This is just me grousing to the wind about work stuff so I don't say things I regret in a client email.
Totally got a break earlier this week with a deadline extension, allowing me to space work out. Then the ice storm hit, knocking out the internet and quite literally trapping our house and two others between downed power lines, branches, and police tape.
The cell phone hot spot worked okay enough for one client, but the other one requires me to log in via VPN and that works like shit. I've tried downloading a 15mb indd file and it will never start. I asked the team of four other marketing people to just package the file and email it to me, but they just didn't! It's literally file > package file > hit okay a bunch and send me the results!
I'm trying not to be a jerk in my email follow up, saying that it's my fault for not saying that I needed it right away. But it's also a five minute task? I was prepared for it to even be something they did five minutes before logging out!
Uggghhhh I hope I didn't sound like too much of a prick in the email, I'm just super frustrated. I'm just going to take this as hard lessons learned:
- Specify dates always, especially if they're ASAP!
- As a consultant, you're bottom of the pile importance by default - make sure you're clear if there's a deadline
- You're a consultant, you have to just figure it out. Next time walk out to a clear street and take a Lyft. The job has to get done.
- Stop spitting in the eye of the gods that gift you grace. Should've got that done sooner!
