Having No Boss Does Not Mean Work Is More Fun, It Just Means You Don’t Get Paid When Other People Screw Up

I had to go for a run because I had major mis/non/messed-up-communications with three clients this week, one involving a schedule crunch that prevents me from getting the work and the other two involve having to rewrite major sections because the clients changed the specs *after* I had done the work.

Quotations are word-for-word from one client’s email:

“We’re envisioning the two-page narratives for this theme to be short biographical excerpts that are clearly tied to the content the students will be reading about in the expository section.” blah, blah, blah--(read: You have to throw away 6 pages of writing and redo it all because we changed our minds and a loophole in the contract means you have to do it for free)--blah, blah, blah “I know we didn’t include this in the guidelines. It just seems to make sense to do it this way.”

It just makes sense to do it this way. It just makes sense. Sense.

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