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Jessica Noyes
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Dec 21, 2012

My in-box has been experiencing a flurry of year end greetings and newsletters from several agencies -- none of whom I have ever done a job for. These are the ones for whom I filled out my life history and who solemnly promised to enter me in their data bases. Meanwhile, the agencies who often send me work limit their verbiage to a simple "Happy Holidays," or the like from the project manager -- at the end of an acknowledgement of one more completed job.
 
neilmac
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Going through the motions Dec 21, 2012

Yes, to me it's just another example of how this kind of agency simply goes through the motions of being touchly-feely, when they really couldn't care less about their freelancers and just send out the message to everyobe in their DB.

Luckily enough, I mostly only get greetings from actual clients and colleagues, who I believe do mean the sentiments expressed - although yesterday I got one from an agency I don't remember ever working for. I took the opportunity to photoshop theirs ... See more
Yes, to me it's just another example of how this kind of agency simply goes through the motions of being touchly-feely, when they really couldn't care less about their freelancers and just send out the message to everyobe in their DB.

Luckily enough, I mostly only get greetings from actual clients and colleagues, who I believe do mean the sentiments expressed - although yesterday I got one from an agency I don't remember ever working for. I took the opportunity to photoshop theirs into a personalised one of my own, inserting my details instead of theirs, as the background was nice and festive

And while we're at it - Season's Greetings to everyone on, in or at proz! ▲ Collapse
 


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