An Addendum to my earlier post. Enjoy!

… and el queso grande said he wanted 400. I explained that 400 32-page documents was going to cost a lot per piece and he said “nope…that’s all we need.”

I call up my printer, who tells me the same thing about cost per piece, and also said turnaround was 4 days. I was thrilled.

Long story short — too late! — the job comes in and it’s gorgeous. I’m thrilled at the quality of the print as well as my own brilliant design. I take one to el queso grande, who flips through it and says “this is great! In fact it’s SO great, I want 400 more of them!”

*sigh….

So I call the printer, who says “well, we’ve got other projects in the queue, but we’ll be glad to get them to you in another 4 working days.”

That was Thursday at 4 p.m. — now it’s Tuesday. Since FRIDAY I’ve gotten four phone calls asking where the extras are.

Once again, we turn to mathematics to solve this issue. Four working days means

1. Friday
2. Monday
3. Tuesday
4. Wednesday

See, the Saturday and the Sunday are days that don’t count. Gone are the days when printing companies chained children to the presses.

And if I say Wednesday, I don’t mean Friday noon, Monday morning at 8, Monday during my lunch hour, and most certainly not Tuesday at 3.

No…I will not call the printer. He said Wednesday on Thursday and I believe him.

When are they being delivered on Wednesday?

Why the ^&@* do you wanna know? What, you gonna come down and unload the delivery van?

And how much does it cost? Well, funny question — see…if you had really thought about this,we probably could have saved a quarter on each report — which would have saved us about 200 bucks, if you’d ordered 800 when we started — but because, oh, I dunno…now that you saw the report and realized it was *blood curdling sneer* “pretty” — we’re getting charged double.

What was that? You’re mumbling, speak up just a jot…OH! The printer should give us a discount for ordering more?

I’m sorry — I totally fazed out there for a sec. C’mere….I wanna show you the edge of my metal ruler…

Thomas (Tom) Stephan | Director of Something Clever
BoDo Author | Dyer Straits