Why is everyone so stupid?
No one in this town can figure out how to email me artwork/copy for their ads. ;-;
And if they do, they don't label it. Last year, around Christmas I got an email from a phone number. It was a horribly digitized crappy cell phone picture. I couldn't even tell what it was. Since it was from a phone number, I couldn't even tell the NAME of the person who sent it in order to connect the dots. Turns out, it was a local restaurant's winner of of their "World's largest Christmas Stocking (12 foot)" I told the sales rep it would be horrible. We ran the ad. The following week we had to run the ad again at no charge because it didn't "print" well. What a surprise...
But this week, a business owner can't figure out how to send me his ad. He sent me the wrong one this morning, and now can't figure out how to send another one. I just went thorugh this two weeks ago with ANOTHER business. And last week, someone just sent a picture with no explanation. How am I supposed to know that your shitty picture of some guy smiling is supposed to be for a particular ad? None of it is as bad as the woman who typed up her copy, printed it out, saved all her photos to a FLOPPY and drove them over to us. ~_~ But she would email everything to our other paper. Cripes.
Everyone here is like that.. It's like some horrible disease. People here LOVE to embed images in word documents and send those to us. That messes up my editor's computer when she has to get them out of there, so she asks people to just send the images. They "don't know how to do that."
Damnit.
And the salespeople wonder why I'm always in a pissy mood.
And if they do, they don't label it. Last year, around Christmas I got an email from a phone number. It was a horribly digitized crappy cell phone picture. I couldn't even tell what it was. Since it was from a phone number, I couldn't even tell the NAME of the person who sent it in order to connect the dots. Turns out, it was a local restaurant's winner of of their "World's largest Christmas Stocking (12 foot)" I told the sales rep it would be horrible. We ran the ad. The following week we had to run the ad again at no charge because it didn't "print" well. What a surprise...
But this week, a business owner can't figure out how to send me his ad. He sent me the wrong one this morning, and now can't figure out how to send another one. I just went thorugh this two weeks ago with ANOTHER business. And last week, someone just sent a picture with no explanation. How am I supposed to know that your shitty picture of some guy smiling is supposed to be for a particular ad? None of it is as bad as the woman who typed up her copy, printed it out, saved all her photos to a FLOPPY and drove them over to us. ~_~ But she would email everything to our other paper. Cripes.
Everyone here is like that.. It's like some horrible disease. People here LOVE to embed images in word documents and send those to us. That messes up my editor's computer when she has to get them out of there, so she asks people to just send the images. They "don't know how to do that."
Damnit.
And the salespeople wonder why I'm always in a pissy mood.