So as i was just about to go walk my dog before leaving for work. so as i am walking out the door i hear my phone ring. i think, oh great, who is this? i answer it and it's my boss (owner of the company) on vacation. He starts off by asking if i read his email about Barbara and the photo shoot. Now mind you, we have 3 photo shoots today. He thought there was only one. He had received a message that the time of the shoot was changed to 11 am and to come them. So he called up the delivery guys, thinking that this was the one he knew about. The one that i had spent many many MANY hours holding the clients hands and telling them that everything was going to go smoothly and they were dealing with professionals who want to make sure that their job is perfect. The one that was supposed to have people on the set at 7 am and we confirmed it about 20 times yesterday cause their client, Bloomingdales, was going to be there at 9 am and they needed it set up. My boss got the delivery guys to show up at the studio at 9 am, so that they would be on set at 11 am.
After i told him i got the email and said that Barbara had NOTHING to do with that job, he said- yeah, i think i fucked up. Ummm, yeah. Fucked up is the nice way of putting it. You royally fucked up. You fucked up a $5000 job fucked up. The photographers are pissed, you are on vacation and now i have to clean up your shit fuck up. Yeah, not cool.
Then i call the sculptors who were going on set to set up the ice, to see what the status was. I am all professional and calm and trying to get the story straight before i have to call my client. I get attitude (seems like an ongoing theme with my job eh?) from them saying they have to go cause they are loading up the van. I explain that i need to talk to them in regards to the conversation he had with the clients. So i then call clients, trying to calm them down and not to hate me too much. I sympathize and express my concern and say that i will do what i can to make this work for them. Yeah, and it's not ass kissing. i don't do that. i totally understood their pain. Hell, maybe it was cause i was feeling the same thing.
to make a long story shorter.... it sucks. nothing went right, everyone is unhappy. The client that i have been working with, she understands that it was my boss who fucked up and not any of us. Thank god. She's been really level headed and honest with me, which i absolutely love. I would love to work with her again. She listens. She is calm and professional and thinks like me. It's such a nice change. Too bad my boss fucked it up and they will never use us again.... God i love my job.... kill me.
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