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Originally Posted by natas
Top Designer Flake Excuses - please feel free to add your own 
1) family member died/in hospital/contracted some life threatening disease
2) hurracaine/tornado/floods/locusts/fire/plague of rats hit the area
3) internet "down"/cut off (most likely not paid for)
4) pet got ran over/broke a leg/died/grew an extra head/attacked my mom
5) icq "not working"/lost logs/lost contacts/didnt get my messages
6) pc crashed/windows died/lost backups/blew up/grew wings and flew away
7) family member or partner on drugs/gone AWOL/in car crash/joined religious cult
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Not going to advertise our studio - just wanted to tell you, that some stuff out of this list happened to us... Though we work full time and I'm always online...
Like this one - "3) internet "down"/cut off " - but not because not payed for. Not so long ago we had a serious hurracaine and the whole our region was down for 10 days until the problem was solved. And we couldn't do anything about it - just had to finish the projects locally... So basically we disappeared for these 10 days
that's an awful experience... Especially when you have everything scheduled. But still it was kinda our mistake - so the troubles we had with deadlines were solved in the favour of the clients.
And this one - icq "not working" - sometimes it really bitches refusing to log in... Probably their servers are not 100% trustful... Besides this one - didn't get my messages - happened couple of times and recently I noticed that vise versa also... Sometimes I don't get messages from the clients... But troubles with ICQ are rear...
This one - pc crashed/windows died - happened once and we had to deal with data recovery... But it's easier when you have a lot of PCs in the studio - part ly each of them contains necessary info, but still it takes some time to pull everything together again...
And this one - family member or designer got sick or family member died - really no one is insured against such things... At the moment our coder is in hospital with high temperature... Last week me myself ate something wrong and was recovering almost for a day...
All I'm trying to say is that we all people and shit happens in our life...
But what we need is to be more responsible than we are. And it touches a lot of designers here and there. And not only designers - these things can happen to anyone as I've mentioned.
SO:
STAY PEACEFUL
KEEP EACH OTHER INFORMED
STAY IN TOUCH WHATEVER HAPPENS
And KEEP TO THE ONCE GIVEN WORD
this will help and earn you respect