Don't talk to me about stress!

One day away from the start of our very first seminar - electronic document and records management systems (EDRMS) - and I am ready to crawl into a corner and never come out. Talk about hard work. Oh I'm not talking about the actual organising of the event, that was relatively straight forward. Pick a theme, pick a date and venue, start trawling for speakers, start the marketing - blah, blah, blah.

We were asked early on if an organisation could use the event to launch a new standard on digital record keeping. Not a problem, we thought. Unfortunately the carrot became a stick, and a bloody big one. We asked questions, we didn't get a response. We asked more questions, still no response. The boss weighed in, and finally we get some answers. Then we get questions - strange I thought I'd already asked that...please refer to my email of...

We needed some changes made to a particular item, the designer gets shirty - shan't use them again...that's not the first time they've gotten pissed off at us "the client" when we asked a daft question. Whatever happened to the customer is always right? Whatever happened to common courtesy and manners? Why do people assume that because you are not a designer, they can speak down to you and assume that you are an idiot. Did I tell you we weren't going to use them again? Well we're not.  I tell you rude people are enough to make you turn to chocolate.

Damn, and it's my assessment at the gym tonight too.