“You’ve got to be kidding me”
Friday, August 25th, 2006WTF. Seriously, who says this? Do you see me smiling? Can you hear my chuckle? Why do people bother saying this when it’s quite obvious that I’m very serious about the statement that I’ve just made?
Customers suck. All of them. I hate my work and I hate the people that call on a regular basis. I work in a printing company, and we print envelopes. Someone asked the price for envelopes, and was mad that I told them they’d get their quote “later today”
And an hour or so later I send it, and I get a call back asking how long it would take. Normally we say 3-5 business days. It’s Friday at 2pm. They want their envelopes on Tuesday. Already that’s a “not going to happen” since if we got film at this very minute, the earliest we’d give them was Wednesday. And of course they are sending a file so we’d have to output to film (yes, we’re ancient here, we still output film first) so that will take another day or so depending on how fast they approve stuff.
And I tell her all of this, basically saying she’ll probably be looking at Friday the earliest, maybe after the long weekend, and I get back a response of “You’ve got to be kidding me.” And my reply to her of “No I’m serious.” I’ve found that you must be blunt with idoits so they get the message. *OH!* And it’s got to go through two different presses! Which means that it would take even LONGER!!!
At this point, I’m not going to be here after the long weekend myself, so basically I don’t care WHAT I say to people. Even my boss. I mean, really, who would?
