Why are people determined to make my life difficult today?
People on my list:
1) Consultant who sent me a pile of edits to make to a document last night. I saved her document to the system, made a few changes, highlighted the rest so that I'd be sure not to miss them when I went back to it this morning.
Consultant goes into the database version last night, which - no. Then leaves me three voicemails and and email pointing out all kinds of stupid shit that's wrong. " I see that you did not make the changes I requested in Client References—I guess you didn’t see the note." "Apparently you overlooked..." "I wonder why you didn't...."
For fuck's sake, it's highlighted in bright blue. It's not done yet. When I tell you the document is final, then you can feel free to point out errors and shit.
2) Contact at the printers who sat on a request for new business cards for a Director for more than two weeks without notifying me that a) it's not her job anymore, b) who it is who should be taking care of this, or c) that she's in some kind of feud with our remaining contact at this firm and thus not passing emails along to him anyway. What the fucking fuck is wrong with these people? And yet, we're commited to use them due to some longstanding personal relationship blah blah blah bullshit.
3) You know, I was a little annoyed at the client who keeps emailing me thinking he's emailing the Chairman of our European subsid. I've forwarded eight or ten emails so far. Now the Chairman just emailed me back - "what does so-and-so mean by this?' Like I would even know -you're the professional, not to mention the one who's in the same freaking continent with this guy. But after all the rest of the shit, this one is just making me laugh and laugh.