Make Up Tuesday

My Tuesday’s to-do list got ripped up and rewritten by 10am. Everyone knows, if you take a day or two off, your next week at work will suck. Doesn’t matter if you walk in with a “plan” because life is going to tell you otherwise.

Office hasn’t had heat since the cold started to set in. I figured it wasn’t being selfish making heat my first priority. Having your “headlights” on is one thing, having them frozen off is a different story. Of course, it wasn’t so simple as flippen a switch. Vectren Energy blessed me with heat next Monday…OMG! Pray for my nipples.

Can’t even face looking at my to-do list. The lack of tick marks make me look lazy. In reality, I spent a good portion of my day dealing with hire help that doesn’t want to take direction. Really, if you are hired to do a job, wouldn’t you listen to the direction you are given? If you where hired to take pictures of pumpkin pie for the Food Network, but decided to go with photos of naked chic rolling in pie crust, don’t ya think the client has a right to say “WTF?”.

Then of course, clients. Ah yes, we all love our precious “clients’ that pay the heating bill, Christmas bonuses, nice company cars, etc. Considering there is no heat, I don’t get a Christmas bonus, and the only company anything is the fucking coffee pot, clients can go screw off. Really, some clients are worth your time. Others, well, they just are lazy, stupid, and want you to do EVERYTHING for them. Including wipe their ass.

Speaking of needy clients, which it seems that all the clients we have are insufficient at helping them selves, I have to wonder where web-based client services are heading. It seems as though, web-based companies are sprouting up all over the place. Here, in the world where Google replaces the Yellow Pages, companies are worthless without using the web. How many of theses companies are actually providing “services” over packaging free web 2.0 stuff and selling it. I hope companies know that even if someone provides you with the “shell” to put a website in, somebody still has to FILL it and MAINTAIN the content. Wow, they didn’t tell you that did they? So before you starting slapping down some $$$ on companies who are selling you a fake service, ask what they are actually DOING for you. Are they just slapping up a blog shell with no content support? Giving you expensive analytics on your sites (Oh, Google does that for free) with no actual analysis?

What it comes down to is simply asking what unique service is this company providing? My suggestion, is if your company is not Web 2.0 knowledgable or you don’t want to hire your own IT department, find a company that will do ALL of it for YOU. Not just shove the shell at you, but fill it too. They might be a bit pricier, but not when you add up the cost of employing a full time Website designer in house and throwing in these expert ’services’. Just do your research before you buy.