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Eating Humble pie
Here is a good one for you all to have a laugh at…
Customer orderd a sign 5 weeks ago 48″ square covered in burgandy on 10mm foamboard, white lettering just saying the name of the hotel they own.
Things were pretty hectic here at the time, staff were out fixing so I set about doing the job.. quite pleased with my self when I had it all packed and ready to go 2 hours later…
got one of the lads to drop it off for them after work.Yesterday gets a phone call from the customer thanking me for the sign and the speed we got it done at.. they had just unpacked it and thought they better ring to inform me that I had forgot to put any wording on it 😳 😳 😳 😳 😳 😳
Now I would not normally own up to something like this but after boasting to the lads that I had turned the job round so quick they have done nothing but taken the micky all day!!!!
keep coming in with pieces of blank board saying ” is this ready to go boss”!!
They have said if I own up and put it on here they will get off my case.. so this is my way of eating humble pie!
cheers
Ian -
18 Replies
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Have to add the customer thought it was hilarious and did point out at least there was no spelling mistakes!!!!
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*rofl* Just say it was a subliminal message sign. Love….Jill 😉
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Hi Ian,
Did they send you a blank cheque ? :lol1: ? :lol1:
How did you manage to send out a blank board?
Mark
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:rofl: :rofl: :rofl: That’s funny!
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What a muppet.
You should have put the letters on, sent it back with a note saying “you hadn’t turned it on!”
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You nincompoop you :lol1:
What’s the daftest thing I ever did? 😮 – ah yes .. I remember 😳
I’m not telling you lot though 😛
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Come on, Phill.
I’ll tell you one of the millions of gaffes I’ve made.
Wrapping a parcel on the bench, annoying coworker looking over my shoulder, drew a penis on the brown wrapping paper with coworker’s name over it. Ah, 10 o’clock: coffee time. Came back from break, finished wrapping parcel, sent it out.Next day, customer (with sense of humour) rang, still laughing.
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You t1t!! big G :lol1: :lol1: :lol1: :lol1:
I’m still not telling 😳
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sheep! sheep!
We spelt a college enrolment banner wrong once, we did not fit so the caretaker put it up on the railing, it tok two days before anywone noticed! It was on a very busy road in London, highly embarrassing for all concerned.
It was a long time ago and happilly we still do banners for the college.
We have made other mistakes, as you do but looking back it was highly amusing.
Still can’t speel wel though! alwaze duble chek everiething!
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no actually I can spell, just miss letters out and keys on a keyboard are to close together! 😀
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Why don’t we form a “vinyloonies” club…I thought it was only me, but I was happy to see I’m not the only one who’s a sandwich short of a picnic.
Wot about this…..I did a 3 metre x 1.25 metre sign – loads of lettering – on powder coated ally sheet, advertising promotional printed goods. About 18 pictures in loads of colours. I came in on a Sunday when it was quiet to do this, ’cause I didn’t want to be interrupted. Took me most of the day, but what a nice job.
On Monday morning, took it to fit, climbed up frame at the roadside and pop-riveted it all the way round. Luvvly jubbly!Though “Right oh Deano – pull off the protective film” ……yep – you’ve guessed it – off came the b……..y lettering with it. I’d put it on top of the film!
What made it worse, it was my own sign – anybody know how I can kick my own bum?
😳 Better still, I’ll sack myself. Anybody know if there’s an opening for a village idiot anywhere.
The sun has finally got to me and fried what was my brain – or could it be the gin??
Ta Ta
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i managed to put VOLTSWAGEN 2 foot high on a window a long time ago customer still likes to remind ne shocking
chris
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some guys in our place managed to letter up the wrong transit van in a multistory car park, all they heard was what the f**k, they turned and there was this guy with his wife, groceries dropped on the ground looking in amazement. turned out the customer put the van on the wrong floor or something. :lol1:
then there was Andrew, he got a call from a painter and decorator saying how much business he had generated them since doing their van. he went onto say, “you have lettered our van, professional strippers, instead of professional wallpaper strippers!”
as for me? I’m perfect, never made a spelling mistake in my life. 😉😮 what?
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I managed to get confused between feet and inches and metres once – the sign was made to my measurements – 40 metres of folded aluminium panelling instead of 40 feet! 😳
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quote leethesign99:pull off the protective film” ……yep – you’ve guessed it – off came the b……..y lettering with it. I’d put it on top of the film!Crikey! I have done this too. 😳
I did a 4 jobs for one of the theme parks here. All 1200mm x 1800mm powdercoated signs, huge posts in concrete etc. Client gave us a map of the park, with an X to mark the spot for each sign.
We dutifully installed them, with each having a warning sign stating that ‘absolutely No Tubes allowed on this water slide’
I get a call from the client 2 weeks later, telling me to remove one of the signs. We had installed a ‘No Tubes’ sign at, you guessed it, the Tube Slide!
The client had approved the artwork, without actually reading it. 🙄
Thing that I could not get over, it was not until an american visitor threatened to sue them for not letting a tube on the tube ride that anyone even noticed. Proves that few people read warning signs anyway 🙁
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well I feel so much better now knowing it is not just me that that can mess it up big style :lol1:
cheers
Ian -
quote dsi:quote leethesign99:We had installed a ‘No Tubes’ sign at, you guessed it, the Tube Slide!The client had approved the artwork, without actually reading it. 🙄
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Am I A bit slow here? Whats a tube?
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A tube….. sorta like a tyre tube… it is something you sit on when going down a water slide. :lol1: These ones take two people…….
cheers
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