Why Rock The Boat!
Apr 8th, 2009 by MAT.
My team is working right now as I took a breather to write a short post.
The annual report must go on press on Good Friday – yes, it is that urgent that our printer is prepared to work on a sacred day – and yet, amendment is still triggering in. We would just roll our eyes and said “not again” if it’s the accountants and auditors emailing us a new set of financial data and figures for the 15th time. We had enough experience with auditing houses to know that frequent data changes are the norms. It’s the senseless change of photographs that’s making us boiling. That corporate HQ building was shown in our draft since day 1. Yet, after countless of revision over the past 5 weeks, the client decided that the said building was “not nice” yesterday. Of course, the cafe’s lighting was too dim too; we must digitally touch it up to make the room brighter. 2 hours ago, the group shot that graced the back page should be removed. My AD finally lost it after keeping cool and mum all these while, “What the heck am I supposed to use to fill up that empty space?”
My printer had the unglamourous job of working on Good Friday through Sunday so that we can deliver on Monday. Yet, I wonder how we are going to get everything ready by tomorrow with so many last minutes request.
In fact, my AD just gave me the title of this post. He was shrieking, “Why are they rocking the damned boat now?”. One of our freelance guys quipped, “That’s why they are called CLIENTS”.
Hmmm, this is just one of those memorable days in the agency.
