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 [...]
May 8, 2009
Manager: BigBoss is putting even more pressure on us to complete the database project of doom. You need to work faster. I may get a metronome or whip for this very reason. Me: I will bean you in the head with a metronome and the idea of you with a whip skeeves me. I will [...]
March 10, 2009
by Julie • Work
Things you don’t want to hear from a customer first thing in the morning upon asking for a color separated version of their? artwork: What does color separated mean? My 10 year old daughter made it. In PowerPoint. I’ve heard #1 many times, but #2 was a new one. Thankfully, it was a relatively simple [...]
February 12, 2009
Dear customer – We don’t have the font you want. We don’t even have something close to it. I cannot magic it out of thin air, and there is no freeware clone floating on teh interwebs. You really will have to send it to us if you want us to use it. Your very important [...]
January 28, 2009
by Julie • Work
Dear customer – When we say the showroom is open by appointment only that’s what we mean. You do not get to just drop by and expect us to “fit you in”, and it doesn’t matter *how* far you drove. (We’re not David’s Bridal) No, letting you wander around the warehouse on your own is [...]