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I'm at home during daytimes at the moment, looking after the kid before going in for an hour or two in the evening, then working weekends. Childcare not booked in for another couple of weeks.
I have a note on my site about requiring appointments for people popping in, right alongside my contact details. I don't want people randomly dropping in. It costs me time and money and is usually the behaviour of nutters or people who don't have a clue/don't have their shit together. A learned filter, from experience, if you will.
Just had a snotty phonecall from someone who'd turned up to the studios, which are currently a construction site, complaining that he couldn't find my studio. "The building's closed and I'm not there", I say.
The job they want doing is some piddly but faffy thing - ordinarily a complete waste of my time anyway (I *know* it'd be met with surprise along the lines of "but I only want to spend a tenner on this!"), but i play along and get them to describe the situation, I realise it's something I technically can't help with anyway, so suggest alternate (ie. more practical, less pew-pew) means to resolve it.
This is met with insistence that we meet up with the insinuation that I'm incorrect (I'm not, I've been doing this a wee while now).
All the while, the crêpe I'd just made for my daughter is getting cold and this guy just won't take the fucking hint.
Not my fault you wasted a journey rather than just phoning or emailling like every non-moron I deal with does, fucko. Oh, it was somehow more convenient for you and your schedule? Shit, funny how that works in some people's minds.
It think it's 50/50 he'll turn up again during the hours I carelessly admitted I'd be in later today.
I googled his phone number and have his name. Currently trying to make a relevant analogy based around his profession that I can casually drop in to explain why I can't do his job, should we speak again. PA, I know. It's all I have.
- Why not simply tell him you're fully-booked for the next x-number of weeks, and can't take on additional assignments?Continuity
- Why lie?Nairn
- Well, it's ... diplomatic.
Otherwise, you'd have to resort to, 'Now, look here, you fucking creep. I don't want to do your piddly job. Get bent.'Continuity - Plus, any reasonable person would get the hint when told that this isn't something you can technically help with anyway.Continuity