surfing: brand x

1999 september 23

like a girl

work is hell.

a number of clients are having computer program lockdowns effective october 1, in anticipation of y2k. they want to have plenty of time to test everything and panic and run around like geekly chickens with their heads cut off and all that manner of stuff. fair enough, it's their time.

what eats into my time is their need to have custom work and conversion work and this work and that work delivered to them by september 30, even though in some cases the previously agreed upon delivery date might have been in october or november.

i hate this the customer is always right garbage.

i hate all our clients and their demanding whining ways.

and i just realized that the veep of client services, my second boss, giggles like a girl. his office is next to mine and i can usually hear a good portion of his daily phonecalls. i don't normally pay attention, tending to hear something that sounds like a charlie brown special, "whaa whaa whaa whaa," but for some reason, today all the giggles came through loud and clear.

grown men should not giggle when talking to clients. especially clients causing me much stress.

under the gun, claire

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