You gotta be kiddin' me.... right???

{Major ballplayer league} and {major credit card company} are about to make me jump through the roof. 

 

I am about to go on press on Monday with a {major ballplayer league} 500,000 piece insert  for a {major credit card company's} statement run.  Mind you, {major credit card company} have about 3-5 million statements going out but we were only allowed to insert 500K of our products insert into the stream. 

 

I just found out that we were offered 1 million for the April run into the {major credit card company} statement (Can you even believe it?  People around here are hooting and hollering' over this one. This means super lots of money in our pocket if we get enrollments into our {Major ballplayer league} product.  Maybe they will stop laying people off??) and because the insert is identical to the March insert with a minor tweak of a product number I can go on press with both versions and gang-run them.  Gang-running a piece can save someone thousands and thousands of dollars on press.  (FYI - gang-running both versions at the same time creates larger quantities on press and in the printing industry the bigger the number the cheaper your per piece rate is) Great news right?!

 

Ummm, yeah..... that's a big fat NO.

 

{Major ballplayer league} has just made last minute changes to the 500k run that {major credit card company} has NOT yet approved.  {Major ballplayer league} wants a fricken MONTAGE of pictures on the front instead of what we have provided them. The changes require our creative to work most of the day on them which leaves me 1/2 day for approval from {major credit card company}!!  {Major credit card company} takes at least 3-5 days for them to realize that NEED to approve something let alone approve it for a press run?!

 

A fricken 'montage'????

 

I have to be on press by Monday to make the 20th delivery date to 600 states away with shipping requirements that are 30 pages long?  I have no time for these crazy antics!!! Seriously,  you are going to hold up a press schedule and limit my ability to gang-run 1.5 million pieces so you can have a FLIPPIN' montage?!!/?!?!

 

Umm..... listen. 

 

If there has ever been a wonder in your mind way we pay $8 bazillion dollars for everything, this is your reason.  Corporate America is retarded......