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You know when the time to give it isn't? When I'm finished.
Every month I make an update of services agencies are providing. First I send out a rough draft, which is just the one from the last month and ask for changes, then a week later I send out the new one. Every month agencies tell me changes that they noticed need to be made, after I send the final version. Hey, how about telling me that when I send the first one?
In a related matter, a few months ago I updated a directory of phone numbers. The last time this was updated was four years ago so it was a major project to make sure the services still existed and what their numbers were. Several times I asked for input from agencies for errors and it was presented to the Continium of Care a few times before the final draft.
The other day somebody told my supervisor of a few errors that needed to be fixed. I guess they didn't notice them a few months ago when these were sent. One was an agency that no longer existed being listed (although I think they only stopped existing after I sent the thing) and there were a couple of numbers that needed to be changed to different ones within the same agency (for example an administrative line being listed instead of a customer line)
My favorite fix however was when the person noted that the numbers were cut off the edge of the paper. A problem I, and nobody else, apparently had when they printed off their own copies.
My supervisor told me to send the next one as a PDF because it would be harder for people to screw up the formatting and make it so that it doesn't print right.
Every month I make an update of services agencies are providing. First I send out a rough draft, which is just the one from the last month and ask for changes, then a week later I send out the new one. Every month agencies tell me changes that they noticed need to be made, after I send the final version. Hey, how about telling me that when I send the first one?
In a related matter, a few months ago I updated a directory of phone numbers. The last time this was updated was four years ago so it was a major project to make sure the services still existed and what their numbers were. Several times I asked for input from agencies for errors and it was presented to the Continium of Care a few times before the final draft.
The other day somebody told my supervisor of a few errors that needed to be fixed. I guess they didn't notice them a few months ago when these were sent. One was an agency that no longer existed being listed (although I think they only stopped existing after I sent the thing) and there were a couple of numbers that needed to be changed to different ones within the same agency (for example an administrative line being listed instead of a customer line)
My favorite fix however was when the person noted that the numbers were cut off the edge of the paper. A problem I, and nobody else, apparently had when they printed off their own copies.
My supervisor told me to send the next one as a PDF because it would be harder for people to screw up the formatting and make it so that it doesn't print right.
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