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Posted August 27, 2009
So I learned of this too-good-to-be-true client request via Blackberry and head back to the office to see what could be done. I call and email the designer on vacation, no response. By the time I get back to the office, which is all quiet because almost everyone else is gone for the week, I find our young designer already working on the prototype that is desperately needed ASAP, and it is looking GOOD! I mean it looks fun, cute, funny, spunky, verrry niiiice, man. Fine as wine in the summertime.
See? “Performance Rises to Meet Demand.”
And it goes out on time, the client loves it, they are impressed that we were able to turn it around so quickly and they hope to get back regarding a license agreement within the week. As I said before, Un Phreeaking Believable. Yo, Adrian! You da Man, C! Oughtta make a movie out of this.
And, get this: when I went in, our office manager, the lovely miss J, is in the shop, feet up on a workbench, far from her day-to-day front office perch, and she is making a brand new sample of the other requested prototype. She has taken a skin, and is hand sewing to make a brand new prototype. I didn’t know she could do that! Whatever am I to do about this? What great intiative. Not in her job description. Holy mackerel, you coulda knocked me over with the proverbial balogna sandwich. Oh, and the prototype she made - it looked great and it shipped out on time. It will be a great line of plush products one day. J, you da bomb! Performance rose to meet demand! At such times you may see those around you rise to demand, to become workplace, hometown, or battlefield heroes. You guys are Wonderful! Thus we live to fight another day. It doesn’t matter how hard you can hit, but how many times you can get knocked down and get back up again.
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