After pulling out most of the stops, I managed to piece together a technical paper (customer C) that’s heading for publication next month. (It’s a cute little deal where I write the paper, then slap my customers name on the paper and they take all the credit.) Anyway, the customer loved the paper, but he somehow had a SERIOUS brain fart and gave the paper to his marketing department.
When times are busy, no one has time to review these papers. When times are slow, like now, everyone, especially marketing people, want to pour over each and every little tiny detail of a paper that’s heading for publication. The paper was kicked back to me today from the customers marketing department, with about fifty changes DEMANDED.
Mind you, I’ve already sent the paper in for publication. This will be interesting to see how it plays out over the next few days. I’m not offering to rewrite it. I can’t. It’s already been submitted. I’m willing to make a few modifications, but I can’t do a total rewrite at this point. I’ll yank the customers name off it and publish it under my own name if I need to.
In a strange twist of irony, I was requested by my company to select a gift for my customer to thank him for writing the paper. Is that messed up or what??? I picked a nice watch for myself, err, I mean my customer.
The time has come to address customer B this week.
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