Things that jerk my chain...

[Yossarian]

Hey that sounds like it has potential. If you want to totally blow her socks off I'd throw in a clipart guy standing next to a sold sign!

[Bladez]

It's a brochure for estates backing onto a golf course....If you can afford that, you don't need big print. You can pay someone to read it for you! Starting price was $1.6 million!

I wanted to put in a big Starburst but the font took up all the room. The clipart idea is genius tho! could have used that instead of her head shot.

[Virgo Nightingale]

The clipart idea is genius tho! could have used that instead of her head shot.
They're both equally tacky. ;)

[budafist]

I'd like to try an Outback bloomin onion. Only ever seen them on The Apprentice. I don't think they even have them in the outback.

[reuber1]

I'd like to try an Outback bloomin onion. Only ever seen them on The Apprentice. I don't think they even have them in the outback.
Texas Roadhouse's Onion Blossoms are infinitely superior to the Bloomin' Onion. You can just feel the weight gain with every bite, but it is soooooooooo worth it.


Jerking my chain? Kid Rock, the musician [sic] who butchers older songs like Sweet Home Alabama with his own unique [sic] style.

[garricks]

I'd like to try an Outback bloomin onion. Only ever seen them on The Apprentice. I don't think they even have them in the outback.
That's not a bloomin' onion, buda, that's his actual hair! :p

[Virgo Nightingale]

Jerking my chain? Kid Rock, the musician [sic] who butchers older songs like Sweet Home Alabama with his own unique [sic] style.
Sweet Home Alabama AND Werewolves of London. :rolleyes: I cringe every time I hear it, seriously, come up with your own original music. Thankfully we changed the work radio to a station that plays real rock music.

[WannaBrie]

^I thought the same exact thing when I heard that song.

[Typically]

he covers werewolves of london too??? i've only heard the sweet home alabama track and wasn't too fond of it. regardless of his music he put out a PSA that is pretty funny... clicky (http://www.rollingstone.com/rockdaily/index.php/2008/06/19/kid-rock-encourages-stealing-from-everybody-in-psa/)

[Virgo Nightingale]

It's the same song. It's a mash-up of both songs with the addition of new lyrics. The piano riff is straight from Werewolves.

[Typically]

ahhhhh i wasn't paying that much attention to it to notice i guess =]

[reuber1]

ahhhhh i wasn't paying that much attention to it to notice i guess =]
I heard it at the gym's XM Radio (they have XM radio...USE IT TO ITS FULL POTENTIAL), and then within 15 minutes I heard it through the crappy station when I got to work. It's a hard one to avoid.

[Mynock]

insomnia

[acousticmind]

2 things:

- slow internet

- people who type "lol" or "lmao" or such things when they didnt even crack a smile.

[NTLemon]

lol

[Bladez]

Did you actually lol at the Lemon? Or are you just patronizing acoustic? I hope it's the latter.....LOL

[NTLemon]

Little bit of both perhaps :p

[Yossarian]

I bet it was a good hearty chuckle at his impotent desperation... lol

[garricks]

Rofl

[Typically]

people that talk but don't talk to anyone in particular. just kind of say something hopping that someone will comment on it and then you are sucked into a conversation that you don't want to be in because you just got into work and its monday.

[TorrentOfFlame]

I agree, Typically. Thats why I dont pick up on them (:

[reuber1]

Having to share a stock photo library account with another designer. When one is logged in, the other can't use it.

[budafist]

Having to share a stock photo library account with another designer. When one is logged in, the other can't use it.

I didn't know that. Learned something new. I couldn't justify getting a new account just for that reason though. Especially since the credits expire. We bought heaps in bulk (couldn't resist the bulk buying discounts) but now we've got to race to use them up!

[garricks]

Jerking my chain right now: My neighbor, who is using a weed-whacker that sounds exactly like a dentist's drill.

My right eye is starting to twitch.

[budafist]

What's wrong with a couple of weeds? Hire some bunnies! That'll take care of them!

[garricks]

Oh, buda, that reminds me...this morning at work, I was out having a cigarette and watching two bunnies. They were about 8 feet from me, munching teh grass. Then they started playing...or having foreplay, I couldn't tell...one would charge at the other, and the second one would hop about two feet in the air, over the first. That happened about five times, then someone else showed up and scared them off. :(

It was really fun to watch!! I got some pics of them eating but not playing...I'll post them in the bunnyday thread after I crop them in.

[budafist]

Bunnies interacting with anything (especially each other) is fun to watch.

We normally let Tofu outside in the mornings and then when I go to leave for work I make sure he is inside before I lock up. Well this morning I couldn't find him. It's raining here so I told my fiance who promised to go back home during the day to see if he could find him. My plan was to go home at lunch time if he hadn't been found by then.

When my fiance got home, Tofu was covered in dead leaves and cobwebs, soaking wet, waiting on the lawn to get back inside the house. I suppose he must have had quite an adventure! Bet he found a way into the underside of the new house.

Silly bunny.

[garricks]

Well this morning I couldn't find him.That caused my heart to stop for a moment! :eek: Especially after what Drazan just went through!

I'm so glad Tofu is OK!

[budafist]

Me too. As "parents" we always worry, but he always seems to find his way back. So far.

[garricks]

Is it strange that I was worried about a bunny half a world away?


I don't think so...

I want to see video of Tofu with a pancake on his head! :) When he's ready, of course.

[budafist]

When I'm ready too. I don't think I could waste a pancake just yet. Maybe after a huge pancake breakfast I could donate a pancake for the pancake bunny cause!

[urstwile]

Edit:

people that talk but don't talk to anyone in particular. just kind of say something hopping that someone will comment on it and then you are sucked into a conversation that you don't want to be in because you just got into work and its monday.


Weird, I almost had that kind of thing happen on the street with a homeless person who apparently thought I was judging him. o_O

[urstwile]

When I'm ready too. I don't think I could waste a pancake just yet. Maybe after a huge pancake breakfast I could donate a pancake for the pancake bunny cause!

You could just make mini pancakes, those are pretty easy. Maybe start him off with a pancake droplet, see how it goes, and increase in size as he adjusts.

Just a thought. Carry on. :D

[budafist]

Mmmm...Mini pancakes....

[urstwile]

You know what I'm talking about right? The little droplets that make little mini pancakes when your ladle drips a bit? Or is that just me? :D

[Red Kittie Kat]

I love to make mini pancakes for the girls .. I think they are called Silver Dollar pancakes ... just little round circles of delight :D

[Riefnu]

I saw a show recently talking about hwo everything in your house should be natural. Wood floors, wood furniture, all natural fibers, organic foods, bee's wax candles, more wooden objects.

The next show was "Use less to destroy trees" type jist. Use metal things, 100% recycled plastics, tile floor, non-fiber packaged food.

Both claimed to be right, and that you MUST IMMEDIATELY do this or else dire things will happen.


So the thing that jerks my chain?

"green" people who can't figure out what they are doing, and just want you to OBEY.

[Red Kittie Kat]

lmao Riefnu ;)

[freshinkdesign]

Im english and i love your heart stopping pancakes and bacon in the morning when im in miami.....im staaaaaaaaarvin now!

[garricks]

You know what I'm talking about right? The little droplets that make little mini pancakes when your ladle drips a bit? Or is that just me? :D
(I think the problem actually is buda doesn't want to make a pancake she can't eat! http://i12.photobucket.com/albums/a249/garricks/BBU%20avatars/icon_rofl.gif )

[reuber1]

I didn't know that. Learned something new. I couldn't justify getting a new account just for that reason though. Especially since the credits expire. We bought heaps in bulk (couldn't resist the bulk buying discounts) but now we've got to race to use them up!
It's one of those annual-fee stock sites, rather than iStock or StockXchng. In order to get another user license, we have to purchase the next "group" user licenses, which is like really expensive. We can't just get one more. Kind of annoying at times, and unfortunately it is the better of the three that we have access to (which ain't saying too much).

I need pancakes. I'm hungry.

[Red Kittie Kat]

Im english and i love your heart stopping pancakes and bacon in the morning when im in miami.....im staaaaaaaaarvin now!

We love you Fresh :D

Bacon is adored around here :p

C'mon over ... You make me some scotch eggs and saugsage rolls and I'll make you some pancakes and bacon :D

[Virgo Nightingale]

Weird, I almost had that kind of thing happen on the street with a homeless person who apparently thought I was judging him. o_O
I was in a Port Authority ladies' room last year, minding my own business, washing my hands, when a homeless woman near me starts screaming "If you touch me with those hands I'll give you a bloody face!!!" I discreetly peeked around me to see if perhaps there was someone else nearby she could be concerned about, but I was the nearest person to her. "You hear me? You better not touch me!!" I quietly said to her, "Don't worry, I wasn't planning on touching you." "Well, I'm just warning you. I don't play like that! If you touch me you'll get a bloody face!!!" "Ummm... duly noted... ?"

[Red Kittie Kat]

Yikes :eek:

[budafist]

(I think the problem actually is buda doesn't want to make a pancake she can't eat! http://i12.photobucket.com/albums/a249/garricks/BBU%20avatars/icon_rofl.gif )

That is true. Although I'm happy to make pancakes if other people eat them. I'm just not sure if my fiance would eat a pancake that's got fluff on it and I'm sure pancakes are no good for Tofu. That stuff will go straight to his bunny hips!

[budafist]

We love you Fresh :D

Bacon is adored around here :p

C'mon over ... You make me some scotch eggs and saugsage rolls and I'll make you some pancakes and bacon :D

Scotch eggs is one of those things I've always wanted to make. They're about $3 each at the store (or way more at a restaurant) yet all it is, is an egg with some sausage meat right? Should be easy peasy.

[garricks]

^^ I think Frankster posted a recipe for them around here somewhere... ?

[Randomhero]

An egg with sausage built in? I'm sold on it already.

[budafist]

It is pretty awesome.

I could go for one right now. Our local lunch bar sells these things on occasion but they only sell them in halves!!! Who wants half an egg for lunch? But they never have very many so I feel like a total pig if I ask for all their scotch egg halves.

[Red Kittie Kat]

I posted a recipe :p

It's in this thread ... the actual recipe is post #74 ;)


http://www.graphicdesignforum.com/forum/showthread.php?t=34428

[garricks]

An egg with sausage built in? I'm sold on it already.
Actually, it's more like sausage with an egg built in:

http://farm1.static.flickr.com/107/278217474_b81382f304.jpg

[budafist]

True, a sausage built into an egg would be odd.

[Red Kittie Kat]

That be them :D

[Red Kittie Kat]

True, a sausage built into an egg would be odd.


I think it would be impossible :D

[budafist]

I asked The Googe about a "reverse scotch egg" and it came up with a sausage omlette. The Googe is pretty smart.

[Red Kittie Kat]

I typed in egg covered sausage ... this is what I got :D

It's huge so I'll just put the link ... to lazy to resize ;)

http://www.foodmayhem.com/uploaded_images/Sausage-and-Poached-Egg-713198.JPG

[budafist]

I'd eat that. Actually, I think egg and sausage is awesome. However order it goes.

[Red Kittie Kat]

I would too ... in a heartbeat :D

[garricks]

I posted a recipe :p

It's in this thread ... the actual recipe is post #74 ;)


http://www.graphicdesignforum.com/forum/showthread.php?t=34428
Oh, sorry kittie, I just figured it was a Brit. ;)

I have to find a place around town that serves them. That looks like a food I want to have made for me. :)

[Red Kittie Kat]

I hang out with so many Brits that sometimes I forget I'm not one :p

Oooh I better be quiet that might be considered a treasonous statement :p

[budafist]

I've put sausage and eggs on the my shopping list for tonight :D

[budafist]

I've been working on a flier for a client and it was almost there. I was pretty happy with it so far. Brightly, coloured, high res photos of happy people, reversed out text on a plain but bright coloured background. It was colourful, but still classy.

Until the client requested for all the prices to be put into starbursts. Gah! They didn't specify what colour so I picked bright tomato red to totally jar and clash with the rest of the design. It looked awful. They loved it. :rolleyes:

Why do we bother sometimes?

[urstwile]

Classic example of be careful what you wish for, you just might get it. ;)

[garricks]

LOL buda. Urst is right. I take it you won't be putting that one in your portfolio? :p

Side note: Coworker has been working on a logo of people in a circle (don't ask). Client got her hands on CS3 somehow and "tweaked" the design. As in deleted some of it, moved the rest of it around and drew a big oval around it all, with the logo type around it as type on a path. with no attempt to kern or track, etc. On a brilliant purple background that appeared from nowhere.

[Red Kittie Kat]

sounds very pretty :D

[Typically]

getting photo request for a photo to be 100 dpi that's it just 100 dpi. i should just send them a file that is 100 pixels =] (i get stuff like this often it's not an isolated incident =])

[Randomhero]

LOL buda. Urst is right. I take it you won't be putting that one in your portfolio? :p

Side note: Coworker has been working on a logo of people in a circle (don't ask). Client got her hands on CS3 somehow and "tweaked" the design. As in deleted some of it, moved the rest of it around and drew a big oval around it all, with the logo type around it as type on a path. with no attempt to kern or track, etc. On a brilliant purple background that appeared from nowhere.

She sounds like a natural.

[garricks]

She sounds like a natural.
*sigh* natural born moron. Argh.

[Drazan]

updating a client site and the last itty bitty thing I need to do is create two entries in the database - which requires me to log into the control panel to access said database....


ERROR: PleskFatalException

Unable to connect to database: get_admin_password() failed: file_get_contents() failed:



&*#%*(&#%!!!!

:(

[Drazan]

Can I just pretend it's EOD now? I don't wanna be here for another 1.5 hours. :(

[CkretAjint]

This is the ONE weekend I want to leave at 5 on a Friday, ALL other Fridays I stay till 5:30... So I plan too leave early today. Then I get a phone call from my boss telling me that the printer is sending a BOOK (pdf) and she needs it printed out before I leave at 5:30.

&%*^P(%**#$%(*#$&%^)#&%$*&#$!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! :mad:

[reuber1]

GOD ****ING DAMMIT.

http://www.nin.com/

[Tea]

GOD ****ING DAMMIT.

http://www.nin.com/


Bummer Rueber. I remember a post stating how much you were looking forward to that.

[garricks]

Aw, sorry, reuber, I know you were stoked for it. Can you go in November?

[reuber1]

To add insult to injury, they were playing their last live DVD on the Music HD channel here, and our DVR Receiver just decided to shit its pants. Arggghh.

[NTLemon]

Hmm. Not sure how chain jerking this is but I spent 9 hours yesterday coding an entire website for a friend. It was one of those emergency need it by tomorrow type of deals.

The coding is horrendous though, it kind of made me cringe after each save. The entire site was designed to be created in flash, however the flash developer overshot his deadline so the website just needed to be a sort of quick and dirty job to at least get the content up until it can be replaced with the flash site.

It's pretty much all chopped up jpegs laid out in image tables and iframes whatever the fastest way was to get the content in there. I sort of feel unclean.

[Optimusdinkus]

yea, I hear that. I just found out a doctor kinda lied to us that he sent the high resolution files needed for particular cases to the color specialist. Basically, allot of work is wasted because of this, and I dread telling my boss of the wonderfull news. So how is everyone else's saturday?

[BJMRGTIVR6]

ok, haven't been here too much lately...

Went on a church mission trip (as an adult chaperon) came home to find (what I thought) was cat pee in the basement carpet and tile is wet and stiiiinkky. clean it up. Next day get home late after getting the dog and picking up groceries, 10pm to find out the cat(s) must have peed again. odd - then we find out the basement door drain (right outside the door) didn't drain and had flooded into our house while we were away and that day again.

Fine, we need to pull up the carpet, no going to put down wood laminate. then after reading an email from my brother and clicking the link (to a LOST website) computer freezes and upon restart my second hard drive with all digital photos and freelance is not working! It is several states away now at a Data Recovery center...could be $300-1600+ for data retrieval--UGG.

Some stuff can be had from when I emailed it to work to print and such but other stuff I will have to get from the data center. I know, I should have backed up and meant to but - i learned now

Every time my wife and I think about saving more...crap happens.

[urstwile]

:( sorry to hear that, BJM.

[BJMRGTIVR6]

ok, news update on my hard drive if anyone cares.....$1700!

yikes, had the tree and fence not blown over in a storm a month or so ago, I might have already bought a new computer and External, back-up drive and moved things over.


then again, key word there is might've

[Typically]

oh man that sucks dude

[Zerk]

I know how that goes with the hard drive. Mine crapped out after I unplugged my comp for a bit to do some rerouting of cords and such. Had all our family photos and some work of mine on there. Still havent gotten it fixed.

[Bladez]

Friend of mine works for another magazine, and her publisher just had his HD wiped out! So now she gets the fun job of trying to restore it all from backed up files.

Sometimes it may just be worth the $1700! But that's still friggin brutal!

[CkretAjint]

Wow that really sucks! My stuff would be SOL for $1700!!!!!!:eek:

*pockets a few DVDs from work to back up everything at home tonight!* ;)

[Bladez]

Now we see why I back up to an external HD as well!

[Zerk]

Yea, I learned my lesson now. I just recently backed everything up again on to some DVDs. Whenever I get some spare change to throw around I will get another HD for it.

[Red Kittie Kat]

Geez BJMR :(

Sorry for all your troubles of late :(

[reuber1]

Sure didn't take the health insurance company long to send me a "Your claim is pertaining to a pre-existing condition" bullshit. God the health-care industry in this country can go to hell.

Won't be nearly as much as what it sounds like BJMRGTIVR6 is going through. That sucks man.

[garricks]

reuber, blame the insurance industry first, health care second. The health insurance companies keep grabbing health care by the yarbles.

Sorry about your troubles. :(

[reuber1]

reuber, blame the insurance industry first, health care second. The health insurance companies keep grabbing health care by the yarbles.

Sorry about your troubles. :(
That's who I meant. I'm too pissed to formulate coherent opinions right now.

[MD]

That's who I meant. I'm too pissed to formulate coherent opinions right now.

You must be pissed off all the time when you post ... you never formulate coherent opinions. :p

[reuber1]

You must be pissed off all the time when you post ... you never formulate coherent opinions. :p
Only half true. I'm kind of an idiot as well.

[Kool]

Where I live...

Oil goes up $30 a barrel - gas goes up $2 a gallon

Oil goes down $30 a barrel - gas goes down 2cents a gallon :mad:

[Yossarian]

The way I understand it Kool, the stations don't make their big profits at the beginning of the price hikes. The first spike benefits the top suppliers the most. Then when price per barrel goes back down, the stations float the price back down more gradually. That's when the stations maximize their profits. Probably doesn't make you feel any better I suppose... seeing as how that just extends the time drivers get to pay the higher prices.

[Optimusdinkus]

Sounds right with a typical consumer

"HOLY COW, DOWN BY ANY PRICE, I'LL BUY!!!
:rolleyes:

[NTLemon]

There was a gas station today in the next town up from mine selling gas for $3.57 as a promotional event or something I wasn't able to check it out but I heard it on the radio.... that place must have been a zoo after work let out.

edit: for comparison sake it's about $3.72-.75 everywhere else.

[garricks]

I was shocked to find my gas station selling for $3.52 today. I'm glad I waited. But it still hurt!

[Zerk]

The stations over by my house have been jumping between $3.77 and 3.66 for a couple weeks now. I filled up while it was cheap and it overflowed while I was checking my tire pressure!

[Kool]

My stations have been pegged at 4.11 for about a month. Today they magnanimously lowered it to 4.09 :mad:

[reuber1]

We've been relatively fortunate with the gas prices. $3.69 here. However, we're also really fortunate to have very low wages/salaries.

[garricks]

reuber, that's because we have all that corn and soy to eat!:rolleyes:

[Tea]

So...it's probably been mentioned, but I just detest watching tv and those things that pop up and cover half the screen. Last night I was watching some of the Olympics and they covered up half the screen on the guy on the pommel horse. Nice. So of course today they do the same thing. I mean, cmon...it's a golden moment for these people and you have to cover them up?

It bugs me anytime, but I just thought this was over the top.

[garricks]

OMG, Tea, I was yelling about that too! It's way more obnoxious than it's ever been (although I hated it before, too...)

http://i12.photobucket.com/albums/a249/garricks/GDF/08-09EyeTVSnapshot18.jpg

You can't even see the guy on the rings!

[urstwile]

Don't even get me started on the constant commentary. :mad:

[BJMRGTIVR6]

with the opening ceremony, our "station identification" logo was at the bottom covering up how many athletes each country had. wantecd to know that little detail actually, you know, just to see which countries sent more or less than others.

[urstwile]

The station identification logos are the worst! I know sometimes I'll be watching a PBS thing, like Frontline, or Independent Lens, and they'll be in a foreign country, so they need subtitles, and the logo covers up the subtitles! So you can't even see what the person is saying! Super bad move.

[Typically]

i bought a new knife last night. i was chopping up some parsley for garnish and i found out the knife is very sharp :mad: it could be worse but its still pretty sore and i have a big clunky band aid on my finger now.... i can still play video games though :D

[Tea]

^^^^OUCH. I guess the knife works well?

[Typically]

oh yea i barley even felt it =]

[Tea]

Maybe you'll have to get some of those chain mail gloves!

[Typically]

hahaha i just have to pay more attention when cutting stuff i guess. i was in a hurry because my gf had her friends come over as i was cooking dinner so i just wanted to get it done and have a beer =]

[CkretAjint]

MMMmmm beer. Definitely something that does not jerk my chain! ;)

[Zerk]

Beer is for sure the un-jerker of chains

[BJMRGTIVR6]

I can feel your pain.

I remember when living in an apartment with my wife and had already picked out a house with a nice large kitchen...I was thinking about eh new kitchen and how great it would be compared to the galley-kitchen in the apartment....chop chop, slice slice, ouch, cut the side of my thumb almost down to the nail.

ugg that was painful (last bit of chopping though). sharper knives make better cuts that wont get as infected if that helps.

[WannaBrie]

Chopping Parsley with a knife? You need some kitchen shears, Typ! I love mine, they are perfect for herbs and stuff.

[Tea]

He was playing Iron Chef, I bet.

[Red Kittie Kat]

Typ I feel for you ... I am so covered in scars from cuts. I hope your finger feels better soon ((hugs))

[Bladez]

It's amazing what a man will do to get out of cooking eh? At least you didn't take it off Typ. That's always a good sign. I actually went through my hand with a knife once, right between the middle and ring finger, just between the knuckles...that really sucked!

[Typically]

He was playing Iron Chef, I bet.

hahahaha

thanks guys i figure a few more days with band aids and neosporin and it should be doing better. i think this finger is just destined to get injured by sharp objects. when i was 14 or 15 i was fishing for bluefish (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bluefish) when i caught one and im trying to get the hook out and the fish wriggles up and chomps down on my finger. it too a good 1/8" of my left pointer clean off. the knife wound is in just about the same place :rolleyes:

[Typically]

It's amazing what a man will do to get out of cooking eh? At least you didn't take it off Typ. That's always a good sign. I actually went through my hand with a knife once, right between the middle and ring finger, just between the knuckles...that really sucked!

naw man i love cooking i was just in a hurry and not paying attention =]

yours sounds a lot lot lot worse than mine!

[Bladez]

at least you can say yours was a culinary arts accident....I was just being stupid and I slipped with my camping knife and went into my hand. hahahah. thought I was gonna pass out.

[a_muse]

I have a horrible knife injury as well right now, slicing watermelon for my daughters b-day party, the (serrated) knife slips down the side of the melon and rips into my finger, down the side and under the nail, hurt like hell, still does, but not as bad.
The cute two year old keeps kissing it better ;)

[BJMRGTIVR6]

I have a horrible knife injury as well right now, slicing watermelon for my daughters b-day party, the (serrated) knife slips down the side of the melon and rips into my finger, down the side and under the nail, hurt like hell, still does, but not as bad.
The cute two year old keeps kissing it better ;)


Ouch!

serrated knives tend to hurt more with the tearing.
cute to hear about eh kissing the boo-boo to make it better. :D

[garricks]

I cut the tip of my right index finger off with an Xacto knife...trying to trim out some half-sheet wine lists for a client. Bled like a booger for two hours.

[Bladez]

I cut the tip of my right index finger off with an Xacto knife...trying to trim out some half-sheet wine lists for a client. Bled like a booger for two hours.

I've never seen a booger bleed...I've seen a bloody one tho (GROSS)

My brother cut off the tip of his finger while cutting carpet a number of years ago and he didn't even realize it until it bled. He actually found the tip, and when I got to his place he told me to hold out my hand. Being the trusting brother (my mistake) I held it out and when he dropped it in my hand I couldn't figure out what it was at first. Then he told me....again....thought I was going to pass out. Jerk!

[Optimusdinkus]

I've never seen a booger bleed...I've seen a bloody one tho (GROSS)

My brother cut off the tip of his finger while cutting carpet a number of years ago and he didn't even realize it until it bled. He actually found the tip, and when I got to his place he told me to hold out my hand. Being the trusting brother (my mistake) I held it out and when he dropped it in my hand I couldn't figure out what it was at first. Then he told me....again....thought I was going to pass out. Jerk!
if it was my finger, I might of done the same thing lol. Least he had a sense of humor about it.

[Tea]

Tell me when you guys are done. I can't read this any more. I'm squeamish.:(

[garricks]

Tell me when you guys are done. I can't read this any more. I'm squeamish.:(
A moose bit my sister once...

And this one time? At Band Camp? ...

[budafist]

I agree with you Tea. For some reason, when I think about injuries, my knees ache.

[frankster]

I sheared off the top part of the side of my little finger when I was younger, so that it was hanging off. I was trying to shove the metal pole of an umbrella without a handle into a big bamboo cane to make a den and the bamboo split and mangled my finger. I ran to show my mum and she freaked, turned white and told me to find my dad, so I had to run around with the side of my finger dangling, shouting for my dad. Buda and Tea, are you as squeamish as my mum?

It fused back on ok, but when my hands get cold that part of my finger is a gross white bloodless colour. Nice eh!

[budafist]

Ewwww...Ok, I'm generally not squeamish. I won't faint or vomit. I just get an aching in my knees.

[CkretAjint]

My knee aches when it's about to rain or is really humid outside...

[budafist]

GAH!

The production manager comes in to ask for our files to be rotated a certain way and resent to the CTP. That in itself is fine, he gets to decided where it is gripped depending on which press is used. We guess and we are right most of the time, but sometimes jobs are special and done a little differently. No problem.

My problem is that he says stuff like "Please rotate it 45 degrees clockwise" when he actually means "90 degrees counter clockwise". It really does my head in. I have to ask him to show me exactly what he means instead of trying to decipher his instructions.

So he comes in just now and asks for the job to be rotated 180 degrees clockwise.

I'm like: so you want me to turn it upside down?
He replies: No, just 180 degrees clockwise.

:rolleyes:

[CkretAjint]

lmao!

[garricks]

ROFL, buda! Please turn the next one 720 degrees counterclockwise.

[The_Black_Knight]

I actually made a dumb mistake because I misheard something regarding rotation.

Somebody told me they wanted a panel on a carton rotated 180 degrees. What I heard was that they wanted it rotated 90 degrees. Since the panel wasn't square, I was fidgeting and fidgeting with the contents to try to get them to fit on the rotated panel.

I finally got it to work, and when I showed it to the person who requested the change, she said, "But I said I wanted it rotated 180 degrees. It just needed it to be flipped upside down."

I kept the version of the file I had worked on, but labeled it with a "DUH" in the file name.

I'm not usually that dumb, but occasionally I just have complete brain spasms like that.

[budafist]

I actually made a dumb mistake because I misheard something regarding rotation.

Somebody told me they wanted a panel on a carton rotated 180 degrees. What I heard was that they wanted it rotated 90 degrees. Since the panel wasn't square, I was fidgeting and fidgeting with the contents to try to get them to fit on the rotated panel.

I finally got it to work, and when I showed it to the person who requested the change, she said, "But I said I wanted it rotated 180 degrees. It just needed it to be flipped upside down."

I kept the version of the file I had worked on, but labeled it with a "DUH" in the file name.

I'm not usually that dumb, but occasionally I just have complete brain spasms like that.

You might be my production manager! He's not dumb, just occasional brain lapses.

[The_Black_Knight]

You might be my production manager! He's not dumb, just occasional brain lapses.I'm pretty sure I'm not, since I'm not living in the future.

Or, maybe I will be, but that was in the past of my future self.

Wait...

:confused:

[garricks]

TBK, you might need to watch Idiocracy again to understand the whole time travel thingie. I'm just sayin'. ;)

Oops Edit: Not to suggest that buda is THAT far in the future... :)

[budafist]

Oops Edit: Not to suggest that buda is THAT far in the future... :)

I need electrolytes!

[garricks]

;)

Just don't put them on the garden!

[budafist]

But plants need electrolytes!

[Randomhero]

I wonder if I'm from the future. You'd think someone would be sure of something like that.

[budafist]

I wonder if I'm from the future. You'd think someone would be sure of something like that.

*sniffs Randomhero*

Nah, you're not.

[Bladez]

I think my head is gonna asplode if you guys keep this up....

[garricks]

I think my head is gonna asplode if you guys keep this up....
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[The_Black_Knight]

I think my head is gonna asplode if you guys keep this up....
If I were from the future, I could tell you if that already happened or not. Maybe buda knows.

[garricks]

Three...Two...One...

http://i12.photobucket.com/albums/a249/garricks/BBU%20avatars/explode_head.gif

[CkretAjint]

Mmmmmm eyeball *eats* :)

Things that jerk my chain? Not knowing... Wanting to spend some money on something and not knowing much about that specific area. It kinda jerks my chain when not knowing if my decision is completely "right" for me...

[Tea]

Oh, I go through that all the time. I find I usually don't need it especially after I've hemmed and hawed long enough that it's out of date by then.



What really irks me today....(I could do a daily irk blog) is when someone uses high pressure tactics to try and talk you into doing something you don't want to do. Thankfully, after writing in my journal, I realized this is a multi-level marketing thing, like Scamway, Mary Kay, etc. and I do not want any part of it. It took a long phone call this morning to bust away, but I did it. Just pisses me off that they use more than one person to send in for the attack and shanghai you into their world. More than that, they put the spin on it's a group of "women" so of course you could trust that fact.

[Bladez]

People who quit their job without giving anybody any notice or warning! On top of that, not having any notes as to what's going on with who, and which ads are being run in next months magazine. Now I get to find all this out despite the fact that it's not my job, nor was it ever part of my job description, but because there's nobody else here to do it, it got dumped on me. And most of the people I've got to call, I can't find where she put their files, so I can't find any ad agreements. How do I explain to a person that we don't know if they're advertising next month, and if they are, we no longer have a copy of their ad agreement.....

[The_Black_Knight]

Ouch, Bladez. Cleaning up someone else's mess is never fun.

[Tea]

Bladez...did you get along with this person? Maybe you could call and ask her where the files are?

[Typically]

or if you didn't you can hunt them down and put sugar in their gas tank

[Bladez]

Bladez...did you get along with this person? Maybe you could call and ask her where the files are?

I only worked with her for about a month or so, and didn't care for her at all. I'm glad she's gone, but really...now I've got to sort out all her crap. She came in after everybody else went home and cleaned out her office. I don't think anybody here really cared for her.

[Tea]

Yikes! I hope you can sort through the mess quickly.

[Bladez]

well, I'm getting in touch with them hoping they can help me out. At least when I leave this job I'll make sure that all the loose ends are tied up. And hopefully I'll be outta here soon. Really not enjoying it here.

[Typically]

when in rome

[frankster]

When in Rome what? Drive like a nutter on a vespa with no helmet? That's not very sound advice Typically!

[Red Kittie Kat]

lmao Frank :D

[Randomhero]

When in Rome what? Drive like a nutter on a vespa with no helmet? That's not very sound advice Typically!

Rofl, never been to rome but that sounds pretty solid. :p

[Typically]

When in Rome what? Drive like a nutter on a vespa with no helmet? That's not very sound advice Typically!

i dunno it just seemed like it needed to be said :D

[Tea]

Oops. Changed my mind.

[garricks]

Yikes, Tea. Not cool.

[Tea]

You must have read the first post! Tee hee. But not cool.

[garricks]

Yeah, I did. :(

You were right to change your mind, too. (IMHO)

[Typically]

i saw it too and i think you were right to change your mind.... not cool though

[Tea]

i saw it too and i think you were right to change your mind....
Thank you.

[Kool]

Umm... what the heck are you guys talking about? :confused:

[The_Black_Knight]

Umm... what the heck are you guys talking about? :confused:I think it may be one of those things that I'll regret knowing once I find out...

[Tea]

Nothing really. I posted something, then decided I'd rather not have it posted for personal reasons, so I edited my post. A couple people saw it before I made my changes. Not too big of a deal really...but I could make up a good story to pacify you if needed.

Let's see.....that lying bi*** and her pancaking sidekick stole my money and my horse too!

[Typically]

oh shit you got horse jacked?

[Tea]

Yea. I'll have to post a photo of him on the back of a milk carton or a package of oreos.

[Yossarian]

.... or, God forbid, glue bottles. :(

[CkretAjint]

I didn't know dogs could speak, let alone lie! :o

[Tea]

Too funny! Glue bottles...

Yes Ckret. Dogs lie all the time. ALL THE TIME. Mine claims he didn't do it. "Um, excuse me...no one else ate the entire loaf of bread and left the wrapper on the floor with a big chew hole in it."

[CkretAjint]

Are you sure you don;t have multiple personalities? Perhaps it was you?

[Tea]

I DO have multiple personalities! However, POOPER is not a personality! :D

[BJMRGTIVR6]

so, if the flooding of our basement, tree and fence falling over and losing a hard drive wasn't enough.....

after installing new flooring in the basement last weekend, we come home from happy hour last night to find the basement flooded AGAIN!!

Tonight I will look at the "drain" and see why it isn't.. Hopefully the flooring wont need to (all) be replaced. I did buy a Dehumidifier this morning.

[Bladez]

Dude....that's BRUTAL!!! Good luck with it all.

[WannaBrie]

BJMR, make sure that you buy some of those drying agents to absorb ALL the moisture. Black mold is nasty stuff. Sorry about all the distasters befalling you lately. Here, have some of my extra good karma... :)

[Red Kittie Kat]

hehe good one Brie :D

[Typically]

oh dude that blows! hopefully it's nothing drastically wrong with the drain.

[CkretAjint]

Wow, that seriously sucks! Sorry to hear that. :(

[urstwile]

Bummer BJMR. :(

[garricks]

Sorry to hear that, BJMR. Do you have a sump pump? If not, you might look into it.

Good luck!

[a_muse]

Ya, our basement flooed about a month ago during a bad rainfall, and then nearly flooded a week later. It turned out the sump pump wasn't turned on for some reason, what a pain in the ass!

[Randomhero]

Our basement doesn't really flood. but if it rains a lot we can accumulate some pretty deep puddles because of the uneven floor. Nothing quite like trying to find some cereal after just waking up and hearing squish as u step into 3-4 inches of water..... It's a fun wake up.

[Tea]

Oh, that seriously does bite the big one. I can't imagine what you must have felt just replacing that flooring. I hope it isn't ruined.

[BJMRGTIVR6]

Thanks for all the kind words everyone.

about the sump pump...we have one but never heard it run and not sure the water actually makes it over to it, there was standing water (granted only Half Inch) about 3-4 feet away. I think either the floor is not sloped that way or might be better to have two sump pumps.

onto the drain. I cannot get a screwdriver in to see under the drain cover; almost feels like it has cement down in the grooves. However, i can see water 5 inches down and when poking a tiny dowel rod, it only goes in 6-8 inches.

The flooring has buckled near where they meet each other - though not every board. My wife is hoping the washing machine or Hot Water heater will die like our neighbors have had within the past 4 months and that will Ruin the nice flooring we put in for insurance to help out.

We are taking a basement break today and going to some fish stores!

[CkretAjint]

Ugh...

Pictures that aren't very taken very well and I am supposed to 'just work with them'. For what ever reason when my friend was shooting this model, half of the tone of her skin is golden (nice), and the other half is death grey (NOT good). It;s such a pain in the arse adjusting these.... Major boo on him! :(

Here is a sample: (top = good, bottom = bad). I am pretty sure it is her makeup fouling up the tones but still... light your model correctly! :mad:

http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3154/2779966756_ce8b77632e_o.png

[budafist]

She's a zombie in disguise!

[CkretAjint]

I am starting to think so! Too bad, cause she is pretty hot for being just out of jail bate range. :p

[garricks]

Oh, eww. PS nightmare! Good luck, CA.

[CkretAjint]

No need for luck when you got time and skills! ;) *toots his own horn*

Before:
http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3110/2779437603_8872199d6f_m.jpg

After:
http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3041/2779437605_fe19a87c36_m.jpg

Still working on it.... but you get the idea. Plus I am not happen with lower shadow I have over her arm/chest.

[garricks]

Nice, CA! "He who blows not his own bassoon, the same shall not be blown."

(sigh) Time is always the Great Decider. I never have enough of it. ;)

[CkretAjint]

Well, I have about a month to chop up 5 of those images. Not an HUGE biggie. About 1 a night and I am good to go. Then plop them into the spread and call it a day. *shrugs* Easy peasy, for once! :)

[Bladez]

I am starting to think so! Too bad, cause she is pretty hot for being just out of jail bate range. :p

Well...just remember...Jail bait is better than mas.....wait....Gotta keep it clean. My bad!

[NTLemon]

Not bad ckret. Man, I have heard some photographer horror stories like that though. (Think sunburned bride that wants all 200+ photos corrected. Oh you can just do that in photoshop right?)

[garricks]

Not bad ckret. Man, I have heard some photographer horror stories like that though. (Think sunburned bride that wants all 200+ photos corrected. Oh you can just do that in photoshop right?)
Sure. For a price.

[Typically]

people "converting" jpegs into eps files

[BJMRGTIVR6]

i always like that one.
It's an EPS like you wanted right?
(straight from the web too)

[Zerk]

people "converting" jpegs into eps files
Wait... that doesnt work!? I kid I kid.

I am happy enough when I can get people to follow the correct LINK. You are expecting a lot of them ;)

[Typically]

i just expect a file i can work with. the sales people deal with this everyday. how can they not know the difference between vector and raster art??? i'm going to make up a pdf that shows the difference and give it out when i get things like this.

the file they gave me looked like a scan of an embroidery!

[Yossarian]

I hear you on the sales people thing and it's hard not to get lippy when they ask you for the hundredth time, "I have these 16k gifs and jpegs, will they work? Oh....well what kind file do you want?"

You know what? You're right, I actually do need a pancaking 16k jpeg because the other 100 times I've told you that logo files should be eps vector files I was just kidding. All this time I've been giggling to myself with secret glee because I've been making you go to the extra work of requesting a vector eps. And then when I get them, I resave them into 16k jpegs.

*ahem*

[xc-runner]

Here's my rant, I went to a meetup group for designers the other night, and I felt stupid because I did not have thick black square framed glasses. They made me sit at a special table with another guy who forgot his.

[budafist]

Here's my rant, I went to a meetup group for designers the other night, and I felt stupid because I did not have thick black square framed glasses. They made me sit at a special table with another guy who forgot his.

Well, why did you out in public without your designer's glasses? How were they supposed to recognise you?

I only wear contacts when I'm going swimming. Were you going for a swim after the designers meet?

[reuber1]

A $300 bill for a 15 minute doctor visit. :rolleyes:

[CkretAjint]

Man, this entire week has jerked my chain... UGH, I can't wait for it to get over. I don't think it can get much worse! :mad:

[Typically]

just got sharpie on one of my favorite tshirts =[

[Virgo Nightingale]

Keep drawing all over it and try to convince yourself that you meant to turn it into an art project. ;)

[Typically]

hahaha im still going to wear it but it still stinks :rolleyes: it's my one sweet bob marley shirt and i've had it for like 6 years. and it's too far away from his mouth to turn it into a spliff =]

[Virgo Nightingale]

Maybe it's really really BIG spliff... :D

[Red Kittie Kat]

hahaha im still going to wear it but it still stinks :rolleyes: it's my one sweet bob marley shirt and i've had it for like 6 years. and it's too far away from his mouth to turn it into a spliff =]

before you wash it use rubbing alcohol ... saturated it and rub gently .. it should take out a lot of it. ;)

and this might help if that doesn't


http://www.sanford.com/sanford/consumer/jhtml/help/sanford_help_95.jhtml


Just don't wash it before you try anything that will set the stain.

[Typically]

ahhh sweet thanks for the tips =] im going to try the rubbing alcohol method when i get home. fingers crossed =]

[Bladez]

at least the sharpie didn't run through the wash with it...I had that happen to a brand new pair of work pants....I never even wore them and they were screwed. Sets the stain before you even know there is a stain! hahahaha

[Typically]

oh man thats beat! maybe i'll just cut the art off the shirt and frame it if i can't get the stain out. the illustration the dopeness

[teniworks]

our new neighbors who moved into the office space next to ours who like to smoke in front of our office and steal. There have been at least 2 or 3 car break-ins in the past month since they moved in.

[urstwile]

Yikes, they're stealing? That's awful!

[Randomhero]

at least the sharpie didn't run through the wash with it...I had that happen to a brand new pair of work pants....I never even wore them and they were screwed. Sets the stain before you even know there is a stain! hahahaha

Thats almost as bad as when I accidently put my switchblade in the washing machine. It popped open and all the clothes in there got partially shredded lol..... It wasn't a good day :p .

[Drazan]

having to work the entire pancaking weekend while my roomie is up at the Ren fair. Friday and Saturday sewing up a last minute costume when I asked him for months if he was interested in going (when then the answer was no) then a day after the second car is in the shop, where as I can't delay it anymore. He asks to go to the Ren. Well because the car is in the shop with an estimated $700 in repairs there's no freaking way I can go to the Ren -----because I had never planned on it because I was under the assumption we weren't going.

Then last week the server "aquired" an irc bot so according to the boss its "my fault" and I have to clean up the server on my own time. BS. So I have a new server to transfer 60 domains today.

I promised two companies their websites will be done on Tuesday and the boss hijacks me for three days telling me to "clear my calendar" when he knows very well that these websites were supposed to be done and I was gone on Thursday.

It's 4:30PM on a gorgeous sunday and I'm working for the third day on my own time to clean up the bloody mess.

<< not happy.

Jade

<<has to learn to say no to people.

[Tea]

Bummer Jade! Bummer. I spent about 5 hours at work myself today. Yuck.

Things that jerk my chain? OH PANCAKE....I'm p.o.'d about this and I WILL pancaking do something about it...number one...I believe in the Protect and Serve people. But apparently we have a rat bastard cop on our small town force who is stalking young ones. Pancaker. Mother Pancaking pancaker. $#@$%^@#$@#$@#$@%

Number 2? On top of that, who are you going to call when you just find out that the ******* (I can see him from my window) who moved in recently is a sex offender. Can you say p.o'd. Pancake. ****. Great...so the stalker is supposed to protect my dd from the sex offender. How great is this? Grrrrrrrr.

******* owns a freaking pitbull too. So, guess what ...yeah...he holes up some young poor innocent little girl and no one can get there because of ******* dog.

I'm livid and my blood is boiling. I am a woman on a GD mission now. and that is not Graphic Design.

[Tea]

Sorry. I'm really upset.

[Drazan]

(((HUGS Tea)))

anything I can do from here just let me know. Are you calling the county tomorrow?

[Tea]

the problem is that the kids and parents feel so threatened by this guy that they are afraid, so no one has reported it. So I've got some leg work to do. What a red flag if I've ever seen one. The people here tend to shut up and keep the peace and take it. I can't sit by and let that happen.

The sex offender is not registered, so I may just find out from the city why we weren't notified, but one step at a time. I have to think before I act on all accounts. But I've got some good connections.

Thanks for the offer. You never know who you might be able to further your need. I appreciate it.

[urstwile]

Yikes, Tea, what a horrible combination of things to have to deal with. :(

[garricks]

Grrrr. Took an extra day off. Ran out this morning to do some errands. About an hour after I got back, the smoke detector in the hallway started chirping. And of course I don't have a 9V battery anywhere in the house, so I have to go out again. And the humidity is way up today. :(

[Virgo Nightingale]

The best is when it starts that chirp in the middle of the night while you're sleeping. Ours has done that twice.

[Typically]

The best is when it starts that chirp in the middle of the night while you're sleeping. Ours has done that twice.

easy fix for that. rip it off the ceiling and throw it down the stairs =] mine did that just a month or 2 ago actually

[garricks]

Aha. I have now figured out why I never have 9V batteries at home.

I always buy a two-pack, so I'll have a spare in the drawer. When I get home, I realize that this smoke detector takes two 9v batteries. And I somehow never remember to buy more replacements.

*puts 9v batteries on shopping list*

:D

[BJMRGTIVR6]

We had a problem with a CO2 detector in the house (we have Natural Gas for Heat) and it chirped as if a low battery (even when plugged in) and after many tries eventually unplugged it and tossed it in a drawer.

We're still living

[garricks]

:eek:

I have a carbon monoxide detector wired in to my alarm system and a separate one in my bedroom (courtesy of my parents ;) ). There are several deaths every winter from CO poisoning here.

[Virgo Nightingale]

My husband keeps a decent stock of 9v's around because he uses them in his acoustic guitar pickups. However they're usually among the gear he keeps in his car so the detector will hang from the ceiling until he feels like fishing one out.

[CkretAjint]

hrmm... No CO2 detector here in FL (we don't even use gas). However I haven't even checked to make sure my smoke detector is working in quite sometime! *shrugs*

I am pretty sure I will wake up when I start to get REALLY warm... :p

[Virgo Nightingale]

I really hate when a someone running for political office tries to appeal to the Spanish-speaking voters by putting out a piece in Spanish that's completely RIDDLED with grammar mistakes and misspellings (no accents like é, á, í etc. as needed). I don't speak fluent Spanish, but I could only imagine that if I did and saw a piece so horribly translated I would be so offended I'd tell all my other friends not to vote for them. These candidates are lucky that, though I could care less whether they get elected or not, I still care enough about the pieces I put out that I want them to be grammatically correct even if they're not in English.

[BJMRGTIVR6]

I saw a political brochure this weekend at the state fair that was not designed well at all (totally different from eh grammatical issues). I think it was a template stock from the National Party that was then printed with info from the State party (or so I hope) as it looked awful.

[garricks]

I saw a political brochure this weekend at the state fair that was not designed well at all...
That's happened to me before. I've been tempted to redesign and e-mail it to the company to show them what it could look like...but I haven't.

[urstwile]

My husband keeps a decent stock of 9v's around because he uses them in his acoustic guitar pickups. However they're usually among the gear he keeps in his car so the detector will hang from the ceiling until he feels like fishing one out.
Aww, you said "my husband". :)

Here's one that is currently jerking my chain. A request from a client for a quote for a DVD sleeve. All I have from them are the trim and fold specs for the sleeve. No content, no images, no logo, no clue what kind of product this is even for, no brief, and a web link that is to a site that's just a template not even specific to the client but which they'd like the design to look like. Oh, and a request for a preliminary design (note the part above where I said no content) by tomorrow, if the quote is approved.

This was, quite literally, a line from the email request: We feel that this piece couldn't be difficult and would only require some design elements and a good "eye".

WTF? :confused:

[garricks]

Well, if it "couldn't be difficult," why doesn't the client just do it in PowerPoint or Publsher?!

Man, that really blows. Unfortunately too many of my clients give me about the same amount of information to start with. :(

[urstwile]

I wouldn't be surprised if they sent me the images and logo in a Powerpoint file. Grrrr.

[Kool]

Just take a screen shot of the website, squish it into whatever size and shape the DVD sleeve is and send it to them with a bill for $500. :D

[urstwile]

LOL, it's a tempting thought, Kool, but the website doesn't even have anything relating to their product either. :rolleyes: It'd serve 'em right though. :D

[CkretAjint]

UGH!!!

So at work the one designer is out, and since I am his 'back up worker' I get to do all his work since he is gone. No biggie... Except he is gone for 2 weeks (this week is over) and wed-fri of next week I am going on vacation. So that means that I have to complete all my work by next Tuesday night. I planned it out an can do it, its a crunch, but I can do it....

So I wake up this morning and my kitchen is leaking... a LOT. So now I have to call into work today and I know the boss man isn't gonna be happy. What can one do? *sigh*

[BJMRGTIVR6]

Ouch!
I feel your pain. water leaking sucks big time.

not anything close, but after all my troubles with drains not draining, my wife and I were changing the water in our fishtank the other night and the handle on the bucket broke and 2-4 gallons of water dumped all over the kichen floor. it cleaned up rather quick but we had to laugh as water seems to be our destroyer lately.

[CkretAjint]

haha... that really sucks. I've done that before.

Just had the maintenance people here. They said that last week some roofers were working on my building removing some old TV antennas and probably knocked something loose up there and it's leaking in. Bad part? They can't do anything until the rain stops! :(

[Bladez]

talking to one of the managers yesterday about an upcoming tradeshow. I really don't want to go to this show, and there's really no point in me going, so I told her about family coming into town on the same day as the show (in another city) and I'd rather see them instead, as it's been almost 10 years. She said that this time it's not a problem because they're not going to be sending me now anyways, but in the future, to bad for my family.

Um, excuse me??? No....Not to bad for my family. They take presidence over ANY job. Especially family that I only get to see 1 night every 10 years. she tries a stunt like that again and tells me I'm going, I'll tell her to bad for them, I'm seeing my family! If they want to fire me for that, go right ahead! I just shot her a look and walked out of her office. the receptionist couldn't believe she said that to me either....

[Kool]

^^^ :rolleyes:

My oldest granddaughter when she was little used to suffer from febrile seizures (everytime she would get sick and have a high fever she would have seizures) so I took a day off work to keep an eye on her. My boss told me that it wasn't my problem and I should let her mother handle it. :rolleyes:

[Virgo Nightingale]

At an old job, this complete asswipe of a boss I had wanted to make one of the managers work on Father's Day the following week. Her father at this time was in the hospital, on his deathbed. He had the BALLS to tell her her priorities were off.

[Typically]

thats when the boss catches one of these
http://johnochwat.files.wordpress.com/2007/04/middle_finger.jpg

[Bladez]

you throw a picture of Johnny Cash at your boss?