Well that’s done – Day Five and my first week is over.
The most enduring impression I have of this place so far – is ‘oh my fucking God !!! the trees!!! the trees…!!!
I’ve never seen so much paper in one place in my life… and nearly had conniptions over the sheer quantity of it that seems to be in the massive recycling bins around the place for all the ‘spoils’. And it’s got a secret code… white paper for something printed by a machine automatically… yellow paper for something printed by a human… pink paper for proofs… I’ve yet to ascertain what the green is used for, but something tells me I don’t really want to know.
Today has been mostly a day of putting out fires. My first job was to be lodged (read: put in the mail – pretentious wankery if I ever heard any!) by end of business today, and it’s run afoul of a few little problems today. First – when I came in, I found that Fernando (yep that’s his real name) one of the laser printing guys had put my job on hold, because he thought it was missing a field – but it wasnt cos I’m nothign if not thorough 😐 … unnecessary delay there. Second – 2,517 of my documents were being sent out in plastic wrap heat sealed bags (the Annual General Report that no one ever reads that was being inserted was too big for A4 envelopes) but we discovered as we were about to start wrapping them that the die cut fly sheet thingies that the client sent us had the hole in the wrong spot, so now you couldn’t see the barcode that associates with the address… big boo-boo from Nigel (yep that’s his real name) the client – that just cost them an additional $1220, cos they wont get bulk mailing rates on that. So sad, but too bad! And just now, I’ve been told that the printers didnt send us the right number of usually-discarded-before-being-read Annual General Reports, so we are seven short… seven out of 2517.. .eejits.
*insert big sigh here*
So I’ve been up and down the stairs all day… running to IT, Laser, Mailing, Plastic and the Warehouse (still ain’t going anywhere near DP! 🙂 and in spite of my best efforts, and due to circumstances beyond my control, ‘Ay dunna thienk weyrre gonna make et Cap’t !!’ ….
We’ll be seven short 😐
Update:
Hooray for suits with nothing to do!
I now have the world’s most expensive courier bringing me the seven missing Annual Reports to go into my mailout. Yep, the client has found that their Chairman was out and about in our area and has convinced him to swing by our way and throw us seven copies of the missing report. Now I’ve just got to go and pace the lobby and keep my eye out for a self important stuffed shirt type…. 😛
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