Things that jerk my chain... [Archive] - Page 15

frankster

08-07-2007, 12:16 AM

If she doesn't know the difference between afternoon and morning then she'll learn when she finds you out to lunch and if she knows the difference between morning and afternoon, but can't be arsed to let you know she's running late, then she deserves to be punished, which she will be, when she finds that you are out to lunch. Go eat Buda!

Incidentally, this should cheer you up (http://paper.sanwasupply.co.jp/craft/dollhouse/index.html)(if you're still wanting paper models). I built a couple for my two year old last night and she's had no end of fun with them!

budafist

08-07-2007, 01:19 AM

The client arrived when I walked out the front door. It looked like I was standing there to greet her. At least she didn't stay more than half an hour and I got my lunch now so I am much happier!

Those paper models are cool Frankster. When I went to visit my grandfather's ashes site in Hong Kong, they have rooms and rooms of these cabinets set into walls where family members come to visit ashes. Each the the cabinets (1 foot x 1 foot) are decorated like a room full of mini things that that person liked in living. Those models remind me of those.

Jackimalyn

08-07-2007, 05:18 PM

Yup. Been at work for 4.5 hours... walkin around talkin to people, whatever. Just realized my shirts been inside out all day.

Anyone else having a rough morning?

Typically

08-07-2007, 05:24 PM

hahaha i walked into work and around for about 10 mins with my fly down today =]

frankster

08-07-2007, 05:29 PM

First thing in my inbox this morning is an email from a pro bono job that was done over a month ago for a cause that I really support. The group I did it for "needed to be done in a rush to go to print asap". The email is roughly along the lines of "Hi, only just getting to this now, but can you send it to us as a word document, so we can move things around to make room for another logo to go in there"

NO MORE SOUP FOR YOU!

frankster

08-07-2007, 05:36 PM

hahaha i walked into work and around for about 10 mins with my fly down today =]

I love it when blokes don't know thier flies are down and you can just smile at them, look down at thier crotch briefly and then wink at them. It usually takes them a couple of confused seconds to register that you're not coming on to them in a ridiculously brazen way and then they notice the flies and get I'd estimate an extra 200% more embarrassed than if you'd just told them.

Typically

08-07-2007, 05:55 PM

hahaha.... wow i can actually feel her stare.... oh wait my flys down!

yea i'm just lucky i was wear boxers today =]

Jackimalyn

08-07-2007, 06:34 PM

I dont know, i walked around with a tag on my side all morning. im not embaressed, i would be if an announcement went out or something though.

reuber1

08-07-2007, 07:41 PM

Back when I worked at Target, one day when I was stocking some shelves there was a very attractive young lady who came up to me and asked me a question about where something was, and after I told her she said thanks, then turned around, and I couldn't help but notice (by "couldn't help", I mean I "was staring directly at") a large sticker on the buttside of her pants, specifically on the right cheek area (a minor detail I happened to remember). I went ahead and told her about it in about as much as a way as I could without sounding like a complete perv, but I think I failed anyway as she turned around and said nothing and took it off herself. I mean, c'mon, I was just trying to help! I wisely (or unwisely) opted not to grab it off my own self.

Virgo Nightingale

08-07-2007, 08:11 PM

I can't tell you how many times I've worn a new pair of jeans and forgotten to take off that long sticker that goes down the leg so you can see what size the pair is when it's folded and on the shelf. And no one has ever mentioned it to me. I always figure it out when I'm taking them off. Thanks, people.

carter the artist

08-07-2007, 08:20 PM

I did that yesterday... I bought some new jeans last thursday (the day before I found out i'd be laid off, mind you) and yesterday my boss said," new jeans?" i said yeah, then he said they must be with the sticker running down my back leg...

budafist

08-07-2007, 10:36 PM

There was a fad in the 90's where asian business men would keep the tags on their suits. Sign of coolness or wealth or something.

Typically

08-08-2007, 12:48 PM

There was a fad in the 90's where asian business men would keep the tags on their suits. Sign of coolness or wealth or something.

or so they could wear them and then return them???

frankster

08-08-2007, 03:34 PM

Maybe it was to say, "see, I can wear a new suit every day! I don't even launder them. I'm so well off that I just throw them away when I've worn them once". Weird.

Two-Toe Tom

08-08-2007, 03:37 PM

would it be in fashion if the 50% off tag was still on it?

frankster

08-08-2007, 08:25 PM

ARRRG!!!!! Not the transmission again!!!!! RARRRRRR!!!!! FRANKSMASH!!!!!

bejamshi

08-13-2007, 02:32 AM

people who want discounts all the time

budafist

08-13-2007, 04:40 AM

Bejamshi, people will always try. Be firm!

Jackimalyn

08-13-2007, 06:32 PM

AGGGH! Sorry this is so long but I didnt feel my rant deserved a whole thread, so read on if you'd like.

So. In May, I had my first review. I asked for a larger raise than they were offering me. The VP (my boss) said he’d give me the initial raise they proposed and then he’d talk to the Prez about more. A few days later I went to him “so… what’d the prez say?”

“uh, I don’t know, you should write a report about why you deserve more.” Fine. Did it that night gave it to the VP the next day. A few days later, I ask “so what’d the prez say?”

“uh, we don’t know yet… blah blah blah” so I said screw it. Went to the prez’s office and asked what was going on.

“Oh, the VP didn’t really talk to me. I’ll talk to him and let you know.” A few days later, I asked the VP, whats going on? “uh, we have to have HR research median salaries for your job.” A few days later I asked what’s going on? And they still didn’t have an answer. Its Aug now and as far as I’m concerned, my raise is still pending.

So… two weeks ago word got around that I wasn’t happy and I heard through the grapevine that I was going to get a new boss and be reporting to the head of sales instead of the VP (Because he was the reason Im so unhappy here) Well head of sales told me that she’s my boss in effect in a week and that the VP and prez would talk to me about it. Prez said he didn’t have time and he’d talk to me last Friday… and didn’t. Then said hed talk to me today… and didn’t.

That was a week ago. Now, I don’t know who my boss is, who I report to or who I take orders from. Why am I the only one who doesn’t know what’s going on with my job??

So, I’m officially looking for work again. Now all I need to know is what is my “reason for leaving current job?” I don’t know, they refuse to communicate? They’re jerks? They’re too big of cowards to tell me I can’t have a raise? They’re afraid of confrontation? They’re a bunch of a-holes? Their lack of communication is not only the reason they are loosing me but also why the internal structure of the company is falling apart? AAGGGHHH!

bejamshi

08-13-2007, 06:41 PM

Now you know why for 11 years i had enough of abuse, for 4 years no raise, same treatment as if I am a slave there, they made ton of money with my art and i barely survived.

Move out start your own business if you can, or go somewhere where they can appreciate you , oh i hate having a boss and i hate to take orders.
sucks to be employed

Mynock

08-13-2007, 06:43 PM

^ :)

Jackimalyn

08-13-2007, 06:44 PM

lol, sucks to be employed. Reminds me of... "my job would be so much easier without these 'clients'"

Seriously, what do I tell potential employers? I cant tell that whole story. I try to refrain from swearing in initial interviews.

bejamshi

08-13-2007, 06:55 PM

I think us designers are the most abused in the world of proffesions.
We need a bitching club.

Typically

08-13-2007, 06:58 PM

you could say that the company was disorganized and you didn't like working in those conditions

Jackimalyn

08-13-2007, 06:58 PM

We need a bitching club.

we should get discounts at liquor stores.

Jackimalyn

08-13-2007, 06:59 PM

typically, thanks that sounds good. I couldnt think of anything with out the word b@stards in it. Glad you guys are here to bounce ideas off :)

bejamshi

08-13-2007, 07:03 PM

how many years were you there? You can say you wanted a more challenging job. or you can say you could tell who all the cheap bastards were with your eyes close.
:P

Am I being rude, oh I feel so much better.
:P

Cyan_Ide

08-13-2007, 07:05 PM

Reason for Leaving: Ask my boss ...Oh, wait..... you'll have to figure out which one first.

Typically

08-13-2007, 07:05 PM

no prob... my roommate just quit his job today because the company he was working for didn't have license to run low voltage wire. he install security systems. so if he got hurt or messed something up on the job he would be SOL and the company wouldn't be responsible. he didn't go about quiting the way i would have he just went there this morning and dropped off all the stuff they gave him and went home and emailed them that he was quiting! haha he was only at the job for about a month anyway but still a crappy way to quit. oh and he was the only person that really knew how to install systems in the company and they were in the middle of an install!

Jackimalyn

08-13-2007, 07:12 PM

thanks guys :) Nah, Ive been here like a year and a half now. It was supposed to be an entry level job but the responsibilities are piling up and the money is not. I dont mind paying my dues, but I already did my 3 years as a print shop bi*ch and got paid like crap. Im sick of getting walked on.

frankster

08-14-2007, 09:45 PM

RAAARRRR!!! FRANKSMASH!!!!

We needed to hire a rental car and wanted the cheapest thing possible. Went to the local enterprise and got a shock at the cost, because they didn't have any economy ones left, asked if they had any at the other enterprise less than half a mile down the road and the enterprise we were in said "oh, no they don't have any either". Come back to look online and find that after we signed the contract for the hire, oh yes they did have them half a mile down the road and at HALF THE PRICE!!! How can an international car hire company charge double the rates for the same thing within a half mile area!?!?! What the hell?!

budafist

08-14-2007, 11:50 PM

Because there are heartless people out there looking to make some money.

I watched a programme last night that researched mobile stores that drive around poor neighborhoods "selling" everyday items to the poor. They give the products to them on credit so eat now, pay later.

3 cans of spaghetti (yuck) costs less than $2 at the supermarket but these mobile stores were charging $12 for the same thing. They are ripping off people that are too poor to buy food! I guess educating the poor is the main thing. I always shop around when making a big purchase but little purchases people should know how much things cost normally and pay accordingly. Apparently the law can't do anything because if people agree to pay $12 for 3 tins of spaghetti, then that's their problem.

These poor people should really be going to food banks. There is all the tinned spaghetti you can can eat for free there!

frankster

08-15-2007, 12:02 AM

but it was the same company Buda! It's not like you go to a safeway and pay $1 for a store's own brand product and then at another safeway half a mile away they charge you $2 for the same item!?!

budafist

08-15-2007, 12:07 AM

Maybe it's a franchise. Same company but still competition.

urstwile

08-15-2007, 12:24 AM

I would definitely complain Frankster, that's just wrong.

A while back, we rented a car, they promised us an economy, when we got to the place it turns out they'd been wrong about the availability of the economy, so they rented us a mini-SUV (what they had available) at the same price that they were going to charge us for the economy. Sometimes the squeaky wheel thing really does work.

08-15-2007, 06:23 PM

How can an international car hire company charge double the rates for the same thing within a half mile area!?!?! What the hell?!

A lot of the big corporations have pricing tiers depending on location / region. For example: I live in between two Blockbuster video stores, each one is about a 5 minute drive away they are both on the same street. The only difference is competition. I save about a buck per movie/game if I rent from the store near a Hollywood Video vs the one that has no competition.

frankster

08-15-2007, 06:30 PM

Looks like that might be the case here then MD. I'm just shocked that they can alter prices within the company that wildly. I didn't expect it at all because I've never encountered it in the UK. I expect prices to vary across the US, but not within a half mile! BASTARDOS!

Jackimalyn

08-22-2007, 04:37 PM

Well I was up all night because of a storm and Ive had a headache for the past week and a halp because my heads a living berometer. The weather has been crazy here! But today I've been in a good mood despite it all because the sun's out for the first time in a week.

Then my weather channel icon just told me theres a flash flood warning tonight. blah. Guess I cant complain, how all you gulf dwellers comin? Looks like Dean's approachin the US :(

carter the artist

08-22-2007, 06:52 PM

The fact that dafont's fonts started crashing illy and inDesign!
and that the combo to "close window" and "export pdf" is right next to each other.

yeah, those things have wasted an hour today (mostly the first one.)

reuber1

08-22-2007, 07:19 PM

Well I was up all night because of a storm and Ive had a headache for the past week and a halp because my heads a liv...
You too, huh? I've been dragging all day.

All I want is one night of uninterrupted sleep.

Two-Toe Tom

08-23-2007, 03:57 PM

routers that break and need replacing. grrr...

Typically

08-27-2007, 02:48 PM

bought a banana nut muffin today from 711 open it up and its frickin moldy! the sell by date is 8/23 what the hell. i'm so hungry and lunch isn't for another 2 hours grrrrrr

Logo-Mechanix

08-27-2007, 02:50 PM

Had that happen with a coffee cake once, bastids.

Virgo Nightingale

08-27-2007, 03:12 PM

My bf bought a soft pretzel from Quick Check a while ago and started munching on it and suddenly realized that he tasted cinnamon, which A) doesn't belong on a regular soft pretzel and B) he's SEVERELY allergic to. Luckily he noticed in time, spit it out, and rinsed the hell out of his mouth.

Jackimalyn

08-27-2007, 05:16 PM

My Boss: "My girlfriend was doing some cool stuff in Access with your Excel document. Can you drop in this Access document on the website?"
Me: seeing that the Access document has dropdown menus and a database behind it Well, I cant just 'drop it in' but I can code it and it might take me a while.
Boss: Why should it take long, cant you just copy and paste? or insert the file?
Me: no, you need to write code for it. I can do it but i cant just copy and paste
Boss: Well you just drop-in excel documents all the time!
Me: :confused:
Boss: pulls up website and shows me a page with a data table on it See? This is our excel document!
Me: I had to code that, its a simple table but its not "excel"
Boss: Well Tracy [my predecessor, who my boss thinks was a GOD] used to just drop it in. Maybe we can call her and find out how to do it.
Me: must finish portfolio site faster...

tuliptree

08-27-2007, 07:07 PM

Grrr Jacki I feel for you!! Take a deep breath.....

Me, right now its my neighbor!! He's a nice enough guy (although if you say hi you have to be prepared to listen to him go on and on for a half hour), but his wife is the full time income provider and he works part time and is the one who shuffles his three kids around to school and various practices. Their daughter is 2 years older than my oldest and they are friends. Since I work from home....he figures I am a free built in babysitter!! I swear every time I step out the door he is there poking his head into my drive way making small talk that inevitably leads to him asking some sort of favor. GAAAHHHHH!!!! I'd throw my avacados at him, but I don't want to waste them!!

tuliptree

08-27-2007, 07:42 PM

Jacki, wait! Don't you have magic drag and drop powers?? :p

Jackimalyn

08-27-2007, 07:50 PM

not for another 20 experience points. In the next experience level I can drag-and-drop databases, "photoshop" anything and fax color and paper samples.

Virgo Nightingale

08-27-2007, 07:53 PM

And with another 20 experience points on top of that, you'll be able to cram several pages worth of copy onto a postcard and have it still be legible.

CkretAjint

08-27-2007, 07:54 PM

not for another 20 experience points. In the next experience level I can drag-and-drop databases, "photoshop" anything and fax color and paper samples.

LMAO!!! :D priceless....

Someone really should make a Graphic Designer shirt that says this. haha :D

Jackimalyn

08-27-2007, 07:56 PM

you also get ultimate *IE6 hack* power

CkretAjint

08-27-2007, 07:58 PM

Tulip, just tell him that you are having a client stop by shortly and can't watch HIS kids and conduct business at the same time. I mean, you even have to lock your kids in seperate closets just to control them for a bit <nudge nudge>

problem solved. ;)

...or a phone interview for the next day...

Jackimalyn

08-27-2007, 08:03 PM

lmao... "all the kids wont fit in the closet at once! you'll have to keep yours in your own closet today!"

Virgo Nightingale

08-27-2007, 08:10 PM

Speaking of watching kids...

Over the summer breaks, my boss sometimes brings in his kids. In and of itself, no big deal. One is 13 and his dad actually pays him to do random tasks around the office like filing, watching the laser printer refilling the paper when needed on a long print run, taking out the garbage, etc. His daughter is 9, and she's really hyper and gets really freakin' BORED. And when her father goes out to run an errand, he'll just leave her here. And we have to watch her. If we don't, she'll eat ALL the candy and get even more hyper (she learns from Dad who has a major sweet tooth but is also diabetic). And it's not like he says, "Hey I have to step out, watch Pam for a little bit." Nope. He asks his daughter, "I have to run an errand, do you want to come with me or stay with Dawn?" <-(a co-worker who also brings in her kids, but they're pretty well-behaved and she NEVER leaves them here; Pam LOVES her because she's the only one who has kids and thus has the patience to deal with her.) She doesn't get paid to babysit, he pays her to design, but just assumes it's okay to leave her here so she can jump on Dawn's chair, babble incessantly, distract everyone etc.

Jackimalyn

08-27-2007, 08:14 PM

my boss used to do that, at my last job, but she was 5. that sucked! except when we got telemarketing calls. I'd put her on the phone :)

tuliptree

08-27-2007, 08:57 PM

LOL Virgo, Jacki and Ckret!!!

Wow, that's presumptious of your boss Virgo! I'd never expect someone to just watch my kids, especially in an office setting. My youngest is 4 and she tends to be "exuberantly energetic" (aka hyper). Once when I took her to visit her grandparents at their paint store when she was around 2 she unfiled an entire filing cabinet. Not good! So I know how it can be with kids + office.

Yeah, I'll tell my neighbor all my closets are full. Full of all the kids other people try to pawn off on me. Hahaha. The worst thing is, he doesn't ask for a time down the road, its ususally right then and there on the spot. Once he came out and said (always loudly to his daughter but so I can hear), "Oh, do you want to go to the store with me, or play with the girls next door (meaning mine, meaning I want her to babysit you)" then to me he said, "I have to run my (other daughter) to the sporting goods store, and we have her friend here, we can't all fit in the pickup.....so......(hint hint) can she maybe play with your girls? I was thinking, what was he planning to do had I not walked outside? Sometimes I am feeling charitable and it is fun and keeps my kids busy, but other times (such as not 2 hours ago when my aunt and uncle were here visiting from out of town) I can't figure out why he'd send her over to me when we very obviously have company. Ah well. Sometimes I just cut him off and distract before he gets to ask and then I get out of ear shot from him. I don't want to be rude, but I also do not want to be taken advantage of.

frankster

08-27-2007, 09:52 PM

One of the places I used to work part time at when I was still in university used to have the boss's unemployed neice come in (not an employee) to leave her two year old daughter in the office (while the boss wasn't even there, although he knew about it) so that she could go to the supermarket or pop to see her boyfreind without the kid in tow! Grrrr. Cute kid though.

hewligan

08-27-2007, 10:53 PM

tuliptree

08-27-2007, 11:47 PM

tuliptree

08-27-2007, 11:50 PM

hewligan, your avatar went from intimidating to pretty handsome with a hint of googly eyed insanity! just sayin.... :p

hewligan

08-27-2007, 11:53 PM

hewligan, your avatar went from intimidating to pretty handsome with a hint of googly eyed insanity! just sayin.... :p

Personally, I think Uncle Jerry's adorable (http://www.graphicdesignforum.com/forum/showthread.php?t=26366http://www.graphicdesignforum.com/forum/showthread.php?t=26366) :D

tuliptree

08-27-2007, 11:59 PM

LOL! Looks like I must have joined just after or just around the time you posted that originally--I totally missed it. What a great book, hilarious!!! I'd still be scared of Uncle Jerry if I ran into him in a dark alley though.

Jackimalyn

08-28-2007, 01:16 PM

Hey, I just tried it and you can drop an excel sheet into dreamweaver and it makes all the tables and stuff. The code's not half as ugly as the stuff you get from Word, either.

I still wouldn't call it a good idea, though...

I know, ive tried that. but writing the code for your own table is soooo simple and creates better code (unless you suck at writing code). But my boss wants me to "drop in" a complex Access database. Maybe you should design the website Mr Bossman huh?

CkretAjint

08-30-2007, 02:15 PM

Things that jerk my chain:

1) Employees bitching that one is 'anti-social' at work, yet has no idea what has been going on in their personal life.

2) Jobs that come back form the project manager asking me if the street address on the peice is correct. I don't know, isn't that YOUR job to find out?

3) requesting the same change over and over and over again, even though it makes no sense and it gramatically incorrect and has speeling errors throughout it. So I fix them, and then you bitch that I modified your precious copy....

4) Telling me I have a time extension and then coming by in a hour asking where your project is at...

OYE, gonna be a LONG day!!! and its only 10:16 :(

BJMRGTIVR6

08-30-2007, 02:51 PM

CkretAjint, seeing number three I can understand why they don't want to go with your spelling.

*kidding*

Luckily I don't have that problem as our Copy Editor is very good and the few times she is out, I can easily spot errors.

And I too have heard your Number One before, or something close to it...like why I don't seem to associate with my co-workers but when they threw an office party, I was only told the night beofre and had to 'bring a dish' too, so that made it fun t know i was 'thought of'

AND to note, today is Thursday, so there's just one day left. and a holiday weekend if you get that. (which means more time for sidejobs.)

CkretAjint

08-30-2007, 02:58 PM

I KNOW my spelling isn't great. But you can tell the copy is bad when *I* pick out errors... :p

AND to note, today is Thursday, so there's just one day left. and a holiday weekend if you get that. (which means more time for sidejobs.)

Ineed it is, plus I took Tuesday off as well. 4 day weekend for me!!! Definately a good time for side projects, or updating portfolio peices for potential up coming interviews? ;)

morea

08-30-2007, 03:03 PM

hang in there, guys.

Jackimalyn

08-30-2007, 03:11 PM

Sorry to hear that guys. Hang in there :) weekend's coming...

CkretAjint

08-30-2007, 03:16 PM

Is a semi-truck coming to wipe out all my fellow employees as well??? :)

Logo-Mechanix

08-30-2007, 03:25 PM

You know what really jerks my chain? When the salespeople leave all kinds of stuff on their desk and then give it to me to do two days before I go on vacation for a week. Ummmm helloooo not gonna happen and when it does'nt it will not be my extension the customer calls to find out why his job is not done. In fact even if they did call my extension I would not be there anyway.

frankster

08-30-2007, 03:42 PM

Is a semi-truck coming to wipe out all my fellow employees as well??? :)

That's not very sociable. ;) :D

reuber1

08-30-2007, 08:09 PM

Last day of internship is tomorrow.

First day of next job is who knows...pretty much unemployed.

WannaBrie

08-30-2007, 08:21 PM

Aw, bogus rueber, keep your chin up (dang, that sounds lame) but seriously, something will come up! :)

Virgo Nightingale

08-30-2007, 08:24 PM

Poor roobs! :(

Something will turn up for you soon, I'm sure! :)

CkretAjint

08-30-2007, 08:31 PM

There might be a rather abrubt job opening up at the company I work for shortly. <looks around cautiously>

Live anywhee near S FL? ;)

reuber1

08-30-2007, 08:32 PM

There might be a rather abrubt job opening up at the company I work for shortly. <looks around cautiously>

Live anywhee near S FL? ;)
Eastern Iowa, unfortunately. I'll be looking local first, I'm not exactly loaded with cash so if I need to move, it's gotta be cheap.

All this off work time will allow me to get my portfolio going, at least. It needs a good dusting.

urstwile

08-31-2007, 06:04 AM

No possibility of them offering you a permanent spot then Reuber?

frankster

08-31-2007, 06:34 AM

RARRRRRR! FRANKSMASHHH!!!!!

The van died again. It's the starter motor this time. Works if you lay a nice bit of 2x4 on it and you belt it with a lump hammer, but we need to get a new starter motor. "Hit it with a big stick" isn't a long term solution. :(

urstwile

08-31-2007, 06:37 AM

aww, Frank, that sucks. You seem to be having car troubles lately.

Might I just add that my day today totally sucked? It takes a lot to piss me off at work. One thing that's sure to do it is a new business presentation, generally handled by someone else at work with no organizational skills whatsoever, but it's pretty much all she does, so it's her niche. When I get to jump into the fray, it's like walking into a rain forest filled with black mambas, everything's all over the place, files are linked to her hard drive, etc.

Grrrr.

frankster

08-31-2007, 07:06 AM

Yes, the car/heap of spluttering junk/spazmobile has eaten up our San Diego trip money over the past month :(
Poo-bum-willy-plop!
bugger-shit-piss-wank!

urstwile

08-31-2007, 07:09 AM

Schnapps, Frank, I was so hoping we'd get to meet. :(

frankster

08-31-2007, 07:17 AM

some day dudette, some day! :) We might have to hitch hike though :rolleyes:

urstwile

08-31-2007, 07:18 AM

Or I could use you as an excuse to visit San Francisco. :)

SpugNothuson

08-31-2007, 07:42 AM

Poo-bum-willy-plop!
bugger-shit-piss-wank!
I actually imagine you saying that in an English accent. :)

I used to carry a hammer with me in my car for the same reason. Starter motors are a pain in the ass.

Time for my rant. If you're female and invite me round to your house for drinks I would apprecite it if you made it abundently clear before hand that you have a boyfriend! Seriously, I'm not that kind of guy. Now I'm clean shaven for no good reason!

urstwile

08-31-2007, 07:44 AM

Awww, dang it Spug. :( Shaving without reason sucks. I even say that as a girl. :D

Typically

08-31-2007, 12:23 PM

I actually imagine you saying that in an English accent. :)

I used to carry a hammer with me in my car for the same reason. Starter motors are a pain in the ass.

Time for my rant. If you're female and invite me round to your house for drinks I would apprecite it if you made it abundently clear before hand that you have a boyfriend! Seriously, I'm not that kind of guy. Now I'm clean shaven for no good reason!

man that sucks. i shave like twice a week monday morning and fridya/saturday (my bosses have been out all week so i'm all scruffy today =]) it wouldn't be so bad if i didn't have the beard to keep in shape.

yea man i agree with you on not being that kind of guy. if she's gonna do that to this dude why wouldn't she do it to you? no good happens from that

CkretAjint

08-31-2007, 12:24 PM

If you're female and invite me round to your house for drinks I would apprecite it if you made it abundently clear before hand that you have a boyfriend! Seriously, I'm not that kind of guy. Now I'm clean shaven for no good reason!

ARGH! I hate it when that happens.... seriously, is it that hard? Do we really need to put a black dot on your hand when you are taken since you can't speak up about it?? :mad:

morea

08-31-2007, 12:30 PM

that sounds like false advertising to me. ;)

CkretAjint

08-31-2007, 12:59 PM

that sounds like false advertising to me. ;)

Not with a black spot of 'dating' on your hand... ;)

Jackimalyn

08-31-2007, 01:24 PM

Spug I gotta ask.. if you knew she had a boyfriend, would you have still come over (just not shaved)?

08-31-2007, 05:52 PM

Or I could use you as an excuse to visit San Francisco. :)
Sounds like a business trip Urstwile, I would imagine that you could write off the entire trip ... including dinners, hotels, gas and a couple souvenirs like a 50" LCD TV, and one for your bestest buddy in Milwaukee.

reuber1

08-31-2007, 10:55 PM

No possibility of them offering you a permanent spot then Reuber?
Well, not right now. I left on very good terms, and even though I'm jobless, I definitely left a great impression with them and they said I had a great attitude about the work and such (yes, me and "great attitude" in the same sentence...), so I was let down rather softly.

The position was production, and initially it was more entry level, but they are looking for someone with quite a bit of experience in the field, and pretty much able to hit the ground running as soon as they come in, working on some rather elaborate projects. If it was more watered down like what I was doing, I was told I'd have been a strong candidate for it. They said they'd keep me in mind in the future though, and that comment had more confidence behind it than just "We'll keep your resume on file".

All that said though, now I'm raking in no money. :( Sent out a few apps today though. We'll see how it goes.

urstwile

08-31-2007, 11:00 PM

Sounds like a business trip Urstwile, I would imagine that you could write off the entire trip ... including dinners, hotels, gas and a couple souvenirs like a 50" LCD TV, and one for your bestest buddy in Milwaukee.
See, that's what I like about you MD, always thinking. :D

urstwile

08-31-2007, 11:01 PM

Well, not right now. I left on very good terms, and even though I'm jobless, I definitely left a great impression with them and they said I had a great attitude about the work and such (yes, me and "great attitude" in the same sentence...), so I was let down rather softly.

The position was production, and initially it was more entry level, but they are looking for someone with quite a bit of experience in the field, and pretty much able to hit the ground running as soon as they come in, working on some rather elaborate projects. If it was more watered down like what I was doing, I was told I'd have been a strong candidate for it. They said they'd keep me in mind in the future though, and that comment had more confidence behind it than just "We'll keep your resume on file".

All that said though, now I'm raking in no money. :( Sent out a few apps today though. We'll see how it goes.

Sorry to hear it. Good luck with your search. :)

CkretAjint

09-01-2007, 01:32 AM

UGH!!!!! :mad: :mad: :mad:

how about driving home 4.5 hours after a LONG week of work, looking forward to your 4 days weekend. You get home and within the first 15 minutes you get threatened by your brother to have your throat slit, eyes stabbed out, fingers cut off in your sleep, car set on fire, cars tires threatened to be slashed and called white trash...

Hows that for a nice home coming? Pancaking brother of mine!!! :mad: I hope that semi that is coming for my coworkers makes a detour on the way...

Currently going over my Grandparents house to make sure I awake alive anf whole tomorrow.....

Yall have a LOVELY evening. OYE!!!! :rolleyes:

urstwile

09-01-2007, 01:34 AM

WTF Ckret? :eek:

CkretAjint

09-01-2007, 01:40 AM

yah, tell me about it Urst...

budafist

09-01-2007, 01:48 AM

Goodness. Glad you took the respectable path and are moving on to your grandparents'.

urstwile

09-01-2007, 01:48 AM

That's really awful, are you going to be okay? :(

CkretAjint

09-01-2007, 01:51 AM

are you going to be okay? :(

Do I have much of a choice? Not like I can 'skip over or restart this weekend. Just gotta grab my crap walking boots and keep moving foward. *sigh* :(

budafist

09-01-2007, 01:55 AM

Hopefully your bro was just stressed and will calm down given some space. Hope your weekend isn't entirely spoiled.

Red Kittie Kat

09-01-2007, 01:58 AM

Sorry to hear taht .. was he drinking?

Don't hesitate to call the cops - don't take anyones abuse CA ... he sounds like he needs some help before he does end up hurting someone or himself.

urstwile

09-01-2007, 02:03 AM

Yeah, what Kat said. Be safe Ckret.

morea

09-01-2007, 02:19 AM

holy cow... I'm glad you're getting out of there... at least until he calms down.

Be safe!

CkretAjint

09-01-2007, 03:41 AM

...was he drinking?

Better not be, he is only 20 (just turned it in May). I am 24...

I am over here at the Gransparents house sitting on her couch talking to her right now. 11:39pm right now. Gonna hit the ay in a few and try to get some sleep...

I am all scratched up from our wrestling. Hopefully it will be unicky looking by tomorrow...

Sleep tight everyone!!! :D

urstwile

09-01-2007, 06:10 AM

Ckret, I don't mean to pry but is your brother mentally disabled? That's quite an extreme thing to have to deal with.

budafist

09-01-2007, 07:10 AM

Better not be, he is only 20 (just turned it in May). I am 24...

I am over here at the Gransparents house sitting on her couch talking to her right now. 11:39pm right now. Gonna hit the ay in a few and try to get some sleep...

I am all scratched up from our wrestling. Hopefully it will be unicky looking by tomorrow...

Sleep tight everyone!!! :D

Hey just because he's younger than the legal drinking age, don't mean he's not drunk! I'm sure you know that anyway...Who's bigger by the way? Can you put him into a hold and until he calms down?

CkretAjint

09-01-2007, 01:28 PM

Urst: no he is not, sometimes I do wonder. But he is not, just a asshat.

Buda: I seriously doubt he was drunk. It was 9 at night and he had just got off of work. So unless he was drunk at work, i doubt it. He works out and is HUGE. But luckily I am still larger than he is. He is only about 6'0" not sure about weight, I am 6'4" 190 lbs, average build. Luckily for me He doesn't cut his hair often and it is rather longer (mine is short and spikey) so grabbing a hand full of it and yanking down on it so his face is pointed towards the ground really helps him not see where the person is he is fighting.... hehe :p

If I am going to fight, I will fight MY WAY to ensure I won't get hurt, but I definately will not ever throw the first punch. But once you do, I will stand up for those around me. Brother or not....

Sorry for being slightly rude last night, was stressful. But THANK YOU for your concern everyone, it definately helped me talk things out a bit.

I spoke with the ex-gf and she suggested that since he works out often, the attitude swing might be related to steriods. I will bring it up to my parents and let them deal with it. That last thing I wanna do is fight the jerk again...

:D :D

Red Kittie Kat

09-01-2007, 02:59 PM

Steroids can bring out anger and aggressive behaviour.

... and you weren't rude at all ;)

CkretAjint

09-01-2007, 03:56 PM

Thanks RKK, but I kinda felt like I was a bit. :p *shrugs*

Maybe I am just overly nice??? haha :D

CkretAjint

09-01-2007, 03:59 PM

O and for an update....

Came home this morning, Mom was about to take him out for lunch to talk about everything. I walked in the other room, not saying 1 word and he comes out of his bedroom screaming and yelling at me for showing back up in "his turf" :rolleyes:

Gonna be a long weekend. Might even leave tomorrow and go back to South FL, after Karen goes home.

OYE! :mad:

Red Kittie Kat

09-01-2007, 05:40 PM

Well there is definitely something going on there ... more than meets the eye.

I hope everything works out for you CA :)

urstwile

09-01-2007, 08:27 PM

Definitely something more than meets the eye going on, Ckret. I hope this doesn't ruin your entire weekend. :(

budafist

09-01-2007, 10:05 PM

Steroids can shrink your willy. Maybe that's why he is so angry at the world.

SpugNothuson

09-02-2007, 09:06 AM

Spug I gotta ask.. if you knew she had a boyfriend, would you have still come over (just not shaved)?
Yeah I would've still gone round to her house but I would have trimmed the beard instead of removing it completely.

I would have also been in the correct frame of mind before getting there. This is a "friend evening" not a "play your cards right and get all smoochy smoochy evening".

She's a hot lass but I've got boundaries, being hot doesn't mean I'm going to jump your bones, being hot and single? now that's fair game. :)

SpugNothuson

09-02-2007, 09:14 AM

Ckret I hope things change for you. Not nice having to deal with that stuff.

My brother and me used to fight all the time, I once threatened him with a knife it got that bad between us. I was only 15 at the time but once I'd calmed down a few days later I realised how much of an impossible ***** I'd been. We never fought again after that night.

12 years on and I'd do anything for my brother and visa versa. We're not best mates or anything, barely talk during the week, but when the crap hits the fan I know who to call.

bejamshi

09-02-2007, 03:18 PM

Spug did you know fish is good for the mind.

:P

I just got a call from a friend who knew my family and was asked if I design their relative a website, right away knowing how cheap this family is I said sorry I am very busy with a few big clients, he repeated my words very sarcastically.

How sick, will never work for people like this, I call them PITA clients.

Virgo Nightingale

09-02-2007, 03:31 PM

Wow, ckret, sounds like a tough situation. I hope it all works out in your favor, and that your brother takes one of these:

http://img444.imageshack.us/img444/2214/chillpillvf0.jpg

CkretAjint

09-02-2007, 07:15 PM

...I call them PITA clients.

No worries, I have even gone as far as to charge a few people "PITA taxes" on their order form. THey question it and I just say that it is a graphic design tax that the government charges us... No questions asked after that. :D

budafist

09-02-2007, 10:38 PM

The director of a company we deal with has been away for the last few weeks and we've been dealing with her 2CI instead. They recently had a brochure designed and printed and asked for 20 copies. Being such a small run, the brochures ended up cost around $40 each when dividing up the design cost and print costs. The director has come back now and she called me to ask me why we would contemplate printing such a small amount. She said that small run prices were ridiculous and that we should have told the 2IC that it was not feasible to print a brochure for $40 per piece.

I told her that we do small runs of brochures for presentation only all the time and that she would have to talk to her 2IC as to why he ordered so few. I also passed her onto our sales guy, but I'm sure he will say the same.

I mean what does she want me to do about it?

Then she told me there were many factual errors in the brochure - so ultimately, it was pretty lucky we only printed 20 copies!? Because they will have to be reprinted...

SpugNothuson

09-03-2007, 09:38 AM

Lesson Number 1. Its always the printers fault.

Lesson Number 2. The person at the printers who is at fault is known as the Pre-pressman/Originator.

:mad:

budafist

09-04-2007, 05:19 AM

Lesson Number 1. Its always the printers fault.

Lesson Number 2. The person at the printers who is at fault is known as the Pre-pressman/Originator.

:mad:

I didn't get the blame this time because I wasn't even aware of the quantities they ordered. Thank goodness I don't have to do quotes.

Our sales guy asked the director of the company if she wanted him to run everything this is ever ordered by her company past her before we printed stuff, but she said no. That was a bit over the top for her.

If you don't trust your staff with doing their job, put some checks in place like signing off of budgets and quotes. That's what normal people do. Don't blame your suppliers for giving you exactly what your staff ordered! :confused:

tuliptree

09-04-2007, 03:00 PM

right away knowing how cheap this family is I said sorry I am very busy with a few big clients, he repeated my words very sarcastically.

:mad: That's not nice. One of my closest friend's mother once wanted me to make business cards for her.....she wanted a logo, but when we met, it became very apparent that she basically wanted me to steal a logo from someone in her same industry, and use that on her card. I flat out told her no, if she wanted to do that she could just head on over to Kinkos and have them do it for her. So she asked if I could create one for her similar, I said sure, gave her a quote and she never got back to me. This was a few years ago. Now her daughter (my friend) has asked me to create a business card and logo...this will be a fun project (not sarcastic here as we have collaborated creatively over the past 15 years)...and in discussion, her father mentioned he had a business associate who wanted cards done, but when my name came up, he said "oh yeah, we can't use her, she's way too expensive" Now mind you, I am good friends with her parents, and I gave her mom a very reasonable price for what she was asking, she just had it in her mind she'd get a free logo out of using the one she wanted to "borrow." Obviously I won't be getting recommendations from her parents, but at least my friend is aware her parents are a little unrealistic, and I don't think I'd want to work with their friends anyway. Ugh!

Jackimalyn

09-05-2007, 03:11 PM

AGGGHH! Im so annoyed today. everything little thing that could piss me off, is. Everytime I feel like this i think of this seinfeld skit:

http://youtube.com/watch?v=9TOB2Kn8gWo

That's my inner monologue today. grrrrr

CkretAjint

09-05-2007, 03:50 PM

Jacki, I feel your pain today. :(

Ps - That video made me LOL at work.

Jackimalyn

09-05-2007, 03:56 PM

heh, good. Im keepin it cool on the outside, but i really just wanna scream. hope your day gets better CkretAjint :)

CkretAjint

09-05-2007, 06:00 PM

Im keepin it cool on the outside, but i really just wanna scream.

I know how that is. I have been feeling that way recently with life in general. Not sure why I am in so much of a funk recently.... blah!

Day is not getting better. I have to draw a detialed site plan of one of our resorts from overhead, so guests have a map of what is where. Only problem is this resort is over seas, and is so old that no one has blueprints. So I am drawing this with pictures as a reference. It is SO ANNOYING!!! :mad: *sigh*

Jackimalyn

09-05-2007, 07:26 PM

Ive spent the last two days breaking out part numbers... like we used to have ONE part number (p/n) for paint. Now, I need to assign one for Ivory paint, one for green paint, one for red paint... and so on. And this just isn't for paint. I have to do it to our whole product line, then reprice everything... twice. once if they order it with their original package, once if they order it after the fact.

Yes, I am an in-house designer/marketing manager/ prepress guru/ webmaster/ photographer/ art director/ public relations rep/ customer service/ typesetter and occasional mechanical engineer.

DesignVHL

09-05-2007, 08:46 PM

Yes, I am an in-house designer/marketing manager/ prepress guru/ webmaster/ photographer/ art director/ public relations rep/ customer service/ typesetter and occasional mechanical engineer.

Guess we are in the same club....i feel your pain. I have a product catalog I have been working on with TONS of PNs - of which I had to pull all the specs and add them to tables manually....finished the damn thing about 4-6 months ago and the sales department STILL has not gone through to make sure information is accurate....this thing is never going to get printed at this rate! Which is so frustrating because I busted my butt on some cool product illustrations.

reuber1

09-07-2007, 03:25 PM

*groan*

Welcome back to the return of rejection letters.

Wasn't experienced enough for an entry level position. :rolleyes:

What a crock of bullshit.

CkretAjint

09-07-2007, 03:29 PM

Reuber, that really blows. Sorry to hear that! :(

Jackimalyn

09-07-2007, 03:30 PM

sorry reuber :( they dont know what theyre missin!

Virgo Nightingale

09-07-2007, 03:32 PM

Then why are they advertising it as an entry-level position? That's dumb. Sorry, ruebs!

reuber1

09-07-2007, 03:45 PM

That seems to be the way things roll around here. They'll advertise entry level positions, but what they really mean is someone who is willing to work for the same pay as an entry level employee (they didn't offer health insurance, btw), but they still have the 4-5 years experience; guess they expect you to have a spouse to make up for the lack of income (and health insurance). People here are so cheap, it's no wonder why Dubuque is about 20 years behind the rest of the country.

I've pretty much given up on this area and have begun looking into or around Chicago. F()ck Iowa.

Virgo Nightingale

09-07-2007, 05:57 PM

You know what I hate? Print brokers who don't have their own email access and ask that I send a pdf to his client. And then, even though I clearly state in the email with the pdf to contact the broker with any changes he has (it's only HIS job to take these changes and be the go-between), he calls me to make his nitpicky revisions. Can you zoom in on the picture of the building just a bit? Can you make the text there a little smaller? Can you add our phone number and address? TELL YOUR BROKER. That's what you pay him for. And god dammit, would this broker please join this century and get a computer and email access!!!

CkretAjint

09-07-2007, 06:17 PM

Virgo:

"I will be happy to make those changes for you sir/mam, as soon as you snail mail them in writting to your broker and he reviews them himself. I don't like to make adjustments to documents with his/her knowledge." If they still ask you to do it, just tell him that "it will throw the hours in the book keeping off by me taking time do to these changes now on the spot. Thus pushing others project deadlines back. You wouldn't want to miss your drop date cause I was making changes to someone elses document for them, correct?" ;)

Bam, problem solved! :D

PS - I feel your pain... :(

Jackimalyn

09-07-2007, 07:30 PM

I've pretty much given up on this area and have begun looking into or around Chicago. F()ck Iowa.

hey... me 2!!! <replace Iowa with Wisconsin>

DesignVHL

09-07-2007, 07:32 PM

U peeps stay away from my turf! :P j/k plenty of jobs out here...just competitive as all hell...easy to FIND A JOB...harder to FIND A JOB YOU WANT.

morea

09-10-2007, 03:10 PM

the very existence of "logo generators" and the fact that anyone would ever consider them a viable solution for developing a corporate identity.

The_Black_Knight

09-10-2007, 04:43 PM

Freakin' human resources wonks drive me insane!

Since my introductory/probationary period is now over for my new job, I am trying to get benefits. Before signing up, I would like more information so that I can make informed decisions. Makes sense, right? However, getting this information is like getting blood from a stone.

Is this something they teach in HR school? "Don't provide any information unless you are specifically asked for it. Even then, do your best to dodge the question. Better yet, answer a different question altogether!"

It's been this way with every HR department I have ever had the displeasure of trying to interact with. My wife actually has a decent HR department, so she just can't comprehend why I cringe and mumble angry things under my breath every time she asks me to find out something from my HR. I dread going to the dentist far, far less than trying to get an answer out of human resources. And at least my teeth are clean when I leave the dentist's; when I leave HR, I'm just angry...

CkretAjint

09-10-2007, 07:26 PM

Every year we change our sales pitchcards for our sales centers to be have a holiday style theme on them. Every year the outdoor sales centers have gotten lights around the logo at the top of the page, and indoors sales center got holly around the logo. Been this like this for 4+ years, never had an issue with it.

This year they want snow around that border of the page. Not normally an issue, but we don't have snow (south Florida). Nor can we photograph snow and fluff it up with photoshop (live in South Florida). So we inform the client of this. What do they say?

"Can't you just click the 'add' snow' filter in photoshop and do it that way?"

Why didn't I think of that??!! :rolleyes:

*bashes head on wall*

Jackimalyn

09-10-2007, 07:33 PM

'add snow'????? lmao. how friggin ridiculous!

CkretAjint

09-10-2007, 07:58 PM

YAH... O_o

Apparently I my job is WAY easier then I knew, and I am not using these programs to their fullest ability...

OYE! I just got a rush ad that needs to go to the printer TODAY. I get it back from proofing, and the size is wrong. Apparently the client thought doing the math herself would save us some time with the ad. Only problem is she gave us the wrong sizes to build it at, so it is 3/8" to short all around. Thank fully I can make it larger, and be fine... But how do you screw up making something THAT short all around?

Today is shaping up to be a GREAT day..... NOT!!! :(

Jackimalyn

09-10-2007, 08:00 PM

reminds me of the classic:

http://i79.photobucket.com/albums/j139/jackimalyn/psit.jpg

BJMRGTIVR6

09-10-2007, 08:06 PM

I think it was a recent update to CS3. We are still using CS2 here but thankfully we have teh make rain button. I heard a lot of complaints at Adobe for forgetting teh Snow button on teh original release of CS3. i would try updating it and seeing if it is there.

CkretAjint

09-10-2007, 08:10 PM

They actually show the 2 pixels.... LMAO!!!! :D

Mynock

09-12-2007, 08:33 PM

If you have enough knowledge to know that an eps exists wouldn't you also know you wouldn't want a scan of a watercolor painting saved as an eps. Gosh, I mean come on. Sorry I needed to vent.

Typically

09-12-2007, 08:46 PM

boss shows me a picture of an umbrella with flower clusters on it and asks me if it's possible to this?
me: yes but i would have to draw up some flowers
boss: well how about if we scan some photos.
me: nope i still need to draw flowers.
boss: what if we scan fabric with flowers on it.
me: nope still need to draw it.
boss: ok well we'll have to see about this then.

he brings this to me after he tells me that i need to have a catalog done by the end of october!!! not to mention i have the other departments catalog to do too!!! neither department has given me a count of items they want in the catalog or anything. the next 2 months are going to very annoying.

CkretAjint

09-12-2007, 08:49 PM

well.... can't you just photoshop it?

morea

09-12-2007, 09:15 PM

http://i7.tinypic.com/5x91oo9.gif

http://i8.tinypic.com/5xndds0.gif

Typically

09-13-2007, 12:41 PM

hahahaha man people really think that photoshop can do anything.

WannaBrie

09-13-2007, 02:03 PM

Well, what do you expect when people see pics of Britney Spears? And then there's CSI...

Typically

09-13-2007, 02:09 PM

i love the part in super troopers where they have just keep saying enhance enhance and the photo looks perfect after like 10 "enhances"

Jackimalyn

09-13-2007, 02:12 PM

oh god CSI is the worst. I wish I had their "enhance button"

"I have some security footage of a parking garage. Could you zoom into this guy's rear view mirror and look at the reflection? You can see the murder taking place! Zoom in farther and get the guy's finger prints, will ya?"

I actually came in here to complain. Everyone in my office is sick, so i s my boyfriend. I really dont have time to get sick right now but i feel its only a matter of time :(

Jackimalyn

09-13-2007, 02:13 PM

lol typically, i just watched that last night! (for what reason, I dont know)

CkretAjint

09-13-2007, 02:15 PM

lol typically, i just watched that last night! (for what reason, I dont know)

Cause it oozes amazing awesomeness right out of the DVD case? :)

Virgo Nightingale

09-13-2007, 02:15 PM

Supertroopers sucked. The first 10 minutes was classic, after that it's so dull.

Typically

09-13-2007, 02:21 PM

Supertroopers sucked. The first 10 minutes was classic, after that it's so dull.

you know what
http://www.etchy.org/images/dyn/6639.jpg
hehe sorry just had to post the etch-a-sketch

jacki try this stuff. it feels a little odd at first but it is amazing! if you get sick that is =]
http://www.consumerreports.org/cro/resources/images/health-fitness/zicam-1-07/overview/0107_cong_ov1.jpg

reuber1

09-13-2007, 02:21 PM

Supertroopers sucked. The first 10 minutes was classic, after that it's so dull.
BLASPHEMY!

"Enhance..."
"Enhance..."
"Enhance..."

Jackimalyn

09-13-2007, 02:36 PM

virgo are you trying to tell me you didnt laugh your arse off when Farve ordered a liter-of-cola?

JgS

09-13-2007, 02:53 PM

I'm hungover... Bad!
We were suppose to get hit by a hurricane this morning. So in anticipation of sleeping in we threw a hurricane party last night. When I woke up this morning and realized it wasn't raining I checked the news only to find out the damn thing turned and we won't get any rain.

Everyone in the office knows I am hungover. They have been turning on my light, yelling, dropping metal objects in the hall. I need to find a way to get them to stop. Any suggestions?

CkretAjint

09-13-2007, 03:21 PM

i Hate My Pancaking Boss!

Virgo Nightingale

09-13-2007, 03:33 PM

The rest of the movie had some laughs, but the first part was so good and the rest just didn't live up to the expectations I'd gotten from that first part.

*The schnozberries taste like schnozberries....*

Virgo Nightingale

09-13-2007, 03:34 PM

Everyone in the office knows I am hungover. They have been turning on my light, yelling, dropping metal objects in the hall. I need to find a way to get them to stop. Any suggestions?
Vomit on them and blame your sickness on their antics making your stomach turn upside down. :D

BJMRGTIVR6

09-13-2007, 03:47 PM

Vomit on them and blame your sickness on their antics making your stomach turn upside down. :D

That's a good one.

sorry nothing coming to mind to help you out but I will try.

JgS

09-13-2007, 04:58 PM

Vomit on them and blame your sickness on their antics making your stomach turn upside down. :D

That might make the tormenting worse. I'm thinking of going to get my hunting rifle out of my truck and propping it up next to my desk.

Jackimalyn

09-13-2007, 05:06 PM

the last thing I want to do when im hungover is shoot a rifle!

>Have to brag for any gun-enthusiests out there; I shot an M1 Grand last weekend. The barrel weighs 10lbs! it was exciting :) I also shot an AR-15... so i shot the gun from WWI and the one the army uses today. Im really not crazy, although I might have enjoyed it a little too much

JgS

09-13-2007, 05:11 PM

the last thing I want to do when im hungover is shoot a rifle!

Hopefully no one will make me use it. :rolleyes:

100th post!!!

Virgo Nightingale

09-13-2007, 06:37 PM

I just had a client actually use the phrase "Jazz it up for me." :rolleyes:

CkretAjint

09-13-2007, 06:52 PM

Perhaps they wanted you to sprinkle salt on it with these guys. :D

http://www.salt-and-pepper-shakers.com/sp1312.jpg

Virgo Nightingale

09-13-2007, 07:04 PM

I was thinking of just pasting a photo of Miles Davis right in the middle of it.

http://artfiles.art.com/images/-/Jeff-Sedlik/Miles-Davis-Print-C10008877.jpeg

Goes perfectly well on an invitation to a seminar on kidney diseases, right?

CkretAjint

09-13-2007, 07:30 PM

Maybe have miles davis punching a kidney? That should add some jazz to it! ;)

frankster

09-13-2007, 08:06 PM

Maybe have miles davis punching a kidney? That should add some jazz to it! ;)

Lol! That reminded me of the bit in Anchorman when Will Ferrel says "I'm going to punch you in the ovary!" Tee hee hee! :D

Typically

09-13-2007, 08:07 PM

Lol! That reminded me of the bit in Anchorman when Will Ferrel says "I'm going to punch you in the ovary!" Tee hee hee! :D

i say that to my gf all the time... in a loving way of course =]

frankster

09-13-2007, 09:48 PM

i say that to my gf all the time... in a loving way of course =]

My husband said it to me yesterday actually. Ah, young love!

budafist

09-13-2007, 10:32 PM

That's so romantic. How do I get my bf to say that to me?

frankster

09-13-2007, 10:42 PM

My husbands outburst was prompted by me telling him that his brain was "like the trippleheaded fishmanbeast of Aberdean. Non-existant". To be fair he had put the smaller of the babies clothes on the larger baby and she looked like the incredible hulk busting out of them.:rolleyes:

budafist

09-13-2007, 10:53 PM

Typically

09-14-2007, 12:53 PM

That's so romantic. How do I get my bf to say that to me?

haha it usually comes after she threatens to punch me in the face with her foot :D a drunken moment that hasn't gotten old yet haha

CkretAjint

09-14-2007, 01:56 PM

LOL... you guys and gals crack me up! :D

WannaBrie

09-14-2007, 03:42 PM

Ditto^ on that! And now back to our regularly scheduled topic: things that jerk my chain...

i've been having pain in my right arm off and on for about 2 yrs and only recently got health insurance. So I go to a specialist thinking that it'll knock out the middleman (regualr doc-who would just send me to a specialist anyway) and save the $10 co-pay. Well, each visit to the specialist is a $20 co-pay. So here i am 3 visits to the specialist and one quite painful electro-shock test thing to the nerves in my arm and the doctor says, "well, the test results were inconclusive. would you like to just leave it at that?" WTF is that? leave it at that? I mean, he gave me a scrip for some pretty powerful nerve pain meds but I can only take them at night becuz they make me groggy (I mostly have pain during the day). I mean, why would I just leave it? Hell, no I don't want to leave it, I want to know what is wrong with my arm?!! So, now I have to go see another specialist, and I couldn't get an appointment with him for another month! But when I do, you can be guaranteed he'll get at least 2 more visits from me (another $40!) I mean, I didn't expect some magic wand waving, but I am really disappointed that so far I'm out $60 in visits and another $40 or so for meds and they still haven't told me what's wrong with me other than "we think its radial compression of a nerve" ORLY? what nerve? Where? and why?

/rant

CkretAjint

09-14-2007, 04:54 PM

I feel yur pain WannaBrie. When I fell wrong on my ankle I went to the foot doctor. I had to do physical therapy 3 times a week for 2 months. well at $20 a visit the co-pay really started to stack up! BUt then I thought about how much it was ACTUALLY costing and I smiled and sucked up the $20 each time.

Now my ankle is pretty close to being 100%, still have some pain in it when I step wrong. But it is WAY improved to what it was....

Derfie

09-14-2007, 07:57 PM

I had DeQuervains Tendonitis in my right wrist (too much tablet use) a year ago, and I had to see the Physical Therapist 3 times a week, at $40 per visit, for 2 months.

I pay for my insurance out of pocket through my own business, plus seeing a doctor is $20 per visit, and the specialist is $40. I went to a doctor recently about a problem I had, and he told me he didn't know what it was, gave me some generic medicine, and told me it would a waste of time to see a apecialist. Needless to say I went to the Specialist, and now I have to go for a follow up, again $40 per visit. Although I can't complain-I am lucky to have insurance.

If you spend a certain amount in co-pays and prescriptions, your medical costs can become tax detuctible.

WannaBrie

09-14-2007, 08:24 PM

Wow, Derfie, that is a lot more than I am paying, so I guess I should count my blessings.

Virgo Nightingale

09-14-2007, 08:51 PM

The copay for my gyno is $50, and I go every three months for my Depo injection (birth control). And I usually get a bill from them for an extra $25 that my insurance doesn't cover (deductable or some sh!t). Why they can't just include that in my copay is beyond me.

My insurance sucks. But at least I have something.

WannaBrie

09-14-2007, 08:53 PM

Whoa, that really sucks Virgo! That is some expensive BC! But you are right, I guess, imagine how much it would cost if you didn't have ins. That's the reason I hadn't seen a doctor in several years.

Virgo Nightingale

09-14-2007, 08:57 PM

Less expensive than a baby! :D

I was always nervous before I got the insurance and could go on b/c. My boyfriend HATES condoms of any and all kinds and is also allergic to all the spermicide creams. :rolleyes:

BJMRGTIVR6

09-14-2007, 09:01 PM

Wow, that sucks.
I looked into Medical expenses deduction and it is a lot, or at least a large percentage of your income.

Luckily my wife now works for teh County Government. $18 a month insurance for two, better than my job's at $160 month for two. Although her pay isn't great but insurance and benefits outway some things.

The_Black_Knight

09-14-2007, 09:37 PM

To the douchebag that wouldn't let me into his lane on the highway today:

In order to get where I needed to go, yes I had to get into your lane, or I would end up on a different highway. Traffic was already moving slowly, so it's not like you would have had to make a big effort to let me in. In fact, you wouldn't have even needed to hit the brakes, just eased up off your freakin' gas pedal for a second, a$$hole. Just because you're driving a big pickup truck and I drive an Accord doesn't mean that "MINE IS BIGGER, I WIN!"

I hope you get run over by a semi, asswipe. Yes, I really mean it, and no, I won't feel bad if it really does happen. If I read in the paper tomorrow, "Douchebag driving silver Dodge pickup while wearing baseball cap killed by out-of-control tractor-trailer dies horrific painful death," I will smile. Yes, I know it sounds evil. I don't care.

I really wish they wouldn't toss licenses to just anybody in this country.

raerae

09-14-2007, 09:49 PM

raerae

09-14-2007, 09:52 PM

I hope you get run over by a semi, asswipe. Yes, I really mean it, and no, I won't feel bad if it really does happen. If I read in the paper tomorrow, "Douchebag driving silver Dodge pickup while wearing baseball cap killed by out-of-control tractor-trailer dies horrific painful death," I will smile. Yes, I know it sounds evil. I don't care.

I really wish they wouldn't toss licenses to just anybody in this country.

Ironic, this morning on my way to work in my tractor-trailer I was putting on my make up, talking on my cell phone, brushing my teeth and eating breakfast, and I drove right over a silver Dodge pickup.

You can thank me later.

Drazan

09-14-2007, 10:34 PM

flies!!!

never fails - move = room full of freaken flies.

and where the hell did these itty bitty ones come from. At least the large ones you can give them a good hard smack down. These little ones just go where they please.

budafist

09-15-2007, 05:59 AM

bejamshi

09-15-2007, 03:30 PM

Is this the largest thread ever?

WannaBrie

09-15-2007, 06:37 PM

I'm not sure if its work related or not Buda, but it the pain was terrible about 2 yrs ago and that's when I switched to a wacom tablet. Its defitnitely not carpal tunnel, though. its nerve pain that used to feel like my arm and elbow were on fire. Since I switched, its eased up and now its mostly just pins and needles in my right arm and fingers. Also, if I put my elbow down wrong, its like the funny bone pain times 1000. If I rest my weight on either elbow, I get the pins & needles in my arm. It sucks. But I can relate to the cold thing also...its always freezing in the am in my office.

Virgo Nightingale

09-16-2007, 04:03 AM

Cheaper than $30 a month for the pill with no insurance! Once you factor in the cost of the little vial of Depo itself every 3 months in addition to the copay for bringing it in for them to inject me with it, it works out to about the same amount per year (they don't keep it at the gyno's office, I have to pick it up from the pharmacy like any other prescription). The pill wasn't a viable option for me. I'm HORRIBLE at remembering to take vitamins or medication on a daily basis, and if it's something I'm supposed to take at the same time every day, I'm doubly screwed.

BK: Why does it not surprise me that your rant is in reference to Jersey drivers? Don't you just love how considerate our neighbors are while driving? :rolleyes:

The_Black_Knight

09-16-2007, 01:08 PM

BK: Why does it not surprise me that your rant is in reference to Jersey drivers? Don't you just love how considerate our neighbors are while driving? :rolleyes:To be honest, that's the sort of thing that could happen anywhere.

I was once in Maine, driving a little over the speed limit on Rte. 302. I went to make a left turn, and some woman who had been tailgating me for over mile yelled out her window "GO HOME!" as she went by. Just because I didn't want to do 70mph in a 35mph zone. Gee, thanks. It's not like your state is dependent upon tourist dollars, or anything.

So anyway, I just see it as a human being problem more than a New Jersey problem. We just have a higher population than any other state, which translates into more stupid per square mile.

The_Black_Knight

09-16-2007, 01:10 PM

Ironic, this morning on my way to work in my tractor-trailer I was putting on my make up, talking on my cell phone, brushing my teeth and eating breakfast, and I drove right over a silver Dodge pickup.

You can thank me later.Unfortunately, this happened in the afternoon, so I think you ran over someone else...

Unless this was...his ghost!

Drazan

09-16-2007, 06:40 PM

:mad:
my surgery was nearly 7 months ago. I'm well. I can lift things and it's not going to hurt me.

gah. I hate it when people think I'm an invalid.

maybe I should be glad I don't have to deal with the heavy stuff moving. but geez...

heh, wonder what he'll think in a few months as the weight comes off, and I look fit again. I don't have a weight bench in my house just for it to look pretty.

budafist

09-17-2007, 01:31 AM

Be glad Drazan! If people are going to move things for you, let them! You deserve it :)

CkretAjint

09-17-2007, 12:16 PM

Just be the queen you aspire to be and allow your minions to do the work for you. ;)

reuber1

09-20-2007, 01:09 AM

ESPN has blacked out the Cub game on Dish Network and Direct TV. WHAT THE ****? Retarded.

budafist

09-20-2007, 01:25 AM

Coworker is talking to his girlfriend again on the phone. Yes, he talks to her many times a day. No, he has nothing to say to her and doesn't have any questions or important things to ask. Yes, they live together. No they don't have any flatmates.

I wouldn't mind if he could do work and talk on the phone at the same time, but he can't. He's also the slowest prepress/designer we have had in the history of this company.

budafist

09-21-2007, 03:47 AM

Have I become a total bitter prude? Please tell me if I am.

Since we work in a print company, we sometimes do joke business cards when printing real business cards for ourselves. Someone had the job title "bindery slut" on their joke business cards. When they ran out of real ones, they started giving clients the joke ones. Is that totally inappropriate or should I just take a chill pill? I've designed joke cards before but not this batch. Hope the bosses don't realise that these are being handed out to clients.

frankster

09-21-2007, 03:49 AM

budafist

09-21-2007, 10:17 AM

I can't answer that Frankster. Let me transfer you to the bindery slut department :D

Typically

09-21-2007, 01:09 PM

hahahahaha i think that's hilarious! ppl may get offended but i'd get a good laugh out of it :D

The_Black_Knight

09-21-2007, 01:14 PM

Newbies on web forums that don't bother to read over some of the content of the forums before posting. That really ticks me off.

Look, there's a whole section of this forum dedicated to Adobe products. It's called, oddly enough, "Adobe Products." Please use this part of the forum for asking questions about using Illustrator, Photoshop, and InDesign. For questions about typography, there's a lovely part of this forum called "Typography."

Is this difficult? Am I missing something here?

I know you're desperate to have your questions answered, but before you post in a blind panic, please try looking around for just a minute to see if you're posting in the right spot.

morea

09-21-2007, 01:30 PM

Typically

09-21-2007, 02:43 PM

when people ask for hi res photo for a website! they ask me for a hi res image at 1200 x 1200. just say you need an image that's 1200 x 1200! don't know if this bugs anyone else but it really gets my goat and it happen at least 3 times a week. ahhhhhh i feel better =]

CkretAjint

09-21-2007, 03:05 PM

I feel you Typically.. I was just asked to a "SUPER HIGH RES IMAGE" for a power point presentation that is on screen only. :rolleyes:

John G

09-21-2007, 03:27 PM

imo you shoulda just given them a super high res image. "What do you mean it's too big?, you wanted high res, that suckers 400 dpi!"

CkretAjint

09-21-2007, 03:46 PM

imo you shoulda just given them a super high res image.

No worries. I did!!! haha... 24" x 16" @ 300 dpi. I made them download it off of our FTP site.

:p

John G

09-21-2007, 04:04 PM

lolololololol

The_Black_Knight

09-21-2007, 04:40 PM

in a similar vein, when someone knows enough to use google to find a forum to post their question, then doesn't even bother to look at the top few current threads to see that there is already an active thread on that topic, let alone use the forum search feature. No, you're NOT the first person to ask whether mac is better than pc, or ID is better than Quark. And posting a question on a forum is not a substitute for doing actual research for your dissertation.

Also, when someone registers to post a question, but instead of starting a new thread, they post their question on another active, but completely unrelated thread. Why?!? :DI just hope I don't wind up working with any of these people in the future. If they have this much trouble with attention to detail, I would wind up killing them in less than a week.

It would be funny to be able to see how much of a kick in the pants reality will be when these guys get into the real world, and actually have to know a few things to be able to keep their jobs.

09-21-2007, 04:56 PM

Look, there's a whole section of this forum dedicated to Adobe products. It's called, oddly enough, "Adobe Products." Please use this part of the forum for asking questions about using Illustrator, Photoshop, and InDesign. For questions about typography, there's a lovely part of this forum called "Typography."

Is this difficult? Am I missing something here?

Personally It does not bother me because i do not browse through the forum sections - I just look at the new posts link. In fact I am all for posting in the wrong sections because it actually gives the mods something to do. To prove this I am not even going to post this in the correct thread - Hopefully one of the mods can move this post for me.

morea

09-21-2007, 05:16 PM

you're a turd, MD.

That faked me out, because I just closed the tab for "things that jerk my chain" and your random, misplaced post was in the next tab. :p

Virgo Nightingale

09-21-2007, 05:18 PM

I really love when noobs post the same question in different parts of the forum. Like once in say Typography and then again in General because they didn't get a response in the other forum soon enough (aka 20 minutes) and maybe people read this forum more than the other.

The_Black_Knight

09-21-2007, 05:59 PM

Why, why, why do designers feel the need to be creative with everything on a package design?

If you're designing graphics for packaging, please note:

You can't change the dieline just because you don't like it. A packaging engineer has already determined the structure, and isn't going to change it on a whim.
Don't screw around with the Drug Facts formatting. Let me repeat: Don't screw around with the Drug Facts formatting. Let me repeat that again: Don't screw around with the Drug Facts formatting. Just don't. If you don't know how to format Drug Facts, talk to someone who does. If you feel the need to be creative, do it somewhere else.Thank you.

raerae

09-21-2007, 06:16 PM

Is it not okay to put the drug facts in comic sans?

GraphixNPrint

09-21-2007, 06:31 PM

Don't screw around with the Drug Facts formatting. Let me repeat: Don't screw around with the Drug Facts formatting. Let me repeat that again: Don't screw around with the Drug Facts formatting. Just don't. If you don't know how to format Drug Facts, talk to someone who does. If you feel the need to be creative, do it somewhere else.
Thank you.

Would this also apply to street pharmacologist and their packaging? :rolleyes:

CkretAjint

09-21-2007, 06:52 PM

*examines dark green folder to apply text to*

*hears from the other side of the table* "I like the color pink, some hot pink text would look good."

:eek:

raerae

09-21-2007, 09:42 PM

Something that jerks my chain:

Designing twelve package designs, meeting an extremely short deadline, and copying and pasting the text straight from a text doc my client gave me, and having him call me outraged because there's a typo, and wanting the revisions done immediately.

One more thing that jerks my chain:
Run on sentences, like the one I just wrote.

GraphixNPrint

09-21-2007, 10:33 PM

Why do people wait till the last minute of Fridays and want some odd job quoted? Every Friday, different customer, different print job, and they want the quote by the end of the day! OK, enough wasting time, let me run to estimating and quote this out real quick!

GraphixNPrint

09-21-2007, 10:34 PM

raerae, I have a tendancy to use run on sentences all the time, YIKES!

The_Black_Knight

09-22-2007, 12:06 PM

Is it not okay to put the drug facts in comic sans?That should be fine. I think the FDA is going to make that the standard starting in 2009.

reuber1

09-28-2007, 01:18 AM

I just saw a MOTHER ****ING Christmas movie commerical that's not due out until November.

:mad: :mad: :mad:

GAWD I hate Hollywood sometimes.

Virgo Nightingale

09-28-2007, 01:37 PM

The Food Network aired a quick little segment yesterday where this one cook demonstrates how to make a cocktail for the Thanksgiving holiday. Um, it's still September!!

Typically

09-28-2007, 01:49 PM

yea it is a little early for that but just becasue it's not summer anymore doesn't mean i won't still drink sams summer ale =]

Virgo Nightingale

09-28-2007, 01:54 PM

Well, the Summer Ale is probably on sale at this point! Good beer at a better price? Can't beat that!

Ben Kessler

09-28-2007, 02:21 PM

Virgo, I feel you. My birthday is on Thanksgiving this year, and I don't want to be reminded of how close I am to turning...I won't even say.

yodi711

09-28-2007, 02:55 PM

Okay, my chain was REALLY jerked yesterday...

I work for an architectural firm as an in-house graphic designer. Well, we had a proposal due yesterday that had to be delivered by 2pm (time stamped, 2:01pm would not have been accepted). So we stayed lated working on it the night before, I did the input into InDesign from Word yesterday morning and formatted the entire 60 page document as well as project example sheets and resumes. Come crunch time (noonish), the marketing assistant and I were running through the office, printing, collating, binding (13 copies by the way)...and what does our boss do? She went to lunch...a 3 hour lunch!!!!! We obviously needed a hand with what we were doing but she left. She does that all the time! She has never seen a proposal actually get packaged and shipped or hand-delivered. She usually says "looks like you guys have it under control"...sha...right...as if.

Oh by the way, the proposal was stamped at 1:59. Whew! The marketing assistant and I were 'released' for the day around 4 and both of us were starving because, yes, we didn't get to eat lunch...she did though.

Thanks for letting me get that off my chest.

Typically

10-03-2007, 02:46 PM

ugh!

boss comes to me for logo design for the eco friendly line we are working on. he doesn't have/give me a name for the line. i come up with a few ideas that i think look good. he doesn't like any of them and then tells me a name he wants! that's not so bad but he wants to include a smiley face in the logo =[

Tsmalldon

10-03-2007, 03:24 PM

wants to include a smiley face in the logo

This can only end horribly.................

John G

10-03-2007, 03:40 PM

Boss:
Hey we got a contract extension, we're good for another year!

Yesterday:
Hey, we're taking a loss on this contract, we're probably going to need to cut some people if we don't get this other contract (0 for 11 so far...).

Koolaid man: Oooooooooohhhhhhh Yeaeeaaaaaah.

BJMRGTIVR6

10-03-2007, 04:38 PM

Jackimalyn

10-03-2007, 04:45 PM

Boss: Jackie, this spreadsheet for [our big customer] that you emailed me, did it have all these mistakes on it when you sent it to them?
Me: I didn't send [big customer anything]
Boss: I forwarded the email you sent me with it attached.
Me: The email I sent you said specifically for you and the VP of sales to review and approve it and only then send it out.
Boss: Oh. Well I didnt read your email I just sent it.

What??? Who does that? It was pricing and descriptions of almost 1,000 new parts for our customer. I am confident in my work, when I sent it to my boss, I was confident that it was accurate. However, I am human. I make mistakes. I should not be the only person looking at this damn thing! Ive been staring at it for weeks, gets a little monotonous. Then, the VP of sales asked why I sent it before she reviewed it and got back to me. wtf? AAGGGHH.

Luckily the engineering department ordered pizza today and Im going to get a piece :)

The_Black_Knight

10-08-2007, 12:35 PM

CkretAjint

10-08-2007, 12:41 PM

I feel you TBK. And it is only Monday morning... Gonna be a LONG week if it comtinues!

CkretAjint

10-08-2007, 01:13 PM

Typically

10-08-2007, 01:22 PM

I can't stand people that can't leave their personal lives at home.

"Mom... Mom... MOM LISTEN TO ME! I already told him yadda yadda yadda... MOM! Why don't you listen to me. I said I already told him blah blah blah blah blah..."

SHUT UP AND ARGUE WITH YOUR IDIOT RELATIVES AT HOME! I DON'T WANT TO HEAR IT AT WORK!

i work with an asian person and a Spanish person. i hear conversation in Chinese and Spanish all day long. at least you know what they are saying. they could be talking about a piece of bagel that's been stuck in my beard for the last hour for all i know =]

Red Kittie Kat

10-08-2007, 03:51 PM

lmao CA .. where ya going after work?

:D

Sorry couldn't resist ;)

I think you look just fine btw ;)

TBK ... I understand what you mean ... there was a woman I worked with years ago that was always calling her kids when they got home from school and giving them a list of things to do and arguing with them about it... every single day. It drove me nuts.

reuber1

10-08-2007, 04:04 PM

My inkjet printer is going to get the Office Space treatment here shortly. No, it's fun spending 15 to 20 minutes trying to print one ****ing envelope, what am I thinking? That's EXACTLY how I want to spend my job hunt time. Good lord. :mad:

CkretAjint

10-08-2007, 04:12 PM

CA .. where ya going after work?

... home. haha!

frankster

10-08-2007, 04:12 PM

Decided to look nice and wear a tie to work today. No special reason at all. If 1 more person comes up to me and asks me what the occasion is, or if I have a job interview elsewhere I am going to shoot someone *loads gun*...

Can't a guy just take pride in his appearance and look nice?? :D

I feel your pain. It's all relative isn't it. I spent most of my late teens and early twenties looking like an explosion in goodwill, with flamingo pink hair, so when I "dressed up" for uni graduation or weddings etc people used to make such a frickin fuss, like them making a fuss was somehow going to make me want to dress like that all the time. People used to say things like "Oh my goodness! I didn't know you had legs!" or "you clean up well". I'm not so extreme with my look these days, more retired hippy than eco warrior, but I am tempted to do the pink hair just once more to give the kids a laugh. I even went to a formal university ball in a homemade floor length silver ball gown with pink hair. I looked like I should have been on a date with Captain Kirk! :rolleyes: