July 1, 2009
I understand that you are stuck behind an ass trying to make an illegal left turn, and you would really like to get past him now if not sooner; but obviously, he doesn’t care about your convenience. It seems that he also doesn’t care about the horn you’ve been laying on for the last minute [...]
July 1, 2009
by Julie • Work
Customer: I’m looking for ::Insert description of item we don’t have anything even close to.:: would ::item:: be a good match? Me: No. ::item:: is really nothing like what you are looking for, but we could run up a custom quote for you. Customer: No, my customer is OUT of ::non-existent-box:: and needs more NOW. [...]
June 21, 2009
Yes, I speak quickly. When annoyed or stressed, I speak even faster. I understand that this may make me hard to understand if you’re not used to it. I will try to chill out of you mention it. Being passive aggressive is not the same thing as being polite or nice, and I can sniff [...]
June 15, 2009
by Julie • Grumbles
It’s kinda hard (if you’re paying attention tech-news in general) to avoid reading, or reading about, TechCrunch. (Loved by some, hated by many.) Over the weekend, I caught an interview with Mike Arrington, and it got me thinking about why, exactly, he’s such a focus of ire among traditional journalists. (Internecine grumpiness in the blogging [...]
June 15, 2009
Prepress folks – When my customer has requested your art requirements so that they can alter their art file to run correctly, (as they did not like the changes you made to the file) the correct response is not to drag your heels for the better part of a week and then just hand me [...]