Rush job

[tsaiko]

This is the email I got today, slightly reworded:

"So you know those 11 highly detailed maps we asked you to start working on on Sunday? Well, we need them. By Thursday at dawn. Only since I'm going to be out of the office Wednesday afternoon, they need to be printed by noon on Wednesday. Which means you need to get them to the guy who works the giant plotter ASAP. I hope you don't mind that I sent you this email late Monday evening so you'd get it Tuesday morning!"

I wish I could tell the printing dude sorry. If I had known that you were going to have to print eleven 24"x36" high resolution maps, I would have given you more than 24 hours to do it. Here's hoping the plotter is new and nice instead of being old and slower than a depressed snail alcohol.

Comments

[mechante-fille.livejournal.com]

Holy crap! Unbelievable.

*pets* I hope this isn't a trend.

[tsaiko.livejournal.com]

Well, I have to say I kind of suspected something like this was going to happen just from the way I kept getting emails about the maps. Not asking if I had them done or what the status was. Just... emails mentioning the maps. I had most of the maps done Monday, but still had to get two of the largest ones done. Luckily, I have done enough maps that I can practically do them in my sleep.

[oneiric22.livejournal.com]

Man, that sucks. As a fellow map maker, I totally feel your pain. I also feel the pain of the printing guy, because sometimes it can take almost as long to print as it did to put the map together.

I hope that things worked out.

My boss just told me that she went through two rolls of glossy paper on the plotter today. She's going to some thing in the Virgin Islands next week. I wonder if she's actually going to try carting all of that through the airport with her. Hehehe.

[tsaiko.livejournal.com]

No kidding. I use to have to print architectural designs on a giant plotter at a Community College. I swear, I could have become pregnant and popped out a kid by the time that thing was done with one.

Luckily, these maps were just going to be used for some rough field mapping. They didn't need to be too pristine. Unlike some of the people in the grad office who were making about 50+ maps for publication in a book.

Two rolls worth of maps on glossy paper is still easier to get through airport security than a rock hammer or a tin full of white powder (dry epoxy). Fun times as a geology/paleo major!