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Friday October 26th 2012, 1:46 am

Kinda sick of things running on last minute weakening steam. While away for our anniversary trip, we get an email asking for last minute fixes for stuff on the very next issue to arrive in the shops. I don’t mind the changes per se, even if I think they’re a bit ludicrous, it has more to do with that every time something is being asked for its always at the last minute. We have to drop whatever it is we’re doing to handle it, when in most cases its stuff that could’ve been dealt with weeks ago. What is annoying about it is this way of handling business causes work flow problems, interference of time, which in turn cause us to lose valuable lead time before publication, when the problems could be solved more effectively by a more proactive stance early in the process. And what makes it even more troubling is when I’m on personal time with my wife on an very important occasion to get one of these types of emails with requests, when all knew I was away for this very important personal time, when all involved could’ve addressed this weeks ago. So I inevitably end up having to worry or think about the problems when I shouldn’t have had to during time with family and friends. It made me a bit angry, because this was our important time, not the company’s. But now that we’re home, and the fixes have been made, I’d like to see what I can do to alter this modus operandi, because its getting quite old.

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