Account People
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- Gucci
Client Service People, Account Executives, whatever you call them:
When they're good they're great, but I'm dealing with a real fucking douchebag at the moment.She's new.
Any tips on how to tame these beasts?
- madirish0
how readily-available are the following items to your desk:
- chewing gun
- moist towelettes
- pack of Nathan's Kosher hotdogs
- bottle of Aquavelva
- duct tape
- 89 cents
- old mayonase jar
?
- jox0
These pretzels are making me thirsty.
- harlequino0
Make very clear what you need and a realistic timeline. Don't let her sell you down the river. Those noobs totally fucking will. She'll tell the client you can have it to them tomorrow when you need a week, just to look good and avoid confrontation. Remember, the account people need you. They are a dime a dozen and have the skills of your most communications major most of the time.
Except for my wife. She was awesome. :)
- Gucci0
nah. she's pretty reasonable with timelines, it's more having to do things twice that kills me.
or (this was brutal):
i finished some designs for a project that NO ONE wanted to work on, so as soon as I presented them to her, she came back to me and said"oh, did i tell you the client wanted to see these concepts that they had outlined here in this e-mail they sent me?
No? ... oh... I didn't send you that e-mail?oh..."
Or the "add this line and give me a printout", then 2 minutes later, "oh, I missed this period", then two minutes later "do you think we should have periods on the end of all of these points? Oh, ok... can you do that?"
- harlequino0
oh god, one of those.
Then you have to be real blunt with her I guess. EVERYTHING in email in writing.
"Is this everything?"
"Yup."
"Are you sure??"
"Yup."
"Srsly, are you sure? Cuz if you tell soemthing else later, you're going to lose a day. And then if you do it again, another day. See a pattern emerging here?"
"Um, ok, let me check my emails."
"Thank you. Off you go now."
- MrD0
i think it all depends on if she is hot
- PonyBoy0
MrD has a point...
... but whoever posted before him has even more of one..
... unload Q's on her... annoy the *&%# out of her w/them... she'll get the point to check her shit in time (one would hope).
... just make sure she's not the boss' lil pet or something similar...
- Gucci0
She most certainly is not hot.
She doesn't move her lips when she talks. She's like a fucking ventriloquist. I swear. I keep looking for the puppet whenever she talks.
Though, to her credit, she looks like a 20-something year old with acne and all - but she happens to be 41. Problem is: she has the maturity of a 19 year old (ie: can you "photoshop" my picture to make me look hot so I can send it to my ex boyfriend?)
good call wi th the annoying question asking. Now, if I can just get her to stop chatting me up at my desk and creeping up behind me and standing over my shoulder in creepy stalker-esque fashion.