It’s 7:45 p.m., and I just got home from the studio. No, I wasn’t working late. I went to the studio to meet with a potential client (Julie) after she got off of work. Lisa wasn’t happy that I went to the studio after hours, but she understands that I need every client I can get right now.<\/p>\n
When I got to the studio, I prepared for Julie’s arrival. I set up a special slide show of senior guy photos (her son is the potential subject). I turned on the television and prepared the slide show for presentation. I ran the air conditioner. I cleaned the table and chair we were to use for the meeting. I made sure to get out a bottle of fresh, cold water for her and carefully centered it on a napkin. I turned on some smooth, soothing music so she would feel comfortable when she walked into the studio. I took notes from our previous phone conversation and started a special file for information about her son. I prepared questions about her son, his personality, his interests, and his unique personhood. Then I grabbed the latest issue of Photoshop Magazine and waited. I’d look up every 30 seconds from the article I was reading (about how to implant baseball stiches onto a bald-headed guy). But all I saw was condensation from Julie’s cold, unopened water dripping down past the napkin I’d laid out and re-soiling my clean glass table. After waiting for 35 minutes (that’s 70 glances at her bottle of comfort-turned bottle of offense) I locked the studio and walked to Julie’s place of work. She was gone. She’d either forgotten me or blown off our meeting. I was crushed. When I walked back into the studio, the soft piano music had turned to a doleful swing number. The combination of the music and my mood was dangerous. I felt like chaining my camera around my neck (with a 70-200mm lens!) and jumping off the nearest bridge.<\/p>\n
My mood volatility has a little more behind it than just one missed appointment. This happens probably 40% of the times I agree to meet with a potential client. I carefully set up and eagerly await their arrival, thinking about little else than how well I’ll serve them. Then they don’t show up, and I usually don’t even get the courtesy of a call to re-schedule or apologize. I’m not a hard guy to get ahold of. I get all of my e-mail on my cell phone, and promptly return calls and e-mails, especially to potential clients.<\/em> I give out my business card wantonly, spreading it like kids on a playgroud spread germs.<\/p>\n When you agree to meet with someone, keep your word. I lose so much respect for people when they show themselves unreliable or discourteous.<\/p>\n [Rant over]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" It’s 7:45 p.m., and I just got home from the studio. No, I wasn’t working late. I went to the studio to meet with a potential client (Julie) after she got off of work. Lisa wasn’t happy that I went to the studio after hours, but she understands that I need every client I can … Continue reading [Angry Rant] Keep Your Appointments!<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"jetpack_seo_schema_type":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[12,18,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-273","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business","category-culture","category-thoughts"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pdZlL-4p","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.andrewandlisa.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/273","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.andrewandlisa.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.andrewandlisa.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.andrewandlisa.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.andrewandlisa.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=273"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.andrewandlisa.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/273\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.andrewandlisa.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=273"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.andrewandlisa.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=273"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.andrewandlisa.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=273"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}