Just once, that's all I ask... Just once I want a client to call me, tell me what they want, and then be able to deliver that and have them be happy... Somehow it never works out that way, no matter how simple the show is... Right now one of the little events we're doing is a benifit... Ugh... Benifits are always a pain for so many reasons... This event is worse than normal though... They are trying to spend nothing on it, and still want it to be perfect... They are also waiting untill the last second to get their act together... I went to a meeting 2 weeks ago for this show... At that point, we decided on the size of a couple units... They have large printed graphics mounted to them, that the graphic designer was supposed to provide me computer files for, earlier this week... Well the files finally arrived this morning... Only they're wrong because the graphic designer was too busy talking about something else to pay attention to the size the graphics were going to be... So he had to re-do these things today... It took him about 1 hour to go through that process... During which time the sizes of the units got changed twice... I felt bad for the guy, but at the same time, if he had gotten me the files in a timly manor in the first place, we would have caught this back then... He had the nerve to be upset at me for delaying him from starting his weekend... (note: this all happened before noon) Hello?... Its Friday right?... Don't most people have to work on Friday?... I mean I don't really know since I usually work 7 days a week so a weekend is relitive for me, but I'm pretty sure the weekend is Saturday and Sunday, and I'll toss in Friday night for good measure...
Oh well... I hope the printer was ok with his computer files... I couldn't actually open them to check them since he went and compresed them on a Mac with a program I have no PC equivalent for... Worst case is I have to revisit this nightmare Monday, and charge them a lot more money sinc eI'll be getting hit with a rush charge...
Posted by Backstage at November 7, 2003 06:44 PM