ARGH!!!!
I am so mad right now I could just spit.
I'm working on a story that was due last week, but due to sources blowing me off, the last week of work and other freelance stories, this one has been pushed back till tomorrow.
I made appointments like crazy yesterday for this morning. So, I call this guy who made an appointment to talk to me at 11 a.m. and guess what? He isn't there.
What the hell?
I know I'm just a writer. Nobody of consequence. But, I'm still a person who has a job to do, who has feelings and it really really irritates me when people make appointments and fail to keep them. Would it be so hard to call and tell me that you can't be there at the appointed time? How hard is that? And, I don't guess they care that this is my livelihood. I know that they owe me nothing, but all I'm asking is 15 minutes of their time. Hell, they could talk to me while they're on the can. I don't care, just give me 15 minutes. Is it really THAT friggin hard?
I'm working on a story that was due last week, but due to sources blowing me off, the last week of work and other freelance stories, this one has been pushed back till tomorrow.
I made appointments like crazy yesterday for this morning. So, I call this guy who made an appointment to talk to me at 11 a.m. and guess what? He isn't there.
What the hell?
I know I'm just a writer. Nobody of consequence. But, I'm still a person who has a job to do, who has feelings and it really really irritates me when people make appointments and fail to keep them. Would it be so hard to call and tell me that you can't be there at the appointed time? How hard is that? And, I don't guess they care that this is my livelihood. I know that they owe me nothing, but all I'm asking is 15 minutes of their time. Hell, they could talk to me while they're on the can. I don't care, just give me 15 minutes. Is it really THAT friggin hard?
5 Comments:
At 5:53 PM, October 04, 2005,
Anonymous said…
What kind of sources do you need? If it's construction related, remember I work for an architect part time...
At 8:23 AM, October 05, 2005,
Army of Mom said…
Well, I may need some of those eventually, but these are garden centers. Finally got two last night.
At 5:03 PM, October 05, 2005,
North Dallas Thirty said…
Now, if you were a Star Wars type, you could use the Force to incinerate their brains or choke them from a distance.
Unfortunately....well....
At 9:54 AM, October 06, 2005,
Anonymous said…
She really is more of a Star Trek person.
At 9:30 AM, October 07, 2005,
Army of Mom said…
If I could just get close enough to do a mind meld, then I could extract the info right out of them. Or if I was a Betazoid, then I could just read their thoughts and plug them into my story.
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