E-Ladies: Navigating the Wired World-Chapter 58 - Episode 58 Not So Demanding Client A vs. Newbie

Chapter 58: Episode 58 “Not So Demanding” Client A vs. Newbie Party B Part 5

Chapter 58: Episode 58 “Not So Demanding” Client A vs. Newbie Party B Part 5

Three days later, Zhou Xueyin still hadn’t called Luo Jing, who couldn’t wait and dialed her number. free𝑤ebnovel.com

“Little sister, is it done yet?”

“It’s done, it’s done, but this is just the first draft. Santa Claus isn’t finished yet, and neither is the background. It’s just a rough demonstration!” Zhou Xueyin emphasized repeatedly.

“Okay, I got it! Send it over and let me have a look!” Luo Jing urged impatiently.

As soon as the file was sent, Luo Jing’s call followed: “Little sister, how do I open this? I double-clicked it, but it’s telling me it can’t open?”

“How about you open QQ, and we do a video call…” Zhou Xueyin was too lazy to fuss around and went straight for the video call.

“I don’t have a camera here. Can it still work?” Luo Jing kept asking.

“It can, it can! Have you seen the video invite I sent?” Zhou Xueyin was talking on the phone squeezed between her shoulder, using both hands to maneuver the computer camera facing Kang Siyin’s screen.

“I see it, I see it. It’s just a bit choppy…” Luo Jing was rather demanding.

“Can you see the screen clearly?” Zhou Xueyin wanted to confirm not the choppy connection but the clarity.

“I can, I can!” The other side confirmed positively.

Zhou Xueyin clicked the play button on the animation, and an empty sleigh without Santa Claus and reindeer flew in from the right side of the screen, enlarging gradually until a piece of white paper slowly appeared onscreen.

When this white paper unfolded, a Christmas tree appeared, and from both sides of the screen, several birds flew in, hanging gifts on the Christmas tree.

That was all there was to the animation.

“And then?” Luo Jing thought there was more and urged Zhou Xueyin on.

“Then? There’s no then. That’s the entire animation…” Zhou Xueyin didn’t understand what more Luo Jing expected.

“Oh no, isn’t this animation too simple? Can’t the Christmas tree spin around? Just standing there bald, it looks so silly!” Clearly, Luo Jing was very dissatisfied with the animation.

“If the Christmas tree is to spin, it needs to be done in a 3D effect. That will take more time!” Kang Siyin protested softly.

“Oh right, those birds flying around on the screen, get rid of them. It’s not a forest theme. Also, isn’t that car too rudimentary? Can the car change its angle every time it enters the screen to make it more random?” Luo Jing piled on a bunch of completely unreasonable demands.

“As I told you before, the car isn’t finished yet. It’s just indicative. We can remove the birds, so the gifts will appear directly on the Christmas tree, right? But this random entry of the car…” Zhou Xueyin glanced at Kang Siyin.

“Ms. Luo, I’m sorry, but the feature for random entry of the car hasn’t been developed by the software…” Kang Siyin took Zhou Xueyin’s phone and flat-out denied Luo Jing’s request.

“Isn’t there, then get them to develop it quickly.” As soon as these words were spoken, everyone in the room nearly burst a blood vessel.

“Ms. Luo, we are only users of the software, not the developers…” Kang Siyin really wanted to fiercely retort against this arbitrary client.

“Ms. Luo, I’m sorry, but we also hope that the software company could develop this feature. However, it’s not up to us, right?” Seeing Kang Siyin about to explode, Xiaochen quickly took the phone.

“Look, when you use CAD, you also find that they don’t support some designs you want to create, right? It’s the same situation here, let’s try to understand each other~”

“Yes, if the software doesn’t support it then never mind. But making the Christmas tree spin shouldn’t be a problem, right?” After making so many requests, surely not all of them could be impossible, right? Luo Jing persisted in wanting Zhou Xueyin to make the Christmas tree have a 3D effect.

“But… the 3D effect might not be very good…” Kang Siyin complained quietly.

“Just try it, just try it…for the sake of 80,000 yuan…” Zhou Xueyin didn’t know how to persuade her, so she had to talk about the money.

Kang Siyin helplessly made an OK sign, then took out another reference book and began learning to do 3D.

“Luo Jing, regarding the offline product catalogue, we’ll show you a sample in a few days. If it’s okay, we’ll let the factory print it. Is that alright?” Zhou Xueyin cut off the video and continued discussing the matter of the offline manual with the other party.

“Isn’t that too soon? Can’t their magazine be released later?” Luo Jing’s thoughtless comment was genuinely infuriating.

But for the sake of money, endure!

“Magazines have fixed release dates; they definitely can’t be delayed. Moreover, they’re already releasing early, November for the December issue. If we delay to December, it will be for January, and by then, the whole theme of the book won’t be about Christmas anymore,” Zhou Xueyin explained laboriously.

“Ah…fine, fine. Why do they have to release early…are they out of their minds?” Although she said the last part quietly, Zhou Xueyin still heard it.

Releasing early isn’t crazy, they’re just trying to capture the market…

After hanging up the phone, Zhou Xueyin felt utterly drained.

When discussing requirements initially, the client was like, “Just achieve everything I said.”

But at the acceptance stage, the client was: I don’t want this, that’s not right, I’m not satisfied with this, can you add that feature…

It seemed that as the perfection of the production increased, so did the client’s demands.

It wasn’t just Zhou Xueyin who was suffering, Ya Rui was also deeply frustrated.

This Chen Musheng, he really was as wooden as they come.

Luckily he wasn’t a programmer, otherwise, he’d be the type to create even more bugs while trying to fix one!

Ask him to change the color of a picture, and he’d only change the colors of the picture, ignoring the colors of the details in the items.

Changing the color of the item details, who knows what he did, but the whole image changed color along with it.

Probably because the chief designer, Shen Yajing, was so capable and too lazy to have Chen Musheng redo his work, every time he made a mistake, it ended up being Shen Yajing who cleaned up after him.

Now that Shen Yajing was on vacation, all of Chen Musheng’s issues were exposed, no wonder his salary was the lowest in the company.

Just when it was almost time to show the finished product to Zhou Xueyin, Chen Musheng had skipped work?

The version he had in hand was still not fit to be seen.

“Where is Chen Musheng? Isn’t he here today? What is he doing? Does anyone know?” Ya Rui looked at his empty workstation and asked the employees next to him.

“Don’t know…” Everyone shook their heads in confusion.

“Is Chen Musheng off today? Did he take a leave?” Not getting an answer, Ya Rui approached the reception.

“He didn’t tell me…” The receptionist was also clueless.

Ya Rui pulled out his phone and dialed Chen Musheng’s number: “Hello? Xiaochen, where are you?”

“I’m at an interview!” Chen Musheng answered nonchalantly, “Boss Ya, the graphic you asked me to do, I really can’t handle it. So I don’t want to do it anymore…”