The Kabuki Play 3

Kabuki is a traditional form of Japanese theater that portrays the lives of people who lived during the Edo period (1600-1868). While it's subject matter is primarily historical, Kabuki's extraordinary spectacles of color and sound through acting, dancing and music still symbolize contemporary life.

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HISTORY OF "THE KABUKI PLAY"

  • The original "Kabuki Play" writings exposed a brash inner monologue as I struggled through the trials and tribulations as a college student. Broken friendships, irritating dorm-mates and akward trips home between semesters kicked off the first "Kabuki Play" series. However, college didn't last forever and "the real world" was right around the corner with drama ten fold.
  • "The Kabuki Play 2," a darker and more disturbing account, told the unsettling story about my first job after graduating from college, it being one of the biggest trainwrecks in the history of "The Kabuki Play." After being caught in the middle of 10 consecutive firings in less than two years and being stuck with four pisspoor bosses, I decided that I'd had enough. So, I quit my job and cut off all the negativity in my life, and moved two hours away from home to start my life over.
  • With a new job, my own apartment and a new beginning, "The Kabuki Play 3" picks up where the second series left off and revisits my inner monologue as I try to leave the past behind me and spread my wings.

Friday, December 22, 2006

Chapter 2.1: Do I Quit?

Today, I am highly disgusted.

I’ve spend the last 3 months building a website and storefront for a client of mine and I finally completed it last week. A lot of hours—about 30 of them—were put into completing this project… and I find out just the other day that she wants about 60% of it redone.

Re-fuckin’-done.

This whole project has been HELL from day one. There is something about new business owners that know nothing, but think they do that really gets under my skin.

In a struggle to define exactly what they wanted their “brand” image to be—visual and verbal, it took hours upon hours to get these people to understand the basics of web design 101.

No, you can’t send Word documents to professional printing companies… No, fonts don’t grow on trees. And no, I am not copying someone else’s website—that’s illegal.

This time, the logic behind reconstructing the website is so idiotic, that I have completely lost my patience. The site’s shopping cart doesn’t meet their needs, which I understand, but HELLO? Did you do ANY research before you decided to purchase it?

Of course now, she wants to switch shopping cart merchants, which means I’ll have to transfer the shop over. In addition, the store “MUST” have the look and feel to match the rest of the website. Understandable, but quite frankly, I’ve done it once already and I don’t feel like doing it again!

She went off to speak this so-called search-engine specialist, who told her a bunch of things that she can do to improve her ranking in the search engines. With the changes she wants to make to the site, based on the specialist’s suggestions, I have to basically reconstruct a good portion of the site. And I don’t feel like doing that either.

This isn’t the first time she’s been easily persuaded by some new information and it’s not the first time she’s driven me up the wall. For someone who works 40 hours a week as it is, rehashing these jobs like this just doesn’t work.

It’s the end of the fucking year, this shit was supposed to be completed two months ago and I’m sick of it.

So the question now is, do I quit?

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