Nobody understands what I do here
Sep. 24th, 2009 01:00 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
mythtellerI'm working on a new project to covert and edit some documents from Word to Frame. I analyzed the documents that were submitted, estimated the time, created a proposal, had it approved, and got to work.
When I finished converting ABC.book to Frame, I started editing it. Then my client gives me a new version of the document. I grumble "Is this the final version?" My client says it is, so I figure it has some minor changes to it. I finish my edit with the intention that I will compare the two versions and simply add what was changed to the new document.
I just looked at the new version of this document. It's not a NEW version as opposed to a COMPLETELY DIFFERENT version. Nothing in it is the same -- they are completely independent in every way possible. Okay... they have some similarities: they are both badly written.
What's worse, this new document (DEF.book) is twice the size of the ABC.book! It's like you give me a week to read Moby Dick and prepare a book summary, only to switch it on the last day with A Tale of Two Cities and say "You'll still have that report ready by tomorrow right?" I can, but it'll start off with the line "It was the best of whales, it was the worst of whales..."
So I go see my contact, explaining that I cannot deliver this today. He's incredulous. "But I promised the client I would deliver it today. Okay... just don't do a deep edit. Can you get it to me tomorrow?"
I wasn't supposed to come in tomorrow. I was supposed to only work today. *le sigh* He'd better hope I have no questions to be answered on this new document or he won't be getting it tomorrow either.
*grumble*
When I finished converting ABC.book to Frame, I started editing it. Then my client gives me a new version of the document. I grumble "Is this the final version?" My client says it is, so I figure it has some minor changes to it. I finish my edit with the intention that I will compare the two versions and simply add what was changed to the new document.
I just looked at the new version of this document. It's not a NEW version as opposed to a COMPLETELY DIFFERENT version. Nothing in it is the same -- they are completely independent in every way possible. Okay... they have some similarities: they are both badly written.
What's worse, this new document (DEF.book) is twice the size of the ABC.book! It's like you give me a week to read Moby Dick and prepare a book summary, only to switch it on the last day with A Tale of Two Cities and say "You'll still have that report ready by tomorrow right?" I can, but it'll start off with the line "It was the best of whales, it was the worst of whales..."
So I go see my contact, explaining that I cannot deliver this today. He's incredulous. "But I promised the client I would deliver it today. Okay... just don't do a deep edit. Can you get it to me tomorrow?"
I wasn't supposed to come in tomorrow. I was supposed to only work today. *le sigh* He'd better hope I have no questions to be answered on this new document or he won't be getting it tomorrow either.
*grumble*
