In my final job, I labored primarily with salespeople in a conservative, type of old-school business, and in consequence, lots of the salespeople have been old-school and conservative themselves. They didn’t like change or studying new issues, which I might principally work round, but it surely was very irritating at instances.
As soon as, I used to be engaged on a client-facing doc with a salesman. Even after I confirmed him find out how to make feedback on a PDF and he commented how straightforward it was, he refused to do it and insisted I make adjustments from notes he hand-wrote on printed-out copies of the doc. This resulted in me staying late just a few nights in a row attempting to decipher his handwriting, which was…not nice, and make updates to the doc.
We obtained the undertaking finished, and it was profitable, however when my boss heard concerning the hand-written-changes factor, she instructed me to electronic mail him and inform him he couldn’t do this anymore and that he wanted to offer typed feedback on Phrase or PDF paperwork. He emailed me again, principally blowing me off and, in so many phrases, saying, “I’m the salesperson right here, and I don’t should do what you inform me.” It was a reasonably impolite electronic mail and I used to be truthfully a bit of bit shocked.
My boss’ cubicle was proper behind me, so she heard me give a defeated snort and requested what was unsuitable. Once I instructed her, she pointed on the pile of marked-up copies sitting on my desk (which, no exaggeration, was most likely half a ream of paper) and requested if that was all of his adjustments. I stated sure, and she or he picked them up and walked away within the route of his workplace. Half an hour later, she got here again and stated, “He’s going to make use of feedback on PDFs transferring ahead, and if he tries to do anything, simply inform me, and I’ll take care of it.”
And he or she was proper, he did use feedback on PDFs transferring ahead as a substitute of hand written adjustments! However he was at all times fairly chilly and unkind to me till I left, I assume as a result of he resented me “telling” on him. I didn’t actually care although, so long as I didn’t should take a late practice house as a result of I used to be sitting in my cubicle attempting to learn his hen scratch anymore!
