On 7/18/2003 8:00 AM, Louise Bremner wrote:

> I used to work for a client who was fax-happy. It was a nightmare--he'd
> be constantly sending me faxes with corrections and updates to the
> current job, even if it was just a correction of a minor "spelling"
> error. I swear each job would use up a roll of fax-paper so I was kinda
> glad when he stopped sending me work....

A translator I know got so fed up with the habit one of our common 
clients had of sending page after page of "reference material" (most of 
which was irrelevant or otherwise unnecessary) with every job that he 
decided to teach them a lesson. After one particularly effusive flurry 
of reference pages, he took a stack of about 200 blank sheets of paper, 
dialed the client's number, and started feeding in the pages. A few 
minutes later he received a frantic call from the flustered client 
informing him that something was wrong with his fax machine. "Nothing's 
wrong with it," he replied. "I'm just giving you some of your own medicine."

The reference faxes became much shorter after that. ;-)

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Scott Reynolds                                      sar@gol.com