Email whoops
On Friday I was at a day's filming which went pearshaped after the industry expert presenters turned up for the final slot and wanted to change things last minute on quite a complex programme... needless to say this ended up with everyone getting tired, us not getting even 10% of what we needed shot and lots of nashing teeth after they said they wanted to reschedule. This in turn led to phonecalls over the weekend explaining to my boss why it had not worked out as I was reponsible for planning and ensuring they had (which I had been assured by the client it had).


Yesterday I received quite terse email from the client in question, well in fact one of our main client's client. I was surprised by it's tone, but then realised that when I had forwarded on a message meant for drafting by a collegue, as I'm pretty crap at wording professional sounding things(!), I'd managed to send it to the client aswell. Below is his initial email followed by the response he received:


Chadder,

Thingy has indicated that we could look towards any studio bookings in January to repeat the filming event. Does this sound acceptable from your perspective? Confirmation will give me the momentum to spend some quality time on reviewing/building the content .

My apologies for whatever part I played in the collapse of last week , we all learn from experience !!!


Person
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Person,

We hope to have confirmation of all XXXXXX filming schedules for 2009 in due course.
Certainly, from our perspective, we would prefer to have you return whilst the presentation is still afresh, however it seems unlikely that there will be any available filming slots before January.


- Rather than waiting until January try actually doing the work you were supposed to have done.
- Will Doodah be in attendance, and if so it might be an idea if he has glanced at these things rather than just taking your word that you will both be able to breeze through it.
- Thanks for the shrouded apology... indeed, how sapient, we do learn from experience.


Chadder
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When I got to the end of his email and saw that I had sent it to him I wanted the ground to swallow me up - followed by lots of frantic emailing, and ending with a very grovelling phonecall from me to him. Fortunately, he took it all very well and said that he found it quite refreshing... so perhaps from now on I'll adopt this approach or be even blunter with all our clients - then again I do actually quite like my job.
( @><|= w0nu!) or cunt to my friends, Fri 28 Nov 2008, 18:14, 1 reply)

An XXXXXX movie
must be awesomely pornographic.

Click.
(Ellinikos contains a source of phenylalanine, Fri 28 Nov 2008, 19:09, closed)