I like to help people, but I think I might have gotten fed up and left in your situation. My patience is running thin lately, lol.Originally Posted by KimTisha
Yes it does. I was going to complain about it in "We Love Old People, but Dang..." last night, but then I saw your post and joined in for a good old-fashioned whinefest.
In general, I'm a helpful person - I'm also a GRATEFUL person. When someone does something for me - anything - I am grateful for it. I don't demand that they do it my way, I don't complain, and I sure as feck don't stand over them providing supervision and running commentary on their every move.
"Why are you using a bucket? Just use the sink. You don't need a bucket. I don't use Fabuloso under the sink, I use Ajax. I use Fabuloso in the bathroom, now my kitchen is going to smell like a bathroom. Don't forget the sides. Both sides. Did you get both sides? I didn't see you do the left side. And the back wall, don't forget the back. What's that spot there? No, that one. No, the one right there. RIGHT THERE! Well it's not going to come off with that rag you're using. Use a Brillo pad. Here, I'll get you a Brillo pad. Are you planning to rinse that? It's all wet! You have to dry it. Here, dry it. While you're down there I need you to seal up that hole. Rodents are getting in that hole. I don't know, what do they usually put in there to seal it up? What do you mean you can't seal it? SOMEBODY has to seal it! Is that water on the floor? I think you dripped water on the floor. Here, mop that up."
For two hours. I don't know how JL does it. I love old people, but dang.... gratitude is the attitude you guise.
My person doesn't even have the excuse of being old. I was asked to work on a database, which I agreed to do. Then they get back with me and ask me to do something totally different from what I volunteered to do. Um, ok. So they want me to redo their documents that are in Word and PDF format. Some of them are really juvenile, so I think "they want me to make them look professional, that won't take too much". They give me no guidance other than to make them look good and more professional. So I work on one and send it over and am told it looks great. Then later in the day I get an email telling me "don't take this wrong, but we have feedback". So each one of them proceeds to want some little nit picky thing changed (make the top line blue instead of green, make the second line green instead of blue.) This is literally one of the comments:
"This looks great! Simple text, easy to read graphics, not an overload of information.
My only suggestion is to switch the text colors for name of organization deleted to protect the annoying (currently Green) and Name of document (currently blue) so that the top line is blue and the next line green. I think that would look better, although I can't exactly explain why lol."
The only issue is....wait for it...this is their emblem that they had graphically designed a couple of years ago that is in the color order they are wanting changed, only the name of the document is available to be changed without redesigning the graphic they use.
I basically told her that editing the documents and making them look professional is fine, but if it's going to come down to doing and re-doing, and re-doing again over something as simple as someone wants one color before the other one, then I think the person with the really strong predilection for a very specific look should probably be doing the Word docs...it just makes much more sense that way. I told her that if you read the first comment, they really are saying that they want the colors in the graphic re-arranged, and while that is fine, it makes me think that maybe you guys should decide where you want to go with everything overall before working on the minutiae.
Maybe I am over-reacting, but I am just annoyed. This should be a simple task, and one font vs another, or one color or another isn't that big of a deal, and if it is I don't have the time to mess with it.
Ok, I am done with my whining now.I feel better.
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