Monday, March 24, 2008

In person, I used to ramble about seemingly deep human insights, leaving my audience uncomfortable. I spewed all my jumbled thoughts. I kind of want people to know I don't do that as much or as badly as I used to.

Now, I awkwardly ramble about nothing.

Wednesday, March 12, 2008

Just so you know, you can't really put a horizontal business card inside a standard tri-fold 8.5 x 11 brochure. The first two panels are 3 11/16" and the third panel is 3 5/8". A standard business card is 3.5" wide. Of course, you could put a vertical business in it.

Monday, March 3, 2008

A customer yelled for God to damn me today. Literally! I couldn't help him in exactly the way he wanted me to. I offered him an alternative, but it wasn't good enough and he yelled "God Damn You!" and hung up. I threw the phone down and went completely non-functional. I just kinda stood then paced then waved at my face. Should I go cry in the bathroom? Should I call him back and tell him how absolutely unacceptable such conduct is? Should I go tell my boss? It felt like I was stuck like that for ten minutes. I was in full meltdown mode, shaking and crying. And I went to ask my boss what kind of things I could get away with saying on a call back. He apologized for the man and went upstairs to call him back. But man beat him to it and called back apologizing for his outburst. Then he tried to work out his problem with my boss, but my boss had the same solution I did. So he yelled at my boss too. "You're not help," and hung up. My boss called him back and told the man's machine that we would have no further dealings.