Duck and Cover: Self Preservation or Cowardace?
Things happen quickly around the office. Hours are spent doing nothing, then WHAM! WHAM! WHAM! the deadlines come fast and furious. It's the result of being the end of the line for the jobs that go out. As it happens, errors sometimes occur because there is a shitload of information I need to know, and sometimes I just forget.
Sooooooo! A job went out rush, rush this week from our largest client for a HUGE promotion into our local paper and I made a mistake by not changing the Photoshop black text to 100%. This means that the four color plates will be laying down ink, and they can get out alignment and put down a layer offset from the rest of the copy resulting in a blurry unreadable text.
Whoops.
However...so far the Client hasn't called about the ad. The folks from the paper say that their copy looks aligned, so perhaps they got it all worked out after they sent us our copy (we get the first edition), but we are right down the street from the client, so they could have gotten a bad copy, or a good copy, or folks are already on vacation, etc.
I've taken responsibility for my error to my boss, and while she is bothered, she knows that this sometimes happens. But, the owner just arrived; the very annoying, wants to get involved in everything, doesn't accept errors owner.
I've made the evidence disappear. Poof. Paper what paper?
As snoopy as he is, I'm sure the topic will come up. An account executive may squeal, "there's been a problem with the ad." Or he may just be focused on his work and vacation and skip out as quickly as possible. It could go either way.
And that is where I stand. I had mentioned before here at EA, that I would take responsibility for my actions even if it means getting in trouble. Apparently there is getting in trouble, and there is getting in trouble. So I am choosing to duck and cover because I don't want to get in italic trouble.
There is no time to think about the ramifications of the Avatar, higher awareness has switched off and I am hunkered down in my work space practicing ninja invisibility, while putting out other fires, hoping that the Big Man just fucking leaves.
The End
UPDATE:
At the end of the day, the AE whose job this was, had reported back that the Head Guy we deal with at the client held up the ad, and triumphantly declared it "Great!" He must have gotten a good one. The owner of my company saw nothing and I made off with another bum copy that was in the AE's office. Paper what paper?
I must now change my shorts.
Sooooooo! A job went out rush, rush this week from our largest client for a HUGE promotion into our local paper and I made a mistake by not changing the Photoshop black text to 100%. This means that the four color plates will be laying down ink, and they can get out alignment and put down a layer offset from the rest of the copy resulting in a blurry unreadable text.
Whoops.
However...so far the Client hasn't called about the ad. The folks from the paper say that their copy looks aligned, so perhaps they got it all worked out after they sent us our copy (we get the first edition), but we are right down the street from the client, so they could have gotten a bad copy, or a good copy, or folks are already on vacation, etc.
I've taken responsibility for my error to my boss, and while she is bothered, she knows that this sometimes happens. But, the owner just arrived; the very annoying, wants to get involved in everything, doesn't accept errors owner.
I've made the evidence disappear. Poof. Paper what paper?
As snoopy as he is, I'm sure the topic will come up. An account executive may squeal, "there's been a problem with the ad." Or he may just be focused on his work and vacation and skip out as quickly as possible. It could go either way.
And that is where I stand. I had mentioned before here at EA, that I would take responsibility for my actions even if it means getting in trouble. Apparently there is getting in trouble, and there is getting in trouble. So I am choosing to duck and cover because I don't want to get in italic trouble.
There is no time to think about the ramifications of the Avatar, higher awareness has switched off and I am hunkered down in my work space practicing ninja invisibility, while putting out other fires, hoping that the Big Man just fucking leaves.
The End
UPDATE:
At the end of the day, the AE whose job this was, had reported back that the Head Guy we deal with at the client held up the ad, and triumphantly declared it "Great!" He must have gotten a good one. The owner of my company saw nothing and I made off with another bum copy that was in the AE's office. Paper what paper?
I must now change my shorts.
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