What Are You Doing Right Now
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The kids are watching the NY Ballet Co. do the Nutcracker Suite. Just something from Netflix.
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Getting a Uhaul van for tomorrow. Making a very quick trip, up and back, from Peekskill to Rochester to Utica and back in one go. Going to be a crappy, long day. Have to load and unload twice in one trip!
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When you get here you can borrow a teenager and maybe a husband to help.
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@Minion-Queen said:
When you get here you can borrow a teenager and maybe a husband to help.
It's only a van, will probably be unloaded before they could get there. Just boxes going straight into the garage. Where I really need help is in Frankfort where I have to load a stove.
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Can't help you there sorry.
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Take a dolly cart with you
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We have one there. It's getting a stove into a van on wet mud that is going to be awful.
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It's been kinda slow here for the past 2 weeks it seems.
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@Dashrender said:
It's been kinda slow here for the past 2 weeks it seems.
Yes, I think that the holidays do that. Everyone slows down for the holidays. Thanksgiving week causes a huge drop in traffic. Then it is the slow slide into Christmas.
I've noticed other sites getting slower this time of year too.
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Everyone is very busy with end of the year/holiday projects. If our new signed quotes are any indication everyone has been saving all their work for the last couple weeks.
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It's like Christmas in... December. Oh, wait.
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I'm showing the owners wife how to copy and paste from Word into MyPublisher so she can make a recipe book for someone for Christmas...
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Conference calls galore today! Everyone wants to get their stuff scheduled before the end of the year! Umm don't people realize that the end of the year is only 3 weeks away. Wanting to do a full infrastructure build when nothing has been signed, or ordered (servers etc) is NOT going to happen before December 31st!
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@Minion-Queen said:
Conference calls galore today! Everyone wants to get their stuff scheduled before the end of the year! Umm don't people realize that the end of the year is only 3 weeks away. Wanting to do a full infrastructure build when nothing has been signed, or ordered (servers etc) is NOT going to happen before December 31st!
Nah - It can happen..
Oops,.. gotta run,.. my unicorn needs to go out and recharge her rainbow...
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Actual Conference call discussion today:
Conference call today:
Client: What do you mean you can't redo all of our servers etc. by end of year?
Me: Well that is only 3 weeks away and you haven't ordered any of your custom equipment or paid for us to get started on this.
Client: But you sent us this contract 6 months ago why didn't you plan better?
Me: Umm there is an expiration on that of 60 days. Without payment we can't start on a project of this size.
Why oh why do customers think that IT must be magicians in December? Where were you 6 months ago when I spent hours putting that together for you?
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@Minion-Queen said:
Actual Conference call discussion today:
Conference call today:
Client: What do you mean you can't redo all of our servers etc. by end of year?
Me: Well that is only 3 weeks away and you haven't ordered any of your custom equipment or paid for us to get started on this.
Client: But you sent us this contract 6 months ago why didn't you plan better?
Me: Umm there is an expiration on that of 60 days. Without payment we can't start on a project of this size.
Why oh why do customers think that IT must be magicians in December? Where were you 6 months ago when I spent hours putting that together for you?
We sent you the contract six months ago, and you didn't pay. Did you expect us to just start working on it without getting something in return first?
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Yes they did! Wow people are dumb
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@Minion-Queen said:
Yes they did! Wow people are dumb
How is it that people lack such basic business sense? Seriously...LOL
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Maybe you should change the model to
- send a quote
- one week later send a bill for said quote
When they come screaming to you - then explain that if they don't..... oh never mind.
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Nothing I do today seems to work correctly. I even showed up this morning with my A game, well rested and properly caffinated. Easily on my 8th VM trying to get a stupid server working properly with ancient shitty programs that we can't afford to support and can't afford to replace. I feel like I've been caught in a recursive loop!
