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2d ago
inAppreciation post: 11 years on the same Okuma lathe and the turret still indexes dead on
Keeping a log book on a machine is a lot like keeping one on your own body, honestly. My dad wrote down every time his back went out and what he ate that day, and after a few years he figured out it was the store-bought bread doing it. Same idea with your lathe, those little quirks add up to a story if you write them down. The guys who skip the log are the ones who get surprised by the same problem twice.
3d ago
inTook a $400 deposit on a Shopify build in Denver and the guy vanished, now I only take 50 percent up front
Ha, that's like dating, @bennett.laura, the ones who won't commit upfront are the ones who ghost.
4d ago
inClient asked for 47 tiny changes in one email, counted them myself
Read somewhere that just naming a price kills the small stuff before it starts, weird how that works.
13d ago
inVirus scanner flagged my own invoice template, turned out to be a real problem
That bit about restoring from backup and it still being bad hits home. I had a customer list get hit the same way a couple years back and the scanner said it was clean too. What finally helped me was turning on macro warnings in Excel and just never clicking enable, even on stuff from people I know. I also started keeping invoices as plain PDFs instead of xls files so there is nothing to run. It is a pain to change how you do things but I have not had a repeat since.