I love clients... cause they never get it.

[defjoe]

I have this job I have been working on. I posted the final in the showcase about a week ago. Poster and brochure design. Well he came to me about 2 months back. Been working on it off and on. I did something up right away and didn't hear from him like 2 weeks at a time. Well now he needs it printed for Wednesday! so we get the proof back on this past tuesday and he just sees it today. He has been out of the office. He has text changes...stuff that should have been done long ago. I tell him he basically blew his deadline and that he was asking for too much to begin with. now he is all frantic, asking me to do this and that. Offer more money, etc. I try to tell him it doesn't work that way with the university. Which is true, there is a system, I don't like it but we have to follow it. He is basiclly asking me to go around the system. WHY? cause he waited too long? don't think so.

sometimes you have to get burnt to learn a lesson.


just thought I would share this story.

[Drorain]

oh thats beautiful, i love it

[D-Zine]

yep can't fk with the system! No way you wanna chance your job for that numbnuts! I saw the campus..its huge!

I guess he learned his lesson and next time he won't be so damn lazy! :p

[defjoe]

oh it ain't over yet. I did all the changes and have the new disc right aside of me. I have to take it over to the water tower (DZ knows what i'm talking about) later on. I put a call into the guy at the printshop... nothing yet. that is after serveral calls yesterday also.

just so others know.. it's a different system here at UCF. when I want a qoute I call our printshop then HE calls from a list of "approved" printers and gets qoutes. We have no say on who prints it nor do we know who prints it.Everything goes through the printshop here on campus. so when i get proofs they get them from XYZ printer and our PS deleivers them to me. I turn them back into him and he delievers them back to XYZ. so I actually have no contact with the printer which can be maddening. Plus it SLOWS up the process big time.

[Ulysses]

I was going to ask if this long-blown process of 'pass the parcel' slows the process down ... I understand that large organisations have alot of middle people to pay, but christ. Not your problem though, so let the bastid burn.

[D-Zine]

I love that I know what all he is talking about as far as the campus and his office and stuff..LOL

[Patrick Shannon]

Good deal....if he wanted that stuff done, he shouldn't have procrastinated.

Somwhat similar....mein fuhrer and son always get big projects and they'll sit on their desk for weeks, then they finally turn it in to me one day to deadline. My last response was "allotted time officially starts when I get handed the project."

[Image]

You wouldn't believe all the middle people involved. When I owned a printing company, I was paying a graphic designer to deliver the work to a files distributer, who I was paying to distribute the files to sales representatives and CC them to me and my partner, and I was paying the representatives to hand the files to their prospective clients, take notes on any changes and corrections, who whold pass them back to tthe distributer who would CC them to me and my partner, finding the particular designer who did that certain job and suggesting corrections so he could do them and start all over.

It was a wonderfully well-oiled process. We prided ourselves on same-day proofing on initial orders and corrections, it was just rediculous in it's complexity. You have to have it like that though, if you have graphic designers dealing with customers, no one is keeping track of and archiving files, plus the graphic designer can't answer questions and lots of people fall out of the loop, not to mention the loss of book-keeping and potential backdooring that can happen.


Necessary evils.