Things that jerk my chain...

[teniworks]

people who think that you can magically justify paragraphs using "a" and "of" a crap load of times and make it look perfect.

[teniworks]

oh, and let's not forget the boss who thinks that your personal time away from work is still their time and they must call you and leave messages to tell you inane things that they want you to do for the next day. When I leave work for the day or the weekend or whatever, that time is my &*@#^% time!

[The_Black_Knight]

I have two words to describe my mood right now:



Winter.

Sucks.



That is all.

[idaho]

I hate it when a 60 foot tall pine trees fall on my house on the coldest day of the year!

[Kool]

Yikes! Yeah I hate it when that happens.

[The_Black_Knight]

I hate it when a 60 foot tall pine trees fall on my house on the coldest day of the year!Holy crap!

I think that would bother me no matter what day of the year that happened.

[BJMRGTIVR6]

looks like someone has a new Christmas tree.

Seriously...Ouch!!

[idaho]

I actually joked about that with my wife... she wasn't amused.

The worst part was that we knew it had to come down and were just arguing 5 minutes before it fell about whether it could wait until summer. Apparently she was right.

She's never going to let me hear the end of it.

[BJMRGTIVR6]

That reminds me of the National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation movie, where the Griswald tree (I think) crashes through the neighbors house.

[CkretAjint]

Having a vacation planned for Friday for 2 months, and having your boss come in and announce that your yearly review is on.... Friday! :rolleyes:

[Typically]

well you've been there the rest of the year right?

[CkretAjint]

yepp... Just over 2 years.

[Typically]

they can't review with you when you get back? you gave them plenty of time i'm sure they coudl work with you.

[CkretAjint]

Yah. They are 'working on' squeezing me in on Wednesday or Thursday. I guess having 1 person go one day before everyone else is a big deal! *shrugs*

[Drawing a Blank]

Shopping during December.
I swear it's a good thing I don't have a carry permit.

[BJMRGTIVR6]

I almost think Parking is worse than shopping during December.
Luckily most of mine is purchased online or ahead of time.

And the running of the red lights is sickening now too...especially the ones that run it only to remain in the middle of the intersection so oncoming traffic cannot go. I feel like ripping off their windshield wipers and moving on.

[Drawing a Blank]

I should have been more clear in my post because I definatley consider parking to be part of shopping. Don't know why some people are so rude this time of year...now I'm thinking about it and I need to go take a walk.

[Typically]

winter brings out the reruns in in minivans with 8 inches of snow on top of there cars. and because they are 3 feet tall and can only see over the steering wheel with 2 phone books under them there is no way they are gonna reach the snow on top of there car. so they just go along driving 35 in a 50 and when they finally do hit 50 a huge hunk of ice/snow comes flying off and smashes into the car behind them causing a 15 car pile up and they don't even notice because there rear window is iced over, are busy talking on there cell phone, and drinking a moca frapachino

[BJMRGTIVR6]

haha. I have a nice little "foam broom thing" for snow removal on cars...my aunt got it at the car dealership she works for. (shhh)

but yes that is quite irritating.

[Virgo Nightingale]

Those things are great and all, but they don't help too much when the 'snow' on the hood of your car is really a fairly solid slab of ice.

[Typically]

thats why you warm your car up in the morning =]

[Two-Toe Tom]

maybe you can run ur engine for a while to melt the bottom, then slide the slab off

[Typically]

ninja posts attack!!!!!!!

[WannaBrie]

I feel so bad for all you guys up there in the ice and the snow. I grew up in it and remember how much it sucks. None of that here, but I spent a good 20 mins huddled in my tiny bathroom with my son, 80lb dog and cat during a tornado watch at 6:30am saturday morning! Hell of a wake up call! No damage this time thank god.

but if that alone doesn't make you all feel better, I will be up in the mountains of Asheville NC next week freezing my hiney off!!

[Virgo Nightingale]

I tried that yesterday morning, but the slab still wasn't coming off without risk of hacking off my paint. It made it to work intact, then slid off on its own during the day while the sun beamed down on it. :D

[Typically]

i lived in tampa for 3 years when i went to school. we had 3 hurricanes come through the last 2 months i was living down there! we had to evacuate for one because it was supposed to hit us dead on so we went to my roommates parents place close to orlando. it wound up missing tampa completely and hitting orlando! go figure haha.

glad to hear there was no damage that's gotta be scary waking up to that!

[WannaBrie]

Thanks, typically, I know what you mean about the unpredictability of tornadoes, hurricanes...during andrew, I lived near lauderdale and they were saying it was gonna hit dead on there, so guess where I evacuated to? Coconut Grove! ...pretty close to ground zero (homestead). it was awful! But I thank god for my little weather radio, it goes off and we seek cover!

[Typically]

people not taking the time to read the 2 sentences that i typed up about the size of a piece. if that's how it's going to be i'll just send emails with no subject and no body.

[The_Black_Knight]

People who are too lazy to clarify why they are forwarding an e-mail to you.

Just sending me a random dieline file attached to an e-mail that consists of a hundred forwards and comments doesn't help me. What product is this dieline for? Why are you giving it to me? When can I expect more information? What exactly do you need me to do? I am not going to sift through pages and pages of random babble to try to find out what the important bits are.

If you have the word "manager" in your title, do some freakin' managing. Just forwarding e-mails to people is not managing. A computer could do that job just fine, thanks. We don't need the meat in the chair that makes more than $100k a year for that.

[mrktguy29]

People who are too lazy to clarify why they are forwarding an e-mail to you.

Just sending me a random dieline file attached to an e-mail that consists of a hundred forwards and comments doesn't help me. What product is this dieline for? Why are you giving it to me? When can I expect more information? What exactly do you need me to do? I am not going to sift through pages and pages of random babble to try to find out what the important bits are.

If you have the word "manager" in your title, do some freakin' managing. Just forwarding e-mails to people is not managing. A computer could do that job just fine, thanks. We don't need the meat in the chair that makes more than $100k a year for that.

I agree, I love when things get forwarded to me and no instructions come with. I am like? WTF do you want me to do with this, or atleast a file name that means something, not DSC0012 or a clients name. I don't know their clients.

[Drawing a Blank]

Well said TBK.
Sucks too when they send you a die line with no information and then get upset a week later when the box design hasn't even been started. I do one of two things at that point. I either send then the empty die lines and say "Here is the box design with all of the information you provided me" or I send them a file that has the phrase "You are a dum bass" and a picture of a baby picking it's nose on each of the box panels. After that they usually send me more information.

[budafist]

I send them a file that has the phrase "You are a dum bass" and a picture of a baby picking it's nose on each of the box panels. After that they usually send me more information.

Please upload this file to the resources section.

K thnx bai! :)

[budafist]

Love it when clients give me CDs that aren't labelled.

Or better still, they label it with "printing" or "flyers" or "brochure" or "business cards" and nothing else. Yes, your business cards are the only business cards I've received on CD this year. If you are going to label your CD with those words, you might as well not label it at all.

[teniworks]

Clients that tell you to just pull images off of their website to use on their promotional products. I can't really do anything with a low-res, 1x2 image that they want to fill a letter-sized page. I feel very scrooge-like this Christmas. It's most likely because I've just spent three weeks creating, putting together holiday packages and going through printer hell to get this stuff out to our clients. I need to get out of this funk. Venting helps. Thanks GDF!

[budafist]

Clients that tell you to take their logo off their website for a spot colour job. When I say anything, they ask if I can redraw it. Well yes I can, but why should I have to!?

[Typically]

i just found out that the whole office is off monday except for marketing! sooo weak! the stuff im working on isn't that important that i need to come in.

[mrktguy29]

Yeah, there has been limited activity in our office this week. I have learned the Realtors take off for the WHOLE month of December, along with half of November and January. This isn't the end of it though. When it comes time for OU football, they will take a whole week off for Bedlam. Must be nice to take off when one wishes. I just get tired of hearing them complain about not making any money, yet they are ALWAYS going some place exoctic. WTF?!?!

[budafist]

Our whole company is closed from 22nd December and doesn't reopen until 7th January. Oh wait...wrong thread :rolleyes:

[Virgo Nightingale]

You would think that one of the biggest, most famous, multi-million dollar international cosmetics companies could afford graphic designers who know what the heck they're doing.

I'm placing translated text into a selling guide that's already been designed by their in-house designers. Whoever did this just LOVES to hit tab repeatedly to move text to the following line instead of using a soft break or even a hard return. I also don't think they've ever heard of the little doohicky that you put in the front of a paragraph so that the following lines line up with that point (I don't know what it's called, but I sure as hell know how to use it). No, this schmuck just hits tab at the end of the previous line until the text he wants to align with the text above ends up where it's supposed to. ARRRGGHH!!!11

Yippee for the first chain jerking of the new year. :rolleyes:

[CkretAjint]

*pets Virgo* it's okay, deep breathes...

[mrktguy29]

Maybe the persons keyboard is without a enter or it was not working. I once was without a space key, talk about creative writing.

I was trying to explain my situation and looked like this:

I.cannot.use.my.space.bar.right.now,please.let.me. restart.to.see.if.it.helps.

My jerked chain right now is certain people who think we can put together a 300+ slide show together with all slides custom for each agent in the matter of a couple of weeks. OH yeah, I just got the list today!

WooHoo! Lots of Coffee and Coke to go with my late nights!

[Virgo Nightingale]

This person's keyboard has been broken for over a year then, and this company makes enough money to buy him a new one anyway.

While I'm at it, what else jerks my chain: my stackable washer/dryer slowly taking a crap on me. At the end of the wash, my clothes are still sopping wet (I can wring out the water) and the dryer's big felt ring (acts as a buffer between the rotating drum and the stationary portion of the interior) has completely dislodged itself. I'm guessing I could get away with drying clothes in there without it, but I'd rather not have some article of clothing get jammed in there and cause some sort of serious problem. Granted this thing is ancient, works for crap and has a load capacity the size of my fist, but I was hoping to make do with it for a couple more years until we moved into a larger apartment or bought a house. So some of the money I have earmarked for wedding-related stuff will now be going towards a new washer and dryer. How domestic.

[CkretAjint]

You know what really jerks my chain? Not having a time machine to speed up time so I can go buy a new game for my Wii on my lunch break. Then being able to skip time again so I can go home and play my game! ARGH, THAT JERKS MY CHAIN!!! :o

[budafist]

Hey, if your space bar isn't working, you could always select a space, copy and paste where required :)

[budafist]

Yesterday I went to pay for about $80 worth of groceries. My card declined even though I knew I had about a thousand in my account. So embarrassing not being able to pay for groceries. We are regulars, so we just put the groceries aside to go get some money out.

Went to the ATM to check my account. Sure enough, I had a thousand in my account (all unavailable), but for some reason, it said I also had about $68,000 in funds that was yet to be cleared! What the hell!? The ATM couldn't do anything for me so we went home to scrounge around some cash and returned to the supermarket to pick up our groceries just before they closed.

So I called the bank up right away. The lady initially said that my funds were locked because my cheque hadn't cleared yet. The cheque was only for about $250 so that couldn't be it since I couldn't even spend $80. After being put on hold for ages, she figured it out and set it right.

Apparently the person that had typed in the details for the cheque had typed in the cheque number instead of the amount! :rolleyes:

Dumbass! You'd think big warning bells would've happened when someone tries to cash a foreign cheque that large!!!

[CkretAjint]

That really blows Buda... Been there done that. :(

[Virgo Nightingale]

A coworker here had a mortgage check bounce because someone at the gas and electric company misread the check she'd sent to them (a week before she wrote the mortgage check). They thought her 1 was a 7, so they withdrew a $700 payment from her checking account for a $100 bill. :eek: And to top it all off, she had to present the mortgage company a notarized letter from either the utility company or the bank where her checking account was (I don't remember which) explaining the nature of the error before they would remove the negative mark on her credit rating.

[razuel]

Clients that use multiple question marks. One lady said something like,

i received a quote????????? no changes have been made?????????

I counted, she used 9 question marks twice, exactly. As if one question mark doesn't do the trick, she had to make sure I knew that she REALLY wanted to know.

[budafist]

Banks huh? If I make an error I get charged $25 for an overdraft or for a failed auto payment, but the bank makes an error, I can't get groceries and all they do is fix it. No compensation.

[budafist]

Clients that use multiple question marks. One lady said something like,

i received a quote????????? no changes have been made?????????

I counted, she used 9 question marks twice, exactly. As if one question mark doesn't do the trick, she had to make sure I knew that she REALLY wanted to know.

lol. I have to say, I use multiple punctuation when I'm really confused.

[Jackimalyn]

so... this guy called and said he wanted to have his website redesigned. I talked to him about his current site (which sucks) and he said he wanted to redo it because a friend of his aunt or some crap just made that for him for free and he wants it to look more professional and up to date. Well, fortunately for me, he got my name from my dad, who said he was already quoted $X for the site which was too much. Its a basic HTML 10 pages whatever and $X was already twice as much as I would have charged so I found a happy little medium and sent him a quote.

I called him and asked what he thought of it and he complained that it was way too high. He asked if I could come down at all and I said I could come down about 7% he said that was ridiculous and why would a website cost so much? EXCUSE me? I thought you were looking for something not free and something professional looking? Did you think you'd get another free site that doesnt look like crap? I was so insulted. No respect.

[John G]

graphic design: we do this for fun!

[frankster]

You've got to admit though, if your dad gave him a 2x price estimate before he even got to you, then the guy has been quoted:

2x, then x, then x-7%, so any sane person would figure, "hey, I wonder what happens if I just keep asking? It's going to go even lower right? Might as well try"

Edit: actually, I read things a bit wrong. Looks like he was quoted 2x then 1.5x, then 1.5x-7%, so is that equal to x (the usual price you charge)? If not then you're playing him at his own bartering game aren't you.

[Jackimalyn]

no, I told him I coudnt go any lower, thats when he got appaled. i mean he seemed shocked. w/e. i wont go any lower than i quoted him so, oh well

[budafist]

Maybe you need to explain to him the amount of hours involved. Maybe he thought that there was an EASY button?

[frankster]

I'm guessing it might be a bit of the old freind and family referal system pain in the ass. I love it when past clients refer new ones, but when freinds and family refer people they know, it often involves some cranky form of the kevin bacon connection thing, where they think that they are entitled to "mate's rates" even though they have never met you before.

[morea]

why, why, WHY does my coffee always get cold before I finish drinking it? Coffee tastes like the floor of a taxi cab after the 3rd or 4th reheat... but for some reason I have to drink it anyway!

[PrintDriver]

Which begs the question "what are you doing on the floor of a taxicab and why are you tasting it????"
:p

[morea]

I don't remember exactly... but I think that there may have been alcohol involved. :o :D

[CkretAjint]

My coffee does that too. about 45 min after I pour it to be exact...

[The_Black_Knight]

I don't remember exactly... but I think that there may have been alcohol involved. :o :DMust have been tequila. That stuff should be illegal...

[captain spanky]

things that are jerking my chain already in '08... well one of them, is that i just spent £2000 on a new car ... which doesn't work. :( grrrrrrr

[Kool]

why, why, WHY does my coffee always get cold before I finish drinking it? Coffee tastes like the floor of a taxi cab after the 3rd or 4th reheat... but for some reason I have to drink it anyway!

I had this same problem and I solved it by buying a high quality steel thermos. I also checked into thermal coffee carafes but they were more expensive and the thermos had the advantage of being portable. Anyway as soon as the coffee is done after pouring my first cup I put the rest in the thermos and it stays hot and fresh all day. Just be sure and pre-heat the thermos with hot water before you add the coffee.

[Typically]

or you could get this CLICKY! (http://www.thinkgeek.com/gadgets/electronic/85b6/)

[Typically]

people requesting hi-res files, they receive hi-res images and proceed to tell me they aren't :D

[Virgo Nightingale]

^^That's when you upsample the image to 18" wide at 600 dpi and then email it to them.

Big enough for ya?

:D

[budafist]

why, why, WHY does my coffee always get cold before I finish drinking it? Coffee tastes like the floor of a taxi cab after the 3rd or 4th reheat... but for some reason I have to drink it anyway!

Microwaved coffee makes me feel icky. I'd rather drink it cold.

[urstwile]

I had this same problem and I solved it by buying a high quality steel thermos. I also checked into thermal coffee carafes but they were more expensive and the thermos had the advantage of being portable. Anyway as soon as the coffee is done after pouring my first cup I put the rest in the thermos and it stays hot and fresh all day. Just be sure and pre-heat the thermos with hot water before you add the coffee.
Good advice, Kool. That's what I do too.

[Typically]

ugh a few days after xmas my xbox broke (red ring of death.) it was like 11 at night and i was like ehh no big deal i have the 2 year warranty on it i can go get a new one tomorrow. well wouldn't that have been nice :mad:

i go to the store xbox, cables, and controller in hand. i start talking to the person at the counter and they tell me yea not a problem but we don't have any in stock (ok that's understandable its only a few days after xmas.) They tell me that they get shipments sundays and thursdays and to call in to see if the got any in.

i've been calling for the past 2 weeks with no such luck. the problem i have with this is: i have a warranty for this thing that i paid you guys $50 for to be able to get a replacement when it breaks. i understand that it's right after xmas but it's not like im just some person trying to buy one. i'm stuck going back to the same damn store. they should be able to order one for a customer in this situation. i called again this morning with no luck once again. it's jut getting old and i wanna play halo :( hahah ok i'm starting to sound like a 5yr old but i just find this a crappy situation dealing with best buy once again.

[CkretAjint]

So sad. Can you call Microsoft directly and see if they can help you?

[Typically]

they don't have anything to do with it. it's best buy that isn't helping any. glad to take your cash but not happy to help you out when they have to back up there end of it.

i'm really getting tired of dealing with them. first my ipod now this

[CkretAjint]

boo! Have you talked to a manager? called their customer hotline? I'd file a complaint...

[Typically]

i haven't talked to the manger about this yet but i doubt he'll be able to do anything. last time i dealt with him he just ran me around in circles. i wrote an email to the best buy website but doubt that will do any good. calling the customer hotline is a good idea i might try that later on when i get home tonight

[Virgo Nightingale]

Purchasing a book with paisley designs so I can go through them and use a few for my wedding invitations and getting all excited because it comes with a CD with all the art on it so I don't have to actually scan anything, then getting even more excited when I read in the description that the images on the disc each come in several different formats including eps because heck, I'll be able to make them big and not have the quality suffer and then actually opening one of the eps files on the disc only to realize that it's really just an image pasted into an eps file so it's still crappy raster.... :mad:

[budafist]

then actually opening one of the eps files on the disc only to realize that it's really just an image pasted into an eps file so it's still crappy raster.... :mad:

That's a total scam! Is there anyone you can send a dirty letter to?

[GraphixNPrint]

That's a total scam! Is there anyone you can send a dirty letter to?

She can send the dirty letter to me :D

oh wait, I see you didn't mean THAT kind of dirty letter ;)

[CkretAjint]

bwahahahahahahaaa!!! That sucks, but I got a good laugh out of it! haha

[budafist]

Well, it is the resident Dirty Girl ;)

[CkretAjint]

Has she tried using Axe shower gels? It worked wonders for me and my dirty problems :)

[Virgo Nightingale]

< Allergic to such things as Axe... I'll just have to stay dirty... Ho hum... ;)

[AlexNJ210]

thanks to typicallys link a few posts ago another remedy for those things that jerk our chains http://www.thinkgeek.com/homeoffice/gear/86dd/

[teniworks]

Once again people who just step out into the middle of a major intersection to cross the street. I almost hit another person who just stepped out into the road and didn't push the button for the crosswalk. And he was walking freakin' molasses slow. Pedestrians just have no fear anymore.

I should probably mention that i've never actually hit any human being with my car.

[John G]

Back in college it was actually a goal to get hit by a car. The ultimate goal was a university vehicle doing the job for the free tuition rumor. Even during the snow and ice, but the residential speed limits didn't help us much :(

Took some getting used having people not actively even think of stopping when you got back out of the college town.

[teniworks]

It was the same thing when I was in college too but, people just wanted to get their crappy cars hit so they could be totaled out. They wanted to upgrade :)

[budafist]

So I did a job last week and it was signed off by the client on Friday. All it needed today is for the plates to be sent to our CTP so that it could be printed. I'd put the job in the Send to Plate intray. So what does my guy do? He lays it up for plates and sends to the client for proofing. The client is going to think we're idiots. Awesome. It's like the left hand doesn't know what the right hand is doing. Gah!

I hit him up about it and he said that's what he always sends a proof before plating to double double check. So now I know how he holds up jobs. Client approves and we set a deadline for print for a few days from approval date. We don't set a new deadline when my guy sends this second proof for approval.

[GraphixNPrint]

The whole purpose of a CTP system is that the job has been approved and NEEDS plating --- direct to plate, not direct to re-proofing! Idiots, you just have to love them! ;)

[budafist]

At least he's not smelly today. Maybe he had his year bath over the Christmas holidays!

[budafist]

A client called up complaining that she never received the proof for some artwork that was supposed to be emailed to her last year.

My coworker said he had already sent it twice to her. When I asked him if he had received any bounced/returned messages, he said got 2 bounced emails (message not delivered) but didn't do anything to chase it up. Turns out he had spelt her email address incorrectly both times. He said that he often gets bounced messages so he doesn't chase them up anymore.

Someone please tell me this is not normal practice!

[urstwile]

Oh fer cryin' out loud, Buda, this guy's gotta go!

[budafist]

Will you take him Urst?

[urstwile]

Hellz no! :eek:

[Virgo Nightingale]

This guy is a MORON.

[Red Kittie Kat]

ok this just came to mind and cracked me up ... must be my Catholic roots lol


St. Inky Moronicus

[budafist]

Well I told my boss about the email thing. His eyes widened and he was amazed at the moronicus. It actually wasn't as hard as I thought it would be. I didn't have a sit down meeting or anything, I just mentioned it when my boss came in to give me something about that particular job.

It's easier for me to mention St. Inky Moronicus's failings to my boss casually and when it seems to be relevant.

Calling a meeting is too scarey for me at this point. I hope that is ok with you guys. Baby steps ok?

[Virgo Nightingale]

I love you buda, but I think there have been too many baby steps when it comes to this St. Inky Moronicus. Time to move up to the toddler steps in the very least. :p

[budafist]

lol. I know it. I'd be frustrated if I were you too :)

I need someone to crack a whip on me so I can crack a whip on him!

[urstwile]

I hope your boss got the point that he basically angered a client and jeopardized that relationship because of his moronificatiousness.

[budafist]

I think he gets the point. As to whether or not he thinks it's a big enough issue for dismissal is another issue.

BTW moronificatiousness is an excellent word. :)

[Virgo Nightingale]

I need someone to crack a whip on me so I can crack a whip on him!

wha-PISSSHHH!!! :D

[urstwile]

BTW moronificatiousness is an excellent word. :)
:) Why thank you. :)

[Two-Toe Tom]

lol. I know it. I'd be frustrated if I were you too :)

I need someone to crack a whip on me so I can crack a whip on him!

http://img529.imageshack.us/img529/9557/tfr220oa9.gif

[frankster]

What is that creature shouting?

I would use the word "Knoblett" to describe your collegue Buda. :rolleyes:

[budafist]

I would say that Knoblett is too kind.

[teniworks]

Knoblett seems like a cuddly word. What about putting an adjective before it like "raging". Would that be considered an adjective or a verb "Raging Knoblett"?

[budafist]

A knoblett would be a child that kept "accidentally" knocking your drink off the coffee table because it's funny.

[Riya]

That would be an noun and an adverb. ;)

[teniworks]

It's been so long since i've had to know this sort of thing offhand ^:)

[MD]

Setting up my new computer.

I didn't want to migrate over my user account from my old computer because I thought starting fresh seemed like a good idea. After I had it running I realized that I didn't have all of my bookmarks, E-mail, passwords etc.

So I decided to migrate my profile over from my other machine ... OSX won't let me merge or overwrite the owner account and I have to rename my transferred account because it has the same name as the owner account.

Fine. Transfer over a shit ton of files only to find out that I cannot log in to the transfered account. **** around with changing passwords and logging in and out of account for an hour or so before I give up and attempt it again.

Try again and I can finally log in. Hooray! Everything is good, e-mail is there files are in place - everything appears to be spiffy. Except it keeps asking for my password for almost everything I do. Move a file -> type a password. Check E-mail -> type a password. Start Firefox -> Are you sure you want to open a downloaded application file? Every time I open the browser. I was thinking I accidentally installed Vista.

So I decided to take a break from troubleshooting and play a little Full Tilt Poker. No tables would show up after I clicked on them. Ugggg! Check the Owner account and everything is fine.

Pitch the transferred account again.
Now I have a dilemma because all of the freelance files I transferred over are "owned" by the deleted account and I do not see an apply to all enclosed files button under get info. Rather than waste another couple hours attempting to find the right solution I just trash them all and bring them all over again without the help of migration assistant.

I guess I will be stating from scratch.
Tried to move my e-mails over (a couple times) manually this morning before work only to find that they didn't show up ... maybe Mail just needs some time to process them. (2.5 gb over 1000 inbox messages) Yeah I know I need to go through them...

I can't wait until I get my software next week! Wheee!

[reuber1]

So, my car is out for the count with an anti-freeze leakage which will cost about $500 (so much for that new printer for a while), so the alternate vehicle I get runs fine for me to get to work today, but when I get off, it's M'FING battery dies. I am to cars what lethal injection is to humans. Granted, it was -10 degrees outside with some nasty wind chill, so that was a plus. :rolleyes:

[Typically]

yesterday morning leaving for work i noticed something odd in the back yard. the cooler that has been sitting outside for awhile was moved in front of the grill that is right by our sun room roof. i noticed it but didn't think anything of it.

i got home from work yesterday and my roommate notices a lawn chair on top of the AC unit. so i grab my flashlight and check it out and the gutter is pulled down too. So i call my parents then i call the cops.

The cops come out and ask a few questions and look around the house. She says that it definitely looks like someone tried to get on the roof or did because there was change and a pen on the roof by my roommate's window. those windows were open btw. they said they will patrol the area more often and told the neighbors about it.

so i'm just a little freaked out about this because they did this at night with us at home sleeping. they could have came in the house no problem but didn't. so i'm just worried about them coming back again. so with all that said we moved the chairs and cooler into the garage locked all the windows and left the light on in the back yard.

now i have a reason for getting a big dog and a 45 =]

[Red Kittie Kat]

Oh geez ... that is so scary Typically :(

I would get some good locks on those windows just in case.

[Virgo Nightingale]

Oooo!! That's scary, Typically! Please be careful and vigilant!!

[BJMRGTIVR6]

ok, that is a bit freaky. Sorry that I am not "helping" to say not to worry but sometimes worrying can be good as it will help you become more aware.

Maybe put a strip of nails on the roof aimed up and let them put their hand on them...or a strip of tacks.

[PrintDriver]

^Those nailer strips they use for rugs should do the trick. LOL.
But you just watch out, the thief may sue you if he gets tetanus from your nails...and WIN!
Such is the way with the world today...
<le sigh>

[Typically]

haha yea know whats funny? the first thing i said when i saw the gutter ripped down was i wanted to put razor wire in the gutters.

now i gotta look into security stuff. my mom said something about window alarms that make noise but aren't' connect to the police. just to make a lot of noise to scare someone off and or alert the neighbors.

[Virgo Nightingale]

Typ, get something like this (http://www.thpsales.com/store/viewItem.asp?idProduct=1028). They're cheap and you can usually find them in the housewares aisle at the drugstore (Walgreen's, CVS, etc.). The sound they make is loud and piercing, that is of course if you remember to turn them on. ;)

[Typically]

thanks a bunch virgo!!! my mom was talking about this exact type of thing! 8 for $20 not bad at all

[Virgo Nightingale]

You honestly probably won't find them as cheap in the store, sometimes you just can't beat those internet sales! :D Just keep in mind that the shipping is $7. ;)

[Drorain]

it jerks my chain when people take an exaggeration literally...

[budafist]

it jerks my chain when people take an exaggeration literally...

I'll just die if you don't give us an example!

[The_Black_Knight]

Please hurry, Drorain! I don't want buda to die!

[GraphixNPrint]

You kids should be ashamed of yourself!!! Can't you see that Drorain is truely bothered by this issue?? You may just push him over the edge! :rolleyes: :D

[reuber1]

So, my car is out for the count with an anti-freeze leakage which will cost about $500 (so much for that new printer for a while), so the alternate vehicle I get runs fine for me to get to work today, but when I get off, it's M'FING battery dies. I am to cars what lethal injection is to humans. Granted, it was -10 degrees outside with some nasty wind chill, so that was a plus. :rolleyes:
NEVER****INGMIND, NOW IT'S A COMPLETE HEAD GASKET REPLACEMENT FOR $800 ****ING GODDAMMIT. :mad: :mad: :mad: :mad: :mad: :mad: :mad:

[budafist]

Ouch! Unexpected costs like that really are a blow.

[CkretAjint]

NEVER****INGMIND, NOW IT'S A COMPLETE HEAD GASKET REPLACEMENT FOR $800 ****ING GODDAMMIT. :mad: :mad: :mad: :mad: :mad: :mad: :mad:

Reuber, what were the symptoms? Did it speratically overheat while driving? ONLY when stopped? Did you get a chance to check the oil and see if it had a milky film on top?

[teniworks]

Reuber, it could always be worse. I just had to spend a grand to get my breaks, rotors, and axles replaced. Apparently, they were so bad that the break pads themselves were sort of flopping back and forth, not grabbing anything when it was time to stop. Nothing like driving around in a deathtrap going downhill to make you realize that breaks are one of those things that you need to live. However, I could have always Flintstone'd it and saved a $1000. It does suck though to have to turn out that chunk of change for anything car related that's not an upgrade. I feel your pain Reuber.

[MD]

$1200 has evaporated from my brokerage account since macworld ... Apple is down over 26 points today ...OUCH

[WannaBrie]

Brokerage account? What's that? $3.00 just evaporated from my piggy bank so my son could go on a field trip. What's up with that? I don't remember ever having to pay for field trips.

[Typically]

Brokerage account? What's that? $3.00 just evaporated from my piggy bank so my son could go on a field trip. What's up with that? I don't remember ever having to pay for field trips.

isn't that what we pay state tax for? :D

[WannaBrie]

^presactly! :confused:

[budafist]

Brokerage account? What's that? $3.00 just evaporated from my piggy bank so my son could go on a field trip. What's up with that? I don't remember ever having to pay for field trips.

Really? We had to pay for field trips. Maybe because all our field trip venues charged admission!

[Jackimalyn]

OK. It is -9 degrees out right now with a high of 7 for the day. It has been less than ten degrees for over a week. Did you watch the playoff game on Sunday... Packers vs. Giants? Thats where I am. Wisconsin. I can't remember the last time it was this cold for this long. Wind chill advisories every dang day. it's -25 wind chill right now. Its depressing and Im sick of it. Arrrgggghhhh!

It's OK. Were getting a heat wave tomorrow. High of 18. w00t

[reuber1]

OK. It is -9 degrees out right now with a high of 7 for the day. It has been less than ten degrees for over a week. Did you watch the playoff game on Sunday... Packers vs. Giants? Thats where I am. Wisconsin. I can't remember the last time it was this cold for this long. Wind chill advisories every dang day. it's -25 wind chill right now. Its depressing and Im sick of it. Arrrgggghhhh!

It's OK. Were getting a heat wave tomorrow. High of 18. w00t
Yeah, we've had the same. Does wonders to your automobile, as me and $800 now are aware. I wound up broke down on the side of the road on Saturday with no heat in my car, in the middle of nowhere, for 25 minutes. Watching the Packers lose was at least a little warm joy to my week.

[Jackimalyn]

way to add salt to the wound reuber. The packers sucked it up. we were playing so crappy I almost judge the giants for winning by so little.

oh well, whether it was the packers or the giants, either would have been crushed by the patriots next week so... better them than us?

[Typically]

come on now the giants are gonna stomp the Pats! :D

[CkretAjint]

come on now the giants are gonna stomp the Pats! :D

one can only hope! GO GIANTS!!!! :D

[GraphixNPrint]

Ckret, your supposed to say "Go Dolphins.... go away so we can have a real team in S Florida" :p

[Drorain]

come on now the giants are gonna stomp the Pats! :D
thats the funniest damn thing I heard all week!

[CkretAjint]

Dolphins? seriously?? *gags* I would never cheer for them... ever... ever ever.

[MD]

Yeah, we've had the same. Does wonders to your automobile, as me and $800 now are aware. I wound up broke down on the side of the road on Saturday with no heat in my car, in the middle of nowhere, for 25 minutes. Watching the Packers lose was at least a little warm joy to my week.

And the picture of a Bears fan broke down on the side of the road in the middle of nowhere with no heat brings a whole lot of warmth to my week :p

[WannaBrie]

When people leave their dirty dishes in the sink in the communal kitchen at work for days at a time. Gross! I sometimes need to use that sink and its full of dirty dishes!

/rant

[budafist]

Don't get me started on dishes!

I do all the household dishes once or twice a day at home (even though there are 4 adults living at our house).

Then sometimes someone else will fill the dishwasher up and I'll notice that they only filled up the dishwasher with their own dishes. Yup, they picked through the mess of the kitchen and plucked out their own dishes to wash.

[GraphixNPrint]

For a plane ticket and decent food, oh yeah I need a high speed internet connection; I'll come clean up your kitchens for a week!

Hmm... maybe not a bad idea, someone else to pay for my vacation and I only need to work for a little while each day. ;)

[budafist]

I cook decent food too :)

I've got leftovers today for lunch. I love leftovers. I made chicken satay with vegies and noodles last night. I make my satay sauce out of soy sauce, garlic, peanut butter and sesame oil. This time I put a spoonful of honey in it too just for shits and giggles.

Is it lunch time yet?

[GraphixNPrint]

Is it lunch time yet?Must have been... see my post in the other thread (http://www.graphicdesignforum.com/forum/showthread.php?p=475435&postcount=25). :p

[GraphixNPrint]

/begin rant

OK, we have 6 locations... all different types of employees. When it comes to our shipping department, I don't understand them. They get orders thru out the day at every location, they scan the internal tracking sticker, it prints a shipping lable, they stick it on the box (sounds simple to me).

Now the problem, which I have to deal with...

Once they stick the UPS lable on the box, they SHOULD scan it! Instead, they keep going putting their pretty little UPS lables on other boxes. Once they are all piled up, now they decide to scan the UPS lables (which could be several hours later).

OK, I get a call from a customer... "I see our xxxxxxx has shipped, can I get a tracking number?"

UHM, NO, the idiots didnt scan it yet, so it sits there waiting patiently.

Why not scan it and put all the info in the system at the same time???? Why handle everything 2-3 times??

I'm gonna go drink a beer or two!

[budafist]

It's 12.22pm here. I'll take lunch shortly.

Our company directors aren't here :) Which means beer o'clock will start shortly after lunch I imagine!

[captain spanky]

is it common for GD'ers in full time employment, to supplement their income with freelance work too?
I'm in full time employment and am struggling with money. I'm struggling to find a decent working environment at home and am considering resorting to a part time job on the side just to stay afloat... :(

[BJMRGTIVR6]

i supplement my full-time with part-time work (and what seems like a lot of volunteer design work for churches too) but that is to have the "goodies" i want in life....food, heat, new Mac, etc.

[CkretAjint]

I supplement my income with freelance work too. Except the majority of my freelance money goes straight into savings. It's quite nice to have that cash cushion incase one needs it in emergencies.

[Virgo Nightingale]

I supplement with waitressing. 12-hour shift every Saturday. Puts an extra $800/month in my pocket, off the books.

[CkretAjint]

I supplement with waitressing. 12-hour shift every Saturday. Puts an extra $800/month in my pocket, off the books.

NICE! That's almost my rent payment each month!!! I might have to look into that. :p

[Virgo Nightingale]

Not all restaurant jobs are like that. Many overstaff in an effort to 'make sure there's enough people around to give impeccable service' and you end up with less of the pie so to speak. My boss still wants us to give the best service possible, but he wants us to make good money (less likely to quit and make him have to train a whole new person). So there's only two people for the whole place, and he only hires people who have experience and aren't afraid to bust their asses. I only have 16 years waitressing experience, but I know what I'm doing. ;)

[CkretAjint]

I've never carried a tray around in my life... So maybe that isn't the part-time job for me after all! :D

[Virgo Nightingale]

I actually almost never carry a tray (at this job, anyway). Carrying 5 plates of salad in one trip however is a skill I'm rather proud of. Once in a while I pull off 6. :cool:

[budafist]

We don't tip in New Zealand so wait staff are usually students or people passing through waiting for a better job to come along. It means service can be pretty crap.

Since no one is working for tips and they get paid regardless, they really don't try too hard.

Also, it means that people don't stay in the position for long.

[Ben Kessler]

I experienced very bad Australian restaurant service on my recent trip to Perth, so bad that it made me grateful for the tipping system we have in the US. The low point was a breakfast where the waiter took 45 minutes to bring the coffee. (Not an exaggeration.) There was no explanation given other than, "Our bar is really backed up right now."

[budafist]

45 minutes for coffee? Yup. It happens. It once took us 45 minutes to receive our drinks order at dinner. By then we had finished our meals but were totally dying of thirst. Had they given us drinks before ordering, before dinner and then during dinner, we would have ordered at least 3 rounds. Since it took that long to get our drinks, we just finished those and left after our meals.

I left a pretty nasty review on that restaurant on an online dining website.

[budafist]

Being charged $50 just to set up a new phone account. Shouldn't they be wanting my business?

[Tea]

Virgo...when would you be "experienced" if not after 16 years! I would think you would be considered experienced after 5. I did that for 25 years before teaching. Made boatloads of money. I may return.

My personal rant? When people think you are dumb enough to be lied to. AND continue to do so after you've called them on it in almost intervention like setting. GRRRRRRRRRRR!

[reuber1]

Wake up this morning, a balmy 40 degrees ('shorts' weather for us midwesterners). So I throw on my idea of a coat (my Under Armor Hoody) as that's all the warmth I need, and head for my workout, and then into work. Well, come to find out, the weather is supposed to get worse, and schools are being let out early...even my old Community College was closing at Noon, which back when I went there it wouldn't close for 2 feet of snow. So I get off work early due to payroll cuts. So, when I walk outside with only my work clothes and my semi-warm hoody? 30 below with windchill, with 35 mph winds...isn't it like illegal for the weather to drop 60 degrees or more in 5 hours?

[Red Kittie Kat]

geez reuber ... have you warmed up yet?

[Tea]

Reuber...Your close enough to the bottom of our state and half the schools closed early with I-35 closing as well. It's bad when they close the Interstate. Us, we are balmy with a -50˚ windchill. Actual temp right now....-12˚, so that's probably a -35 to -40 windchill. Not nice at all.

[WannaBrie]

Holy Crap, Ruebs and Tea! I can't even imagine cold like that. I feel for ya' guys! seriously.

[CkretAjint]

HOLY CRAP!!! And I thought it was BAD here being at 71° today :p

[reuber1]

HOLY CRAP!!! And I thought it was BAD here being at 71° today :p
I fart in your general direction. That'll make it even warmer for ya.

[budafist]

I'll scan some of our humidity for y'all :D

[CkretAjint]

I fart in your general direction. That'll make it even warmer for ya.

I lied. It's 77° right now and will be 80° through the rest of the week... :cool:

[Virgo Nightingale]

Ckret, are you trying to make enemies out of us? :( :p

[budafist]

Wow CA, it's warmer in Florida right now than it is in Auckland!

[John G]

Wake up this morning, a balmy 40 degrees ('shorts' weather for us midwesterners). So I throw on my idea of a coat (my Under Armor Hoody) as that's all the warmth I need, and head for my workout, and then into work. Well, come to find out, the weather is supposed to get worse, and schools are being let out early...even my old Community College was closing at Noon, which back when I went there it wouldn't close for 2 feet of snow. So I get off work early due to payroll cuts. So, when I walk outside with only my work clothes and my semi-warm hoody? 30 below with windchill, with 35 mph winds...isn't it like illegal for the weather to drop 60 degrees or more in 5 hours?
Almost exactly like we got, is it sunny and clear sky's now too? Had near white out conditions at noon.

[Tea]

My car died from the cold. Luckily we were rescued and didn't have to walk the block and a half home.

[CkretAjint]

Ckret, are you trying to make enemies out of us? :( :p

Nope, just trying to bring warm mental pictures to all. If you guys show up at my door down here I'll have drinks and hawaiian shirts for everyone! ;)

[Tea]

oh....i forgot to tell Ckret that Florida will no longer be a part of Earth starting at 5:32 am tomorrow. Sorry pal.;)

[Cyan_Ide]

Yep, it was definitely a fun walk home today.

[CkretAjint]

Works for me! Tomorrow was gonna be a crappy day at work anyway!!! :p

[John G]

Cheapo printer guy I have to use:
"what's an ICC profiles, if you want I can fiddle with it to get the colors right for $60/hr."

lewl lewl lewl

[DesignVHL]

I'm an idiot. I mislabeled some logo concepts and bought the wrong font today. GRRR :( Good thing it wasn't an expensive font...but still, COULD have been an expensive lesson.

[teniworks]

Popped on over to iHOP last week and get my favorite (cheese blintzes) and end up getting food poisoning. I don't think I have been that sick in my entire life. It took me almost a week to get over it. Maybe one day I will work up the nerve to go back. Not anytime soon though.

[Typically]

Originally Posted by Typically
come on now the giants are gonna stomp the Pats! :D


thats the funniest damn thing I heard all week!

ah ha! :p

[John G]

jehovah's witness call you now?

WTF!!!!

[Jackimalyn]

So I need to make a newspaper ad and I was looking for some tips online. Found this:

It's a little-known fact that sinks your advertising as soon as you begin...
...And that is letting the newspaper make your ad for you!


Yeah, I know it's a free service, but just because it's free doesn't mean it's good.


You see, the newspaper employs a Graphic Artist to put the ads together. He has to make lots of ads. To save time he churns out these ads super-fast using standard templates that can be re-used again and again.
To be fair, these ads do look good artistically.
But being artistic doesn't sell squat . . .
. . . I mean, what does a Graphic Artist know about selling? All his training has been focused on art stuff and making the ads look good. His ads will just blend in with the rest of the newspaper and won't catch the attention of prospective customers.

[BJMRGTIVR6]

So I need to make a newspaper ad and I was looking for some tips online. Found this:


WOW!!!

that is disgusting. I worked at a newspaper and took my time with each and made sure they had their own "personalities". Boy is that a slap in the face. Plus I was a Marketing/Advertising Major as well and not only do I know what is pleasing to look at, but the how/why to communicate to people.

And, we were paid, so it was free to them but not to the paper. Oh, and I got quite a few side jobs from working at the newspaper where people saw my talents.

sorry about that...and if you need any help / questions with your newspaper ad, i might be able to help you out.

[Jackimalyn]

It was pretty insulting. Thanks BJMR, This is my first newspaper ad so I was just looking for tips. I feel as a GD, I know how to communicate with people through my work!

They were trying to sell a book (which was as big as a dictionary) on how to design newspaper ads.

[BJMRGTIVR6]

not a problem, just remember that the newsprint will bleed a little so be aware of fine print or even Reversed Fine Print.

[Typically]

microsoft word

[Virgo Nightingale]

Text boxes that don't print even though they're supposed to and you get no warnings about corrupt fonts. :confused:

[CkretAjint]

suppressed text box maybe? :)

[Virgo Nightingale]

Like I didn't try that already. :p

[The_Black_Knight]

Text boxes that don't print even though they're supposed to and you get no warnings about corrupt fonts. :confused:Is the text white/knockout?

If so, check to see if it's overprinting.

[Virgo Nightingale]

It's 70%K. Myriad. Tried Myriad Pro, get corrupt font warnings when I go to print, and lo and behold... nothing.

[Virgo Nightingale]

The really crazy part is if I make a pdf, the text shows up but the little bullet-point images I made don't (and they're not suppressed either). They don't show up on the print. I'll have to investigate those buggers.

[Typically]

a dozen eggs costing $3.19!??!?!?! they were like $1.75 last month!!

[Derfie]

Tell me about it! In NJ the price of food has been going up like crazy, especially bread prices. Our Grocery has signs up about the high cost of food, due to the ethanol fuel use. It's CRAZY!

[John G]

South America also had a really really bad year. They usually help cheapen grain prices substantially (i.e. last years soybean prices ~$5.50 bushel now ~$12.00 bushel).

Even more fun will ensue depending on how many farmers change their rotations for more bean land this year.

[Typically]

great so that $600 refund check i get will go toward bread, eggs, and gas :(

[CkretAjint]

I would rather mine go towards food than my credit card bill!!! :p

[Jackimalyn]

why arent keyboard shortcuts consistant throughout Adobe Products

Like ctrl+D should be "place" but nooooooo not in Illy just in ID

[urstwile]

a dozen eggs costing $3.19!??!?!?! they were like $1.75 last month!!

Food prices going up (http://www.csmonitor.com/2007/0613/p01s01-usec.html)

[Typically]

ugh i need a raise

[budafist]

Whoa, that's expensive for a dozen eggs. I pay about $5 (less than $4US) for a tray of 30 eggs. I'd send you some but they don't post so well.

Food prices going up is certainly a worry. :(

[CkretAjint]

Realizing that reaching your "year long goal" goal is so far away... I have to redraw all the resort floor plans. I have 26 done... of 350!!! :eek:

[Typically]

can't you just use live trace? http://www.mysmiley.net/imgs/smile/happy/happy0045.gif

[CkretAjint]

Unfortunately, no. :(

It's taking this:
http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2296/2258931198_5825e97f7f.jpg

and converting all windows and walls to the same widths and colors. Updating furniture, deleting shadows, adding door swings and doors where missing. Adjusting colors to be consistant... to this:
http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2061/2258931196_68a33fe4cf.jpg

...for 350 floor plans... and it 'should be done' by the end of the year, while only working on these when work coming through here is slow and I have down time...

*crosses his eyes and dies*

[budafist]

Sounds like a good job to listen to music to.


....mindless...

[CkretAjint]

...pretty much. Although after a while you forget what a queen bed and a king bed differences are. What is a tub and what has a shower. What couches are pull outs and which aren't...

*rocks out with his sock out*

[budafist]

Sock? I thought it was supposed to be something else that rhymes with rock...

[Mynock]

Realizing that reaching your "year long goal" goal is so far away... I have to redraw all the resort floor plans. I have 26 done... of 350!!! :eek:All 350 are different? That's just stupid.

[budafist]

Are they totally different or can you sort them out into categories and they just make minute changes?

[CkretAjint]

All 350 are different? That's just stupid.

Yes... A few have a room here added on. Like a Studio and a 1 Bedroom, and the only difference of the 1 Bedroom is it has an off shoot on it for the room. The living room, bathroom and kitchen are the same. So those I can knock out quickly. They rest are ALL different. Some are cabins, some are townhouses, some are hotels, some are VIP suites (those are HUGE), some are even Yurts. :cool:

I'd post pictures of them, but I don't wanna get in trouble... Heck I don't even wanna post the companies link. Don't wanna get busted for spamming or search engine runs... lol

[GraphixNPrint]

I'd say the client would make more by selling just the VIP units, so just do those and forget the rest ;)

[CkretAjint]

haha... They are MAD expensive though! We only have 2 for the time being though. So they aren't mad cash money makers.

[garricks]

Teh flu. I has it. It looks like the influenza shot missed the mark.

Damn sick co-workers who won't stay home. :mad:

[tZ]

sales – "we have a seminar in two days – is that enough time to:" (insert outrageous request with time given.)

[The_Black_Knight]

sales – "we have a seminar [that we have known is coming for six months but we're only telling you about now] in two days – is that enough time to:" (insert outrageous request with time given.)Fixed that for you. At least, that always seems to be how my requests from sales and marketing go...

[CkretAjint]

Amen TBK!

[CkretAjint]

Your girlfriends mother 'designed' a brochure for her business and then asks you to fix some of the the spacing issues in it... Then proceeds to send you a word file and doesn't understand why you won't work on it *sigh*

I took a screen cap of it and pointed out the billion issues with it. I hope she doesn't think I am heartless and cold!! :o

[Drorain]

Congress wasting our money yet again...clemens testifying before congress about doping, anyone else want to tell them to get to work and tackle real issues.

it is an election year after all
reference: http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080212/ap_on_sp_ba_ne/bbo_steroids_clemens

[morea]

being sick since Christmas and paying for all kinds of medical tests to try to get to the bottom of it only to have the doctor consistently "too busy" to return my calls and go over the results.

I hope that I don't die while I'm waiting...

[budafist]

Your girlfriends mother 'designed' a brochure for her business and then asks you to fix some of the the spacing issues in it... Then proceeds to send you a word file and doesn't understand why you won't work on it *sigh*

I took a screen cap of it and pointed out the billion issues with it. I hope she doesn't think I am heartless and cold!! :o

Good grief! I don't think I would do that to my fiance's mother! I would have redesigned it instead. You have guts man.

[CkretAjint]

Actually, after talking it over with my girlfriend and expressing my concern, and her in turn talking to her mom. She decided to let me rework it in the correct program!!! YAY!!!!! :cool:

[budafist]

It's my fiance's birthday this weekend and his friend and I talked about a surprise birthday party a few weeks ago. It was up in the air so I assumed that he had decided not to go ahead. A few things have happened since then including my fiance being really depressed so I thought that it had been called off.

I hadn't heard anything back from him so I text him today about it.

It turns out he's already text everyone about it weeks ago. Only he forgot to text me and half our friends and hadn't text any of his family.

Now it's Wednesday and fingers crossed everyone can make it on such short notice.

Don't let boys organise parties. It doesn't work.

[Red Kittie Kat]

oh I would have to hurt him or tell him tough luck .. plan for another day.

[budafist]

Naw, can't plan for another day, that wouldn't be fun.

We've got a great present planned...Hopefully he doesn't come on here for some random reason, but he's wanted an Xbox for forever so we've put all our money together to get him one. I'm sure he won't mind that he only gets 1 present this year!

[BJMRGTIVR6]

Well, just met with a couple people about some designs of mine and they said the characters on the piece should be larger (understand, will do) and that they seemed to be competing with the other elements in the design...however, they want to add more elements and maybe a busy background to see how it looks.

I hate when people who have taken a one-day seminar on design "know" more about design than I do. So, right now i am in a bit of a pissy mood.

[budafist]

Clients that call you asking where their proof is.

"Uh, have you checked your email? I already sent it to you."

"Oh...no...here it is. Ok, thanks."

It's happened twice today. Is it not common sense to check your email when you are expecting one? Or is it just easier to pick up the phone to find out if the email has be despatched?

[BJMRGTIVR6]

haha that is funny.
to me at least.

no, i didn't check it yet, should I?

[budafist]

Bahaha. We do business cards for a company that is a pyramid scheme. The ladies are in here now trying to convince my boss that he wants to buy in. Little do they know my boss is a multi millionaire running a successful printing company.

[teniworks]

Wow, I haven't heard anyone mention pyramid scheme in a while. They were really big in the mid 90's, right?

[budafist]

Sure were! Most of these people are in their late 50's. I guess they freak out and are easy targets because they need to get rich quick scheme so that they can retire pronto.

They are so desperate and pushy though. Zero design sense.

So there is this company they all work under, only every member wants a totally different coloured/style business card. The only thing that is constant is the company logo. Some like butterflies on their card because they love butterflies and someone wanted a pic of their yacht on it. :rolleyes: I can't believe the company allows for such crazy personalisation of the cards. I guess at the end of the day, the company really don't care about their image at all. As long as people keep buying in, they are happy.

[budafist]

So one of my staff has been sitting on a logo design for about and hour and from the looks of it, he's typed out the company name and now he's going through every font in the system trying to find the right one.

So I asked him how many logos he's going to come up with for the client to have a look at.

One.

So I asked him if he did any sketches or conceptual stuff to get to the solution that he has gotten. I mean, typing out the company name isn't exactly a concept.

No, he does it all in his head. So, he had a think, what's a great concept? I know! I'll type out the company name and that can be the logo! Then he had the cheek to say that people do sketches at uni but none of us sketch in the real world.

I told him I sketch for logos so that I can get down a bunch of ideas down quickly. I go throug about about 5 before picking one quickly and getting it down.

I mean, taking 1 hour to do a text only logo with no concept is really naff. He is going to do a gradient in the background and apply filters to it next so that it doesn't just look like the company logo typed in a special font. How can I tell this person that is not a concept?

Some people can do things in their head. They can. Some people don't have much going on upstairs and shouldn't leave creativity to inside their head.

[DesignStudio]

I don't do sketches either, I just visualize concepts in my head, and then draw the best one. Though sometimes it does take several attempts to make what's on the paper match what's in my head. But this works well for me, and it sounds like it doesn't work well for this guy.

Providing I'm understanding you right, I think the most important phrase in your post is "one of my staff". If this guy works for you, then you're well within your right and responsibility to tell your employee what is expected of him and how he should do his job. It's nice not to have to micro-manage, but some people need the extra guidance, and it sounds like this guy is one of them.

[budafist]

You're right. I'm in charge of him. I'm just not terribly good at telling him what to do and when I do, he chooses to ignore me. I'm not his boss, but I am his senior/supervisor.

At least he decided to listen to me and give the client 3 options to choose from. By 3 options I mean 3 fonts.

[hewligan]

You'll be needing one of these. (http://intranet.cs.man.ac.uk/software/jargon/html/C/clue-by-four.html)

[budafist]

Thanks Hewligan. You are full of gems aren't you :)

[budafist]

Why do people push and shove their way onto the train before letting people off first? Isn't it common sense? Or is it only good manners?

There was this generously sized lady trying to get off the train but people squeezing onto the train on both sides of her so she had to wait for them to get on before she could get off.

[DesignVHL]

I don't know because people are miserable?

I'll vent since I've had issues with driving to work the last few months. There is only ONE way to get to the highway to get to work - one day it may take me 10 mins to get to the entrance ramp, another day it could take me an hour! (once ON the highway, mind you, usually traffic is fine). But right now, there is construction on the bridge. Two lanes merge into one - you either have to turn left, or go straight - which then you hit the ramp on the right. I need to go straight to get to the ramp. So, tell me, what the hell is wrong with people pushing up to the car in front of them, practicaly KISSING their bumpers so you can't get in, and BLATENTLY NOT letting YOU into their lane on purpose! Not to mention the dirty look you get. We all have to get to work, and we all are annoyed by the nasty traffic on this road. But purposely not letting someone in - esp. after seeing their turn signal on for a mile you would think SOMEONE would be nice enough to let you in! I let others in, why can't they let me in? I hate people today, and feel your pain buda. people are mean and rude and sometimes only care about themselves.

[artistsdad]

Mebbe your car is too "nice" for them to believe you will squeeze your way in. My experience w/Chicago (& St. Louis is even worse!) is that the rattiest car has the right of way because the driver obviously isn't worried about getting a dent in his ride. The well-kept cars have drivers who are too concerned w/keeping their car nice; therefore they'll be "nice" and not force the issue.

Then again, some people just turn into self-centered dickheads when they get behind the wheel. They don't give an inch because they are invincible behind the wheel of their ego...

Isn't Chicago always under construction?

[DesignVHL]

Ha well yes we are under construction right now - they are widening all the highways and finishing up with the speed passes - ultimately it SHOULD help in the long run. But yeah there is always something going on somewhere with construction!

I wouldn't say I have the nicest car in the world. But it sure is not a junker. Pontiac Vibe from 04 ... :) People just get grumpy in the AM because drivers sneak up on the left to merge in on the right - and people who were sitting there for 20 mins to get over the bridge just get a little pissy and mean - I don't blame them, but at the same time - come on, we all have to make it to work! It is like this every morning. It really motivates me to work harder at night though so I can go off on my own and work from home, and be happy. :)

[garricks]

:) People just get grumpy in the AM because drivers sneak up on the left to merge in on the right - and people who were sitting there for 20 mins to get over the bridge just get a little pissy and mean - I don't blame them, but at the same time - come on, we all have to make it to work! It is like this every morning. It really motivates me to work harder at night though so I can go off on my own and work from home, and be happy. :)

I hate people that sneak up and then try to merge. Wait your damn turn like I did.

'k, in the grand scheme of things it's nothing, but it really does yank my chain. And yeah, I'm one of the guys that won't let you in.

[The_Black_Knight]

I hate people that sneak up and then try to merge. Wait your damn turn like I did.

'k, in the grand scheme of things it's nothing, but it really does yank my chain. And yeah, I'm one of the guys that won't let you in.And when there's a heavy, slow merge, and in my rearview mirror I see someone jump out of the lane I'm in fifteen car lengths behind me, zip up along the shoulder, and then expect me to let them in, I wish I had access to a grenade launcher. People like that should just be removed from their cars and beaten profusely.

[CkretAjint]

And when there's a heavy, slow merge, and in my rearview mirror I see someone jump out of the lane I'm in fifteen car lengths behind me, zip up along the shoulder, and then expect me to let them in, I wish I had access to a grenade launcher. People like that should just be removed from their cars and beaten profusely.

I purposely merge out of my lane into their direct path a little bit and block them. That's right, I am an ass like that. :)

[Typically]

And when there's a heavy, slow merge, and in my rearview mirror I see someone jump out of the lane I'm in fifteen car lengths behind me, zip up along the shoulder, and then expect me to let them in, I wish I had access to a grenade launcher. People like that should just be removed from their cars and beaten profusely.

bwaaahahaha so true. does that 15 cars you passed really make a difference? leave 5 mins earlier and you won't have to drive like an http://www.ntoddblog.org/photos/atriots/asshat.jpg

[garricks]

I'm glad I'm not alone! Ckret, I've been known to do that, too. Typically, ROFL: That's my favorite word to use in the car!

[Mynock]

TBK you were less bitter when you were taking the bus :P

[DesignStudio]

I hate people that sneak up and then try to merge. Wait your damn turn like I did.

'k, in the grand scheme of things it's nothing, but it really does yank my chain. And yeah, I'm one of the guys that won't let you in.

Really I don't think it's nothing, its part of a trend that is super frustrating- when people act like they are just plain more important than everyone else. It makes me so mad I get instant ulcers. The other day a woman ran up behind us at a restaurant and leaned over the counter where my wife and I were already standing, in order to shout her name to the maitre de and get on the waiting list before us. And the last time I had to go through customs at the airport, two women actually cut in line. I couldn't believe it. Every line was 30 people long, and they just walked up to the front and cut in front of this old couple who they thought wouldn't say anything, and they didn't. I'm sure these are the same people who I see on the road trying to merge ten feet before the lane ends in heavy traffic.

[The_Black_Knight]

TBK you were less bitter when you were taking the bus :PAnd I wish I still could take the bus (train, actually) to work. Driving in New Jersey just sucks, period. There are just too many people in this state, which means too many cars.

[Typically]

And I wish I still could take the bus (train, actually) to work. Driving in New Jersey just sucks, period. There are just too many people in this state, which means too many cars.

amen!

[Virgo Nightingale]

And I wish I still could take the bus (train, actually) to work. Driving in New Jersey just sucks, period. There are just too many people in this state, which means too many cars.
I second that, wholeheartedly. I also wish Route 80 would be repaved already. That road is littered left and right with chains of potholes. Though I really don't want to deal with the traffic that will most certainly result from the roadwork. I wish there was an "instant re-pave" button.

[DesignVHL]

Potholes are nasty right now here too.

I agree, not sure why some people feel they are more special than others, and think they have a right to NOT wait in lines, or wait their turn, or just leave earlier and have more patience.

I can't tell you how many times I'll be coming off the highway onto an exit ramp, only to get the crap scared out of me due to some speedster jerk-o (usually some business suit arse in a fancy car) squeeze in NEXT to me practically driving me off the road, just so he doesn't have to sit 30 cars back and wait till its HIS TURN to make that left turn at the light. I try and move over to the right also to ensure this doesn't happen - because its happened too many times and it gets annoying. OH yeah, and when I do that, they have the nerve to be the one pissed off and flick the finger. Classy. Good thing we have a lot of snow on the ground, people can't squeeze in right now.