Show Me the Money

Still waiting for my payment. It's September 11 (and yes, I am thinking about that day.).

Not only that, but I'm project managing an e-book to print conversion. I have two bosses, one of them knows InDesign. She said she would start laying it out after Labor Day, so September 4th. I had emailed her the week before to remind her, and then this week to see how it was going. The result? She just started it yesterday.

*grumble*

Her memory makes mine look like an Encyclopedia. I swear to dog.

Then, the cover art was supposed to be finished by the end of August. But the artist never got his budget or contract from my other boss.

Granted, she became seriously ill and was in bed, sleeping, for about ten days, but she had two weeks prior to that to send him the budget and contract--she spoke to the author about that, not me.

So I emailed both her and the cover artist yesterday to ask if work was progressing, i.e., the contract had been signed, and I've yet to hear from either one of them.

It's frustrating. You asked me to project manage a project, yet you do not follow my instructions. So my question is, Why? Why am I PMing something if you're not going to pay attention to me? I don't get it.

I love the work, I do, but the business is not being run very well. I hope I'll be in a position someday to say, hey, there's some things that need work or I can't play with you guys anymore.

Today is not that day.

So I bitch. Yada yada yada.

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A painful thought: I'm planning a big party for November. I hope to hell I have the money to pay for it. JHC!