003 January 25 2006, 15:50:56 UTC
They don't announce it ahead of time, as we are not allowed to give them said pictures. We must shred them, and as far as I know we do. They seem to think that we might miss it. We don't.

There was also one girl who dropped off pictures, she must have been like 15 or something, and when I developed them, there were pictures of her drinking and smoking pot. Now there's no problem with us printing THOSE pictures out, but since I'm not a fan of people, let alone snot-nosed 15 year olds (not that she had snot in her nose), I wrote "look" on the envelope, when her mom came by to pick them up. "Look" generally meaning "Some pictures didn't turn out, which do you want?" She looked, her face distorted, she paid for the film, and I think the daughter might be let out of the basement in the coming weeks.

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celluloidgeek January 25 2006, 18:25:57 UTC
Ah, well we can print as long as there is no penetration, animals, children or a combination of the above. Most of the time I adhere a 'great shot' sticker in an appropriate place and highlight the word 'enlarge'.

Stupid kids with drugs, on the other hand, get a refusal to print letter attached to the front of their order, which our manager reads out loud to them when they pick it up. (This is only for the kids who are too cool for school and have to take pictures of themselves doing drugs. If drugs just happen to be in the picture, that's ok)

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shaddi2003 January 26 2006, 17:54:18 UTC
Isn't that messed up? I work out Wal-Mart (Yes, also messed up), and we can't do the nudity ones at all, but kids with drugs are A-OK.

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celluloidgeek January 26 2006, 22:15:50 UTC
Well I guess Walmart probably has a lot to think about, what with conquering the world and all that. I work for Black's Photography, which really only deals with pictures and the various accessories to take and display. At the lab level, the truth is we can pretty much print anything that the operator feels comfortable printing, and if something bugs us, we can always get someone else to do it. Sex and nudity are just funny, but dead things bother me like nothing else. Dead baby day was the worst day as a lab operator. EVER.

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shaddi2003 January 27 2006, 02:43:40 UTC
I'd ask about Dead Baby day, but the little voice in my head is telling me not to. Hence me not asking.

We get pictures of dead people at funerals and stuff. It kind of bothers me, as I don't know why people would want photos like that, you don't ghave any better pictures?

Remember the good old days when people thought cameras stole a piece of your soul? Now it's just customers who steal pieces of your soul.

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