Sounds similar to what my friend went through. She was hired at embroidery place. Seems the guy bought from someone else and had ZERO experience, even in sewing. Friend has done this before so no problem for her. Her co-workers were boss' relatives who also knew nothing. Instead of asking her for help, they were all "learning" on YouTube so she was only one working. He got mad that she was taking so long. She tried to explain that it takes a while to set it up correctly so things are centered on pockets, etc. Guy demands she just enter design in computer and run through the shirts. He also demands she finishes huge project before end of day or she's fired. At this point she doesn't want to work there any more since it's toxic. So she does exactly what the guy says - doesn't double check alignment or anything, and runs something like 500 shirts. At the end of the day the boss comes over and throws a fit. She said just did what you told me to do. Left and never looked back.

This happens all he time. My university had a new campus designed by a world-reknowed architect which included a new theater. The architect wanted columns going down the center of the auditorium to the stage. God forbid that he listen to the director. A law firm moved into the upper floors of a high-rise building. Had to have the library re-designed 'cause nobody asked the librarian about it Thebooks in the library were too heavy for the floor to support. Hey, paper is *heavy* people!

The answer to that last thing is because we have seen a simultaneous growth in the notion that "my ignorance is as good as your knowledge" (Asimov) and a decline in humility. All kinds of reasons, among them the internet and countless news and other sites that ask "what do you think?" so for many people, their first thought about ANY topic is "what do I think?" rather than "what do people who ACTUALLY KNOW ABOUT THIS think?" People don't know where to look for reliable information and are constantly told their opinions are all equal. And it doesn't help that on some very common topics - for example, teaching, communications, nutrition - what might seem logical or right at first glance actually isn't. With millions of people never going beyond first glance, we have a problem. (And yes, I'm aware of the potential irony here, but I have researched all of the above, over years, including reading about cognitive dissonance, lateral and critical thinking, and logic :) )

Why don't they just put the logo on the foldover part of the collar? Then no one has to argue about left, right, armpit, or otherwise.

Clients like this put the embroidery shop in a difficult position because the shop's work is right there on the front of the shirt for everyone to see. The store's reputation is at stake in a competitive market when it looks like crap and everyone asks where they had their shirts done so they can avoid them. If they can afford it, some shops and designers would rather loose a client than have bad work out there with their name attached to it for this reason.

Communication is key. Where I currently work, we built entire production plants, usually for edibles. Never do we build the same plant or processing unit (consisting of a few large, explpsion-safe containers of a certain shape and volume, and piping and whatnot ... don't matter here) again, but very similar ones all the time. From the first attempt that qualifies as finished to the final construction, there are inummerable changes made, by customer's choice, by impossibility of their requests in that combination, limits in production technology (although, we're pretty high end tbh, if we can't build it, likely it is imbuildable anyway), changes in the layout of the plant, ... if any of us were to communicate in that way like these people seem to, we'd lose customers 9 out of 10 at the first time it happnes - we do not have a monopoly. We have to deliver. What company can even allow itself such shiddy treatment of partners, customers, contractors?

Sounds like what I deal with. I work mail room--prepping reimbursement and pension papers to be digitized and sent out. MY job is quality control. Checking to see if staples, tape, holes in papers, ect aren't there to gum our scanner up. Recently, our client changed how they wanted it done from how we USED to do it. The OLD way: clock in on paper time sheet, take a tray or trays and qc them. Once done put them on the rack to be scanned. Log time. The NEW way: Take a tray (a single try at a time) log in start time on computer system (might add this computer system is also used by our mail preppers and mail receivers, as well as they sometimes go down so we only have one for ALL of us to use). Qc tray, then scan back into the computer system to log stop time. It's....not a workable system. Specially if we only have one DTS to use. So if we have to stand in line to wait for the single DTS to be usable, it adds unneeded time to our quality control efficiency. But the client thinks it's fine.

Too bad they couldn't be bothered to include an actual picture of the shirt. The shirt shown in the article has more than enough room for a logo on the left side.

I say just put the bloody logo on the middle top of the left arm and make it a design feature. They always ask for the impossible. One customer once asked me for acid-stone washed 30/1 combed cotton jersey T-Shirt price. My answer was that the price will not be per piece but per sack.

Chalk it up to the new entitled generation of execs and managers who are still wet behind the ears...they refuse to listen to human beings and must learn the hard way .. I love the saying, "Learn from the mistakes of others, you will never live long enough to make them all yourself" !

That side closure shirt probably is popular as uniform because the side closure is inspired in the vintage military jacket. Might convey a feeling of order and discipline among staff and clients.

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I love that blouse! Both colours.

Seems like a confusion issue as to left & right. Maybe that's a mirror image. It depends on whether it's being worn or being looked at on a hanger. What's left to the wearer may be right to me, as an observer.

The one part of the story that confuses me is where the client says they've done it before (and it worked, I assume). So ... did they make that up? Or did I miss something?

According to the picture the left side has a lot of room while the right has none.