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i know what you are talking about (sorry i didn't read it when you first posted it, it's just that i've been super crabby this weekend); in order to graduate from college, some schools here in mexico make you do "social service" which is basically working like 400 hours, preferrably to something for the community, for free to gain experience and prove you not only did study but also are doing. at first, i got an office bitch internship (salary=$100 usd aprox. a month, my one and only paycheck came at the exorbitant sum of $16.20 usd aprox) at a psychology school, a position which was to become marketing consultant/editor of an internal newsletter but i got fired because the big bosses (all a family of nutcases) didn't like me and used a supposed dress code as an excuse, even though i had asked them if i needed a certain way of dressing to be there and they had told me it was cool. i lasted a week.
my college usually pushes people to do their social services at campus, without any payment, i've heard some horror stories about people never ending their social services and people threatening of not signing the papers in order to stay there the longest without salary or anything, my situation wasn't like that, i ended up doing just three months, 3 hours a day. again, i was office bitch but my coordinator was very cool, she'd send me to the copy machine and you had to enter a code (that's the part of your story that reminded me of this).
ohh and color photocopies for cds=expensive and crappy (laser copiers never get the color right and you need multiple tests to aproximate what you want) , you can get real prints for pretty much the same or maybe even less depending on the place and volume, plus they tend to use better quality materials.
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