I pooped today! & the best (& worst) of rude t-shirts.

Dear Math, I am not your therapist. Solve your own problems.

I'm not drunk, I'm awesome!

When I fart, you will be the second to know.

Get me drunk & enjoy the show.

I pooped today!

Paddle faster, I hear banjos.

T-shirt slogans, sure have changed.
Rude & controversial ones have always been around, but now with the Internet...they have become a much larger mass market.  I have attached  links for a few that will amaze and repel you.

Some will make you laugh, some will make you sick......plain witty is in there but in smaller quantities.

Having said that...
I have always believed that T-shirt printers should not be critics....we print them, we don't wear them.
Artists traditionally don't like censorship. I am one of those.

Freedom of speech and all that.
We have printed some real train wrecks (dirty, suggestive, weird) ...but luckily, nothing too morally offensive (intolerant, bigoted or sexist etc.).

T-shirts, well, they can get your message out.... LOL

Whatever your message.

Some of the above slogans are tame compared to what you will see on the sites listed below.

Brace yourself.

Believe it or not, "t-shirt hell.com" (once the rudest printed t-shirt site) has calmed down a bit, after the owner was threatened a zillion times and possibly poisoned!...really! Look it up on wikipedia under "t-shirt hell". The guy that owns that company is into really really shameless self marketing (....as opposed to my own shameless self marketing). So we don't know that the poisoning wasn't a publicity stunt.

 But I digress....

If you visit the sites you will laugh, you will groan & you will be grossed out or disgusted.

Really, I kid you not....these sites can offend anyone!

If they don't offend you in some small way.... call me on it.
I suspect there are worse sites....I just didn't feel a need to pursue them.

Brace yourself...

http://www.tshirthell.com/hell.shtml

http://www.roadkilltshirts.com/?gclid=CKG61L3CkqkCFRG4Kgodu1DXoQ

http://www.snorgtees.com/

And guess what???!       I pooped today!

I'd love to hear your thoughts!

Cheers!
Trace

You can't pull orders out of your ass if your head is in there.

Another rush job.....eeeeeek!

Always another rush job.....*sigh*!

Time to get your head out of your ass and realize that rush service comes with every job & your companies ability to perform under pressure is duly noted & assessed by your customer.

A good customer will recognise, appreciate & retain  the memory of your great effort. Yay them!
A bad one won't but, oh well, that also comes with the territory.

The difference between you and your competitors can be a very fine line.
Lots of companies are good.... be a great one!

Your customers, sometimes, will need prompt & impressive delivery ... AKA "the rush job". Period. Man up (or woman up as the case may be) & get going!

If your customer is in a jam...& if you can't  or won't do their rush jobs, one of your competitors will!

Or one of your competitors will get the order next time.
Don't think your customers won't be spiteful.
If you have a long standing customer who rarely asks for any special service...well, they may feel that you should be accommodating them...right or wrong doesn't matter...but their perception does matter.

Personally, I hate, hate, hate giving orders away.... every order I take is one we get....& another order my competition doesn't get.
So... I want every good order that comes along.
Does that sound fanatical? Well... I hired my employees and it is my obligation to keep them working. I need my income... so good performance needs to be front & centre in my brain.

A little OT by staff who understand they are making their "work" a better supplier & that their personal value just went up in the eyes their appreciative boss (appreciative being the key word here).
A good employer shows appreciation to the aforementioned ambitious employee. We all need a reason to work hard....a paycheque just isn't enough...although deep down we all believe it should be.
A hearty thank-you is good.
Incentives are better!
Reachable incentives for your staff, might be the difference between being good & bring great. Everybody like a personal challenge with a reward at the end. Yeah, baby! Bring on the rewards!
I am proud my small company, Traces Screen Printing Ltd. offers profit sharing & a Trip Incentive.....and we have to work damn hard for it. My staff are kick ass!

Ok....back to your customer....
Get your head out of your ass. Do that rush order! Make your customers look like a hero to their companies... they should well love you and give you a chance to quote all their work (in theory, LOL).

Good customers are just that...the folks who are enjoyable to work with, pay their invoices on time & who you enjoy doing a good job for. How can it not be satisfying to pull an order out of your ass?

Having said that....
there are those customers who are always in a rush, never plan well in advance and will repeatedly ask for the "world on a plate".
I am not speaking of those customers.... they need to get their heads out of their respective asses & start planning ahead ... they rely on thier suppliers to salvage their poor planning & bail their butts (avec head.) out of trouble ...... not good.

Said bad customers usually, also (and in no particular order) ... rarely pay on time, are lousy at communicating, make you feel like you are never doing enough for them....not fast enough nor good enough....& never, ever cheap enough.

Bad customers will be another blog for another time. Bwah hahahahahhahaha (that was my evil laugh)