(6/?) I’m the type of manager that trusts that the people I’m working with will get their job(s) done…I’m not the kind of guy to get in your face and micromanage everything you’re doing. I will tell you what needs to be done and then I will walk away and work on what I need to work on and hope you’ll come to me with ideas or questions.
So…when I hadn’t heard anything from Garrixon for a couple of weeks, I wasn’t all that alarmed. I hit up Joe (the sales guy) through text and asked him how it was coming along and he said ‘[he'd] check in with the designers’ during their weekly design team meeting. OK, cool.
Another week went by. No response. I didn’t press it. I didn’t think I needed to press it. After all, I had signed a contract and I had paid a pretty hefty sample fee to the self-proclaimed ‘dream factory’.
Another week went by and I pressed in. Joe told me the design team wanted to meet with us again to go over some details…which was kind of confusing to me because I thought we already had everything worked out. Whatever. So…I took the meeting from the comfort of my car as I was driving down 101 from Northern California over the Golden Gate Bridge in San Francisco…two of the three designers from our first meeting showed up on the zoom and they explained that they couldn’t do what we initially asked for. They were having trouble figuring out the knit upper and blah blah blah. I was confused. Here we were, a month in, and we back to square one. They kept referring to MOQ’s (minimum order quantities) and I kept telling them ‘these are bespoke shoes’ why are we discussing MOQ’s at the sample stage?
At the end of the conversation, we modified our designs (per their request) and re-sent them. 4 weeks in with nothing to show.