I don't disagree with you one bit. That was the very first sentence of my response.
That does not change the fact that they are humans and humans are not perfect. Mistakes happen. This sounds like one editor who has a misunderstanding of the guidelines. If the project manager has to continue to review assignments put on hold due to an editor's lack of understanding, s/he will speak to the editor as it wastes the project manager's time as well. If the editor continues to make the same mistakes, the editor will be moved on.
We all make mistakes. When we as shoppers miss an assignment, make grammatical errors, forget guidelines, etc., we waste the editors', schedulers' and project managers' time - not to mention our own. It's all part of our humanity.
I can choose to get angry and waste more time, or simply move on.
@winemaker wrote:
MFJ - I think the issue here is that the OP should not ever, as in EVER! have to remind an editor about such clear instructions....I have had the same thing happen to me with Maritz, and it is a waste of my time...effectively, when this happens again and again, as the OP's post states, it becomes costly.
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