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JJ Wright
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Bob Bair
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First off thanks all for the great resources. They are ALL bookmarked and each one was a help in one way or another.
| Ronald T Robinson wrote: | It's been awhile since I've run into such horrid script that it was unrecordable.
When I went back to the client to have them get the thing re-written or hire me to do it, they dropped me from the project.
Much grief avoided. Large invoice missed. Just as well.  |
Ron, I put the same pressure on the client. After I finished the latest batch of scripts I chatted again with the client. He was a bit critical of some of my reads, saying I wasn't making it conversational enough. That did it! I asked him how conversational he could make a list of disjointed words that had no flow, sounded as if a 3rd grader had submitted it at the last minute and was full of mixed tense. I said if he wanted a conversational read, the script had to be written that way. I stated that if he wanted more out of me, then I needed to get more out of him. If the scripts weren't going to change, I could not invent a good read out of them. He then gave me the option to get out of the contract and he would pay me for the number of scripts I had finished. I said yes.
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Allen Brown
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| Posted: Tue Oct 16, 2007, 03:29 (GMT) Post subject: |
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Bob-
Sometimes you have to fire the client. |
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Gregory Houser
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| Posted: Tue Oct 16, 2007, 16:21 (GMT) Post subject: |
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tis sad, but true.
While not having heard the conversation, I'm quite surprised by the client's response. |
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Lee Gordon
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| Posted: Tue Oct 16, 2007, 16:22 (GMT) Post subject: |
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| Gregory Houser wrote: | | While not having heard the conversation, I'm quite surprised by the client's response. |
I'm surprised he was willing to pay for what he had already received.
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Scott Pollak
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| Posted: Tue Oct 16, 2007, 16:33 (GMT) Post subject: |
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| Robert (Bob) Bair wrote: | | He then gave me the option to get out of the contract and he would pay me for the number of scripts I had finished. I said yes. |
Which means we should be seeing a lead for this project showing up here on V123 any day now!
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Haneen Arafat
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| Posted: Tue Oct 16, 2007, 16:50 (GMT) Post subject: |
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Bob, if you want to save some time looking it up & still haven't found the pronouncers for the first and the last on this list of four, I can give you those...I'm good with the Arabic & the Greek!
My direct e-mail is haneenarafat@yahoo.com |
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Bob Bair
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| Posted: Tue Oct 16, 2007, 18:41 (GMT) Post subject: |
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| Lee Gordon wrote: | | Gregory Houser wrote: | | While not having heard the conversation, I'm quite surprised by the client's response. |
I'm surprised he was willing to pay for what he had already received. |
I was a bit surprised as well how smoothly it went. I was looking to pick a fight and willing to write off the 30 hours I had put into it to that point as a very costly lesson just so I didn't have to see another such script.
For that reason, if given a different job from that same company (and having specific stated conditions up front) I'd work for them again.
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