You can't win

[vampirecarly]

I was all riled up because I had to promote that damned wet t-shirt contest.

Well of course even tho I sent the ad in 3 HOURS before the deadline, LA Weekly left it out and my manager is pissed.

Now I get to be all riled up because it didn't run.

Comments

[missvn]

Don't beat yourself up. If there is anything I've learned in this world of publishing shit.... you do what you can. When it is your fuck up, you own up to it. When it is someone else's fuck up, you blame them. You also call them up the next day, bitch them out and open up a can o' whoop ass on them, get the name/number of someone in charge..... and hold that in your pocket next time you need a favor. Oh shit.... the deadline for the ad for the DLR/Van Halen reunion show was fifteen minutes ago? Oh hold on, look what I have here! I can call up so-and-so.... they owe me...... and it'll all be good. And after you bitch someone out, even without pulling your special card on them, they usually are pretty good for the next 3-4 things. Because they know you bitch. And it's easier to take two minutes to check on shit than deal with twenty minutes of someone bitching on the phone.

[vampirecarly]

I know. They are used to getting weekly bitch calls from Gena.

I think I threw them off because I was doing the ad this week. I actually had it done within 20 minutes after seeing the proof. Instead of 5 minutes before the deadline.

Sigh. They owe us a nice big ad next week for the jug-fest.