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Comics about working at Kinko's

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Popularity rank 6 #337. Customer service

January 15, 2010

JOHN: … and I'm best suited for, oh, customer relations.
KINKO'S BOSS: Well, that's perfect, dipshit. I'll put you on some of our BEST customers.

DAN: WHOA...
KINKO'S BOSS: That's RIGHT, Lepp. Your little idiot SINGER friend is now an Assistant Customer Service Rep…

KINKO'S BOSS: ...in charge of SCRAPBOOKERS!

KINKO'S BOSS: A HA HA HA HA HA! Heh... ..
DAN: That's, like, a REALLY shitty role, man.
JOHN: Yeah, I GATHERED, Dan.

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Popularity rank 7 #320. Amie Street

December 7, 2009

RONI: Look, no one's pirating the demo. We'll just post it on Amie Street.
JOHN: Ugh, that's that "pay what you want" 99-cent site.

RONI: It's "pay by demand". It starts cheap, but the more it gets downloaded, the higher the price goes. What do you want to charge anyway?

JOHN: At LEAST $25 dollars...
RONI: 25 DOLLARS?

RONI: For a shitty 4-song demo recorded in a Kinko's breakroom?
DAN: My boss is still mad about that mug tree you broke.
JOHN: He's a DICK...

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Popularity rank 8 #194. Just repeat the chorus again

January 7, 2009

DAN: John, it's 4 AM, man. We've gotta stop writing this song. Let's just repeat the chorus again and go to sleep.

JOHN: NO!! It's gotta be something NEW, Dan! The BEATLES wouldn't "just repeat the chorus again"!!

A pause.

DAN: The Beatles don't have an early shift at Kinko's tomorrow.
JOHN: We don't sleep until we redefine the fundamental structure of pop music!

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Popularity rank 9 #168. Focus

September 11, 2008

ROGER THE MANAGER: Look, Dan, you're my best employee, but you seem slightly more... focused... on your band than your work here at Kinko's.

DAN: Maybe I should hold my guitar more VERTICAL when I solo... pretend it's a SWORD...

DAN: ...swing it around like Kratos in GOD OF WAR... my Blade of Chaos... MUSICAL chaos... ooo, MUSICHAOS!!!
ROGER THE MANAGER: Dan?

DAN: ...oh, hey look! ... Roger's here! ...
ROGER THE MANAGER: (sigh) All right, I'm just gonna leave the room now, Dan...

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Popularity rank 10 #86. Reworking the deadline

December 2, 2005

Last verse of “Electric Wheelchair” complete! First song-a-day song: done!
DAN: Hey, by the way, I can’t meet to write tomorrow.

JOHN: And I'm busy Wednesday. Well, long as we do seven songs by next Monday, righyt?
DAN: Yeah. Yeah, totally.

JOHN: Or you know... no one knows about this song-a-day deadline... I could see, like, song-a-week working.
DAN: Ooo, or song-a-fortnight.

JOHN: Yeah... something we can follow through on, you know?
DAN: Hey, by the way, I'm gone all of February.

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