Stupid client
I used to work for a print firm and among our clients was a well-known media company. I'll not say which one but the name rhymes with "loiters." We used to do business cards for them and sometimes we'd do cards with foreign text on the reverse. One day I faxed the English front and Japanese reverse of a card over to this director's secretary. This woman is best described as someone who looked down on us suppliers and loved to point out our errors to us, so it was no surprise when she phoned and said, "the cards are wrong". She didn't say what was wrong, such was her way but after much coaxing, she said, in her best holier-than-thou voice, "well, they're too big." I calmly explained that we enlarged the cards for clarity when faxing foreign text, to which she replied, "well, they're still wrong, aren't they?" For a couple of minutes she was talking to me like a patronising teacher saying, "now, what do you think is wrong with them?" before I finally gave up and she told me: "They're supposed to be double-sided." I tried to explain that a double-sided fax machine hadn't been invented, in my most patronising voice and was tempted to ask if her fax machine was okay for blank paper. If not, I'd love to fax some over to her. But I didn't
( <>Dog www.stevelaker.blog, Mon 29 Dec 2003, 20:01, Reply)