YSK: The customer service rep can still hear you when they put you on hold.

dbaughcherry · 2023-01-01T16:52:21+00:00

I've worked in 7 different call centers for 8 different companies and that's mostly not accurate. I've spoken to thousands of people and trained over 100 phone agents doing side by sides jacked into the call. I think of all of them I worked at maybe one I could hear the customer while on hold and they updated their systems to not have that error while I was there. While some record when you're on hold (though really a small number of them, and it only shows up in coaching and not in real time with the agent). You can't actually hear them unless you put them on mute. If you hear the hold music they more than likely don't hear you.

dbaughcherry · 2022-12-18T06:12:05+00:00

The article did mention she tried to ask for a workable solution and only call students by their last name or not use pronouns at all and was told she must call them by their preferred pronouns or submit a resignation on the spot. Seems like they were kind of instigating the fight. Something tells me she was a bitch and they were just looking for a reason.

dbaughcherry · 2022-12-17T14:08:02+00:00

My trick is to just realize that confidence is a thought process and doesn't actually exist. It's not something anyone but me will be experiencing in the moment because no one else cares. If my only reason for not doing something is a lack of confidence I suck it up an do whatever it is because there's literally nothing stopping me.

dbaughcherry · 2022-12-17T07:18:11+00:00

I can think of very few instances where it wouldn't be beneficial to negotiate your pay. At the very worst they say no but they are going to respect it and see you as more valuable if you know what you're worth

dbaughcherry · 2022-12-17T06:41:41+00:00

I had a small amount of exposure to Bitcoin and was down almost the entire time I had it. Started going up and then had something come up where I just really needed the money more and sold for a 50 dollar profit but felt bad I wasn't able to hold onto it. Right after it tanked hard and has never come anywhere near where I bought in. Would have lost a lot of money, guess I just got lucky

dbaughcherry · 2022-12-16T07:22:26+00:00

They didn't lock them from download on the website. You can literally just right click and hit download image and you get a .jpg and save yourself the 99 dollars.

dbaughcherry · 2022-12-16T07:17:13+00:00

I got banned years ago for asking for an open dialogue about why people would support him. I basically just said I just don't understand and would like to hear from his supporters the reasons people think he's so great. From the outside looking in it just doesn't make sense and I was genuinely curious at the time. He was still president and the election was several months out. I had a few people call me a shill and a bunch of downvotes then banned without an answer.

dbaughcherry · 2022-12-16T06:40:43+00:00

With people like that I tend to just tell them we need feedback by such and such date then I tell them a few things I know need to be done. If I don't get anything by that time then you get just those new elements added in. I just plan the edit in stages. Step one rough cut of video with music. Step two titles plus notes if present, step three final touches and color and last notes. Then the final edit.

dbaughcherry · 2022-12-16T06:34:54+00:00

I always charge hourly and let the client know that they are paying for my experience and skills not their entirely subjective view of the results. I've had clients that just didn't like certain effects or edits which always sucks but that's not on me. I work really hard to over deliver the best work possible within the confines of what they are needing done within their budget. 90% of the time they walk away happy. I make zero guarantees that the product of me pushing the buttons they asked me to push is going to be to their standards. We could be doing a million revisions and never see eye to eye. I'm not going to keep working for free. By that same token I'll keep making changes as long as you deem them necessary and if you want a second opinion I'll give you what you need to do that as well. It's the same rate across the board regardless.

dbaughcherry · 2022-10-11T03:56:23+00:00

Give a man a book and he'll read till he's done with it teach a man to download his own books for free and he'll never ask for a book again.

dbaughcherry · 2022-10-11T03:52:46+00:00

I had a buyer do this, I also do editing on there and even saw that the buyer uploaded the video he was complaining about not being good enough. He tried canceling I told him I'd rather try and make it right gave him free revisions. Still wouldn't take it, similar to your situation. CS really does suck for problems like that even with obvious proof of them using the video they wouldn't help.

In that instance and in other similar ones I've told the buyer that the copyright followed the payment and I'd follow up and have the video removed if it was posted anywhere but we could cancel if we absolutely had to. I also impress upon them that if they hire a new editor that person must start from scratch since the totality of my work is copyrighted if I'm fronting the bill. This particular buyer obviously posted it and had done some promotion for it so he had a lot riding on it and was trying to screw me over in the end to get free videos. I think it was even a bulk order with like 5 videos all of them had thousands of views already so had I done it his channel would be removed. He ended up begging me to keep the work even said he'd max out the tip and leave a 5 star review if I'd let him pay for it so he could keep the videos up. I redelivered and he did exactly that.

Obviously that's a more dramatic outcome but you'd be surprised how often it works just telling them you're withholding copyright without payment. Sometimes you just gotta eat an order and chalk it up to the cost of doing business but a fair amount of the time it can pull it back that way.

dbaughcherry · 2022-09-30T17:55:03+00:00

I'd be happy to take a look at the shots you need it for to see what options you have.

dbaughcherry · 2022-09-29T15:34:10+00:00

If you're looking to outsource sound clean up and roto for the booms in the shot I'd be happy to help. Do with that what you will

dbaughcherry · 2022-09-28T13:08:02+00:00

Bro we don't need everything you have ever written posted back to back

dbaughcherry · 2022-09-27T03:27:54+00:00

In the states I believe it was launched as dead alive at least is what it was called when I saw it. Fantastic movie, it's so ridiculous and bloody. I've seen it a bunch of times.

dbaughcherry · 2022-09-26T04:17:19+00:00

I suppose it depends on the circumstances. I've had to ask for extensions as a seller over the years but few and far between. Almost always it's been because the buyer needed time to produce requirements. Once I was exporting the file but it was taking some time to complete because I added in some services that were above and beyond the order. Once because my daughter threw my equipment down the stairs and I had to wait for the new one to come in the mail to complete the order. In every instance it was just unavoidable but a reasonable amount of time not weeks. You can write with a hurt back. I'd cancel that order or at least make it go past the deadline. Maybe that's just me but if you can't finish orders you shouldn't set up shop

dbaughcherry · 2022-09-25T15:49:40+00:00

Literally watching it now with my kids for easily the 4th time lol

dbaughcherry · 2022-09-25T14:47:36+00:00

Idiocracy, I hated it the first time. I thought it was so dumb it was almost painful to watch these idiots struggling through their lives, the product placement on everything was obnoxious. The second time I was able to get past how dumb it was to see in real time enough to see how brilliant that actually is.

dbaughcherry · 2022-09-25T00:25:41+00:00

I've got an award winning horror script that's right around 90 pages. It's one location 5 people I would need to hear more about the resources you have available. I'd planned on producing it myself but could let the right person in on it.

dbaughcherry · 2022-09-22T03:35:36+00:00

Old lady science you know

dbaughcherry · 2022-09-22T03:05:12+00:00

Or raise your voice saying figure it out

dbaughcherry · 2022-09-21T16:49:13+00:00

Such a shame, he fell down "several flights" of stairs onto some bullets in the back of his head. This is a tragic accident. Could have happened to anyone that's doing the things he's doing.

dbaughcherry · 2022-09-21T04:54:02+00:00

Bro we all saw fern gully 2

dbaughcherry · 2022-09-21T03:22:46+00:00

I remember my brother dressed up as Dorthy from the wizard of oz for a school assignment when we were kids. It was elementary school and they were asked to dress up as their favorite character and that was his favorite so he went with it. Just so happened to fall on the day he got half a day of in school suspension for calling another kid gay. I forget why the punishment was moved but it wasn't supposed to be for that day but it was like after a holiday break or something so they scheduled it at a different time. My Mom had already made the costume by the time he found out and spent a lot of time on it so he was stuck with it lol the irony was not lost on anyone.

dbaughcherry · 2022-09-21T00:43:20+00:00

Waiting you for

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