Things that jerk my chain...

[garricks]

TBK, you and I probably have more posts per page than DS does...I think the default is 10 posts per page and we're doing the max of 40/page?

Marketeers are from Satan. Especially when they stand over your shoulder and point and get fingerprints on your monitor. :(

[Virgo Nightingale]

^^ We had a client ask us on Monday if we could get 12 t-shirts designed and printed for them by Friday for a parade that's happening Saturday. They sent us a logo in some sort of gif format to use in the design (that no one could open, btw) so I have to assume it's not set up for spot colors. I don't even know if the t-shirt vendor we use could print process onto a shirt, plus their minimum order is 24 shirts, and any other vendor who doesn't have the 24-piece minimum have a minimum 7-day turnaround. Now, I have to assume that this parade has been in the works for months, no one goes "Hey! I have a bright idea! Let's have a parade next week!" You couldn't plan ahead with these shirts? :rolleyes:

[Bladez]

I just went through the same thing Virgo. Only she sent us files on tuesday and said I need 72 shirts for a golf tournament on friday morning...so she'd need to pick everything up thursday evening....Do people have no concept of time?

[DesignVHL]

ha nothing like having no internet to kill your bus. needs for the day! :P

funny thing...yesterday after I sent my client an email explaining why i need to charge extra, and reviewing the sitemap and proposal...and offering the native files for his web design friend to do, he decided to just have me do it, in hopes it will take under an hour...which it should...lol but u never know so I estimated slightly longer just in case....plus he is driving me nuts w/ revisions! :P And he also said he has more work for me to do....even if he is kind of a pain to work with, he is a super nice guy and i'm happy to do this work for him.

Anyways much better day today! :)

And as for the *for this* or *for that* ? questioning...I get the same thing for small quick AdMat jobs even, lol....I just tell them its my policy to use a contract on ALL projects!

Now if only i could get better organized, and work full time from home :p

DesignVHL, I feel your pain. I don't even deal with real money...the client just has to enter a work order into our database. Five times today I had people call/e-mail, and when I asked if they'd filled out a work request, all five responded, "for this?!? It's just a..."

Yes. Yes you do. Those are the rulez. I didn't make them up. I'm not touching your frigging rush job until you do it.


I'm also cranky because one of the firewall servers died last night and we had almost no internet access all day. Our internal e-mail went down twice, too.

[Virgo Nightingale]

Do people have no concept of time?
No, people don't.

I just had a political client who was running in an election this past Tuesday, May 13th. Friday the 2nd, she's still giving me changes. Then she wigs out (and I mean panicking, crying, freaking out) about how she needs these pieces to go to her mailhouse by Tuesday the 6th in order for them to go out before the election. That Monday, she's on the phone with me saying "I mean, you KNEW from doing these pieces that the election was May 13th, didn't you?!?" It took all the strength I had to not say "Yes, I did, but did YOU?"

I refused to speak to her after that since nothing I could say would appease her, so my office manager spoke to her and she was giving her the same spiel, so my office manager tells her "You know you didn't approve these until Friday. You're expecting a 2-day turnaround on something that usually requires 5 to 7 days. The printer doesn't work weekends." The politician: "They don't? Really? Well can they work extra tonight to get these done?" My off. mgr.: "No. They're a small place, they don't do nights or weekends." Politician: "Oh."

FWIW, the printer had half the pieces ready a day ahead of time, and the rest were delivered before their deadline. :cool:

[Bladez]

I love how people just assume that their stuff can be ready in a matter of hours. I think my favs are the people who come in on a friday looking to get a 6 foot vinyl banner made for a tradeshow on saturday morning.

"So can I pick that up later this afternoon?"

"Um, no...it'll take about 3 - 4 days for production to get the files, make the banner and get it back to us. They probably won't even start working on it till Monday."

"So, there's no way I can go down to the production shop and pick it up early tomorrow morning?"

"......get out of my store!"

[lucdesaulniers]

As a designer, what really jerk my chain is more corrections to the copy after the 6th version has been layed out on a job that started as rush

[CkretAjint]

People in your dept who have NO sense of humor at all.... Thus resulting in a call from HR about a comment you just happened to make while joking around about how you like 7 year olds. How much fun they are, how honest they are and how nice they taste. :rolleyes:

[Bladez]

LOL @ Ckret...that sux! but the comment itself is so funny!!! Stupid people with no sense of humor. They need to be bombed into the ground

[BJMRGTIVR6]

funny story Ckret - SORRY!

I was emailed a couple of images some years back that i thought was creative...it was one of those Lighted-Reindeer that people put in the ground around Christmas...well, someone decided to hang one from a tree and then put red lights hanging from it....thought it was clever and passed around only to have someone email my boss abuot how inappropriate it was.

[Virgo Nightingale]

People in your dept who have NO sense of humor at all.... Thus resulting in a call from HR about a comment you just happened to make while joking around about how you like 7 year olds. How much fun they are, how honest they are and how nice they taste. :rolleyes:
My fiancé says much MUCH worse things about 7 year olds. :eek:

[Ferraribabe]

I hate the bible humpers who tell me im going to hell because I dont go to church.

People with no sense of humor.

Getting blamed for something I havent done.

When my computer doesnt listen to me. (Results in some keyboard bashing and severe curse words) LOL jk

I hate being sick.

and theres a lot more but I'd need about a few hours to list them all...

[reuber1]

Quarks massively restrictive pasteboard.

[Bladez]

I hate the bible humpers who tell me im going to hell because I dont go to church.

People with no sense of humor.

Getting blamed for something I havent done.

When my computer doesnt listen to me. (Results in some keyboard bashing and severe curse words) LOL jk

I hate being sick.

and theres a lot more but I'd need about a few hours to list them all...

should we just shoot ya now and put you outta your misery? ;)

[garricks]

People in your dept who have NO sense of humor at all.... Thus resulting in a call from HR about a comment you just happened to make while joking around about how you like 7 year olds. How much fun they are, how honest they are and how nice they taste. :rolleyes:

:eek: Oh, for pity's sake. That joke is older than both of us!

From louisville.edu:

(NOTE: Fields' public attitude toward children, needless to say, was atrocious. It is probably the least laudable aspect of his screen personae. Like the later Monty Python however, it was part of the Fields mystique that he held and expressed unpopular or controversial attitudes. Fields' own persecution complex is said by some to have resulted from his own mistreatment as a youth. As an adult, he was separated from his own child, whom he deemed a "mother's boy" and "sissy.")

(Someone asked Fields: "How do you like children?")
(He responded:) "Parboiled!"
(Quoted in numerous books). (Variations included, "Fried!" and "well done.")
(Also:)
"They are very good with mustard."

One of W.C. Fields' most famous quotes was: "I am free of all prejudice. I hate everyone equally."

Someone needs to unbunch their panties!
(http://www.graphicdesignforum.com/forum/)

[garricks]

Jerking my chain again today: People who come in to work sick and then ask me to fix something on their computer. No matter how many times I wash my hands, I still get sick. STAY HOME, DAMMIT! [cough, sniff, wheeze...] I'm taking some medicinal scotch and going to bed for the weekend. [sneeze]

[Virgo Nightingale]

My boss's lack of a spine.

He let go one of our designers today, and told him that the reason was simply that money was tight because of the bad economy. He neglected to tell him the other reason was that he was making too many mistakes and did sloppy work.

[budafist]

Jerking my chain again today: People who come in to work sick and then ask me to fix something on their computer. No matter how many times I wash my hands, I still get sick. STAY HOME, DAMMIT! [cough, sniff, wheeze...] I'm taking some medicinal scotch and going to bed for the weekend. [sneeze]

Worse than that are people that come into work that smell sick. The moment I walk into the room a brick wall of sick stench smacks me in the face. As if being sick makes you exempt from bathing and teeth brushing.

[garricks]

Well, i woke up this morning practically unable to breathe. I spent the day in the emergency room, getting it under control. And I'll be taking a couple days off work to recover. :(

[Red Kittie Kat]

:eek:

Geez Garricks .... What happened? Acute Bronchitis or Asthma attack?


... well you know we will keep ya company on your days off ... I hope you are doing ok now http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v54/RedKittieKat/smilies/a042.gif

[garricks]

You got it, Kittie...acute bronchitis. It has happened once before, but it resolved on its own. Today nothing helped, and after about five hours of trying to gulp air I gave in. I learned a whole lot about the pulmonary system today. And I'll be making a concerted effort to quit smoking for good this time.

[Red Kittie Kat]

Aww darlin I'm sorry ... I've suffered from chronic bronchitis most of my life ... and you're right smoking didn't help the situation. If it's any consolation ... if you do quit ... the next time this happens you won't feel like your lungs are popping out of your chest.

That's all I have to say about that. I'm not going to preach about it. When it's your time to quit you will know it ;)

You can always bend my ear if ya need to :)

[garricks]

Thanks, Kittie. I appreciate your support! For now I need to get some sleep!

[urstwile]

Wow, garricks! That's so scary! I'm glad you're better now. Get some rest.

[frankster]

Sweet dreams Mr G. Hope you breath easy in the mornin.

[Red Kittie Kat]

see ya when you wake up :)

[Optimusdinkus]

Hearing from your past professors that your wasting your time with the book you have spent the past year on, and instead should of kept focus with your origional 3d work you did for the history channel. It really sucks to be grounded in a project without any hope of going back to the place that you made great work in.... I opened up an application and could barely breeze through a simple object.

Realizing then that even if I went back doing the work I did, I would be miserable. Why the hell do so many job's have to have this attitude of burn the **** out of the person and get a job made, but cause that great form of a production standard to be replaced by a complete nub who doesnt have a clue?

Not feeling recognition from my peers even though the book is adored by every dentist I've shown it to, even with the bad design decisions made (by my boss, not me).

[Bladez]

wow, no fun at all Garricks!! Hope you're feeling better today

[garricks]

optimus, stop worrying about your old profs and peers. IMHO, you need to finish that book and get out from under it. Find another project and dive in, even if it's just something made-up for your portfolio.You have to get moving in a different direction and fast!

Bladez and everyone else, yeah, scary moments there. I understand a lot more about chronic bronchitis now. This was my second acute flairup, and I now know 'the point of no return' -- about 2 hours before I waited this time! I found out you can buy a pulse oximeter without a prescription, so I have one on order from Amazon. I also spent some time today updating my medicine chest and my Electronic Medical Record. If you don't have an EMR, please look into it. It allows you to track your family/friends' medical histories. The one my company offers allows me to print an emergency card that allows ER personnel access to your information. I feel really stupid, because I designed all the marketing materials for this product, and didn't use it myself. Well, lesson learned! :D

[pinksta]

when I notice that I've spelt "degree" with three eee's in my CV just after I've sent it off to somewhere i was really interested in!

At least it wasnt in the sentence before i say I am meticulous and have an eye for detail..... oh wait it was!:D

maybe they'll see the funny side, probably not:rolleyes:

[Optimusdinkus]

Oh and Garricks, that shit happened to me too!!! except I never smoked and it still is a mystery why I get bronchitis.

[garricks]

Ouch, pinksta...that's a shame. I hope they overlooked it.

Optimus, I don't know what the other causes are. Not being able to breather sucks.

[The_Black_Knight]

when I notice that I've spelt "degree" with three eee's in my CV just after I've sent it off to somewhere i was really interested in!

At least it wasnt in the sentence before i say I am meticulous and have an eye for detail..... oh wait it was!:D

maybe they'll see the funny side, probably not:rolleyes:

Just tell them that the extra "e" is for "Efficiency!" :D

[CkretAjint]

Don't sweat it too much Pinksta. The resume I gave my current job had my location/city spelled wrong and they over looked it. :D ;)

[reuber1]

I had an apostrophe in Bachelor's but not one in Associates for how long...still did with even the resume that got me this job. That's one I'm not sure many would notice, or they would. I dunno.

[Virgo Nightingale]

I used to get bronchitis very often as a kid/teenager. It was because of my asthma (which I've since outgrown).

[CkretAjint]

Signs your boss doesn't care about you:

You're out sick and come back and nothing is said, not even a "Hello". Your co-worker is out sick and comes back and your boss asks how he is feeling and if she assist with any of his work to make his day easier... To make things better, he wasn't even sick... His kid was!

:rolleyes:

I love my job, I love my job, I love my job...

[pinksta]

it seems they didnt mind/notice the extra e, phew!

They want me to come in and meet them next week:)

[MD]

so they can ridicule you in person.

[reuber1]

Having access to subpar image-stock libraries and having a hard time finding what you need, when you can find exactly what you want on iStock in 30 seconds.

[budafist]

Having access to subpar image-stock libraries and having a hard time finding what you need, when you can find exactly what you want on iStock in 30 seconds.


Now that WOULD suck!

[budafist]

I have a client that wanted a flier designed for a gym he is helping set up. He couldn't provide any images so he wanted me to source pictures of gym equipment.

Not much to go on except he wanted it modern and funky. Not a problem. Sometimes I think a 50 something year old real estate agent (*** gym owner) and a 24 year old designer have different ideas of what "funky" is. Sometimes.

So I came up with some pics of young, happy, healthy people working out. Get a email back saying that I shouldn't use pictures of equipment like that in the flier because it will give people a false impression of the gym. It is only a very basic gym and doesn't have fancy equipment like in the photos. He wants me just to use pictures of people and crop out the equipment now.

He also wants me to make it "more funky".

What to do...

[CkretAjint]

Filters > Exclusive Design Filters > More Funky. Should be between "Pop" and "Jazz It Up". ;)

[budafist]

Thanks Ckret! I've never had to use that filter before, but now I have found a use for it. The Pizzaaz filter looks good too. ;)

[Cyan_Ide]

Either that or you could go the optional route of giving all of the exercisers in the photos afros and flared pants.

[budafist]

lol. That might be too funkerific for my client!

[garricks]

Don't forget the flared lens, also! And star bursts!

[budafist]

Hindsight jerks my chain.

Really!

[Typically]

and starbursts!

[CkretAjint]

My boss... :mad:

She yells at me to make a PDF everytime I make a print out, so I do this... no biggie. But then she dips out for vacation and leaves with out making 13 different PDFs of the different parts of this book. Now my morning is shot while I make PDFs cause she didn't! :mad: :mad: :mad:

[garricks]

My boss just left for a week without forwarding copy for an ad that was due earlier this week. :(

[Yossarian]

It's always lovely when the boss dumps on you right before their vacation.

A former boss was notorious for building up a backlog of projects she needed to approve. Then she'd release them all at once – usually pushing deadlines to their utmost limits.

My favorite time was the Friday before her 2-week Mediterranean cruise. "Some of these are REALLY important and if you can't get them done today, you might have to come in over the weekend."

She really was one of the most genuinely nice people I've met, but she had a few oblivious streaks a mile wide.

[Bladez]

It's always lovely when the boss dumps on you right before their vacation.

A former boss was notorious for building up a backlog of projects she needed to approve. Then she'd release them all at once – usually pushing deadlines to their utmost limits.

My favorite time was the Friday before her 2-week Mediterranean cruise. "Some of these are REALLY important and if you can't get them done today, you might have to come in over the weekend."

She really was one of the most genuinely nice people I've met, but she had a few oblivious streaks a mile wide.
Sounds like she lived by the "dilbert logic"...

originally by Wally
"Only an idiot finishes a project before the deadline. The less time you give people to nitpick, the more time you have to pretend you are overworked.

Freedom is just another word for people finding out your useless"

[reuber1]

First 15 minutes today...

Quark shutdown on startup
Quark shutdown on restart
Mac lockup after third Quark startup and saving a new layout
Quark shutdown after Mac reboot

:rolleyes:

[garricks]

Hey, reuber, sounds like it's beer o'clock in Iowa already... did you have power outages/surges over the weekend?

[reuber1]

Hey, reuber, sounds like it's beer o'clock in Iowa already... did you have power outages/surges over the weekend?
Well, here there could have been. On Sunday we were getting rocked by Tornado Warnings and etc.

[BJMRGTIVR6]

reuber, that sounds tough. When that happened to me it was time for me to switch what I was working on into InDesign. that was after crashes and rebuilds each time too.

[garricks]

Maybe it's time to repair permissions, run the cron stuff, just in case. Couldn't hurt?

[Typically]

humidity

[reuber1]

humidity
Methinks you just got what we had the past day or so. After the nasty storms here, the humidity went up like, a billion percent or something. I could not sleep well at all. However, it cooled off big time today (like, mid 40s) and it is supposed to dry up by tomorrow.

[Bladez]

stupid ass people who think that a 1.5" x 2" 72dpi photo will blow up to a 7 foot banner without any problems. And after explaining the problem and asking for a new file, they send the same F*****G one! Grrr!

[garricks]

stupid ass people who think that a 1.5" x 2" 72dpi photo will blow up to a 7 foot banner without any problems. And after explaining the problem and asking for a new file, they send the same F*****G one! Grrr!Happened to me today, too. Eight 3x3" logos to create a graphic traffic banner. All 8 were JPEGs or GIFs. Client is ignoring my pleas for vector art, just repeating over and over that the job is due for June 9.

Also, starting work on a 20-page booklet that's a rework of a designed piece. And discovering that the previous designer set up exactly zero character or paragraph styles. So I spent the afternoon specing styles from her old file. And dreaming of mayhem and murder. :mad:

[budafist]

When we put things into our drop folder it always just copies it over. But then today I noticed that it was moving files that were being dropped in there. Then it fixed itself and started copying into the drop folder. I can't retrieve the files I put into the drop folder so now I have to remake all those pdfs again for our records. No biggie, just annoying.

[Typically]

Methinks you just got what we had the past day or so. After the nasty storms here, the humidity went up like, a billion percent or something. I could not sleep well at all. However, it cooled off big time today (like, mid 40s) and it is supposed to dry up by tomorrow.

methink you are right. we just had some thunderstorms roll through and it cooled off nicely =]

[urstwile]

First 15 minutes today...

Quark shutdown on startup
Quark shutdown on restart
Mac lockup after third Quark startup and saving a new layout
Quark shutdown after Mac reboot

:rolleyes:

Have you trashed the preferences? Also, try emptying the contents of the JAWS folder (it's in the Quark application folder, at least it is in 6.5, that's what you're using, right?). Quark makes a font database, that's what in the JAWS folder, and sometimes that gets corrupted.

[Typically]

why does everyone throw everything at you the day before you go on vacation? i've had my time off request in for months now and everyone was aware of it. i wasn't all that busy yesterday but today they decide to throw a craptasticly large load of crap at me. why is everyone so damn last minute!!!

[Optimusdinkus]

If this ****ing donkey wakes me up at 6 am again, I will slaughter the bastard. On top of all this we have looooottttssss to do on the book :mad:

[WannaBrie]

You have a donkey at your house? :rolleyes:

[reuber1]

So, it's been nine months, and my ankle still has tenderness to it, and thus still limits my movement (I can at least walk and run...not sure about sprint just yet). If I have to miss this year's tryouts because of it, I am not going to be happy. :mad:

[Optimusdinkus]

You have a donkey at your house? :rolleyes:
Estoy en mexico con mis fuerzos de libro y en una casa de designo.

Bassically my boss thought it was necessary for me to come down to where they are printing and work along side these people. Lets just say it is some fun times. HOWEVER the place Im staying at has a donkey that wakes me at 6 am.........

[Virgo Nightingale]

Kick the ass in the ass!!

[Kool]

Estoy en mexico con mis fuerzos de libro y en una casa de designo.

Bassically my boss thought it was necessary for me to come down to where they are printing and work along side these people. Lets just say it is some fun times. HOWEVER the place Im staying at has a donkey that wakes me at 6 am.........

You just need to keep the donkey up till real late so it sleeps in longer.

[Typically]

get em' drunk!

[garricks]

*sees where the drunk donkey thread is headed, and backs quietly out of the thread, snickering*

[Virgo Nightingale]

Is it Kinky Kelly by any chance? If so, YOU could get drunk and have an... interesting... time... :eek:

[Yossarian]

Is it Kinky Kelly by any chance? If so, YOU could get drunk and have an... interesting... time... :eek:
Quite the name-dropper you are! :D

[PanToshi]

Rude phone calls from one of my clients IT people that have no business calling me in the first place with incoherent grunting about "needing to take control of my computer" remotely to "do things he needs to do".

Had to explain AGAIN that contractually, I am not going to permit an outside interest "taking control of my computer" as that would jeopardize the security of MY business and the security of MY client files.

Take control of my computer... NO.

[reuber1]

Fitting the names, addresses, phone numbers, and brief descriptions of 64 local businesses in a 5" x 12" slot. Would you like 3 pt font with that?

[Virgo Nightingale]

Something like that calls for Univers ultra-condensed thin (http://www.myfonts.com/fonts/linotype/univers/39-thin-ultra-condensed/).

[Optimusdinkus]

Is it Kinky Kelly by any chance? If so, YOU could get drunk and have an... interesting... time... :eek:
I was invited while here to see that particular fiasco.... good thing I know what it is in spanish ;)

[Virgo Nightingale]

¡Tienes que tomar mucha cerveza para ver eso! :D

[Optimusdinkus]

¿Oye, pero, como yo veria tu hacer a la estanzia de burro? SOY BROMA!!!!!!! jajajjajajajjajajaja :D

[CkretAjint]

:(

[budafist]

Someone stole one of my fiance's paintings from my Dad's shop. It must have been during the day when the shop is quiet and there's only Dad in the shop. He must've been out the back when the thief came in and swiped the painting.

I believe in karma. They will get what's coming to them.

For now, all the other paintings have been taken down and sitting at my parents house.

[urstwile]

Oh that's a bummer, Buda. :mad:

[Bladez]

people suck don't they??

[garricks]

*hoping that this karma round-trip is sooner rather than later*

[PanToshi]

That is terrible! I am so sorry to hear that. I hope that the thief is caught and punished. And the artwork returned intact.

[budafist]

That is terrible! I am so sorry to hear that. I hope that the thief is caught and punished. And the artwork returned intact.

Hmmm...I doubt that will happen. Not sure if my parents have called the police or not actually.

[Virgo Nightingale]

This isn't my bitch session per se, it's on behalf of a co-worker...

Working on a 100-page catalog for FOREVER for a client who's very demanding under a sales rep who's scatterbrained and clueless and stopping by your desk twice a day asking about the status of these changes, and the status of those changes, not to mention what's going on with these other clients breathing down her neck. This client also received a quote for the project before everyone involved really knew the scope of the project so we under-estimated the time needed. The client then bitched about the impending charges for all the changes given. This catalog had a looming deadline as well, and though it needed to get to press long ago, the client was still giving "minor" changes (his idea of minor certainly is NOT anything like what normal people consider minor). Even after the piece was approved and files given to the printer, he called with more changes.

So my co-worker was upstairs going through all the hard copies and project sheets to finally get everything organized and time tallied up so the job could officially be closed out and out of her hair. Came to over 15,000 minutes. That's 250 hours, 31.25 solid 8-hour work days.

She has all the paperwork in a box and is at the top of the stairs about to bring them down.... the box breaks and all the paperwork she'd spent 2 hours organizing and tallying went spilling down the stairs. :(

[garricks]

Damn, Virgo.
Here's one for you and one for your coworker. Start the weekend right!

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[Bladez]

And that's the sign that it's time to go home Virgo....send her on her way, and escort her to the nearest watering hole.

Poor kid

[MikeHun]

You are through it now is the time to commiserate over a Bevy or two

[teniworks]

I've heard that everything happens for a reason but, I feel like I am about to lose it. My car is about to explode and is currently with a mechanic now who when I dropped my car off said he was about to "blow his head off". I should probably be worried about that...

Our company recently lost some important clients and my boss wants to cut costs starting with creative. :( So now the job search must begin again.

Maybe I can start selling organs to make ends meet. Does anyone need a kidney? You can get a 15% discount and a free car wash.

[reuber1]

Today is National "Mow Your ****ing Lawn as Loud and as Long as Goddamn Possible" day.

[frankster]

Shit, I don't have a lawn mower. I'll just have to scream at the top of my lungs whilst I trim it with a pair of nail scissors.

[reuber1]

Shit, I don't have a lawn mower. I'll just have to scream at the top of my lungs whilst I trim it with a pair of nail scissors.
Actually, if you have a motorcycle, that would probably be a logical substitute. Our side street has seemingly been turned into a highway for bikers.

[frankster]

No, I'm going to have to sit this one out. The closest thing I have to a motorbike here is a kid's tricycle that says "Speed. I am speed!" when I press a little button on the side and the battries are very low on it, so it sounds like a drunk, slurring, vagrant harassing you outside a bar.

[BJMRGTIVR6]

must be our neighbors are close but decided to trim bushes and use a leaf/grass blwoer to move the clippings...so much for a cat nap this afternoon.

[reuber1]

a kid's tricycle that says "Speed. I am speed!" when I press a little button on the side
How peculiarly hilarious. I would probably push that button repeatedly if I had that thing myself. That's probably why the batteries are dead.

[budafist]

Today is National "Mow Your ****ing Lawn as Loud and as Long as Goddamn Possible" day.

Interesting that you should say that because yesterday (remember I'm from the future) we mowed our lawns for the first time since we moved in. We have a flymo though so it's very quiet. Our grass looks sooooo much nicer now.

[Arkaden1993]

Ranting???
hmm... what can i come up with tonight?

There are certain types of people in this world that just annoy the hell out of me!

The type of people that come up to you and ask you for advice. And then when you give them advice they dont take the advice. They just come back to you a week later and theyre like "I cant believe how everything turned out so wrong." You want to know why everything turned out wrong? Because you didnt take my advice and your freakin stupid. Thats what went wrong. You didnt listen to me. I know all.


The other type of person are those freakin insignificant peons, who just have to validate themselves by being in a relationship. You know what? Its pathetic, its weak-minded, and you show no inner strength what-so-ever. Get over the girlfriend, get over the boyfriend, or whatever the heck youre yearning for, and live freakin life.


People who stalk their ex-girlfriends particularly make me angry. What the heck is wrong with these people? Dont you have better things to do in life than be emotionally attached to somebody who hates your guts? Do something with your life, find a hobby. You know? Jeez.


You know how many video games out there that you could be playing?
At the very least shoot yourself. Get yourself out of society, nobody wants to deal with a stalker.

[The_Black_Knight]

Today is National "Mow Your ****ing Lawn as Loud and as Long as Goddamn Possible" day.Around here, if it's not the lawnmowers, it's the leaf blowers. If it's not that, it's people taking down trees with chainsaws. If it's not that, then it's people using circular saws for hours and hours on end. If it's not that, then it's the damn kids with their gas powered remote-controlled cars that go "WHHHEEEEE! WH-WH-WH-WHEEEEEE! If it's not that, then it's the freakin' moron that rides his un-mufflered motorcycle up and down every street in the area. If it's not that, it's the kids lighting off fireworks, even though they're illegal in this state and it's not the Fourth of July. If it's not that, it's the guy that's working on his 1970s vintage car, and for some reason he has to rev the engine to 5000 RPM over and over and over and over. If it's not that, then it's the guy who lets his kids ride pocket bikes around the yard. And if it's not that, it's people in the neighborhood that always think that everyone else in the neighborhood needs to hear their music at full blast.

Can't I just get a little peace and quiet once in a while? Please? I think it would actually be quieter on a Saturday afternoon on a street in New York City than it is in here suburbia.

[garricks]

Blech. Monday morning.

"Someone has a case of the Mondays!"

[reuber1]

"Someone has a case of the Mondays!"
*throws brick at garricks*

[CkretAjint]

This was actually starting to feel like a great beginning to the week. Then my boss came into work in a pissy mood! :mad:

[garricks]

*throws brick right back*

If you can believe it, the barista at Starbucks said that to me this morning.

[CkretAjint]

You actually went to Starbucks? *walks away with his head hanging low*

[The_Black_Knight]

*throws brick right back*

If you can believe it, the barista at Starbucks said that to me this morning.That would have resulted in a blazing hot venti caramel macchiato being hurled at said barista, if that were me.

[garricks]

That would have resulted in a blazing hot venti caramel macchiato being hurled at said barista, if that were me.Well, it was only a grande, and I needed the caffeine too much!

Ckret, caramel macchiatos are like crack to me. Try one! Come to the dark side!

[Arkaden1993]

You actually went to Starbucks? *walks away with his head hanging low*
lol! you got a problem with Starbucks? i prefer a Monster over that blazing hot venti caramel macchiato stuff anyday. I just had one yesterday at like 4:00PM and i was up to 4:00AM!! It was pretty funny. and also, i prefer the "buzz" ans strong taste of a monster to and type of coffee (or anything like it).

[urstwile]

Around here, if it's not the lawnmowers, it's the leaf blowers. If it's not that, it's people taking down trees with chainsaws. If it's not that, then it's people using circular saws for hours and hours on end. If it's not that, then it's the damn kids with their gas powered remote-controlled cars that go "WHHHEEEEE! WH-WH-WH-WHEEEEEE! If it's not that, then it's the freakin' moron that rides his un-mufflered motorcycle up and down every street in the area. If it's not that, it's the kids lighting off fireworks, even though they're illegal in this state and it's not the Fourth of July. If it's not that, it's the guy that's working on his 1970s vintage car, and for some reason he has to rev the engine to 5000 RPM over and over and over and over. If it's not that, then it's the guy who lets his kids ride pocket bikes around the yard. And if it's not that, it's people in the neighborhood that always think that everyone else in the neighborhood needs to hear their music at full blast.

Can't I just get a little peace and quiet once in a while? Please? I think it would actually be quieter on a Saturday afternoon on a street in New York City than it is in here suburbia.

Man this had me rolling! :D

I'd like to add: If it's not that, it the yappy chihuahas next door that respond to leaves rolling down the sidewalks and/or any minute pedestrian activity that chaps their hide. If it's not that, it's the sound of the ice cream truck spinning its innocuous, repetitive loop music, over and over and over again. Or maybe it's the pseudo-symphonic music that the water truck (yup, I said water truck, not sure what that's all about) repeats over and over and over again. Or the rooster crowing, starting at 4:00 a.m. (this is an urban neighborhood, and yes, we have roosters).

Or maybe it's the one single car alarm that goes off without fail and with no response for 20 minutes until the owner comes out to turn off this high-tech security device that helps prevent his or her car from being stolen. Mind you, any self-respecting car thief that can't steal a car in less time than this car alarm is going off deserves every minute of jail time they get.

[The_Black_Knight]

Man this had me rolling! :D

I'd like to add: If it's not that, it the yappy chihuahas next door that respond to leaves rolling down the sidewalks and/or any minute pedestrian activity that chaps their hide.How could I have forgotten the dogs! Once one of them starts barking, all the rest of them in the neighborhood get going. Some days it's like I'm living in the middle of a kennel!

[CkretAjint]

Well... you do live in Jersey! ;)

[reuber1]

I bet Booby Island has noise ordinances.

[garricks]

If it's not that, it's the sound of the ice cream truck spinning its innocuous, repetitive loop music, over and over and over again.If I'm ever convicted of murder, it will be for that of an ice cream vendor. The kid across the street stops him every time. For a good five minutes. With "Turkey in the Straw" playing over, and over, and over and over. If he'd just turn it off when he stops, I'd be OK. But one of these days, I'm going to snap.

[Virgo Nightingale]

We have one of those ice cream trucks that roam our neighborhood. He passes the house at least twice a day in the warm weather. I have yet to ever see him actually sell ice cream to a kid (or to anyone for that matter). Judging by the doppler effect that I hear in the music as he goes by, he drives way too fast for anyone to actually flag him down and get anything. :rolleyes:

[Yossarian]

Psst Garricks. I get tired of the ice cream man too, but just imagine how HE feels about Turkey in the Straw! He might just welcome the sweet sweet release of death. Not trying to instigate anything. Just sayin' ;)

[Bladez]

I was about 2 steps away from climbing up on my garage roof with my brothers rifle one summer so I could take out the ice cream guys speaker. Figure if I get him while he's at the end of the block, I'll have a better chance of not being seen. That's what I recommend...he's suffered enough. Release him without killing him by blowing off the speaker.

[Virgo Nightingale]

What happened in those last two steps? Got a sudden hankerin' for an ice cream sandwich and to run down and catch up with him?

[MD]

maybe it was a chipwich or mickey mouse ice cream bar ... those are freaking awesome.

[Bladez]

What happened in those last two steps? Got a sudden hankerin' for an ice cream sandwich and to run down and catch up with him?
well, step 1, I couldn't find the firing pin for the gun (brother keeps his guns, ammo and firing pins locked up in 3 seperate locations).

Step 2, ice cream guy got closer to my place and the oreo ice cream sandwich started calling me

[Virgo Nightingale]

Mmmm... Chipwich...

Bladez, you're brother is pretty smart. Not that he (or anyone else) wouldn't have appreciated the silencing of the ice cream truck speaker...

[Bladez]

Not that he (or anyone else) wouldn't have appreciated the silencing of the ice cream truck speaker...
Agreed!! and somehow I don't think my bow would have had quite the same effect...plus he'd have to be closer, and wind change would have made for a real bad day ;)

[Virgo Nightingale]

And there's fingerprints on the arrow. ;)

(Unless of course you're all 'pro-hitman' and wear gloves. :D)

[Bladez]

I'm better than a ninja! they'd never find me....or the arrow!

[Virgo Nightingale]

Microsoft Word blows donkey chunks.

[reuber1]

Microsoft Word blows donkey chunks.
It's true. It does.

[Red Kittie Kat]

I love Choco Tacos from Mr Ding-a-ling :D

[garricks]

Psst Garricks. I get tired of the ice cream man too, but just imagine how HE feels about Turkey in the Straw! He might just welcome the sweet sweet release of death. Not trying to instigate anything. Just sayin' ;)LOL That worked for about .5 seconds, then I could hear him coming down the street. I just turned up iTunes. It's better in the back ofthe house. :D

[budafist]

We do not have ice cream trucks roaming the neighbourhood anymore. Not since the 1980's anyway.

So a while ago, when an ice cream truck was driving through the neighbourhood, it did the street once and then came back to see who had run out. It was all adults that ran onto the street. No under 15 knew what that sound meant!

We all had a good giggle at our childishness. It was quite lovely.

[CkretAjint]

Ugh.

So I worked on this file last friday, a 46 page book. Not the worst thing in the world to prep for print. So I prep it and ask if it needs to be singles or doubles, the print guy says singles. So I pull the book apart. Today at 3:30 I find out the designer making the book BACK into doubles so she can make design changes on it after it has been approved. UGH!!! Not horrid, but don't make design changes after the fact, AND if there are issues with my files TELL ME! Don't gripe to everyone else about it and then tell me at 3:30 that you have had issue with it since 9:00. Perhaps I could fix it for you and help you not waste time...

Me and the boss lady are going to have a talk tomorrow about this!

OYE!!! Today was not my day! :mad:

[Virgo Nightingale]

Microsoft Word blows donkey chunks.
What's worse than Microsoft's blowing of donkey chunks? When you plod through the project and finally make it work, and THEN your boss tells you that the client told him a few days ago that he'd decided to not go through with it. :mad:

[Virgo Nightingale]

And another thing: The Post Office.

As a graphic designer, I know that any change in a client's pricing means a change in printed items, like say stamps. Before the increase, they had a series of 'wedding hearts' stamps in two denominations (two different color backgrounds). Well with the change, those stamps were no longer valid. Fine. But do you think you could anticipate the need for new 59¢ and 42¢ stamps appropriate for wedding mailings and actually get them to the post office in time for the rate increase? No. The increase went into effect a month ago, and the wedding stamps don't go on sale for another week!! WTF?? And it's not like it's a completely new design: they're going to be the same wedding heart stamps, just with different backgrounds! Would it have been so difficult to get those ready in time? I'm sure James Michener is a cool dude and everything, but I don't want his face on my wedding envelopes and he's the only 59¢ stamp available at the moment. :mad:

[Typically]

why not just email the invites? hehe

[Kool]

And another thing: The Post Office.

As a graphic designer, I know that any change in a client's pricing means a change in printed items, like say stamps. Before the increase, they had a series of 'wedding hearts' stamps in two denominations (two different color backgrounds). Well with the change, those stamps were no longer valid. Fine. But do you think you could anticipate the need for new 59¢ and 42¢ stamps appropriate for wedding mailings and actually get them to the post office in time for the rate increase? No. The increase went into effect a month ago, and the wedding stamps don't go on sale for another week!! WTF?? And it's not like it's a completely new design: they're going to be the same wedding heart stamps, just with different backgrounds! Would it have been so difficult to get those ready in time? I'm sure James Michener is a cool dude and everything, but I don't want his face on my wedding envelopes and he's the only 59¢ stamp available at the moment. :mad:

http://koolsplace.com/images/angry039.gif LOL

[Virgo Nightingale]

I know, I'm funny when I rant. :D

[BJMRGTIVR6]

that sucks.
When I got married they had "ugly" Love stamps. the Love stamps the previous year (still same rate but nobody had them) were much better.
I finally had to tell my wife-to-be nobody would mind and understand as it is the only stamp available for it.

James Michener is he the author?

and I agree, they should have known and had the stamps available teh week before!!

[Virgo Nightingale]

Yes, he's an author. But I don't read all that much and didn't even know who he was until I read the stamp's description on the USPS site.

They do have a pretty dragonfly stamp for 63¢ though, that is if I feel like spending an extra 4 bucks for 100 of them. :rolleyes:

[budafist]

We don't have Love stamps here. I don't know what you are talking about!

[garricks]

We don't have Love stamps here. I don't know what you are talking about!The Googe shared a whole collection of them!

http://i12.photobucket.com/albums/a249/garricks/GDF/lovestamps.jpg

They are most popular for wedding invitations...

[BJMRGTIVR6]

the Future doesn't have Love stamps?
hehe

Only reason I know about Michener is he wrote a book on the Chesapeake and living close by, we had it in one of our book cases growing up.
didn't read it though but heard he's good.

[budafist]

Nope never seen those. Well, now I have :D

[garricks]

The Verizon commercial with the carolers singing "We wish you a better deal day" to the tune of "We wish you a Merry Christmas."

At least, unlike the ice cream man and the lawn mowers, there's a mute button.

[Optimusdinkus]

Me and the printer

"so you say a few images are not the right resolution for the page spread eh?"

"yea, seems over 200 slides need to be rescanned"

"really? (me going ape shit over the fact the assistant lady who deleted the slides ended up inputing them as well for me to place in)"

WHO CAN YOU TRUST AT WORK FFS?!?!?!

I'll be honest, allthough my background deals with video media and print work is something that I know more of and less in complete detail, resolution size is important for images. Every image prepared by me to the printer ended up being correct. Allthough it was my responsibility to check and report the preflight more closly at such problems, I simply just didn't have the fight in me to bring up these issues as we went along in publication to my boss of ye all mighty since he knows my background, so I have to have an expert tell him instead.....

Can anything be easy?

[Riya]

Yeah, what is up with the Christmassy commercials on right now? The verizon one is not the only one, there is a male enhancment santa one on now too. That's probably what is causing all this terrible weather, the clouds are confused. ;)

[CkretAjint]

So as part of my job I do site plan (ariel views of our properties.) No biggie, easy to do with the right information. We send out people in our department on the photo-shoots to view the location in person incase anyone has any questions about the property based on photos...

So I am drawing our newest property and am trying to figure out which of the 5 surrounding parking lots is ours to park in. So I ask the girl who went there...

"I am not sure, I'll have to call and ask management there."

"What? You don't remember which parking lot you parked in the 3 days you were there?"

"I try not to confuse myself with technicalities like that."

ISN'T THAT YOUR JOB WHEN YOU GO THERE?!?!?!?! :mad:

[garricks]

^^ ooh, not the freshest produce in the store, huh?

[CkretAjint]

HA! You have no idea. It saddens me that people like her pass through school and are allowed to work.

[Randomhero]

-People who pronounce it "suposubly".
-Any movie with Rod Schneider
-Dane Cook
-Paid programming
-"Irregardless"

[Wolfwood]

Okay, I'm new to the forum and readily admit that I haven't read all 515 pages of this thread. I may be repeating somebody else's rant, but I HATE it when anybody touches my computer monitor. I used to work with an art director who would review my designs and instead of just pointing to an object on the screen, he felt he had to physically put his finger on it. Heaven forbid if he wanted to move the element somewhere else, because then he would drag his finger over the length of the screen, leaving a streak. At first I tried to be subtle by going to the closet, getting some cloth and cleaner and conspicuously wiping the monitor clean immediately after every visit. He didn't get the hint, so I capitalized on the fact that he wasn't very technically savvy. I told him that by touching the screen the oil from his hand would work it's way into it and damage the image sharpness and accuracy of color rendering, forcing the company to buy a new monitor. He finally stopped.

[budafist]

I hate it too, but I do put my finger very close to the monitor when trying to teach someone something. It's frustrating when it takes them a minute to find the thing I'm describing to them so it's easier to point. Horrible I know. I guess I need to invest in a little more patience. Maybe I will smoke ganja at work so I can have the patience to watch someone else stare at the screen and not register stuff.

[Randomhero]

MMMMMMM I wish my teachers smoked more ganja, it would make classes a lot more interesting. I say do a test run on it....

[budafist]

Why would classes be more interesting? I guess for a day, but then I would get peeved that I wasn't learning anything.

[reuber1]

-People who pronounce it "suposubly".
-Any movie with Rod Schneider
-Dane Cook
-Paid programming
-"Irregardless"
Well, irregardless of your post randomhero, but suposubly there's a movie coming out with Rob Schneider and Dane Cook in it (as leads! they fight crime and tell jokes) and it looks pretty good. I caught a preview during a commercial before some paid programming.

[John G]

I'll let you spend the $40 at the movies Reuber, then you can report back to us on how it was =p.

[reuber1]

Yeah, 10 bucks on the tickets, and the rest on the booze that would be necessary to get me through it. I couldn't imagine watching a movie with Dane Cook OR Rob Schneider in it (tolerate maybe if it were really brief cameos...and I mean 5 seconds of screen time or footage that was edited out), let alone one with both of them.

[garricks]

Grrrr...from an e-mail: "Thanks for the hard work on this. However, I think we actually may need to make some changes."

What follows is a complete re-do...I mean FILE > NEW. I may get to this Monday or Tuesday. :(

[reuber1]

Grrrr...from an e-mail: "Thanks for the hard work on this. However, I think we actually may need to make some changes."

What follows is a complete re-do...I mean FILE > NEW. I may get to this Monday or Tuesday. :(
I hate those. I've had three this week, especially when the originals were pretty much exactly what they wanted the first time. Oh well, I get paid either way.

[MD]

Worst Rob Schneider movie?
Best movie Rob Schneider was in?

My choices:
- Knock Off
- Big Daddy

[reuber1]

Worst Rob Schneider movie?
Best movie Rob Schneider was in?
-The movie where he acted like animals and it had that one vapid girl from Survivor
-Judge Dredd/Demolition Man toss-up.

[John G]

So, to redo my computer I just formated my partition and re-installed.... word to the wise, to prevent umpteen thousand little stupid errors, first delete the partition and create it again... then format and reinstall.

and thus, try number two proceeds....

[Tea]

Bummer John.

Not being able to boot up my laptop. :-(

[Bladez]

Having to work on a saturday after partying at a wedding then the bar the night prior. Scratch that...Having to work on a saturday, period!

[reuber1]

Well, it's been about 8 months since my ankle injury from my tryouts last year, and I figured to give sprinting a shot yesterday seeing as I'm able to walk and run relatively fine. So I hit the track and instead of having what was a relatively bumpy start slowly building to a few full-speed runs that I would build upon until the tryouts in September, I nearly collapsed on the track and I felt nothing but shearing pain in my foot and limped back to my car only five minutes after getting there; it doesn't hurt anymore now thankfully. Something tells me this thing is in extremely bad shape and that I'm going to miss tryouts this year; hell, I'm not even sure if I'll be able to hit top speed ever again.

Boy, I'd love to check it out, like yesterday, but there's the whole pre-existing condition bullsh!t...thank you health care system. Needless to say I'm plenty upset right now.

[urstwile]

Sorry to hear that reuber. :(

[Red Kittie Kat]

geez reuber :(

... and there may be a pre existing condition .. but if you injured it running yesterday that's brand new.

[Randomhero]

There are probly a million ways that they will try to use to get out of paying for anything. Best way to beat the system is to know the system, i should switch to a law degree...... haha as if.

[Bladez]

Just move up to Canada...Free Health Care for EVERYONE! hahahaha

[Randomhero]

Just move up to Canada...Free Health Care for EVERYONE! hahahaha

But then you'd have to be canadian.:eek:

[Bladez]

Oooo...cheap shot. *LOL*

At least our beer is better :)
;)

[reuber1]

Well, I think ;) ;) I just hurt it the other day ;) ;) and I may go see someone to diagnose.

Realistically though, I think I got the big Grade 3 version when it happened, and even then, those usually should be healed by now.

[Randomhero]

At least our beer is better

You've obviously never tasted Keystone Light.


























Point made......

[Bladez]

^Gross

Sleemans Honey Brown....Mmmmmm

Just remember the 1 important fact, 1 Canadian beer = 2.5 American beers. Everytime I drink in the states, the beer goes down like water and it takes to many to have the same effect as a 6 pack of Canadian Cold-shots

[urstwile]

When you speak of American beer, are you talking the big breweries? Because really, a lot of the microbreweries are very good. I think Sierra Nevada could hold a very strong candle to a Canadian beer, in fact.

[NTLemon]

Sierra Nevada is good. Quite a lot of microbrews and craft beers available in the states. Coors/Miller/Bud IMO is only worth it when your looking at quantity over quality.

As for things that jerk my chain: Being asked if I had a chance to work on a logo I was sent for the activities board on campus. They need some things to show by thursday. Apparently they neglected to mention this to me or send this to me in their last email about a month ago because until yesterday I knew nothing about any logo or work.

[Randomhero]

I'm not gonna lie, bud light is my main beer simply because its really cheap. But heineken light is where it is when i have a few extra $.

[DesignVHL]

*pokes head in*

BEER! I like Beer! :) Bud Light is my cheap beer of choice as well (at least over miller)...but my true love goes to Amstel....I drink Hiney sometimes...

Other favs of mine: Fat Tire, Sammy Smiths Nut Brown Ale, Blue Moon, Goose Island 312


time for a beer thread! :p

[The_Black_Knight]

I'm sorry, but "light" and "beer" are two words that should never, ever be placed next to each other.

[Yossarian]

time for a beer thread! :p
:D Or at least move this chunk over to the Things that make me forget I have a chain thread.

A question for our Canadian friends, like Mr. Bladez. Is that 2.5x based on our 3.2 or 5% alcohol beers? 12.5% seems like it would be pretty high for a beer. Is the Labatt or Molson we get in the U.S. different than up north?

We have a local brewery, Boulevard, and they make a great "Unfiltered Wheat" and their Pale Ale is quite good too. The unfiltered wheat is my goto beer unless I'm looking to try something different.

I also really like the dark beers like Guinness or the Warsteiner Dunkel.

[garricks]

:D Or at least move this chunk over to the Things that make me forget I have a chain thread. I think that should read "Or at least move this chunk over to the Things that make me forget thread."

[Typically]

did someone make a beer thread? i want to continue this discussion =]

[DesignVHL]

http://www.graphicdesignforum.com/forum/showthread.php?p=527722#post527722

DONE!

[DesignVHL]

OH and u know what jerks my chain? My mom sending me email forwards that scare me into thinking a spider is going to bite my ass if I sit on the toilet at Olive Garden...only to go to snopes (as USUALL) to find out it is FALSE and first circulated in 1999...and when I TELL her to try and DOUBLE CHECK these stupid freakin' forwards that she CHECK SNOPES first before forwarding to all her friends and looking stupid! They just never learn do they? Still love her tho, she's my mama!

[PanToshi]

The red spider!!! :eek:

[Virgo Nightingale]

I was already pissed at the post office for not having the wedding stamps on sale until yesterday... I finally get the stamps and can finally get my invites put together so they can finally go out today. I stayed up fairly late putting them together (I was numbering the rsvp cards against a guest list, so having someone help would have confused everything). My fiancé was whining because it was late and he wanted me to come to bed with him. He says he's dropping them off at the post office today. I text him to make sure he did. He forgot. :rolleyes:

[budafist]

OH and u know what jerks my chain? My mom sending me email forwards that scare me into thinking a spider is going to bite my ass if I sit on the toilet at Olive Garden...only to go to snopes (as USUALL) to find out it is FALSE and first circulated in 1999...and when I TELL her to try and DOUBLE CHECK these stupid freakin' forwards that she CHECK SNOPES first before forwarding to all her friends and looking stupid! They just never learn do they? Still love her tho, she's my mama!

Ahuh. Like when my fiance's mum emailed me a forward that said that if you were ever held up by a robber at an ATM, you just enter your pin number backwards and the money will come out but the police will automatically be dispatched.

I asked her would the police come running every time you got money out if your pin number were 2002 for example?

Oops.

[DesignVHL]

lmao thats a funny one...some of those are so ridiculous!

[frankster]

Brilliant office solution for employees with jerked chains. (http://www.trendsnow.net/trends_now_/2008/06/passive-aggress.html) :D

[Bladez]

^ Neat! I wanna play!

[budafist]

Smashing china and stuff is one thing but smashing lucky cat? That can't be good!

[Typically]

fish in the microwave. ugh i'm glad i was done eating lunch so i could run from the smell. so gross

[Tea]

Usually on those e-mails, I send them the link to the particular thing. I do that for three or four times until they get it.

Yesterday, I go to my workplace. I had made portfolio boxes for the student print exchange. I spent hours on these things and while they are not printed on the best material for this type of project, it was the best I had available. I had finished cutting them before the last day of school, but went back to fold them and collate the prints and make sure they were all ready to mail. So I stack them in a pyramid carefully on my desk, with little post it notes on them to identify the contents. I wanted to leave them in a safe spot while I looked for some sturdy boxes for shipping these. Someone comes in and places a heavy box right on top of them. Half of them are crushed. I mean...there is 7 tables in the room with nothing on them and it's obvious that these boxes are something special and you set a 20 pound box on them? I just don't even begin to get it. :mad::(:confused:

[garricks]

Aw, Tea, that's just mean. :( Sorry.

[Bladez]

Clients who supply you with a file and say that it's all built to the size they want and just need it printed. Then bitch that it's 2" to tall, and claim that it's my fault. Then after I resize it for them, and get it printed rush to keep on their timeline, they bitch that our digital printer isn't matching the PMS colour they want to use perfectly. You couldn't have told me the colour was off with the first one could ya!?

[Virgo Nightingale]

Web hosting companies who bill themselves as web designers and web programmers who don't have a friggin' CLUE what they're doing, either design-wise or programming-wise. Every site they link to in their portfolio page has some kind of error or other web design faux-pas.

A client had come to us for some rebranding work, and we designed a whole slew of new print pieces for them: brochures, folders, sell sheets, product labels, the whole shebang. They wanted to have a website built, but figured we'd be too expensive so they went ahead and signed a web design contract with their hosting company. Bad move.

What a nightmare. These people just take templates (that don't even work properly) and plug in text and images. The images are not proportioned correctly, some are cut off, the text is really large and makes the site look like the site was designed for the blind. The main content gets moved down below the side navigation if the main content ends up being too wide. It all just sucks.

What sucks most of all is that this client has been coming to us for suggestions as to how to improve the site, "what should we tell them to do in order to fix this and make it look presentable?" kind of thing. And the girl working on the site nearly had a breakdown after we gave her some design suggestions, she totally took it all way too personally. They are being billed for the consultation time, but still. They've been working on this site for months, and though I'm not a web designer by any stretch of the imagination, I think I could have learned CSS, built the site, and had it look better than what these hacks are doing in the same amount of time.

I hope they have a way out of this contract, because these 'designers' are going to end up making their site look like it's an amateur fly-by-night company instead of the budding national corporation they're honestly about to become.

[garricks]

Ouch. Da boss just popped into my cube to tell me to straighten it up, as we have a new employee starting on Monday. I think that's false advertising, as I'm naturally untidy. LOL

I feel as though my Mom just told me to clean my room.

[Typically]

shove it all in the closet =]

[Virgo Nightingale]

I know I had a complaint about something and was planning on posting it here. I've since forgotten what that complaint was. That jerks my chain.

[CkretAjint]

Rush jobs... :mad:

I have to flow this copy into these forms for a 2:30 meeting. Legal tells me that I will get the copy at 2:00ish

:mad::mad::mad:

[Virgo Nightingale]

$20 they give send you the copy after the meeting starts.

[CkretAjint]

Nah, knowing them they will just send over last years copy 'as a place holder'. then I'll have the meeting. then get the copy and turns out it's twice as long this year and the design has to change due to it after the client sees it and approved it with the old copy... :rolleyes:

[garricks]

Rush jobs... :mad:

I have to flow this copy into these forms for a 2:30 meeting. Legal tells me that I will get the copy at 2:00ish

:mad::mad::mad:

I've had three logo requests (that require opening the file and doing something like adding an alpha channel), two complaints about slow interwebs (firewall appliance is wonky) and one "how do I sort my e-mail by date, descending?) requests this morning. I'm going to answer the next phone call with, "Creative, can I take your order please? Would you like fries with that?"

grrr. At least it's almost the weekend.

[Virgo Nightingale]

I got a new computer at work. It's a hand me down, which is fine, but now fonts are activating weird, fonts that did work now don't print correctly, etc. And I also finally got a new mouse to replace the single-button model I'd been using since I started working here almost 3 years ago. It's one of those Mac mouses that can tell the difference between right and left clicks and has the cool multidirectional scrolling button in the middle. I guess I'm so used to clicking in the middle, I keep accidentally right clicking when I mean to regular click. And the scroll button doesn't scroll down. :(

[Virgo Nightingale]

I know I had a complaint about something and was planning on posting it here. I've since forgotten what that complaint was. That jerks my chain.
Now I remember.

When I got home from work I decided to sit in my backyard to try and get a little sun. I slipped my arms out of the sleeves of my shirt and removed the removable straps from my bra (can't have tan lines when I wear my strapless wedding dress ;)). Within 4 minutes I got 16 mosquito bites. No exaggeration. By the time I'd gone inside and put on some Off! and gone back outside, the sun had gone behind a big cloud that showed no signs of moving anytime soon. :(

[Yossarian]

Hey Virgo, go into your system preferences and disable all the extra useless buttons Apple put on there. They don't work worth crap and just cause problems. It's an OK one button mouse, but beyond that, forget about it.

You can probably revive the scroll ball (temporarily) with a cotton swap and alcohol.

[MD]

Turn the mouse over and rub the scrolling ball repeatedly for a minute or so with a lightly moistened cloth to remove any dirt.

[BJMRGTIVR6]

RUSH jobs that are based on a off-site proposal meeting and due at end of week and waiting on copy until thursday at 2pm...staying late only to find out they'll just use another piece for the monday meeting, so don't fret about it...though we want them for next Friday. as if I would only fret on Friday about this, not all week i have been waiting.

Oh, and this will be an all summer ordeal.

[CkretAjint]

Finding out your coworker jacked a stock image from online (3"x4", 72 dpi), and used 1/3 of the picture in the background of a poster 24"x36" at 300 dpi and is calling it okay. The grainy over stretched blurry background "is tooth, which I want in the picture, so it is fine. Plus you can't tell where the picture came from."

I can tell you which project I refuse to be apart of right now! :eek:

[MD]

My boss wanted me to install a copy of OSX on this old blue and white G3 we have lying around. Easy enough you would think.

Attempt 1:
Swap DVD drive out of my old G4 and put it in G3 - bust a couple knuckles trying to get a couple stubborn plugs undone. Pop in the installer disc and everything is silky smooth - until the Registration screen pops up. Locks up every time right after the stupid welcome video. It won't let me boot from the CD again, and I can't get past the screen to set up an account.

Attempt 2:
Remove hard drive from G3 - plug it into the G4 and wipe it completely. Put drive back into G3 and reinstall OSX. Lock Up again.

Attempt 3:
Do a little research and I may need a firmware upgrade before I make the OSX jump. Pull drive - Wipe it in G4. Install OS 8.6 so I can run the Firmware installer. Run Installer and install OSX again. Locked yet again.

Attempt 4.
Pull drive/wipe/replace. Remove all PCI cards (SCSI and serial) Remove all RAM except original 256mb install osx - bricked again.

Anyone got an idea?

[Virgo Nightingale]

Buy a new computer? :p

[MD]

I'm with ya on that - but for some reason he wants to take it home to surf the web on. That computer has been sitting around collecting dust for 6 or 7 years.

Runs 8.6 like a dream though ;) Maxed out with 1gb of ram!

[urstwile]

I've had three logo requests (that require opening the file and doing something like adding an alpha channel), two complaints about slow interwebs (firewall appliance is wonky) and one "how do I sort my e-mail by date, descending?) requests this morning. I'm going to answer the next phone call with, "Creative, can I take your order please? Would you like fries with that?"

grrr. At least it's almost the weekend.
On days like that, I answer the phone "Kinko's with Kerning, can I help you?" :D

[garricks]

*steals line*

I've also stolen a line from Garcia on Criminal Minds: "Office of Infinite Genius, how may you be helped?" I trade it up with infinite Wisdom and Knowledge.

But we have Caller ID, so I always know who's calling...certain people don't appreciate it.

[urstwile]

Oooh, good one, I'm going to have to remember it for the next applicable situation (which'll probably be on Monday). :D

[Virgo Nightingale]

Accidentally finding out when my bridal shower is. :(

[Red Kittie Kat]

awwww .... you will still have fun though darlin ;)

[Virgo Nightingale]

I'm actually kinda glad I know about it. It's on a Sunday at the restaurant I work at (on Saturdays). I'm going to be asked to cover someone's shift on a Sunday, but months ago I'd already decided that I would not pick up any Sunday shifts this summer because a) I wanted to make sure I was free for whatever day my shower was supposed to be, and b) Sunday is my only day off to get wedding stuff done. At least now I know that when I get asked about next Sunday, I really should take the shift. ;)

Imagine if I didn't know and refused to work? :D

[Red Kittie Kat]

lmao sneaky way to try to surprise you though .... very cool. ;)

does this mean you have to sit through your shower in your uniform ... or does everyone know you know now and can just go all gussied up?

[garricks]

Well, Kittie, at least she doesn't know about the fake policeman who's really a stripper!
[insert photo here]

[frankster]

I need a wee bit of explanation Virgo. We don't have Bridal showers in the UK. Is it different from a hen night? I thought you guys called a hen night a bachellorette party? Do you do both a bachellorette party and a bridal shower? Is one for family and one for friends or something? or is one sober and one drunk as a skunk? Do you have to choose one or the other? Do guests have to bring presents like at a baby shower? If guests have to bring presents do they have to bring more presents as wedding gifts? Do they have to bring presents off the registry or are they supposed to get you kinky stuff (which by the way I think is weird. I'd just buy you a gift card to a sex shop and let you choose your own porn) As you know I did none of this traditional stuff myself when I got married, but I think I need to know what the ettiquette is because now we've been in the US a while we are starting to be invited to people's weddings and babyshowers and all that stuff.

I'm glad it worked out for you that you can take the shift and have a bit of a clue what's going on.

[Virgo Nightingale]

No one knows I know aside from my fiance. I don't want everyone to know I know (I know they want to surprise me and I don't want to let them down). I did tell him to tell my sister that we had a conversation recently about me not wanting to take any Sunday shifts and to tell her to call my boss at the restaurant and have him 'call a staff meeting' for that Sunday (that way I'd 'feel more obliged to go'). That way I can come in street clothes. ;)

[Virgo Nightingale]

A bridal shower is just like a baby shower. It's completely separate from the bachelorette party, and nowhere near as debaucherous. ;) Gifts are generally from a registry (household stuff, I'm registered at Bed Bath & Beyond). Sometimes a few kinky gifts make their way into the mix, usually lingerie or 'massage oils'. A friend of mine got a light-up 'faux penis' at her shower (and had to quickly hide it as her young nieces were asking "What's that Aunt Danielle?" "Um, a flashlight! Yeah, a flashlight!" :D).

Generally speaking, only women go to these things. Physical gifts at the shower are the norm (some consider it bad luck to give money at a shower), while money is more the norm as an actual day-of-wedding gift.

[frankster]

I would have never guessed that it was the ettiquette to bring wedding registry gifts to a bridal shower and money for the actual wedding. I just assumed the registry was for wedding presents.

In the UK people just tend to have hen and stag nights. Sometimes a hen night will start at a friend's house and people will bring the kinky gifts and deck the bride to be out with an L plate (white square with a red L on it that learner drivers have to have on thier cars in the UK until they have passed thier driving test). Then it's out on the town or sometimes if you're lucky a weekend away with your mates having fun. Often the bride won't know where they are going for the party, but will know when it is. Wedding registry is just for the wedding and money as a gift is not really acceptable unless you are a close relative.

[Virgo Nightingale]

There's no rule against bringing actual gifts to a wedding, money's just more common. For my friend's wedding, I gave them a physical gift that was on her registry, plus Sean wrote them a check (he was the best man).

[frankster]

Sorry for the thread jacking.

So if I'm invited to a bridal shower and a wedding then it's best to take a registry gift to the shower and money to the wedding and if I'm invited only to a wedding then it would be more normal to give money than a registry item?

Have you got all your planning done and dusted? I hope you're not worn out with it all. I've seen some brides get exhausted by the ordeal of planning.

[Virgo Nightingale]

That's what I'd do, but again, there are really no official rules.

The general planning is done, the only major thing still left in the air is the limos which (if my fiance gets his butt in gear :p) should be settled by the end of the week. Aside from that, all that's really left is more dress fittings, tux finalizing, hair and makeup trials & decisions, finalizing details and payment with vendors (florist, photographer/videographer, cake), finalizing the ceremony script, finishing all the decorative craft projects, organizing an itinerary for the day, getting special music to the DJ, and seating arrangements.

I'm panicking a little, but it's more from having realized it's only 7 weeks away and hoping I get all those details ironed out in time.

[The_Black_Knight]

I am so-o-o glad I'm already married and I don't have to think about this stuff anymore. And that I'm a guy.

I guess that should go into the "Things that make me forget I have a chain" thread...

The funny thing is, about eight years after we got married, my wife told me, "We should have just eloped on a Caribbean island instead of having a regular wedding." It's funny how perspectives change like that.

[Virgo Nightingale]

Trust me, I can't wait until I'm about to walk down the aisle because at that point all events will have been set in motion and what will happen will happen. The only thing I can worry about then is crying away the makeup I paid to put on my face. But I'm a girl, I'm allowed to worry about silly things like that. ;)

[Red Kittie Kat]

I did my own make up and hair ... and all my bridesmaids ..I'm handy that way lol ... but I had mine all cried off halfway through the ceremony ... but fear not .. I brought it with me and spruced up before the reception :D

[frankster]

I giggled at my wedding ceremony. I was hormonally challenged though due to being up the duff. :D

[garricks]

^^ Translation (http://www.phrases.org.uk/meanings/397300.html) (that was a new one on me, frankster!)

[Randomhero]

I was hormonally challenged though due to being up the duff. :D

Thats a new one to me lol. Time to spread it.

[MD]

intentional pun?

[CkretAjint]

An accidental child, aye? :p

[garricks]

Click the "Translation" link in my post above. The explanation is really hilarious.

[Red Kittie Kat]

Thats a new one to me lol. Time to spread it.



intentional pun?


I don't know, but I sure just about choked on my tea http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v54/RedKittieKat/smilies/hysterical.gif

[garricks]

TEA! Stop making Kittie choke! Bad Tea! Bad!

[CkretAjint]

LMAO!!! :D

I wonder if Tea's significant other goes by the handle "Coffee"?

[Virgo Nightingale]

Or "Scones" or "Crumpets"...

[reuber1]

Ugh, the closest state hospital where I can get my ankle checked out without being reamed by ridiculously high medical bills is in Iowa City, and they aren't taking any more patients right now due to the flooding.

[garricks]

Sorry, reuber. That really sucks. :(

[Typically]

that's beat man. there is no way to get a referral?

[Red Kittie Kat]

sorry to hear that reuber :(

[reuber1]

that's beat man. there is no way to get a referral?
I dunno, I'm not even sure how all this works. I think the last time I've been in a hospital for an injury I had was when I was born and had a broken shoulder. My trainer is seeing who she can get a hold of and told me that they aren't taking anybody. I've been shooting in the dark myself, just trying to see who is close and is qualified and is affordable.

[Typically]

lame dude. good luck finding someone and feel better!

[Virgo Nightingale]

You were born with a broken shoulder? :confused:

[reuber1]

You were born with a broken shoulder? :confused:
I think so, or I had one shortly afterwards. I dunno, that's what I was told...I can't say I exactly remember the experience. They probably dropped me on the floor and my shoulder broke the fall. :P

[Bladez]

They probably dropped me

That could explain a lot actually.... ;)

[CkretAjint]

My mom dropped me, she admits it. She even admits to drinking soda and working in front of one of those HUGE 80's computer monitor (giant magnet) all through pregnancy with me. :p