Yellow Peril explains to us why you should communicate with your vendor.

Here.  All that the client had to do here was to dash a quick Hi, thanks for getting that project to us in time for our meeting at such short notice. If you don’t hear back from us in two weeks, give us a call and then there wouldn’t have been a problem*. Because while the customer may be always right, the customer should also always be nice. Niceness, like her brother Politeness, costs nothing.

Moe Lane

*It would have also have lit a fire on the decision-making process on the client’s side, too. If it takes somebody two weeks to get back to you without prodding, they probably would have been able to get back to you within a week. Deadlines can be helpful.

PSA: #Obamacare drawing con-men like rotten meat draws flies.

Don’t believe me? Then maybe you’ll believe that notorious right-wing Tea Party rag The New York Times:

To the list of problems plaguing President Obama’s health care law, add one more — fraud.

With millions of Americans frustrated and bewildered by the trouble-prone federal website for health insurance, con men and unscrupulous marketers are seizing their chance. State and federal authorities report a rising number of consumer complaints, ranging from deceptive sales practices to identity theft, linked to the Affordable Care Act.

Madeleine Mirzayans was fooled when a man posing as a government official knocked on her door. Barbara Miller and Maevis Ethan were pitched by telemarketers who claimed to work for Medicaid. And Buford Price was almost caught by another trap: websites that look official but are actually bait set by fly-by-night insurance operators.

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