...{SIGH}
First, I get someone who requests a quote, and when I reply to his/her email, I get one of THESE:
Quote:
I apologize for this automatic reply to your email.
To control spam, I now allow incoming messages only from senders I
have approved beforehand.
If you would like to be added to my list of approved senders, please
fill out the short request form (see link below). Once I approve you,
I will receive your original message in my inbox. You do not need to
resend your message. I apologize for this one-time inconvenience.
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REALLY? You're so inconsiderate that you make me jump through THIS hoop, so that I may reply to YOUR inquiry?
And, second on my hit parade today:
We have an (older than me) elderly client. Not like, 95, but older. We've been working on his print book--kinda--since APRIL. We emailed him back then, waiting for production materials. Nada. (Meanwhile: he's paid, mind you, so I can't just blow him off.) Then AUGUST, because he got involved in some other whatever. Finally, in AUGUST, we have a 24-email-long thread about what we need to do the book. For the last two months, my guy and this client have been back and forth on what my guy needs.
TODAY, I see that my guy has AGAIN told the client that we need the font he used for his Chapter heads (it's a font we don't have/use), and the guy replies, "oh, well, I created the chapter heads by putting these numbers in this image, and that's why I sent them to you." Now...in
AUGUST, my guy told this client that we couldn't USE the g...d... images, because they are 96DPI, which will get banged at Createspace.
And now they're back at it, having the SAME conversation,
again. My head nearly exploded, so I stepped in, said, "we've had 51 email messages on this, and that's not tenable. We have to stop that, and get this done. We can't use these images, as X told you in August."
The client emails ME, in a HUFF. Now, HE's angry, because he claims that there have NOT been 51 email messages (hunh?). This whole project (the print version of this book) is, like, under $400. FOUR HUNDRED DOLLARS.
There are days when I just think...honestly, what the hell am I doing here?
This obviously pales in comparison to what's happening with KK, and some of the other things here, but seriously...
Hitch