Things that jerk my chain...

[urstwile]

Awww, Morea, I'm sorry you're going through such a tough night. Shouldn't be too long before you can take the kitty to the vet, I hope?

Yeah, I'm up late. :o

[morea]

poor little guy. It's the least I can do.

Another hour or so and I should be able to call in. They wanted me to wait until 9, but I'm paying big bucks to get him in on a weekend, and honestly I wanted to bring him in yesterday, so this is a "compromise".

[urstwile]

I hope you can get him in soon. It'll definitely ease your mind, I'm sure, and poor guy needs to be looked at that's for sure.

(((Hugs)))

[morea]

(((Hugs back)))

Thanks. I needed some eHugs. :)

[urstwile]

Tick tock!

[budafist]

Client sent me a print ready pdf.

Now they want me to send that same pdf back to them for checking...

It's 1 print broker that always does this. It's like every email we get from them we have to send back to them for checking...

[urstwile]

If they're the ones who sent you the PDF in the first place, I'm not sure why they need you to send it back to them.

It just never ends, does it? Happy Monday, by the way, Buda. :)

[budafist]

Thanks Urst. I said that to my boss, but he said that they just wanted to double check everything before we print it...Methinks that they should just look it up in their sent folder....Oh well...

I've come back to work as senior now (first day back from holidays). It's skeleton staff still so pretty quiet, but I've got a small mountain of work including one job I've been avoiding since end of last year. It's a bit of a mess really, but I gotta view it as a challenge. A good one.

[urstwile]

Yeah, I really hate the needless duplication of effort. They sent you the PDF in the first place, but perhaps their e-mail program deletes all traces of the file from their computer once it's been sent. (I kid :D )

[Sammii]

I hate dishonesty,

Betrayal,


and men who think I know nothing about football when I do (I can even explain the offside rule for heaven’s sake).

I hate unfriendly and downright rude people

I don’t mind vegetarians, my sister is one but she never tries to convert me, I like meat too much I’m afraid. I tried it once for six months and missed my Sunday Roast – my mum makes the best so I still go to here house every Sunday.

I think above all I hate hangovers.

[budafist]

Sammi, you'll find that there are a few other carnivorous people on here - me included. While I do eat my vegies, take my meat away and there will be trouble!

I have a vegan friend. She's a lop-ear rabbit though and she doesn't try to convert me at all! :D

I know nothing about sports. I dislike it when people assume I know (or care) about sports...I work with Rugby fanatics. Most people around here assume that all New Zealands follow rugby. I don't.

[hewligan]

I know nothing about sports. I dislike it when people assume I know (or care) about sports...I work with Rugby fanatics. Most people around here assume that all New Zealands follow rugby. I don't.

You think you got it bad - try being a man in this country who doesn't know anything about rugby. I'm sure it's considered downright freakish.

I keep telling people: "Well, when it comes to sports, I know a lot about computers..."

[budafist]

I know fonts. At least I don't expect other people to know what I'm talking about when I'm rambling on about fonts. I have a very patient boyfriend....

[hewligan]

If only people would ramble at me about fonts, that'd be fine. Sadly, I'm far more likely to meet people who want to talk about rugby than fonts.

Bloody philistines.

[Red Kittie Kat]

lmao Hewligan... well you can chat about fonts here all you want ... we are filled with Fonties :D

[hewligan]

Too true. Around here, I often feel wa-a-ay out of my league on fonts - and I know quite a bit about fonts. Sadly, I also have a terrible memory, so I'm never going to win at the guess the font game :(

[Red Kittie Kat]

Ya never know ... my memory isn't so good either .. but sometimes they just pop out at me ;)

[budafist]

Kat you have a freaky font guru-ness about you :) Too modest.

[hewligan]

^^ It's true. You're ability at the spot the font game makes me jealous. Also, a little disturbed, as it is a tad freaky, but mostly jealous.

[Red Kittie Kat]

lmaooo ... just a tad? Some here would tell you I am completely freaky :D


... Thank you buda darlin ;) ((hugs))

[budafist]

font-geek group hug!

[budafist]

Oops. Deviating from topic again...

[MD]

Famous noodle inventors dying.

Ramen King - Momofuku Ando RIP
http://www.theage.com.au/ffximage/2007/01/06/js06noodle_narrowweb__300x430,0.jpg

[budafist]

That's sad. That old guy looks blingin'

[Jackimalyn]

aww. He should be blingin. I lived off those damn things for a few months during some hard times a while back.

[reuber1]

Hope to get an apartment in town soon, so I can dodge the morning commute...a.k.a. the Jockey-for-Position-To-Get-To-Work-2-Minutes-Early rally.

Also, the construction on the monstrosity that is the condo along the riverfront, obstructing the view of those of us who were here first, defeating the purpose of our towns name, which is literally interpreted to 'Beautiful View'...and why they have to bang against a bucket with whatever tool they have at 7 in the morning? That noise is assaulting my brain at that hour.

[budafist]

It's quiet and I've got 1 job to do that I really don't want to do. I've been avoiding it, but now there's nothing else left!

...stalls on here for a moment longer...

[The_Black_Knight]

You think you got it bad - try being a man in this country who doesn't know anything about rugby. I'm sure it's considered downright freakish.

I keep telling people: "Well, when it comes to sports, I know a lot about computers..."I'm a guy who lives in the States and doesn't follow any sports. I love the reaction that people have when they say, "Did you see Team-A play Team-B last night?" and my reply is, "That's football, right?" Bonus points if I say, "That's football, right?" and it's actually basketball or hockey or something.

[budafist]

I hate that the news is 1 hour here and half of that is devoted to sports news.

[Logo-Mechanix]

I on the other hand love sports, ice hockey, football (American kind), baseball and the occasional beach volleyball:D

[Derfie]

I was starting to become a sports fan, until yesterday's pathetic football games The NJ people will know what I am talking about (unless of course their Eagles fans.)

[Virgo Nightingale]

I don't follow sports. At all. Except if a the Yankees or Mets have made into the playoffs, then I'll watch. Football? I'd rather shove a red hot poker through my eyeball. I was surrounded by football fans yesterday as they were watching the games. I didn't even know who was playing or that it was important.

[budafist]

I used to watch sports if the athletes were hot. Now I have a boyfriend and the hotness of athletes isn't enough to sustain me.

[reuber1]

Football party-poopers.

[TooTallVal80]

When clients send you already created files with no bleeds. You try your best to explain to them what are bleeds. Either they don't know or they resend you the file but they basically just stretch the file bigger. Uh huh...

And the fact that you have no respect for a co-worker as a person. After 2 1/2 years of constant up and down moods, etc..he hit the nail on the coffin last week because he was stressed!! Who isn't!!!! Unless he comes clean to what he problem is...I have lost complete respect for him.

[reuber1]

Hooo-****ing-rahhhh. I'm the only support tech in my group who decided to come to work today.

[morea]

people who clearly view graphic design as a no-talent-required, easy-money scam.

These are the ones who clearly have no clue about design, but don't let that stop them from buying a domain name and announcing to the world that they are "in business" as graphic designers.

I'd wager dollars to donuts that this is a big part of the reason that people view all designers as hacks. If I didn't know better and I saw these sites, I'd be one of the people saying, "wow, anybody can be a 'graphic designer'."

Shoot, if you want to learn the trade and freelance, more power to you. Everybody startes somewhere. But don't insult our intelligence by making it so obvious that you really don't think that there is anything to learn. Give me a break.

[Exodus]

I totally agree. It also makes it hard to explain to customers your fee as well. At least, it does most of the time for me. Just because some 15 year old kid (read: family member of theirs)
is willing to do it for 20 bucks and a hamburger doesn't mean that I will. I have education, experience and most importantly BILLS! Pancakers.

[budafist]

Oh I know! It sucks real bad. Another reason why I don't want to go freelance full-time. I don't want that look when I tell them how much it's going to cost.

I hate that people think that graphic design is for fun and thus we should do it for nearly nothing.

[WannaBrie]

I have to agree as well, what really sucks is when the corporate types that you work for don't want to pay you as much as the suck a** salespeople who don't even have a college degree! And then, they get to stand behind you and say why don't you put a red stroke on that text and yeah, I think that would look better if you put in a starburst! ACCK!

[TooTallVal80]

The fact that outr salesman at my job thinks he's an "Art Director". Fool thinks he knows everything about design. I see him tell customers his design ideas. And half the time they suck! Sometimes when I design a layout for one of this customers, the guy gets the credit. People think that he's the designer!!! I have to let them know.."um...no..he takes the order and gives a job to one the designers here".

[budafist]

[angry rant=buda]Customers with really bad BO.

People that say that something is ok to print when they haven't actually checked the file at all.

Designers that ask for the same favour over and over again. Can you just do this for me? Got someone that can't make pdf files so they send all their open files to me to pdf and send back to them. If we were printing them fine, I can do that, but if it's got nothing to do with our company, can you please just send the open file to the next person and not me.

People that ask you how you are and then ask you how you are again 5 minutes later and then again another say, 10 minutes later. Did you not listen to my answer 5 minutes ago? or did you think my answer might be different? I got someone that does this every time I see her. We'll be talking about what we've been doing and she'll just pop the question in there when ever she can.

[/angry rant]

[Virgo Nightingale]

1) Opening a bottle of wine at your restaurant job that, unbeknownst to you, is all cracked under the foil around the neck and you cut your thumb trying to open it and start bleeding in front of your customers. Now that's appetizing!

2) While eating, the ball of your tongue ring unscrews and the rest of the thing comes loose in your mouth and you crack a tooth on it while chewing. And the loose ball is nowhere to be found, so you must have swallowed it.

[reuber1]

2) While eating, the ball of your tongue ring unscrews and the rest of the thing comes loose in your mouth and you crack a tooth on it while chewing. And the loose ball is nowhere to be found, so you must have swallowed it.
Maybe you'll get it back in a few hours. ;)

[Logo-Mechanix]

You probobly will, but I don't think I'd be putting it back in my mouth but hey, thats just me.

[Red Kittie Kat]

Ouchhhh ... Virgo you cracked your tooth? :(


....... yet another reason I don't think I could ever bring myself to get my tongue pierced. :eek:

I had the top of my ear done and it hurt for 6 months ... the only reason its still in is because I couldn't get it out :D

[Logo-Mechanix]

When I was a teenager (don't laugh) guys getting earrings was the new cool thing to do. So when I came home with mine thinking I was one cool mutha, that is until my father advised me to take it out or he WOULD. By his tone I don't think he planned on taking the back off before removing it. I guess thats what happens when your father was in the Marines.

[Virgo Nightingale]

Ouchhhh ... Virgo you cracked your tooth? :(
Yup. Second time. It's minor, but enough to make chewing on that side a little difficult. I guess it's time to visit the dentist. I'm considering taking it out for good, but I like having it and really don't want to remove it. Unfortunately, the hole will close up within a couple hours if there's nothing in there, so it's not like I can leave it out most of the time and just put it back in when I'm feeling like being a freaky pierced person.

[Logo-Mechanix]

I kind of never undersytood the whole piercing thing, I mean it doesn't bother me or anything and maybe I'm just old but I just never got it. Although the people you see sometimes with like every part of their body pierced is a little disturbing. Or maybe it was just my whole experience with my Dad wanting to tear my ear off over the earring in 1986.

[Virgo Nightingale]

Maybe you'll get it back in a few hours. ;)
No amount of bleach, rubbing alcohol, Lysol or boiling water would be enough to put that back in my mouth. Nevermind the delicate process of sifting through the 'waste' to find it. :eek: I can buy a new one for a couple bucks. :p

[Virgo Nightingale]

I kind of never undersytood the whole piercing thing, I mean it doesn't bother me or anything and maybe I'm just old but I just never got it. Although the people you see sometimes with like every part of their body pierced is a little disturbing. Or maybe it was just my whole experience with my Dad wanting to tear my ear off over the earring in 1986.
I get some of it, but not all. I only have the tongue and belly button (and ears of course). I've never quite understood getting every possible chunk of skin pierced, like bars through both eyebrows, a row of rings across the lip, door knockers through both nipples (no pun intended), earlobe stretched to accomodate 1" wide spacers... and I certainly never got the genital piercing thing. Why would you want a big needle through your most private and personal body parts? OUCH!

I never got pierced until I was 25 or 26. Dad couldn't say a thing.

[budafist]

I like stretched lobes. Not so big it could be mistaken for cats bum of course, but I really like the bone jewellery that you can get.

I like piercings, but nowdays it seems juvenile at times.

[Logo-Mechanix]

I saw a guy and girld not too long ago who had so many piercings they looked like pin cushions, and those were just the visible piercings. I was always kind of partial to this African tribe I saw on the Learning Channel who had this big piece of wood or something placed inside their lower lip stritching it out. Now that was pretty cool.

[frankster]

I was a bit of a wild child hanging around weekends and nights and school holidays at traveller sites and illegal raves in my early teens and I really wanted to get my nose, eyebrow and lip pierced back then, but had a bizzare slightly schitzophrenic type life at that point that involved spending my week days on a scholarship at a poncy private school that banned such things. Once I hit 18 and left I found that it was no longer "different" to have such piercings and in fact in the UK around the late 90's it became quite usual and boring for girls to have belly button piercings. The urge to be so visibly different had faded as well, so I've just stuck with the regular holes that I was born with. Still think lip rings on men can be very hot though.

I really need to get out of this stupid Xmas get up. the dress is starting to smell. I've been a naughty GDF drop out for weeks!

[budafist]

I got my eyebrow pierced when I was 16. My conservative Chinese parents weren't too keen on the idea, but they got used to it. When my younger sister got her eyebrow pierced when she was 16 they didn't bat an eyelid.

Now days I only have holes in my ears - though they aren't just the standard 1 in each ear holes.

[Riya]

I have absolutly no piercings. When people ask me why (and I do get asked a lot for some reason), I tell them, "I poke enough holes in myself accidently, I don't need to do anymore on purpose." Then they laugh at me.

[Red Kittie Kat]

lmao Riya .. good one :D


Good to see you Frank ... missed ya darlin ;)


After my cartilage piercing... nothing else on me was being pierced ... I have 3 holes in one ear and 2 in the other ... that is quite enough :D

[budafist]

Can you put jewellery through your accidental holes Riya?

In high school when it was compulsary for us to carry compasses for school some of us went through a nail piercing phase. I mean, what else are you going to do in maths?

[hewligan]

Can you put jewellery through your accidental holes Riya?

In high school when it was compulsary for us to carry compasses for school some of us went through a nail piercing phase. I mean, what else are you going to do in maths?

Well, I drew cartoons.

[budafist]

That's coz boys with pierced fingernails are faggy.

[frankster]

You lot just keep on reminding me how uncool I am. I was the one doing Maths.

[budafist]

Maybe it's time for you to poke holes in your nails then Frankster. Play catchup and all...

[Riya]

Can you put jewellery through your accidental holes Riya?



No, too much blood most of the time. And everytime I manage to get a hole that goes all the way through, someone takes me for a car ride and men in white suits close it up.

[hewligan]

You lot just keep on reminding me how uncool I am. I was the one doing Maths.

Well, as I already confessed around here somewhere, I actually have an MSc in physics, so I must have done some maths at some point :)

Which, I guess, doesn't make you any cooler, but at least you'll have some company at the nerd table :D

[Jackimalyn]

AAAAAAGGGGGGGGHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!

Im so angry! I just want to scream. I think im going to take an early lunch and scream in my car for an hour. @!#$%^&*

[frankster]

Blimey, what on earth has happened Jacki? You sound very disgruntled. Find a music store at lunch time and let it out on a drum kit

Maybe Hewligan and I should start a support group for nerd designers. Finally I've found another ex physicist in the design world. Your resume must look as bizzare as mine does!

[Jackimalyn]

Sorry. Im Ok now. Still pissed but dealing with it. See, Im the marketing manager and Im in charge of pricing out new product and I just found out that like a month ago the salespeople made some important changes in pricing and didnt copy me so I have to redo 84 quotes I did last week. Not to mention Ive been putting in 10 hour days anyway doing other stuff. And the woman who was supposed to copy me on the email is the same woman who b****** to me about incorrect prices and who just yesterday bit my head off for not copying her on a mundane email blast (spam that i send out weekly to customers). This isnt the first time shes done it and when I confronted her she responded with "oh, well if I do it next time, i apologize in advance." You cant do it again! IM IN CHARGE OF PRICING. If i dont get copied, customers dont get copied. jeeze.

[Virgo Nightingale]

Wow. Sorry to hear of that mess, Jacki. Glad you're finding a way to deal with it and calm yourself. That woman sounds like a biatch.

[MD]

A very loud, unattractive, mean-acting woman walks into Wal-Mart with her
two kids in tow, screaming obscenities at them all the way through the entrance.

She's dressed in dirty jeans, a greasy t-shirt with holes in it and wearing
flip-flops exposing her cracked and filthy toenails. When she yells at the
kids, she exposes her yellowed, crooked teeth with more than a few missing.

The Wal-Mart greeter says, "Good morning and welcome to Wal-Mart. Nice
children you've got there. Are they twins?"

The ugly woman stops screaming long enough to say, "Hell no, they ain't! The
oldest one, he's 9 and the younger one, she's 7. Why the Hell would you
think they're twins? Do you really think they look alike?"

"No", replies the greeter, "I just couldn't believe you got laid twice."

[urstwile]

Now that's comedy. :D

[Red Kittie Kat]

MD that's great! :D


I hope Jackie gets to read it .. it will make her smile too http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v54/RedKittieKat/smilies/a042.gif

[Jackimalyn]

lol... it did indeed

[Danger_Mouse]

booogle google doogle smooogle

[Red Kittie Kat]

I wish things were better for you DM http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v54/RedKittieKat/smilies/hugs.gif

I worked for a company where there we so much backstabbing and behind the scenes connections going on you couldn't trust or believe anyone. So, I do sympathize darlin.

[Danger_Mouse]

snarf snarf

[Red Kittie Kat]

You are welcome darlin ... go getcha some good lovin' it really does help :)

[reuber1]

Jesus Christ DM. That's a load of garbage. Hopefully someone takes notice of at least one or more of those resumes.

[Danger_Mouse]

End Rant

[budafist]

I've got a headache and it's time to go home, but I got too much to do and am doing overtime...again...

[Jackimalyn]

My mom... not the typical mom stuff but-

I casually brought up that I'm going to ask for a raise at work and she said "Jeeze! You're making a lot of money for a 20-year-old. Dont push your luck!" The thing is, yes, its a lot for a 20-year-old... but its not enough for a Marketing Manager with my responsibilities. I should look at what the position deserves not what my peers make. Thanks for the suppot mom...

[CamarotaDesign]

go for it Jacki, boo on your mom!!

Can I ask how a 20 yr old that isn't finished with college got a job as marketing manager?

[Jackimalyn]

actually, I just graduated a month ago, (associates) but I got the job last may.

It was wierd actually, my school was promoting their website and they said if you post your resume for potential employers, you could win an ipod. Well, I didnt win an ipod but I got an interview with the company Im at. The guy who hired me (the VP) I have found out while working here, likes to hire young people with no experience who he can "mold" to our (his) way of business. He needed a graphic designer for the position as it requites a lot of visual creativity, as well as smarts for the marketing crap. I nailed the interview...

By the way... when I say Marketing manager... I am the marketing department. I have no subordinates but that also means I have a lot to do! Maybe Ill ask for less of a raise if I can hire an intern or something to dump some work on.

[MD]

Can I ask how a 20 yr old that isn't finished with college got a job as marketing manager?

*slurp* *slurp* ... *gulp*

j/k jacki :D
It was the first thing that came to my mind and it was too funny not to post.

[Jackimalyn]

lmao... hey you gotta do what you gotta do... you should know that, fellow MATC grad, just trying to make it in big scary Milwaukee...

[reuber1]

Network resetting while you have a Flash file opened across it, and Flash decides not to establish a reconnect, your file vanishes from Explorer, and you cannot Save or Save As (not even locally). Dammit.

[CamarotaDesign]

ahahahaha MD, very profound.

Jacki - Sounds like you definately deserve a raise if you are doing a job that is at par with people who have done it in the past for this company. I AM the creative department here as well, and I really could use an intern to dump work on sometimes.

[Danger_Mouse]

I use to hate being the only one in a creative department....but looking back on a few places I was at, I had it made.

Jacki.....moms are just like that.

[MD]

I AM also the Creative Department here :) I am also the Production Department, Prepress Department, the Network Technician, Digital Pressman, and CSR. At least I get to make my own hours and wear slippers to work.

[Danger_Mouse]

*slurp* *slurp* ... *gulp*



That's only funny if you read my long rant.

[CamarotaDesign]

I use to hate being the only one in a creative department....but looking back on a few places I was at, I had it made.

I really would love it if I had more experience and really knew what I was doing in graphic design 100% of the time. But there are those times, where you just dont know how to make something work, and you need someone who's been around a little longer to help you out... or hell, just a second opinion from another legit designer.

[Jackimalyn]

thanks everybody. I think Ill wait about a month to ask for my raise... Im doing some work right now that may help in my favor during negotiations.

[budafist]

Until next week, I am the creative department too.

[CamarotaDesign]

Until next week, I am the creative department too.

Just watch how your alcohol consumption rate goes up.

[hewligan]

Just watch how your alcohol consumption rate goes up.


Stupid antibiotics for stupid middle-ear infection mean no alcohol consumption for me this weekend.

How am I expected to deal with the world sober?

[frankster]

are you not dizzy enough with yer middle ear infection to not need the alchohol?

[Jackimalyn]

wait, ive drank while taking antibiotics... i didnt think that was a big deal?

[hewligan]

wait, ive drank while taking antibiotics... i didnt think that was a big deal?


It depends on which antibiotics. Most of them it's fine to drink with, but there are a few kinds you can't.

I checked - guess which kind I've got?

Oh, and I've been on the antibiotics for a few days now, so the dizzyness is gone, Frankster.

[frankster]

well, if the dizzyness is gone and you want to get it back without alchohol or infections then may I suggest you get a broom or mop and stand it upright in the center of the room. grasp the top of the broom handle with one hand and touch your forehead to the top of the handle. Now run around the broom pole in circles not taking your forehead or hand off the broom. continue for several seconds, let go of the broom, look up and fall on your face.

[budafist]

I totally forgot I was taking antibiotics last week. I drank and sat in the searing sun for hours. Then when I was wondering why I felt so shit, I saw on the pill label that I was to keep out of the sun...

[hewligan]

Yeah, I'm supposed to stay out of the sun, too.

It's summer, and the doctor gave me the "No beer and stay out of the sun pills." I can't help wondering what I did to piss him off...

[budafist]

It's really asking too much of us isn't it?

On another note...
To me, proofing is for the intention of signing off a job. I don't like to send a client a proof unless it's to sign off a job right?
We have a business card for a big company. The idea is, they send us all the details that are to go on the card, name, phone numbers, email etc, and I lay the details up on the business card and send them a pdf.
Now one person only gives me only name to appear on the card saying that the rest of details are coming later, can I send a proof with just a name on the business card.

What's the point? The proof won't be signed off, because it's missing all the details.

I sent them an email asking for the rest of the information, but no, they want to see see an incomplete proof first.

It's this double handling that annoys me. They've assured me that I will be paid for my time. But it's not that, it's the principal of it. Besides, I'm paid by the hour anyway and I don't get more for double handling it, it just means other work gets pushed back.

[hewligan]

Back when I was working as a magazine designer, there were a couple of times when the sales reps asked me to design an ad, and when I asked for the text I was told it would come later.

You have no idea how happy it makes me that I don't work there any more.

[The_Black_Knight]

Back when I was working as a magazine designer, there were a couple of times when the sales reps asked me to design an ad, and when I asked for the text I was told it would come later.Our marketing people try to do this to the packaging department all the time. They always ask us, "How can the labeling department get the [product launch] completed faster?"

Let's see. We don't have a structure/dieline. We don't have a regulatory manuscript. We don't have the brand artwork from the agency because the executives haven't chosen a design yet. So we have no structure, no drug facts, and no branding. It's tough to create a package without one of these things, let alone without all of them.

I don't know, you tell me how the labeling department can get the product launch completed faster, you wild and crazy marketing guy, you.

[reuber1]

Boy, nothing like coming home after a long day of work and grabbing some pizzas to a household filled with people throwing angsty, teenage, angry silent treatments, especially when one of them is your parent. Jesus ****ing christ. I want to move, like NOW.

[budafist]

New lady was supposed to start today. Only she didn't contact anyone except for the only person on holiday - she left a message on his answerng machine a week or so ago confirming her start date. He didn't get back to her since he was away, so she didn't start today.

She's starting on Thursday now. I'm so swamped right now. Everyone needs their stuff yesterday. If you didn't need it last week, I don't have time for you. If there's no rush on a job, I might look at it in a week.

I really, really hope she works out because I can't afford to spend time holding her hand. She's never worked in at a print company. Fine, neither had I but she better catch on quick!

I'm doing overtime every day I can - unfortunately, I don't have a key and I'm not special enough to be given the responsibility of lock up duties, so some days I can't do overtime because everyone wants to go home.

[Kool]

If you didn't need it last week, I don't have time for you. If there's no rush on a job, I might look at it in a week.

This is something that used to really bother me. We would have a few customers who understood the process. They would get you all the copy, images etc. in plenty of time to meet their perfectly reasonable deadline. But because of all the other idiot customers (or lazy sales reps) who just had to have their stuff yesterday. You end up having to keep pushing the good customers work off until it finally becomes a crazy rush at the last minute just like all the idiots.

[reuber1]

The complete backassward-ness of our e-mail system, so when an e-mail is sent to me, someone else can open it and then forward it to me, and when I try to reply to the original sender, instead it goes to the person who just forwarded it to me who couldn't give a shit. Doesn't help that much more when the person I inadvertently sent it to is a smart ass about it.

[CamarotaDesign]

coworkers pancake up orders!!!!!!!!!!!!

[reuber1]

Microsoft's retarded inability to allow testing sites through IE6 and 7 on the same machine. Given how worthless IE6 was at just about everything associated with CSS, this is something that should be easy to do, but instead IE7 overwrites IE6. ****ers.

[hewligan]

Microsoft's retarded inability to allow testing sites through IE6 and 7 on the same machine. Given how worthless IE6 was at just about everything associated with CSS, this is something that should be easy to do, but instead IE7 overwrites IE6. ****ers.

It is dumb, but there are solutions (http://www.tech-recipes.com/internet_explorer_ie7_tips1188.html)

[reuber1]

It is dumb, but there are solutions (http://www.tech-recipes.com/internet_explorer_ie7_tips1188.html)
Doesn't that act as a hybrid IE6/IE7 though, rather than a true standalone? I've been looking into this, and have heard problems with that method.

[Samakimoto Graphics]

A pair of owls are nesting near my house...that's all good. Only, my niece's nanny who is staying with us is deeply superstitious and gets finicky whenever they sit on the roof and hoot at night.

There is an old African superstition that owls are angels of death, and that when they sit on your roof or in a tree nearby and hoot, it means someone in that homestead will die, soon.

Owls are viewed with deep suspicion because of their going against the grain of normal bird behaviour by being nocturnal. So the nanny: she goes into the kitchen and puts a saucepan of salt and water on the stove saying that her granfather used to do the same when an owl came near their homestead, that's supposed to chase it away. They are the only birds we do not view as guests...

[Patrick Shannon]

Two words....EPIC MOVIE.

These filmmakers of these kinds of films desperately need to just QUIT. The franchise died when it went away from the Waynes Brothers. You have the utterly awful Scary Movie 4...which it's ONLY funny part was the Tom Cruise/Oprah parody, which you could see on the commercial without paying for the rental. Date Movie was even worse, and half the references didn't even make sense to be in that movie! Napoleon Dynamite was in it all of three seconds (and they stick him on the box)....oh, and his shirt says "Don't Vote for Pedro!" HAHAHAHAHA! That's so funny! And the hobbits from Lord of the Rings? WTF?

But then you get this crap called Epic Movie that advertises on TV around the clock. Just what the hell are they expecting us to laugh at?

* She like, opens the dresser from Narnia and stuff falls on her. Hahaha!

* Hey, the bullet hits Superman's eye and he falls back and winces in pain.

* And look at all that metal stuff fly all over the X-Men (or whatever they are). I guess cause he's like magnetic. So hilarious.

* Oh look.....there's a guy dressed just like Borat that says "Nice!" That's so funny!

God...let these kinds of movies DIE already. These filmmakers need to understand that taking a role and replacing it with a different actor does not a laugh make. Hell, go see some of the original movies with your money instead (like Borat), way more funnier.

But this movie will make money from the idiot crowds....of COURSE it will >:(

[reuber1]

Two words....EPIC MOVIE.

These filmmakers of these kinds of films desperately need to just QUIT. The franchise died when it went away from the Waynes Brothers. You have the utterly awful Scary Movie 4...which it's ONLY funny part was the Tom Cruise/Oprah parody, which you could see on the commercial without paying for the rental. Date Movie was even worse, and half the references didn't even make sense to be in that movie! Napoleon Dynamite was in it all of three seconds (and they stick him on the box)....oh, and his shirt says "Don't Vote for Pedro!" HAHAHAHAHA! That's so funny! And the hobbits from Lord of the Rings? WTF?

But then you get this crap called Epic Movie that advertises on TV around the clock. Just what the hell are they expecting us to laugh at?

* She like, opens the dresser from Narnia and stuff falls on her. Hahaha!

* Hey, the bullet hits Superman's eye and he falls back and winces in pain.

* And look at all that metal stuff fly all over the X-Men (or whatever they are). I guess cause he's like magnetic. So hilarious.

* Oh look.....there's a guy dressed just like Borat that says "Nice!" That's so funny!

God...let these kinds of movies DIE already. These filmmakers need to understand that taking a role and replacing it with a different actor does not a laugh make. Hell, go see some of the original movies with your money instead (like Borat), way more funnier.

But this movie will make money from the idiot crowds....of COURSE it will >:(
My thoughts exactly. How funny is it to parody a comedy? I don't get it.

None of these movies are hilarious in any way, shape, or form. But you are right, some moron is going to watch them and like them.

[MD]

But this movie will make money from the idiot crowds....of COURSE it will >:(

Thats what it come down to. They can make the movie on the cheap - fill it with semi unknown actors and more than quadruple their money. They will continue to make them until it no longer becomes profitable. (Hollywood considers a film to be a flop if it does not break even domestically) This genre still has legs - check out these recent box office numbers.

Scary Movie 3
$48 Million Production Budget (plus additional advertising costs)
Worldwide Grosses = $220,673,217 ($110,003,217 domestic)
+ DVD sales & Rentals

Scary Movie 4
$45 Million Production Budget (plus additional advertising costs)
Worldwide Grosses = $178,262,620 ($90,710,620 domestic)
+ DVD sales & Rentals

Date Movie
$20 Million Production Budget (plus additional advertising costs
Worldwide Grosses = $84,665,325 ($48,548,426 domestic)
+ DVD sales & Rentals

[Patrick Shannon]

Thats what it come down to. They can make the movie on the cheap - fill it with semi unknown actors and more than quadruple their money. They will continue to make them until it no longer becomes profitable. (Hollywood considers a film to be a flop if it does not break even domestically) This genre still has legs - check out these recent box office numbers.

Yep, it's sad. I have to admit that I'm curious how well Epic Movie will do....pretty much everyone I've heard who has seen Date Movie has regretted it. That movie came with the tagline "From two of the six writers of Scary Movie," and they're using that tagline again for Epic. Seems like that line alone is the kiss of death for those movies.

I would not be shocked if the profits were significantly lower than Scary Movie 4 and Date Movie, those movies came out very close to one another and delivered a double bomb...and that has greatly turned off a lot of people, myself included. I loved the first two Scary Movies, but incidentally, those were from the Waynes Brothers.

[cmont]

Things that jerk my chain... when I am not allowed to take care of what is mine and instead someone else takes matters into their own hands and escalates a situation where it should never have gone, especially when I was trying to end it.

[morea]

aw, (((hugs)))

sorry cmont.

[cmont]

Thanx morea! Fortunately all is well now.

[budafist]

It's a public holiday today and all the shops are closed. I'm trying to buy a present for my sister's 21st birthday and I want to get something really nice, but nothing is open...Don't people know that people like to shop on holidays??!?

[Patrick Shannon]

But this movie will make money from the idiot crowds....of COURSE it will >:(

Fools and their money are easily parted >_<

http://movies.yahoo.com/mv/news/va/20070128/117002457800.html

[MD]

when omeone else takes matters into their own hands and escalates a situation where it should never have gone, especially when I was trying to end it ... Fortunately all is well now.
Good to hear - where did you bury the bodies :confused:

[biosensor]

ok i got to put this some where but im tired of ****ing coworkers that dont do shit.

i just feel like leaving for the day.

bunch of people rely on me to much to do there work and then when it aint good enough for them they complain.
go back to your simple shit i dont care.

im tired of these ****s...

[frankster]

ok i got to put this some where but im tired of ****ing coworkers that dont do shit.

Well if you stop ****ing them then maybe they can get some work done.;) It's very hard to work when someone is ****ing you, unless that's your job of course.

[biosensor]

that is true sorry about the expletives

[Kool]

Well if you stop ****ing them then maybe they can get some work done.;) It's very hard to work when someone is ****ing you, unless that's your job of course.

http://home.comcast.net/~rnick9/icon_rofl.gif

[Cyan_Ide]

Boy, did I have a great day at work today. I work here at school for the Career Services department as an in-house designer. I finally completed my 'indoor kiddie playland layout' and handed it in, along with several others. I call it this because the colour scheme is based on a REALLY ugly sign featuring primary blue, red, and yellow. I was told I needed to use them in equal amounts on the web page so it will jump out to the viewer. I could not alter the pre-existing layout to better distribute the colours or anything, so it just looks horrendous. Bear in mind this is where employers are going to sign up to post jobs, students are going to look up work, and professors are going to get information to inform their students on the various services. The layout now not only looks awful, but it also looks completely juvenile. But, what do I know? Those bright colours will attract attention and draw people in.

However, my jubilation over finishing that nightmare of a job was extremely short lived, as I was soon struck by the freight train....

I had no more than pressed the 'send' button than the head guy of the dept. walked up to me. He tells me I have to 'test and make sure this program works in Windows on my MacBook.' I knew that it would work...because it's an online thing and Windows is Windows, but not wanting to create a fuss, I rebooted, installed the .net Framework (shudder), and opened it just to prove it worked. He had a meeting with a student and told me to e-mail my thoughts.

Now, before I go on, I go to school at a laptop campus. The bulk of the student body gets HP's, but all of us art majors get Macs.

Basically, the problem they had, is that they purchased this software, and it only worked in Windows. They called the people at the interview software company up, because they were supposedly going to work on Mac integration, and their response appeared (from my limited knowledge of the background) to be 'Well, it's OK now, because your students have MacBooks, which means they have Windows.' Now, I could probably almost count the number of MacBook owners on campus who dual boot on my hands, but no one in the office has any understanding of how Boot Camp works. After hearing that statement the guy made, I stated in the e-mail that only a small portion of the Mac owners actually have dual boot running, and not only that, but that a Windows license is required, and there's a certain threshhold of technical skill involved due to all the partition work that needs to be done.

I thought that would suit to subside the Boot Camp questions, seeing as they usually listen to me on all computer-related issues, since the people in the office aren't very computer literate for the most part.

Boy was I wrong.

Quickly, the dept. head came out of the office and said 'Come into my office, we need to talk about your e-mail.' He asked me just what this 'technical skill' entailed and what exactly has to be done to get Windows running on students Macs. I told him that the technical stuff is a big logistics nightmare in and of itself, but the real issue is acquiring the copies of Windows. I believe we have about somewhere under but near 2000 students here at school with Macs. He looked at me and said, well if that's the only problem, I'll give [school tech guy] a call and see what we can do.

I was floored at this new, lofty proposal. Even if Microsoft gave us all the Windows we could ever need, rolling out Boot Camp to that many students is a completely unreal concept to me at this point, as I've done it a couple times and know what it entails. Not to mention that most of those students neither want nor need, nor probably have ever heard of Boot Camp. But no, we need to get Windows working so they can use their webcams and practice interviewing. We have 7 or 8 computers in the department all equipped with webcams for this very purpose, and they get used less than 1% of the time, but this whole thing is going to change that. My new task now at work is to explain to the dept. head and any other interested parties, in layman's terms, what one goes through to install Boot Camp, including explaining partitioning and firmware updates to the computer illiterate, so that we can assess whether we want to go with this new plan or not. My head is spinning....

[Exodus]

Uggghh! That sucks... Good luck with that! :(

[Red Kittie Kat]

...being so sick you can't get out of bed :(

[budafist]

Poor Kittie. Only one thing for it! Stay in bed and get someone to feed you elixers :)

[urstwile]

Do virtual elixirs help?

Feel better soon, Kat. :)

[Samakimoto Graphics]

*Pole* Cyan Ide... that is no mean feat.
*sorry*

[reuber1]

Nothing like having a tire blow out in the middle of nowhere at night when it's approximately 5 degrees F, not including windchill, which it was windy as hell considering I was on top of a hill on the bluff. Even better when the spot where you get to change tires is on a sheet of ice (which was snow, but due to the cold, is now rock hard). Even BETTER that a half hour later when you get the spare on and decide to drive it to a Tires Plus a few miles away, when the ****ing spare decides to explode as well. I think I wound up getting home about 10 o'clock last night. :mad: :mad:

I suppose it's my fault the regular tire was so worn, and one of my others is getting there, but I'll need to replace the spare. Of course, happens around tax return time, like clockwork. One of these years I'll be able to spend my return on something I want.

[Red Kittie Kat]

thank you Buda and Urst http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v54/RedKittieKat/smilies/4smooch.gif



Reuber that sucks :( http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v54/RedKittieKat/smilies/knuddel.gif

[Kool]

Hope you feel better soon Red. :)

[Red Kittie Kat]

Thank you Kool http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v54/RedKittieKat/smilies/mwah1.gif

[Cyan_Ide]

Hope you get better soon, Red Kittie Kat. On the plus side, you get to sleep, or when you're not sleeping, you can continually refresh the forums pages to be the first one to read the messages or replies.

[Virgo Nightingale]

Not much makes me as sad as a sick Kittie... Feel better soon hon!!!

[Red Kittie Kat]

lmao Cyan Ide :D ... I am doing better ;) I slept most of the day and night yesterday. I was up pretty early today :D

Thank you Virgo http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v54/RedKittieKat/smilies/hugs.gif

[MD]

I suppose it's my fault the regular tire was so worn, and one of my others is getting there, but I'll need to replace the spare. Of course, happens around tax return time, like clockwork. One of these years I'll be able to spend my return on something I want.

Check out http://www.tirerack.com/ and find a cheap local mechanic to install them for you. They will UPS them to your door or to the shop (which is kinda funny - they band them together and slap a mailing sticker on them). It will probably save you (depending on how cheap you can get them installed) a few hundred dollars.

[frankster]

Nothing like having a tire blow out in the middle of nowhere at night when it's approximately 5 degrees F, not including windchill, which it was windy as hell considering I was on top of a hill on the bluff. Even better when the spot where you get to change tires is on a sheet of ice (which was snow, but due to the cold, is now rock hard). Even BETTER that a half hour later when you get the spare on and decide to drive it to a Tires Plus a few miles away, when the ****ing spare decides to explode as well. I think I wound up getting home about 10 o'clock last night. :mad: :mad:

I suppose it's my fault the regular tire was so worn, and one of my others is getting there, but I'll need to replace the spare. Of course, happens around tax return time, like clockwork. One of these years I'll be able to spend my return on something I want.

We had a nail in our tire last week and the spare in the trunk didn't fit!?!? We had to get towed and the imbecile that towed the car put it in neutral and screwed the transmission we think, because it died the day after towing. AAARRRGGGG!!!

[Jackimalyn]

I went to the lunchroom to heatup my chinese from last night to eat for lunch. I was going to eat at my desk I had sooo much to do. Well this woman was in the lunchroom and while my food was in the microwave she started talking. and talking. and talking. About her daughter and her high school she wants to go to. Meanwhile my chinese is done and im creeping to the door while she's talking. Now we're 10 feet apart and shes still talking. Im standing there with my hot chinese food waiting for her to stop talking. There was no break in the conversation!! She even said "You better eat your food before it gets cold so she took the ACTs as a placement test to get into this high school..." man! I was standing there with scalding chinese food for 20 minutes (it was cold by the time I ate it)

The worst part is... she's perfectly nice. Shes very sweet! but I just want to smack her across the face.

[Neballer]

Next time, look her straight in the eye and tell her you have the runs. Then turn, and bolt out the door.

[reuber1]

Thanks for the link MD, but I already had it at T-Plus, as I need the car ready tomorrow. Oh well, for another day I suppose.

What blows is that my spare is gone too.

[reuber1]

Hee haw, there's only one region in Iowa that has it's road conditions listed as Completely Covered, and it is the path I get to drive in about five minutes. Way to go, ****tards.

[Exodus]

Wow. Today has been a killer. Tons and tons of work... I'm too tired to sigh. Haven't had a chance to be on here much today either... three pages of new posts. Too tired to give a credible critique on Showcase threads... meh. I'm going home. Hope all is well with the rest of you guys.

[MD]

Wow. This entire week has been so slow. Absolutely no work to be done around here. Looks like another full day of exciting poker games. (gpokr.com)

:)

[Exodus]

Bastid. Wan't some of my work? I'm swamped again today... Unfortunately though (for them) I've ran out of "give a shit."

[The_Black_Knight]

Exodus, every time I see your sig I can't help but think, "OW! OW! OW! OW!"

That doesn't really relate to anything, but I just thought I'd say it. We now return you to your regularly scheduled thread.

[Virgo Nightingale]

MD, I'll give ya some of my workload...

[Exodus]

Exodus, every time I see your sig I can't help but think, "OW! OW! OW! OW!"

That doesn't really relate to anything, but I just thought I'd say it. We now return you to your regularly scheduled thread.

Heh, Heh! That's the working end of the Throbbing Testicle Fairy... (the enforcer for N.A.N.K.A.™) :D

[reuber1]

Watching Exodus and BK post one after another makes me lol.

[Exodus]

TBK always triumps though! :p


Ni!

[The_Black_Knight]

I've had worse.

I'M INVINCIBLE!!!!

[reuber1]

TBK always triumps though!


Ni!
I've had worse.

I'M INVINCIBLE!!!!
lol

[morea]

nice set up, guys. LOL

[frankster]

I've had worse.

I'M INVINCIBLE!!!!

You're a loonie!

[The_Black_Knight]

You're a loonie!Had enough, eh?

Come back here! I'll bite your knees off!

[budafist]

New people that don't pull their weight........yet.

[Jackimalyn]

Im exhausted. Ive been working my arse off. I worked all weekend, Sat and Sun (Im salary, btw) and Ive been working 11 hour days. Blah! I guess I validate it by reminding myself I spent 3 solid months surfing the internet and GDF-ing this past fall. I miss you guys and the silliness that keeps me sane!

[Juggnoxalo]

Things that jerk my chain..

Teachers telling me they'll call the cops if they see me smoking in public. Even though I turned 18 last month, makes me laugh but gets annoying.

[Samakimoto Graphics]

Uh... Jugg', If you smoke within the school prisinct, you are subject to discipline within permited parametres... With all the talk about outlawing smoking in public (even over here), I'd just stay within the limits of the law if I were you... here you can get picked up by the local authorities for dropping a bus ticket stub on the pavement, trust me, you will part with more than just the 1.50 USD fine (throw in all the money you've got, your cell phone, jewellery...).

[reuber1]

Sama, I think he might have meant anywhere in public, just so long if a teacher happened to see him wherever he might be. That kind of thing doesn't suprise me.

My chain? Snow.

[Virgo Nightingale]

I knew a girl in high school who got kicked off the cheerleading squad because the teacher/coach saw her smoking a cigarette in a diner two towns away.

Speaking of chain-jerking... It's mid-February, and my upstairs neighbors haven't taken down their Christmas decorations yet. Their outdoor decorations. They got rid of the light-up Santa-in-a-sled that was in the middle of the front yard, but the icicle lights and the wreath are still up. Even I took down my Christmas tree weeks ago, and I've been known to keep it up until May.

[Neballer]

People who ask the question, "Why are people so stupid," or exclaim, "GOD! people are pancaking dumb!"

News flash for you honey - Everybody, everywhere does something stupid once in a while, nobody is perfect. Just because someone cut you off while they were on their cell phone doesn't mean the entire population is full of idiots. Own up to it, you've been that person before - and if you can't, you're the one who is ****ing stupid.

[budafist]

In NZ they hold music competition for youths called The Smokefree Rockquest as it is sponsored by a Smokefree charity/organisation. Needless to say, when our schools entry were caught smoking cigarettes backstage they were stripped of their prize and kicked out of the show.

I think it serves them right.

[Riya]

sigh... We are supposed to go to press on Thursday and I am still waiting on text.

[budafist]

Just received this in an email 2 seconds ago:

In order for us to add your firm's information, we require a file format that can be pasted into a Word document.

Could you supply either an image or a Microsoft Word version of your header please?

The other alternative we have is I could do a screenshot of the PDF you have supplied. The disadvantage of using that technique is that the quality would not be the same as that of an original file. Therefore, an image or a Word version would be best.


:eek: :eek:

[urstwile]

What's it for Buda?

[budafist]

Who knows, I sent them tiff and jpgs. They can embed them if they want to. I don't even have Word...

[urstwile]

Those should work, then. They might need them in RGB, by the way. That's usually how I save images that have to go into Word.

[TooTallVal80]

The fact that me and 2 other designers will be in the very front!

I and another designer and our new office manager took a trip to our new office. Grant we were curious and our boss said that he will be there at 10:30.
Well inside our boss told the other designer and I that we will be in the very front. And where the 3rd designer will be! So when a customer enters we will be really antsy. Meanwhile our sorry salesperson will be in the next room but in the back. We both complained that we should be in the back because us designers need a lot of concetration! And that the salesperson should be in the front.

Man I have got to put out my resumes ASAP!! Because this is insane!

[urstwile]

Ewww, that sounds not only yucky, but also very poorly planned, TooTall. :(

[budafist]

That is very poorly planned. Us 2 designers have our own room. All the sales share the main room. As it should be. Though sometimes I wish I could just close our office door. Our walls are glass so other people can see in, but too many interuptions as it is...

[Samakimoto Graphics]

We all get uniform spaces within the open plan space, all our cubicles are identical, I got the movers to turn my desk so I face the window - less distruction that way. Only the boss gets a funky glassed in cubie...I don't mind it.

[reuber1]

E-mail messages from co-workers that are flagged as 'Very Important'. If it's very important, pick up your phone, get on IM, or get off your ass and talk to me in person.

[Virgo Nightingale]

I love clients who label each and every email they send you "very important" even if it's not important at all.

[TooTallVal80]

urstwile, budafist & Samakimoto Graphics: Yes it is poorly planned! Not even first asking me and other 2 designers of where we should sit! See when my boss, the printer and the cutter went to check out the place, the salesperson was to go somewhere. Instead he was nosey and ended up checking the place out, beating us to it! But no matter! The boss should have put his foot down!!

I'm tellng you; I will miss my office: nice and way in the back! And the other designer will miss her office which is also way in the back.

[Riya]

Don't say anything, just start moving all of your stuff to the back where you think it should be. If the sales guys starts to try and move in, ask him why he's putting his stuff in your office. If he's already got stuff back there, come in late at night and move it up front. Claim you know nothing about it when he asks how it got there. If he says that his office is supposed to be in the back, feign ignorance and say "that's not what I was told."

[urstwile]

^^^ heehee. :D

[budafist]

Don't say anything, just start moving all of your stuff to the back where you think it should be. If the sales guys starts to try and move in, ask him why he's putting his stuff in your office. If he's already got stuff back there, come in late at night and move it up front. Claim you know nothing about it when he asks how it got there. If he says that his office is supposed to be in the back, feign ignorance and say "that's not what I was told."

This could work particularly well if others were on your side too!

[TooTallVal80]

Riya, urstwile, & budafist: the look on the salesperson's face would be priceless!!! I can't wait to tell my co-worker designers about this, lol!!!

[budafist]

Good luck! I hope it works well for you TTV!

[Riya]

I'm looking forward to hearing about the results.

[TooTallVal80]

***sigh***
Thanks guys!

[TooTallVal80]

The fact the market planners change products whenever they see fit!!

I go to Walmart ready to get another pack of my Oil of Olay Sensitive Skin Bar Soap. Well I find out about 2 months later that they completely changed there products! So I have call the 800 number and see if any of those different named soap took the place of the Sentive Skin. That was the only soap that did not dry my skin. Right now I'm using Caress and man no matter how much oil I put on I'm still itching! Can't wait for this cold weather to end!!

[urstwile]

Well, TooTall, I could relate to your office relocation woes, but I'm sorry, I pretty much use off the shelf products when it comes to skincare. :o

Back off Mynock and MD. :D

[budafist]

I try and use the ones where I can recognise the ingredients on the label. If the ingredients have more than 15 letters, then I'll give it a miss.

[Virgo Nightingale]

I have very sensitive skin and buy most of my skin and hair products at Whole Foods Market. I'm allergic to fragrances, so just about everything in the regular supermarkets and drug stores is a no-no for me. There are some Oil-of-Olay, Neutrogena and Aveeno products I can use, but I always have to triple check the ingredient labels. Many times a product can say it's fragrance free when they really mean 'detectable odor' free - they still add what's called "masking fragrance" to cover up whatever other unnatural chemical they added that smells like sewage.

[reuber1]

I got a sunburn two weeks ago. How's that for fair skin?

[Mynock]

Well, TooTall, I could relate to your office relocation woes, but I'm sorry, I pretty much use off the shelf products when it comes to skincare. :o

Back off Mynock and MD. :DWhat is this in regards to?

[Gromit801]

Pressmen who insist on doing things only one way, although other options are avaliable. Wasted plates. Wasted time.

[budafist]

Went to a concert last night: Picture this: A huge woman next to me - I mean about 3 times as wide as me, big hair in a ponytail, sunglasses on in a dark room. I'm standing next to her and her dancing style is thrashing her body about wildly flicking her hair and moisture at all the people around her.

She is dripping with sweat and so is her hair. By the time I decided (5 minutes later) I had enough of that hell, I was saturated on my whole right side of my body from her.

Gross!!!!

[Derfie]

We have new guy that started at work a few weeks ago, and he is constantly sucking snott back up his nose, very loudly all day long. And when he does feel the need to blow his nose, it's SOOOOO loud, you can hear it in the back of the office. It is SOOOO gross.

[budafist]

Ewww. You should throw tissues at him.

Don't you just love clients that print things off on their own printer at "fit to page" and then call you up demanding to know why you made their design so big or small?

[reuber1]

We have new guy that started at work a few weeks ago, and he is constantly sucking snott back up his nose, very loudly all day long. And when he does feel the need to blow his nose, it's SOOOOO loud, you can hear it in the back of the office. It is SOOOO gross.
Oooo, we have a guy like that too. Except instead of back at the office, I sit right next to him. HOORAY!!!

[urstwile]

What is this in regards to?
The Oil of Olay post.

[Virgo Nightingale]

I hate when, during the busiest season you have, a client continues to throw projects at you and at the third round of changes for one of her brochures she emails me "Oh, by the way, this brochure needs to be 16"x9.5" not 14"x11" like I'd originally said." Well, gee, thanks.

[Gromit801]

My biggest peeve:

Customers that just can NOT get it htrough their thick heads that web graphics and print graphics AREN'T THE SAME BLOODY THING!

They come in with some lame 72dpi graphic they got off the web, and expect me to do something with it so it looks nice in print!

OVER AND OVER AND OVER

[Gromit801]

I hate when, during the busiest season you have, a client continues to throw projects at you and at the third round of changes for one of her brochures she emails me "Oh, by the way, this brochure needs to be 16"x9.5" not 14"x11" like I'd originally said." Well, gee, thanks.

And that's when you say, "By the way, my fee will be $400 and not $200 like I'd originally said." Fill in the correct prices and increase for a complete layout change.

[budafist]

My biggest peeve:

Customers that just can NOT get it htrough their thick heads that web graphics and print graphics AREN'T THE SAME BLOODY THING!

They come in with some lame 72dpi graphic they got off the web, and expect me to do something with it so it looks nice in print!

OVER AND OVER AND OVER

Tell me about it! Not to mention the web graphic someone supplied to us embedded in a spreadsheet!

[Virgo Nightingale]

Having to do more than three things at once, and they all have a deadline of now or yesterday.

[budafist]

Virgo, Just tell them it's impossible and that they have a great imagination, but we live in the REAL WORLD!

[TooTallVal80]

Tell me about it! Not to mention the web graphic someone supplied to us embedded in a spreadsheet!
Spreadsheet? Mercy!

The fact now that I and another designer will be helping our boss and salesman with the website! Mercy! And using some tacky Microsoft Program? Don't ask!

And the fact that the salesman was pushing me to do these banners and uploading certain pictures to the site. And having the nerve to tell me not deleted the words because "I spent a lot of time on it"? Excuse me...with an hour of teaching from my boss, tough!! People make mistakes. Don't push it!!
I swear!!! The gull!!

[The_Black_Knight]

Only getting three hours of sleep. This because after looking at the due date for one of my school projects, I realized I don't have until Sunday night to finish (like every other project this quarter), I have until TONIGHT. So I'll be up past midnight again tonight.

Ugh.

[Jackimalyn]

:( sorry PD. been there.

[Gromit801]

Tell me about it! Not to mention the web graphic someone supplied to us embedded in a spreadsheet!

Bells going off here! We have a client that sends us stuff they want posters made from, and it's always a bleedin' Excel file, complete with embedded graphics.

Someone please take Excel, Word, and Publisher AWAY from these people!

[Mynock]

The Oil of Olay post.So it was a strike first strategy?

[Jackimalyn]

Someone please take Excel, Word, and Publisher AWAY from these people!

But how will they send us logos if they dont have excel? or business cards if they dont have publisher? or novels if they dont have word???? :mad:

[Virgo Nightingale]

We just had a guy from a local bank/credit union bring in pdfs of two trifold brochures he wanted us to print in house for him. The text was literally touching the edges of the page, all the images were low res and then upscaled (not to mention just plopped on there with no regard to where they might actually look good), there were no margins between the columns, and we wouldn't have been able to fix any of it for him even if we wanted to since it was all a flattened raster image. If you want people to take your bank seriously, please dig into the vault of cash you have onsite and hire a designer.

[Jackimalyn]

^^ ouch thats a bad one.

[reuber1]

So right now I'm doing print design/printing/web design/tech support all simultaneously. Recently had an order for gift cards that I had to print for someone, it was a reorder so we have a design on file, but they had to have a bunch of changes on it, and the changes spanned across multiple e-mails. Well, the day I had to make the changes, I had to log in and take support calls, and I was on a couple that spanned over 20 minutes...well, guess who lost track of what he was doing? I had become so involved with the support calls I was on that I missed making a few changes and wound up printing the job anyway because I was behind schedule as it was with the calls, but now I get an angry e-mail back from the store who ordered them and it turns out that there's quite a few mistakes.

Now I have to reprint the ****er. I realize it's my mistake, but I'm doing way too much goddamn multitasking here that mistakes shouldn't be a ****ing suprise. Especially for $10.50/hour. How the hell am I supposed to balance all of that shit. Jesus christ.

[frankster]

Sweet well meaning freinds who aren't in the GD business yet know I'm looking for a job asap keep sending me these ridiculous emails about jobs that a)are spec work or b) are asking for "expert" levels in every package under the sun plus extensive experience and management skills, yet are offerring minimum wage!?!? I don't think they are even reading what they are sending me. It's lovely that they care, but my inbox is full of what is esentially spam from mates that I have to reply to saying thank you.

Reuber, join the job search with me! Yours sounds sucktastic.

[reuber1]

Reuber, join the job search with me! Yours sounds sucktastic.
I've been in that routine for a while. :/

[Annie Social]

I just got another one from my least favorite client. They always send a crappy jpg file, 8 x 12 inches at 300 dpi, with massive jpg compression artifacts, and want it made into a 9 x 15 foot mural. Every time they do this, I explain that I need a file 180 inches wide at a minimum of 150 dpi, and preferable not a jpg. So what do they do? Someone at their office opens it in Photoshop and sizes it up and saves it as a tiff. And it's still the wrong aspect ratio...

[Virgo Nightingale]

The guy who inspired this (http://www.graphicdesignforum.com/forum/showpost.php?p=355728&postcount=2960) called a little while ago. His bank is expanding, and he wanted to know about what software is best for creating their newsletters. He mentions that he has Quark and PrintShop Deluxe. I tell him Quark will be fine, but Photoshop was best for editing images, perhaps Illustrator if he'd be dealing with vector logos. He goes, "Is there a free version of Photoshop?"

:eek:

[Gromit801]

I just got another one from my least favorite client. They always send a crappy jpg file, 8 x 12 inches at 300 dpi, with massive jpg compression artifacts, and want it made into a 9 x 15 foot mural. Every time they do this, I explain that I need a file 180 inches wide at a minimum of 150 dpi, and preferable not a jpg. So what do they do? Someone at their office opens it in Photoshop and sizes it up and saves it as a tiff. And it's still the wrong aspect ratio...

That's usually the point when I ask the customer to bring me the original camera image, untouched by untrained monkeys.

[Annie Social]

That's usually the point when I ask the customer to bring me the original camera image, untouched by untrained monkeys.
Of course it is always mysteriously unavailable... and I've lost track of how many times I've been asked, "Isn't there some software you can use to blow it up?"

[Gromit801]

Of course it is always mysteriously unavailable... and I've lost track of how many times I've been asked, "Isn't there some software you can use to blow it up?"

Yes there is, but it's not software, it's hardware. It's called an M1 Abrams.

Or I tell people, I use Adobe CS2, not Adobe CSI.

[Jackimalyn]

Customer: Do you have an installation manual you can send me?

me: Actually we have them all available on our website.

Customer: My internet isn't working. Can you just email them to me?

me: . . .

[MD]

That reminds me of this classic conversation...

"Word Perfect Technical support; may I help you?"

"Yes, well, I'm having trouble with WordPerfect."

"What sort of trouble?"

"Well, I was just typing along, and all of a sudden the words went away."

"Went away?"

"They disappeared."

"Hmm. So what does your screen look like now?"

"Nothing."

"Nothing?"

"It's blank; it won't accept anything when I type."

"Are you still in WordPerfect, or did you get out?"

"How do I tell?"

"Can you see the C:\ prompt on the screen?"

"What's a sea-prompt?"

"Never mind. Can you move the cursor around on the screen?"

"There isn't any cursor: I told you, it won't accept anything I type."

"Does your monitor have a power indicator?"

"What's a monitor?"

"It's the thing with the screen on it that looks like a TV. Does it have a little light that tells you when it's on?"

"I don't know."

"Well, then look on the back of the monitor and find where the power cord goes into it. Can you see that?"

....."Yes, I think so."

"Great! Follow the cord to the plug, and tell me if it's plugged into the wall."

....."Yes, it is."

"When you were behind the monitor, did you notice that there were two cables plugged into the back of it, not just one?"

"No."

"Well, there are. I need you to look back there again and find the other cable."

....."Okay, here it is."

"Follow it for me, and tell me if it's plugged securely into the back of your computer."

"I can't reach it."

"Uh huh. Well, can you see if it is?"

"No."

"Even if you maybe put your knee on something and lean way over?"

"Oh, it's not because I don't have the right angle-it's because it's dark."

"Dark?"

"Yes-the office light is off, and the only light I have is coming in from the window."

"Well, turn on the office light then."

"I can't."

"No? Why not?"

"Because there's a power outage."

"A power... A power outage? Aha! Okay, we've got it licked now. Do you still have the boxes and manuals and packing stuff your computer came in?"

"Well, yes. I keep them in the closet."

"Good! Go get them and unplug your system and pack it up just like it was when you got it. Then take it back to the store you bought it from."

"Really! Is it that bad?"

"Yes, I'm afraid it is."

"Well, all right then, I suppose. What do I tell them?"

"Tell them you're too stupid to own a computer."

[Red Kittie Kat]

A classic MD :D

[Jackimalyn]

yea, Ive heard that one before, lol

[urstwile]

For some reason, MD's post reminded me of this:

Introducing the Book (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xFAWR6hzZek)

[Samy the owl]

This guy who sits next to me at work chomps on his chewing gum like a cow gone mad! grr...and he chomps all day too.. evryday...evry %@%# day!!!!

[MD]

at least his breath smells nice.

[Red Kittie Kat]

.... having a sinus headache that just won't quit

*sigh*

[Botchup]

Customers that ALWAYS make changes to their own documents they send you. And when they list said changes, they make it sound like it's my fault.
(e.g. The phone number should be xxx NOT XXXXX, etc.)
Frickin' idjits.

Customers that come back to us and ask for their logo in vector format.
Because they whinged and whined on original artwork price, we used a suitable jpeg/bitmap file of their logo for said small job (ie. business card, etc.)
They then expect this to be done for free, because we've already charged them an artwork fee for creating said business card.

Customers that never remember what version/formats of files to send us. I manage to send the right versions back to about 10 clients, why can't they?

Ugh!

I wanted to type stuff about things that drivers do to irk me, but I don't want to rial up this friendly forum!

[Virgo Nightingale]

^^Similar, I hate when customers don't have their copy written, checked and finalized before they send it to me and I design something that fits what they sent. Then they go, well, we've re-written this entire section, eliminated this part, and we're adding a few paragraphs here. Do these people realize it's a waste of my time to have me lay out crap that I'll have to lay out again possibly from scratch next week? Finalize your copy, THEN give it to me. You'll save money and you won't waste my time.

I also love when they ask me to send them things I've already sent them. I sent you this pdf proof two weeks ago. Why wouldn't you keep it just for your own records?

I especially love clients who are not computer literate and I have to walk them through things like how to save an attachment to their hard drive. "Well where do I put the file?" I don't know how you organize your crap, you figure it out.

[budafist]

^^Similar, I hate when customers don't have their copy written, checked and finalized before they send it to me and I design something that fits what they sent. Then they go, well, we've re-written this entire section, eliminated this part, and we're adding a few paragraphs here. Do these people realize it's a waste of my time to have me lay out crap that I'll have to lay out again possibly from scratch next week? Finalize your copy, THEN give it to me. You'll save money and you won't waste my time.

I also love when they ask me to send them things I've already sent them. I sent you this pdf proof two weeks ago. Why wouldn't you keep it just for your own records?

I especially love clients who are not computer literate and I have to walk them through things like how to save an attachment to their hard drive. "Well where do I put the file?" I don't know how you organize your crap, you figure it out.

I totally agree. I've got this one catalogue that needs to be signed off the same day that all the text and images are emailed to me. When I send the proof to the client to check they come back to me with copy changes. Frickin hell! I'm not here to do typo changes ok!?! We're on a deadline here. Give me a break. It's ok, I send scathing emails so they're slowly learning. Or so I hope.

We also have a print broker that sends me print ready pdfs. Then they call and ask for pdf proofs. So I just forward back the email they sent to me. Then a day later they will say "ok to print". WTF???

[budafist]

OK, I work with males. Just now they were handing something around the office and cracking up laughing at it. Normally they'd show funny things to me, but it's either sexist or racist I figure, because they turn it face down when I come to talk to them...

I don't think it's something specifically aimed at me, just at women in general methinks...damn printers!

[Hub]

They'd find themselves looking for new jobs where I work! We don't tollerate that kind of behavior. You can even be terminated if the IT department does an audit on your hard-drive and finds anything offensive. Just happend to a guy with over 40 years at the company!

[budafist]

The guys handing around include the 2 directors of the company. They wont be looking for new jobs.

[Exodus]

Jackasses that do not pay attention when they drive.

Yesterday, my wife and I stopped for an ambulance going through the intersection. A Toyota Tacoma barely stops behind us and a Chevy Avalanche SLAMS into the Tacoma and pushes it into my VW Passat...

We were on our way to get my wife's car out of the body shop... Talk about irony. :rolleyes: Now I have to wait for the police report (Approx. 5 buisness days...), deal with the guy in the Chevy's insurance and then wait for my car to get fixed in the body shop. :mad:

[morea]

eew! Was anybody hurt? :eek:

[Virgo Nightingale]

Ex, that sucks! Sounds like no one was hurt, so that's good. Let's just hope Mr. Chevy Avalanche doesn't turn into a pain in the arse.

[Exodus]

No. Nobody hurt... just the ego of the guy driving the Chevy. My back and neck are a little sore today. I've called my chiropractor... I have an appointment at noon. Julie, (my wife) said she feels a little sore in her neck as well. I believe she has set an appointment for tomorrow.

[budafist]

When clients give you a portrait image for their landscape ad.

I do a property mailout that needs landscape images. Unfortunately 30 floor apartments don't photograph well as landscape images!

[budafist]

Just got an email from a client.
Attached to his email is a pdf.
He wants me to print out that pdf and fax it to him.

[Virgo Nightingale]

^^^ :eek: :eek: :eek:

That guy better have a good explanation for that one...

[TooTallVal80]

Well our printer guy left Friday. And guess who's taking care of production!!! Me!!! How exciting!! **sarcasm** Ok it's a good learning experience. But the fact that my boss is not hiring another printer right away is terrible. The real estate market has been really slow. And he’s been concentrating on web sites. Yeah..web sites. And this is a printing company?? And the fact that I have to juggle with my designing and doing the printing. Thank goodness my boss and I are taking turns. Another advantage: I'm getting more money. So I told my boss after 3 months I will let him know if I should continue with this. Most likely after that I will be burnt out doing printing and designing. And I hope he will find somebody in the meantime. I have apologize to customers letting them know of my “promotion”. Thus the reasoning of my delay in sending them proofs of their orders. And telling our office manager to take messages for me so I can catch up!! Aye!!

Just when I was about to shoot out my resumes!!

[budafist]

Just got an email from a client.
Attached to his email is a pdf.
He wants me to print out that pdf and fax it to him.

Different job, same client, same requirement. I'm thinking maybe his printer has broken down so he's using the fax as a printer? That's the only logical explanation I can see.

[budafist]

Is a congratulations in order or not TooTall?

[TooTallVal80]

Is a congratulations in order or not TooTall?
lol...some of my customers and some of my friends have said that. I guess you can say that. After much thinking and input it's a step up the ladder. Definately not something I want to do full-time! And something to show on my resume. :)

[budafist]

Well congrats TooTall and now off you go out of this thread. This thread is for whingers only :D

[TooTallVal80]

LOL!!

**I don't feel special!**

**sigh**

[SpugNothuson]

*Ring, Ring... Ring, Ring*

Me: Good Morning M(censored) Printers, how can I help?

Customer: Hi there, yes I've just sent you a PDF of a job that I need printing. It's A4 printed both sides in full colour. I need 250,000 of them.

Me: OK Sir, when do you need this delivering and would you like a hard copy proof?

Customer: Can I have it by the end of the week? A PDF proof will be fine.

Me: !?! TODAY IS WEDNESDAY! I TELL YOU WHAT... SIR, LOOK AT YOUR OWN PDF AS I REALLY CAN'T BE BOTHERED TO SEND THE SAME DAMN THING YOU JUST SENT ME BACK TO YOU, THAT'D BE A POINTLESS WASTE OF MY TIME! YOU CAN FORGET HAVING IT BY THE END OF THE WEEK AS WELL YOU STUPID PANCAKE!

Me: (What I acually say) I'll get our Production Scheduler to give you a call about delivery and whilst that is happening I'll make you a PDF proof Sir, thank you for your time.

*CLICK*

PANCAKE! PANCAKE! PANCAKE! WHY ME?

[Kool]

Well our printer guy left Friday. And guess who's taking care of production!!! Me!!! How exciting!! **sarcasm** Ok it's a good learning experience. But the fact that my boss is not hiring another printer right away is terrible. The real estate market has been really slow. And he’s been concentrating on web sites. Yeah..web sites. And this is a printing company?? And the fact that I have to juggle with my designing and doing the printing. Thank goodness my boss and I are taking turns. Another advantage: I'm getting more money. So I told my boss after 3 months I will let him know if I should continue with this. Most likely after that I will be burnt out doing printing and designing. And I hope he will find somebody in the meantime. I have apologize to customers letting them know of my “promotion”. Thus the reasoning of my delay in sending them proofs of their orders. And telling our office manager to take messages for me so I can catch up!! Aye!!

Just when I was about to shoot out my resumes!!

Val, are you talking about a digital printer? Or do they have you out in the shop mixing ink and firing up the AB Dick?

[Samy the owl]

worked my a$$ off on a rebranding project...did the stationery design...image selection...all the media research...and when the time came to send a report of who worked on the project...boss conveniently left my name out!!!!!

but he ofcourse mentioned the guy who worked on it for 2 days and left for paternity leave...while i finished his work!!

well, they both come from the same country so i guess that's ok... grrrrrr

i'm almost wanting to resign.

[budafist]

You should demand an apology and a separate addition to the report with your efforts established on it.