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Hello BAN,

You are so lonely and desolate; my own little internet ghost town. Due to the low population numbers and relative isolation, this blog would be perfect for a chemical experiment that turns everyone into zombies. Also I could rave on about my work issues and hope that no one ever finds this. Ever.

Client sends me document version 1 to make two type changes. After sending the revised proof back to them, I was informed that document version 1 was actually six months out of date. Could I please update document version 1 to include content from document version 2?

Why yes, that would be easy, just provide me with the InDesign file for document version 2.

No? Oh.

For reasons that are completely lost on me, I instead got a scan of a highlighted photocopy of a fax of a print out of an InDesign file for document version 2. “Please update document version 1 to look like document version 2… with the two type changes we requested originally.” A thirty second text change turned into an hour and half long transcription job to create document that already existed somewhere on someone’s hard drive.

Imagine if you were a car mechanic and someone walked up to you with an oil pan and said “I took this off my engine and now my engine is leaking oil”. That would be retarded. When something is working perfectly fine, why would you take it apart? YOU BROKE IT SHOWING ME THE THING THAT WORKED. YOU ARE AN ASSHOLE.