Jan 22 2010
Annuals
Note: Photo has absolutely nothing to do with the crabby post below, except for the fact that the
one bird looks like he’s ready to smack the other one, probably for being a dumb-ass.
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It’s that time of year; time for me to start hearing from those once a year clients who’s calls bring to mind all the fun of a yearly check up with the gynecologist.
Seriously, is is just me, or would you be insulted to get a message like this:
“Hey, I need to get some changes made to that brochure you did for me last year. Well, it’s a little bit more than that. Umm, see, I didn’t use that printer you sent me to. They wanted three hundred bucks to print those things! And my buddy John just bought this really nice printer, it’ll do black and white and color and everything, and he said he’d print them for me if I’d buy the ink and the paper. Well, he couldn’t use the disk you gave me, I guess ’cause you use a Mac, and he has Word. Whatever that means. Well, he could get some of the stuff, like the pictures, but not the part with the words on it. Anyway, he took your pictures, and copied the words off the sample you made for me, and did me one in Word that looks almost just like the one you did. Well, the pictures are stretched out kind of funny, but, I mean, it’s okay. The one you did looked better. But he changed some stuff. We added some more stuff… and um, changed the colors, so anyway. Well, his computer crashed, so now I was wondering if you could make me another one, with the new stuff that he added, I’ve got an extra one you can look at, but could you make it so we can just print it on his printer and he won’t have to work so hard on it? ‘Cause it was really hard for him to get it to look the way yours did. He spent, like a really long time on it, got real frustrated. I mean, he doesn’t do, like, design work or anything, so he wasn’t real fast at it like you are. Well, okay…call me back and let me know when you can do this. Thanks! Oh, and I’d be willing to pay you.”
Gee…would you?
“yes, i would love to help you. know though that our contract for the inital work is now over. to do the adjustments you require we will have to establish a new contract and i will require my FULL FEE plus an EXTRA dumb ass charge. thank you.”
If you read this with a valley girl voice it really sounds like a dum empty headed girl/boy……Like try it Carla
Well, the empty headed part is right.
Simple. “No”.
Next!
Gr-r-r-r-r-r…. I know that all too well…
But those are some seriously cute birds.
Oh, my God, you and my husband must have the same nightmares.