Mannequin on the Moon by Ian Boothby and Pia Guerra for January 25, 2023

That’s why I always charge by the hour. Anything else leads to situations like this where nobody is happy.

Some months ago I saw a cartoon that hinged on a specialized use of the word “notes” that not everyone understood. Since then I have seen many TV shows in which the word “notes” was used as show-biz jargon for criticism of a performance, a script, etc., esp. from a person in authority such as a producer, a network censor, etc.

Impressive detail of a drafting table!

This will be going up on a lot of office cork boards…

They must have seen the movie Office Space.

Does one of them have a red Swingline stapler?

Well, there is that beating your head with a brick because it feels so good when you stop analogy.

Be careful when taking a contract that you include pricing for “Change Orders” (as “notes” are normally called in engineering). Also, that the delivery date MUST be adjusted every time there is a Change Order. I find it keeps the last-minute kibitzing down to a minimum.

My mother changed a staircase from spiral to straight, while my father was out of town working to pay for the house-in-progress. Because of that change, the steps had to be exceptionally shallow. Several people have fallen on those stairs and it may have contributed to my father’s death.

I still have my first drafting board. You don’t see them so much, anymore. That great white expanse was more conducive to creative thought than the many, many multi-monitor setups I have used since. :)

With the price of gas these days it’s a tricky call.

I had a similar issue with some computer-based training I created for a public utility. They kept sending changes, sometimes reverting back to the original material, because it went through a series of instructors, supervisors, and then managers for review.