Last month, I received an e-mail from a client whose blog, seven months ago, I had helped clean up and purtify.
Last month, she wrote me saying that she wanted to hire me because her blog was being inundated with spam--thousands of spams--in the comments.
I wrote to my boss, the ball-dropper (BD) *ahem* and asked her how I should proceed. She told me to wait and she would get back to me. She did the next day saying that she and the writer had been communicating, and that they were not ready to move forward with their next book until closer to Thanksgiving. A contract had been mailed for the author to sign (she is not tech savvy and can't do HelloFax or attachments.).
I wondered about the blog spam, but when I didn't hear from the author or BD, I figured that it was taken care of. Until today.
Yep, author has written me still wanting assistance with the spam on her blog. *rolleyes*
So I forwarded the email to the Alzheimer's queen with a question, "was the blog spam issue addressed?"
So, now what do I do? Help the client, for free, to keep her business? Punt it to ball-dropper (who has already dropped it once)? I don't know what to do. I'm inclined to fix her blog just because she's a nice person and so am I, and I could fix it in five minutes.
I fucking hate this. It's just ridiculous.
The saddest part is that I've come to expect this behavior as normal. *argh*
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