Repeated Rapid Applications of Forehead to Desk
I have this customer.
They don’t seem to understand that, without contractual approval of the engineering changes, our subcontractor can’t start cutting metal to make changes.
Our subcontractor shuts down for two weeks at Christmas.
Our customer wants the valves by mid-December.
The modification process, prior to testing, takes about two weeks.
Are my boss and I the only ones that can do the math?
Posted November 25th, 2003 in Work Foofiness by Geof F. Morris.
I dare speculate that your customer is either Asian (probably Japanese) or secular European, and do not realize that this is our Holiday season. They HOWL when we accidently step on their sacred toes, but do not think we have anything on our minds but $$$.
November 25th, 2003 at 21:48Well, they are, ah, East Asian. I know they know we’re out this week.
But if they want the valves by 12/15, and it’s 11/25, um …
November 25th, 2003 at 22:26