Things that jerk my chain...

[Ryan8720]

I feel good nunnanunnanunna I like I knew that I would....


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[Wonder Woman]

The other designer that I work with fell playing 5-a-side football (soccer) on Friday, and is going to be off sick for up to 3 months with a broken elbow (may or may not need pins), so my last 2 weeks of working here are going ot be mad. Not only do I now have to finish all the work that I'd time-planned to finish in the time I've got, but now I have to polish off his current work, while telling anyone new that it's not likely they'll have their work done til he gets back, or they find a replacement for me, which could take up to 4 months (security clearances).

Pancake, pancake, pancake. Here was me thinking that I could have a cushty 2 weeks sorting out a few things that I wanted to do and printing off a heap of my work done here. Blah!

Searching for creative juices

[morea]

it took me two pancakeing hours to drive home tonight. I hate the snow.

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[PrintDriver]

Now there are 51 pages.
We'll never get there!
They keep adding them!
Aaaahhh!

Drorain -
Good Luck!

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[reuber1]

Working from 4 a.m. to 4 p.m.,followed bygetting pulled over for speeding on my drive home. First time I've ever been pulled over, but I got a ticket anyway. Great start to my six day work week(end). Oh yeah, that, and more snow.


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[PrintDriver]

Massachusetts dumbass drivers.
It's winter and the roads have wet and salt on them. The sun comes up every day. You drive this road every day. It's called a sun visor. Put it down. And get some sunglasses. And the place that sells the sunglasses also sells the windshield washer fluid you need so you can see out of your bloody windshield when the sun comes up. Be prepared. I counted 32 cars in the breakdown lane of the highway on my way in yesterday. Only 2 were pouring washer fluid. Several were throwiing snow on the windshield. Others were just sitting there waiting for what I don't know. And this particular highway, it's a 6 lane highway and the breakdown lanes are ACTIVE at 6am. . . .
Not to mention the ones that were still driving and slamming on the brakes every time they turned into the sun or the ones that almost sideswipe you cuz they can't see out their side mirrors.

What is that crap they're using on the roads anyway? It doesn't come off even with Windex!

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Post Edited (PrintDriver) : 3/11/2005 2:51:28 AM GMT

[D-Zine]

Office drama!!
I think I would rather work in an office fulla men then to have to put up with the general office womans catty BS!
And I am allowed to say that because I am a woman!!!

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Power to the Oldschoolers

[uncle carbunkle]

what is it with women, anyways?

sheesh.

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[D-Zine]

another thing - I hate two faced people who say they are your friend and then talk behind your back in the next breath.

Forget that - I know who my *real* friends are /DesktopModules/dotNetBB/emoticons/dry.gif

blahhhh...I need to go build a fence!

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Power to the Oldschoolers

[morea]

ooh! what a pain! I just sat here and peeled a whole nectarine...and on the inside it is rotten. so sad!

that really jerks my chain! /DesktopModules/dotNetBB/emoticons/lol.gif

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[D-Zine]

I had a turkey sandwhich but someone ate my little bag of cheetos! FOR SHAME!!

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[morea]

^ LMAO @ 'FOR SHAME'

Speaking of 'for shame', I just got a telemarketer harassing me at work. /DesktopModules/dotNetBB/emoticons/lol.gif

TM: We're giving away free magazines.

me: I'm not interested thank you.

TM: But they ae absolutely free! We are giving them away on behalf of the advertisers because if you share the magazines with other in the office their advertisements have greater circulation per magazine. It pays for itself!

me: Well, if you want to send free magazines to the office, we can put them in the lunch room and employees could read them if they had time.

TM: We have over 150 different titles... a,b,c,d,e,f,g,h,i,j,k,l...

me: I don't care what you send as long as it is appropriate for an office environment.

TM: Ok, well, we can send you 5 magazines a month, and this is completely free! But we will need to charge you $3 a week to cover...

me: I'm sorry, but I am not authorized to make financial decisions for the company.

TM: <click>

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[morea]

you know what drives me nuts? I cover the phones here as well as handling the design work, since we're shorthanded. Well EVERYONE else in the building was in a meeting, and nobody told me. And since customers never want to go to voice mail, I hav 4 people on hold and was trying every phone extension there is with NO ANSWER!!!!

Finally I got up and walked out into the showroom and found them all standing out there. Fine, have your meetings. BUT SOMEBODY TELL ME FIRST, DAMMIT!

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[Neuro]

Yeah, that's crazy! I hate ppl that do that. Those are the same ones that will bitch if you aren't where you are supposed to be.

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[Wonder Woman]

Yep, I feel for ya Morea. I share my office with the IT guys, but we have different extension numbers. When someone phones for them on theirs, and no one is in it rings and rings and rings and rings. First grumble - if no one answers within the first 3 rings - why bother? They can only be a maximum of 6 foot away from the phone, so why ring for a full minute?

And then, if no one answers on their extension - they phone ME! And ask 'are the IT guys there?' WTF!!!! Where does 'IT guys answering service' come under the job description of 'Graphic Designer'. They also do this when they walk into the office. Stand in front of the desk and say 'where are they all?' DO I LOOK LIKE A FREAKING SECRETARY?!!!!!!!!

Searching for creative juices

[~Digital_E.V.O~]

I had a guy who dials the phone on speaker...
This is after he told me to lower my iTunes which was on 2 volume notches (how much lower is it supposed to go)...
probably because he needed to hear himself dialing...

What we are going to do here is go back,
way back,
back in time.

When the only people to exist were Troglodytes.
cavemen,
CAVEWOMEN,
neanderthals,
troglodytes.

i got a letter from the gubberment the other day...

[Patrick Shannon]

Alright, WHY THE THE BLOODY HELL AM I BEING TOLD TO MAKE CHANGES ON A CUSTOMER'S PDF FILE? It's a PDF people, it's locked into place! And the 'Touch-up Text' tool isn't a miracle tool by any means (not to mention these changes are more complex, involving graphics). And 'no,' I'm not gonna open it in Illustrator (that's not always foolproof, not to mention we're dealing with a multipage newsletter-type of document. So if you need changes, why am I receiving the PDF in the first place? Here's an interesting idea, try having the other person (responsible for designing this document) try finalizing things on their end and make the changes for once. Clean up your own mess, I say.

No, what the employers are going to ask me (and they've asked me this before) is 'Why can you cover up the areas with white and work on top of it?' Like a mechanic using duck tape to fix my transmission.... Hell, how about this, then? Why don't I start sending incomplete documents to my printer and have someone tell HIM to make the changes?

This is going to be a horrible day, I know it.....

Patrick Shannon

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[morea]

you know what jerks my chain? ENERGY VAMPIRES! (thanks to Jiffy for that term)

You know these people... they are the ones that are miserable for any number of reasons, but when you try to help them they latch onto you and drag you down with them... they 'feed' off your energy and suck you dry until you are as completely miserable as they are.

Energy vampires suck. LITERALLY.

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[LeftBrain Artist]

What jerks my chain is the following phrase:

'you're the expert . . .'

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[Ryan8720]

Those are a kind of people I tell to shut up on a regular basis. Or when they start complaining about something you can muster your most sarcastic voice and say something along the lines of 'Sure, let's all whine about it together.' That works just as well as telling them to shut up. You might also suggest they go get a stress reliever ball. I've heard those work wonders.

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[LeftBrain Artist]

LOL. Yeah, I just heard that from my roommate's girlfriend, who asked me to help cleanup their logo, which somehow became 'well, actually we don't do what our name says we do anymore, so we'd like to change it, but we dont know what to change it to . . .

'What do you do now?' says I

She gives me a couple of examples, says its hard to describe, . . . says I'm the expert (at coming up with names, I'm assuming) . . .
Dude, if you cant tell me what to do . . . not much I can do for you. HMM. Since I'm the expert, I'm sure the best name for your business is FREE SEX. Yeah! Thats a name that will get you noticed!

Anyways, I cleaned up her logo, scanning and retracing a hand drawn version in Illustrator, made about 6 new versions of it while she and my roomate went out to eat - seemed to impress her.

I get the impression they're not going to arrive at a decision anytime soon about anything. I think the 'expert' line was meant to flatter me, but after hearing it 5 or 6 times in a half an hour - my mind retreated to its happy place.

[Patrick Shannon]

Okay, I have had it with these damned 'email my logo to....' requests. I have two different requests here from people/customers whom I have emailed the logo to already on more than one occasion! Here's an idea, how about holding on to the logo for once so you can send to to whomever you desire? If I had my way.....hey, how about a charge to email logos? That'd put an end to that nonsense real F'N quick!

Patrick Shannon

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[Tyger]

WTF is wrong with these people here. I took care of a job last week, did the design, got it printed and took it upon myself to arrange everything. This morning the MArketing coordinator gets all ancy with me and says from now on i have to go through her to get P.O's, invoices etc. Apparently the finance dept gave her shit for not following procedures because this particular client didn't get paid. So now she's blaming me that i didn't give her the information. Well, if she was here more than 2 days a week maybe i would've gave her the invoice. She's only here 4 days a week, and she takes several days off, and she's almost never here, and unfortunately she wasn't around for me to give her the invoice. Now because of here absence i have to deal with her b$tching.

Pisss me off!

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[morea]

I have had OVER 50 calls in the last 3 hours... bunches coming in all at once, and people in the office are asking me to make outgoing calls to get more information about their projects. ARGH! I am only one person! And the phones are ringing off the hook, but nobody else seems to want to help me answer them!

Of course, that puts all of the design projects I am supposed to be working on onto the back burner. So much for deadlines. pfft! /DesktopModules/dotNetBB/emoticons/dry.gif

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[morea]

yup. I took 112 calls yesterday. And most of them were obnoxious.

Well, playing the same game again today...

a woman called and requested our service department. I put her on hold and paged the gent who handles service. In less than one minute, he called me back and told me she had hung up. Then he picked up another call.

She called back. She said that she had been on hold for a very long time (wtf?) and assumed that no one was going to assist her. I put her on hold a second and paged the gent in service again. He went to pick up the line - in under a minute AGAIN, and she had hung up.

When the phone rang again I knew presactly who it was going to be... before I could even say 'good afternoon' she started yelling at me that she was trying to run a business and couldn't keep being put on hold all day. She gave me her phone number and told me that I was to have service call her, because she couldn't keep playing games with someone who couldn't transfer her call.

It would be a shame if she strangled herself with the phone cord...

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[Tyger]

one word...beyatch!

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[morea]

ergh... I have a very not-fun cold, and I can't tell which is worse... the symptoms from the cold, or the symptoms from the DayQuil I am taking to treat the cold.

Feels like I've been at work for about 36 continuous hours, but the clock (and unfortunately the TIME CLOCK by association) says otherwise.

We are one, our cause us one, and we must help each other if we are to succeed. ~ Frederick Douglass

[DeleteYourself]

It really jerks my chain that you can't rotate tables in Quark!

WTF!? Who's dumb idea was that!?!?!?!?!

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[Ryan8720]

My cell phone screwing up and losing my whole phonebook.

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[reuber1]

Having to open tomorrow with the release of the PSP. I'll admit the thing looks pretty sweet, despite the fact that I hate Sony, but I have better things to spend $249 on. If there's a line out front in the morning, I'm going to tell every one of them to get a goddamn life, turn around, and go back home.

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[Ryan8720]

I can guarantee there will be a line.

I have a friend that works at Gamestop and he has to work past midnight for their 'PSP launch party'. People who show up for that really need to get a life. You have it easy compared to that.

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[reuber1]

Actually, there might not be a line, and if there is, it's going to be less than 10 people...the thing is, at one point in time this town was declared "20 years behind the rest of the country" based on multiple factors, with income being one of those factors so I'm sure there aren't alot of people who can really afford the $249 price tag. I've had two people ask about them (a soccer mom and some fat kid that smelled like he sh!t himself five minutes prior). And I'm willing to bet Gamestop will have more people staffed in their store than I will in my electronics department (me and one other person, who will be in another department 30 minutes after the store opens)...on any given day I go into Gamestop there's like two or three people in that small store, whereas I'm consistently covering four times the amount of that space by myself and have to be an expert on everything (and I mean everything, including nail polish and Depends).


"Easy"? "Easy"? You're joking right? I wish I had it as easy as gamestop employees; 90% of the "work" I see them performis holding their *****s in their hands.I wish I can just stand around and look like I don't have anything to do as opposed to leaving work daily completely f'cking exhausted (I run 4 miles in a half hour 5x a week, to put that in perspective)because I'm running my ass off to get my work done, but I guess that's "easy" compared to having to work at 12 a.m. and endure a slightlypainful hour (if that) that will probably be so busy that it's a blur anyway.Boo-hoo, they have to work late at night...most nights that I come in at 2 p.m. I'm not out until 1 a.m., topped off with my 40 minute drive home.

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[uncle carbunkle]

reuber, i can appreciate your frustration, but you've got to suck it up and leave that job. i know you want a better quality of life, and it seems tough to leave your only source of income, but it's plainly not working out for you. so you have to do something about it, because that is ridiculous.

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[Ryan8720]

Yeah, go work at Gamestop. Then you can stand around and hold your dick. That sounds at least 10x better than working at Target and sprinting around the store.

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[uncle carbunkle]

LMAO. omg. i snorted, too.

what do you get to hold if you work at footlocker?

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[Ryan8720]

A foot? A locker? ...a footlocker?

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[reuber1]

As though you are the first people to ever mention this to me...OK, say I quit...then how am I supposed toexplain me not having a job to my student loan providers, my car insurance company, and the bank who still owns my car? Give me credit guys, did you honestly think that quittinghasn't crossed my mind? Try moving to this location, and I don't just mean this particular city, and see if you can get a GD job with zero experience...hell I'd be hard pressed to get anything else that paid more than I'm making now, which is why I can't really leave. I'm actually looking into getting a second job just to support myself.You guys need to understand that I do not live in an area that is ripe with opportunity, and $400 in the bankis certainly not enough to just "pick up and move." I'm not making that "20 years behind the country" thing up.

Jesus, isn't this the "Things that jerk my chain" page? I haven't posted on this thread for a while andwhen Ipost once more suddenly people are jumping on me. You can't help but get a little annoyed when someone says that you have it easy. All I did was make one post about how this newproduct is coming out and people who keep waiting for it need to get bent, not another my job sucks post, but somebody turned it into something else entirely.

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[uncle carbunkle]

nobody was jumping on you, guy. i wouldn't want to be around when you finally have that coronary, though. when i said that you have to take steps to improve your situation, i meant you. i don't mean to give you know-it-all advice when it's not asked for - i have a different thread for that! whoop!

so, i guess that, since this is the 'things that jerk my chain' thread, i should say that:

- it jerks my chain that you thought ryan or i was jumping on you. i don't think either of us were.
- it jerks my chain that you hate your job so much that you come home from work, log on to a forum for a profession that you are clearly interested in, but you're already thinking about how much your day tomorrow is going to suck. that's not a criticism of you. i really think that situation sucks. and it jerks my chain.
- it jerks my chain that you are, or you think you are, unable to do anything to fix your situation.

thank-you, thread.

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[uncle carbunkle]

oh, and i didn't include emoticons, so you might think i was jumping again.

unc's mood-o-meter: :)

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[reuber1]

Alright, apologies. I've been really stressed these past few weeks in particular (what with contemplating being a gigilo and all), and didn't mean to jump to conclusions, although the "easy" comment still irritates me.Let's put it this way, I get a call from my direct loan lenders that they cannot process my loan consolidation immediately because one of my loan providers is the government, and my direct lenders have to repay that one in full before they can even touch my other loan; they said this could take as long as four months...I don't have four months, I'm pretty much counting on my loans getting consolidated (one of them is at 8.4% interest...don't know why I deserved that) so I can afford living expenses. Watching my bank account dip from $1200 to $400 in two days is not awesome.Rising gas prices is also not helping with my commute. My situation is not impossible to get out of, I know that, but it is REALLY pancakeING HARD, especially when you realize that the portfolio you graduated with blows, even though teachers said that it was really impressive (relative to the other students it was, but they all suck). I just feel like I'm working nonstop (obviously not now) working at work and my portfolio.

Don't mind my pissed off ramblings, I've been awake since 4:00 a.m. here, and it's 10:22 p.m.now,and I'm really tired...that, and Quark has been pissing me off (go figure, why I'm taking a break).

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[morea]

I am so sick! /DesktopModules/dotNetBB/emoticons/weep.gif And we got another 6 inches of snow after it had all just about melted!

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[Patrick Shannon]

> ving to open tomorrow with the release of the PSP. I'll admit the thing looks pretty sweet,
> despite the fact that I hate Sony, but I have better things to spend $249 on. If there's a
> line out front in the morning, I'm going to tell every one of them to get a goddamn life, turn around, and go back home.

Well no comment about the line thing, I was one of the geeks standing outside the Apple Store waiting for Panther's release, hehe. (However, that was only one hour in line, and it was indoors in the mall in the evening, no camping)

Are there really lines for the PSP? I just walked into Target and picked one up, plenty of units in stock. Which made me feel good because I really did not want to buy one of those crap 'bundles' that other stores are selling off.

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[reuber1]

Patrick Shannon said...

Well no comment about the line thing, I was one of the geeks standing outside the Apple Store waiting for Panther's release, hehe. (However, that was only one hour in line, and it was indoors in the mall in the evening, no camping)

Are there really lines for the PSP? I just walked into Target and picked one up, plenty of units in stock. Which made me feel good because I really did not want to buy one of those crap "bundles" that other stores are selling off.



We didn't have lines this morning, as I figured (I only sold one in the first hourto a fellow team member playing hookie from high school...obviously I made fun of him)...we only sold six in the nine hours I was there. I figured that with all of the stores doing the midnight preorder thing, all of the line waiters should have been taken care of before our stores opened, leaving ample time for those of us with lives to shop. I have my reasons for why this thing isn't going to sell as good as most people think (though I wouldn't mind having one, assuming I wouldn't have to pay $249 for it).







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Post Edited (reuber1) : 3/24/2005 11:54:49 PM GMT

[Ryan8720]

My friend said there was a big line at Gamestop. Of course I made fun of him as well.

I agree with you reuber. They are pretty nice, but I wouldn't spend $250 ($264.98 with tax) on it.

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[morea]

our sales tax is 8.25%

yuck.

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[Ryan8720]

Wow, really? It's 6% here.

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[uncle carbunkle]

ontario 15% with pst (provincial sales tax) and gst (goods & services tax).

woohoo.

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[reuber1]

I get my good ol' 10% discount at work (yeah, there is some good there...outside of the fine looking college employees), which turns into 3% after our tax. 15% is vicious.


"Nicotine, Valium, Vicodin, Marijuana, Ecstasy and Alcohol..."
"Nicotine, Valium, Vicodin, Marijuana, Ecstasy and Alcohol..."

[uncle carbunkle]

we do get a gst rebate, though. they say the gst is only temporary.

so, here's a (two-part) question for our limey contingent: wasn't the v.a.t. supposed to be a temporary measure? if so, how's that working out for you all?

::Don't call me Foreman, for I am your Boss::

[Patrick Shannon]

Alright, here's what jerks my chain......when the other employees here use my light table as a lunch table. Extra 'chain jerking' when you have a paste-up job/negatives to do and find this is going on.

(I hate this place so much, there's a reason why I eat lunch out in my car every single day)

Patrick Shannon

'Dear valued customer, go home and die. Signed, your friendly graphic artist.'

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[morea]

any chance that leaving razor blades scattered all over the light table would discourage them?

We are one, our cause us one, and we must help each other if we are to succeed. ~ Frederick Douglass

[Kool]

Go eat your lunch on their desk, preferably a nice sloppy chilli dog. /DesktopModules/dotNetBB/emoticons/cool.gif

Sound advice I recieved from my 2 1/2 year old granddaughter:

'Grandpa, don't eat the popcorn bones'

[Patrick Shannon]

Maybe there hasn't been a lot of razor blade on there, but they've placed their stuff on top of dangerous items before. Then trash gets left at the light table. One time I even got yelled at for it. Mein fuhrer's repsonse to my own? 'Phht, it's 'never' your fault.....'

Patrick Shannon

'Dear valued customer, go home and die. Signed, your friendly graphic artist.'

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[BOSCOW]

Some people that complain about graphic design soooo much, I dont see why some people are in the field, hear it at work all the time, and many other places when I am searching around my area. Why would you want to be in the filed if your complaining damn near every day. Complain about pay, work they get, art directors, writers, etc. and what they think they do during the day, I just want one of them to step in the art directors position for one day, then see what they say

'No Lois I am not drunk, I am exhausted because I have been up all night drinking.'

[morea]

some people are arrogant bastards... that bugs the hell out of me!

We are one, our cause us one, and we must help each other if we are to succeed. ~ Frederick Douglass

[D-Zine]

Haa haa ...half the art directors out there dunno wtf they are doing anyways... /DesktopModules/dotNetBB/emoticons/lol.gif

I spend 80% of my time b!tching about sales ppl and ad agencies. I've earned that right I think ;)

'No more yanky my wanky! The donga need food!!' - heh

[Patrick Shannon]

That bitching and complaining is completely justified when the source/conditions of those complaints is something that can easily be fixed/prevented/avoided/etc by the workplace, as it is most of the time.

Western Union (old job), job itself sucked....but I can't say one bad thing about my raises, workplace, coworkers or employers.

Current purgatory....hehe, I think I've written a book on it......

Patrick Shannon

'Dear valued customer, go home and die. Signed, your friendly graphic artist.'

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[BOSCOW]

that would suck to work for a place where the art director didnot know what they are doing

'No Lois I am not drunk, I am exhausted because I have been up all night drinking.'

[morea]

if you only knew.

We are one, our cause us one, and we must help each other if we are to succeed. ~ Frederick Douglass

[BOSCOW]

ok i guess i dont

'No Lois I am not drunk, I am exhausted because I have been up all night drinking.'

[morea]

just thought I would mention that this has been a crummy week and I'm terribly depressed.

We are one, our cause us one, and we must help each other if we are to succeed. ~ Frederick Douglass

[Patrick Shannon]

I often wonder if pot usage is highest amongst graphic designers. We're certainly a bunch of drunks as it were. /DesktopModules/dotNetBB/emoticons/cheers.gif

Patrick Shannon

'Dear valued customer, go home and die. Signed, your friendly graphic artist.'

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[DivineDesign]

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"BAN!"

Today I begin to understand what love must be, if it exists.... When we are parted, we each feel the lack of the other half of ourselves. We are incomplete like a book in two volumes of which the first has been lost. That is what I imagine love to be: incompleteness in absence.

[>BIG_Shona.]

Graphic designers who think Adobe products are the 'Only' proffessional tools for design.

[BOSCOW]

they pretty much are for the most part,
95% use adobe cs, quark and indesign, along with webabased programs from macromedia
So why would you want to use something else that is not standard or the norm to many many designers

'No Lois I am not drunk, I am exhausted because I have been up all night drinking.'

[reuber1]

Commercials for movies that show reviews from critics that go something like this:


Fantastic action!
Stellar acting!
Joe Blow, KCUS Radio- Bumf()ck, IA
where the headline/quote is friggin' huge but the person who quoted it is in nice small print and it's on screen for all of 45 frames so you can't see who said it.Obviously they're telling you that whoever stated this is some slackass who doesn't know a good movie from his butthole, or was someone paid off by the film studio/whatever to make up the quote, or it's a conjured identity from one of the producer's "brilliant" mind. It's a good sign that whenever a movie commercial has this, you know it's going to suck (or if it has any "actors" named "Jimmy Fallon", like in the upcoming Fever Pitch, it will certainly suck...Band of Brothers was awesome except for the three minutes you were on there).

In contrast, take the commercials for Sin City, for example...no bullsh!t with those quotes. Plain and simple, "Roger Ebert--two thumbs way up", no quotes from some two-bit douche. And to prove this theory...I saw Sin City and itwas awesome. Hell, you get to see Jaime King's and Carla Gugino's boobies (not Jessica Alba's though...damn); guys, you can't afford not to see it.

"Nicotine, Valium, Vicodin, Marijuana, Ecstasy and Alcohol..."
"Nicotine, Valium, Vicodin, Marijuana, Ecstasy and Alcohol..."

[Patrick Shannon]

Yeah, been wanting to see Sin City....maybe I'll even do that tomorrow afternoon.

Okay, I have one, I hate it when restaurants bring your appetizer with your damned meal! Don't some of these restaurants know what the hell is an appetizer is for, anyway? I know of someone who rejects the appetizer whenever they do that.

Patrick Shannon

'Dear valued customer, go home and die. Signed, your friendly graphic artist.'

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[morea]

our little black and white koi died this morning! /DesktopModules/dotNetBB/emoticons/weep.gif

'They say time is the fire in which we burn.'
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[Tyger]

sorry to heear that morea, must be tough. cheer up!

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[paulrandfan]

I hate my contract boss. He hired me to do work for him, for $364 per two week period. Then he just hired another girl, is taking one minor responsibility off my back, and wants to re-negotiate pay.

try and screw me over *******, it's not gonna work.

'To Design is much more than simply to assemble, to order, or even to edit; it is to add value and meaning, to illuminate, to simplify, to clarify, to modify, to dignify, to dramatize, to persuade, and perhaps even to amuse.' --Paul Rand

[Kool]

Did you give it the traditional dead fish burial at sea?

Sound advice I recieved from my 2 1/2 year old granddaughter:

'Grandpa, don't eat the popcorn bones'

[morea]

no, I fed it to my cats.




just kidding, of course. we flushed it. /DesktopModules/dotNetBB/emoticons/weep.gif

'They say time is the fire in which we burn.'
- Dr. Tolian Soran</font>

[Kool]

You should have fed him, circle of life and what not. /DesktopModules/dotNetBB/emoticons/cool.gif

Sound advice I recieved from my 2 1/2 year old granddaughter:

'Grandpa, don't eat the popcorn bones'

[morea]

well, we lost the last two within the past 24 hours. I just don't understand how it could be going fine for a year and a half, and then with no apparent changes or symptoms, lose all three over the course of a week.

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'They say time is the fire in which we burn.'
- Dr. Tolian Soran</font>

[Patrick Shannon]

That's why I never kept fish, you practically look at them and they suddenly pass on.

Patrick Shannon

'Dear valued customer, go home and die. Signed, your friendly graphic artist.'

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[Kool]

Hmmm, Morea something had to have changed in their environment. Are they now in the sun perhaps? Have the cats figured out how to fish? Have you been changing the water regularly. Are they in a tank or a bowl?

Sound advice I recieved from my 2 1/2 year old granddaughter:

'Grandpa, don't eat the popcorn bones'

[morea]

no, they aren't in the sun, the cats never touch the tank, I do partial water changes monthly and had only 3 fish in a 30-gallon tank.

Here's my setup:
http://img95.echo.cx/img95/6449/tank9cu.gif

'They say time is the fire in which we burn.'
- Dr. Tolian Soran</font>

[Drorain]

give me an idea to raise live bait for fishing...circle of life after all...LOL

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"OH what a big man you are!...Let me buy you a pack of gum, I'll show ya how to chew it..."

~Al Pacino, Glen Gary Glenn Ross

[DeleteYourself]

Two things:

I hate when people feel the need to tell me something they've already sent me in an e-mail. For example, this one sales guy (think Milton from Office Space mixed with Rob Scheider's character from SNL ("The Dave-meister, Dave-arino, Dave-o-rama, etc.)) is always coming up to me and saying things like, "Hey, I sent you an e-mail about this thing, so check it and out do the thing, and if you have any questions come see me about, okay?."

Well then why did you send me the freakin' e-mail douche-bag? If you were just going to tell me about it, I wouldn't have read you're retarded e-mail!!!!

Second thing: I hate when people compliment you, solely for the purpose of buttering you up to do something. This other sales rep here has a reputation for having "compliment tourettes." It goes something like this:

"Hi, so-and-so, loooove the shirt! Can you make 100 copies of that 4 pg promo you made? Oh, and can you make 8,000 changes to it in 2.4 minutes so I can send it to a client in New York? You're hair looks great! Then, can you pull some research for me and make a 20 pg. presentation on leg-warmers? Nice shoes! New watch? You're looking thin!"

Eff-it, I hate sales reps, period.

[D-Zine]

Delete - you practically read my mind as far as sales reps. I'm totally on the same page as you. When what you really wanna say is "Hey there, how bout you take that ad copy and shove it up your a$$"!!!!!!

*grumbles*

[Keyare]

"Hi, so-and-so, loooove the shirt! Can you make 100 copies of that 4 pg promo you made? Oh, and can you make 8,000 changes to it in 2.4 minutes so I can send it to a client in New York? You're hair looks great! Then, can you pull some research for me and make a 20 pg. presentation on leg-warmers? Nice shoes! New watch? You're looking thin!"


HA HA - that's priceless!

I've been around those exact salespeople so long I cringe anytime ANYONE compliments me - I get that "Oh crap, they want something" feeling.

[PrintDriver]

But...but...I always follow up email with a phone call. It's part of my job. Don't tell me you rely on email to actually get delivered when a deadline is involved...? Because that is exactly the time when the daemons will hide it in the wiring.
I hate technology.

[DeleteYourself]

Good point, PD.

Correction: I hate when sales reps (and only sales reps, NOTE: Grande Format Print Dudes and other Print Dudes, et al, not included) send me e-mails that need not be followed up with time-wasting conversations reiterrating said e-mails verbatim.

[PrintDriver]

::thumbs up::

[D-Zine]

LOL @ Delete!
I get that alot. Someone sends me an email, then calls to tell me they sent the email, then calls to see if I got the email. Maybe other people forget but most of the time, I don't. If I think its something i may forget due to an overload of work, I write myself a reminder on a sticky note and put it on my monitor so I can't miss it..to remind me to look for the email. DUH.

Salespeople just suck. I'm sorry. It's the only conclusion after 8 years that I can really come up with.

While were on it...know what else I hate about salespeople (besides EVERYTHING!)...
when I am on the phone, they stand there until I hang up or ask the person to hold on. It doesn't matter WHO I am talking to. It could be a client, it could be a friend, it could be anyone, but they expect me to stop whatever I am doing to bow down to them. Yuck!

Booooooo on salespeople!! :thumbsdown:

[DeleteYourself]

That happens here, too. Yet, if the situation was reversed you'd get a nasty look or an irritated attitude. I guess it's because they're so superior to us in every way.

[Kink]

I hate being sick!!!!! My throwt (sp?) is KILLING me!!!

I want to go to bed....

And I hate waiting.... I'm suppose to get this new computer here at work... well, I've been waiting 2 weeks now. And they finally say that TODAY will be the day.. .well, it's noon already and havn't seen any new computer, let along a tech guy!

[morea]

Things that jerk my chain:

▪ the $300 in car repairs I had to put on my credit card in February
▪ the $400 in car repairs I had to put on my credit card in March
▪ the $600 in car repairs I had to put on my credit card today

▪ The fact that when we tried to mow the lawn last night we found that our 2 year old lawn mower no longer works and we will have to put a new one on MY CREDIT CARD.

▪ The fact that I have to take half my cats to the vet for their wellness exams Saturday and that will cost $500. (on my credit card)

▪ The fact that I have to leave 90 minutes before my work day starts to get there on time because of the traffic.

▪ The fact that I am *promised* things at work which never materialize.

▪ The fact that I have to take Thursday off for my grandfather's funeral and that I will have to take it without pay because I have not been here long enough to qualify for vacation time and the company does not offer bereavement pay.

▪ The fact that my two remaining grandparents are very ill and have both been put on oxygen machines.

▪ The fact that I feel my entire life is spinning out of control and there is nothing I can do about it.

[Kink]

Ahh.. Morea... you have to think of the positive side... what ever that may be for you!

And stop letting those machanics take advantage of you!! They tried it on me... I had my truck in for some warranty work, and they turn around and say that I need new breaks. Well, nothing they were doing for the warranty had anything to do with the wheels. So what the hell are they doing down there?? Anyways, they say it'll cost me $200. I say, do the warranty work and give me my truck back. I then, go to the little garage down the street from me, ask how much a break job is, they say $80! AND I had them check to see if it really needed the work. They said, 'you can go another month or so.' So, like you morea.. that as well, will go on my credit card!!

[Drorain]

get to know a mechanic u can trust...its the best thing to do, morea I'm sorry to here about all the inccured expenses, Such a nerve racking thing.

[Patrick Shannon]

I was walking through the backroom and mein fuhrer turns around with an exposed magic marker while I pass by and just ruined one of my favorite blue shirts...doesn't even offer to replace the shirt, instead saying "if it's any consolation, it's a blue magic marker"

[TooTallVal80]

What really ticked me off was about a couple of months ago at my job. I told one of my co-workers, whom I'm supposed to confront in certain situations about this salesman. Well, certain things ticked me off of what he was doing like giving my a job. And reading a printed e-mail from a client that she wants the cards the next day!! It was a rush job that he just gave me without explanation. And i was fed up with it. So..I told my co-workers, who's works in pre-press about it and confronted the salesman about it.

The next thing I know for almost a month, the guy is being smug with me! Trying to intimidate me; annoying me. Trying to be smart with me! It was horrible and couldn't concentrate on my work for the first couple of weeks. But as days went on I started being smart with me. And what happens? We're cool now. But just that time it really irked me and I wanted to ring his neck!

[Hendo]

The "monitors" of this site really jerk my chain. I have never seen so many uptight people jump on my posts. What is the point to have these message boards?
I thought it was to talk about certain things that relate with each thread. I know how jumpy these people are if repeat something or you start a thread in the wrong area. I thought this forum would be nice to meet some quality artists that I can relate with.
I have met a few, but some of these people need to relax and get a life! There is more to life then this forum!
I will probably get deleted from posting this too, because I might affend someone!

Ok my rant is over!

[uncle carbunkle]

dude. really.

if you start a thread in the wrong area, we move it for you. if you post the same thread several times, we delete the extra ones. if you advertise, we'll delete it and warn you.

i really am sorry that you got all worked up over it, but don't think for one minute that anyone else did.

relax and enjoy the forum - some really interesting, talented and innovative people drop by.

[Tyger]

The "monitors" of this site really jerk my chain. I have never seen so many uptight people jump on my posts. What is the point to have these message boards?
I thought it was to talk about certain things that relate with each thread. I know how jumpy these people are if repeat something or you start a thread in the wrong area. I thought this forum would be nice to meet some quality artists that I can relate with.
I have met a few, but some of these people need to relax and get a life! There is more to life then this forum!
I will probably get deleted from posting this too, because I might affend someone!

Ok my rant is over!


awww come on bro......here, beers on me

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[morea]

Mondays jerk my chain! :D

[morea]

for heavens sake... today is International Pickle Day! Nobody should be working today!
lol

[D-Zine]

I just found out that I definately have to work Memorial Day. Pancaking deadlines!

I am sooooo leaving this place!

[morea]

wow, we only get 6 holidays a year, but memorial day is one of them.

How the heck can they make you do that?

[D-Zine]

its Monday - its a deadline day. He said if we are slow we can close early but he can't imagine there not being enough work coming in over the weekend for us to be off on Monday. WTF ever. I've seriously had it with this place and the cattie people and the sh!tty work.

[morea]

you know, calling the nasty people catty is an insult to cats ;)

I prefer to think of them as "sadistic bastids".

[D-Zine]

ahhh pancake em all, really. I am focused on leaving now...just have to find another job..lol! Workin on that too.

[morea]

now, miss flutterby, is a good time to start sending those postcards out for your freelance biz.

throw off your shackles! No more working for "the man"!

[D-Zine]

still waiting on the postcards to get here....LOL

;)

[morea]

d'oh!

[TooTallVal80]

Pet owners who put puppies or kittens in garbage cans or dumpsters!

[morea]

Amen to that! I won't tell you what I would do to those people if I caught them in the act.

[EC]

People put puppies and kittens in garbage cans?

Man. Somebody needs to put some *PEOPLE* in a garbage can. And that is all I have to say about that.

[idaeus]

Needless to say, but Chavs

[morea]

I can't do this any more.

I left my house at 6:50 as usual. didn't get to work until 8:30 because of traffic on the highway. Now I have to stay half an hour late to make up my time. It is NOT fair!

Traffic was awful and the car is a wreck. The brakes are sticking or something because the car was jerking every time I touched the brakes, the low coolant light is on and I don't know what to do about that, and even though I put $30 in my gas tank Friday, sitting in traffic burned off plenty of extra and now I am down under 1/4 tank of gas... which is not enough to get home. And it is about 15¢ a gallon more down here than it is at home. (I was going to stop and fill up on the way down this morning, but I didn't want to be late.

[JunaD]

Very poorly designed logos for big companies.

Juna

[TooTallVal80]

People put puppies and kittens in garbage cans?
Oh, yeah!! It's awful!

[reuber1]

Driving through South Dakota...YAWN.

About as much fun as listening to paint dry. And what stinks is that I had to use what little vacation pay I had left to go there to begin with.

[Ryan8720]

When you have a drink sitting on a coaster and it sweats and sticks to the coaster when you pick it up. Then the coaster falls off after it is over your lap. That is annoying.

[reuber1]

Hey Ryan, one of my ex-gf's used to sprinkle salt over her coasters before she put her glass down at restaurants so they wouldn't stick. It worked, although I'm not sure how practical that is sometimes.

[Patrick Shannon]

When your boss's family has to be one of those huge multi-people families that have to come by often. Yesterday mein fuhrer's daughter came by with her three kids (toddlers, babies) that are babbling, running, screaming around the place. Then mein fuhrer's son (who works here) always have two younger kids that come by every day (though they're more quiet, sometimes). But it's teeth gritting when they get noisy or start crying when you're trying to work, or when one of the toddlers just stands there and stares at you while you're working at the computer.

Geez...somebody needs to teach these people that a clothes hanger has more than one use.

[morea]

:eek:

[TooTallVal80]

When you see that your dog hasn't eaten his dry from the night before. Then finding out that your neighbor's kid is giving him food!! For how long this has been going on? I have no idea!!!

[Keyare]

Rosie O'Donnell

[Kool]

Rosie O'Donnell

LMAO http://home.comcast.net/~rnick9/koolsmiley.gif

[morea]

and her little dog, too!

Dr. Phil, lol

[uncle carbunkle]

blisters.

[D-Zine]

herniated disks - ACK!

[morea]

Sitting in traffic without moving more than 5 feet over the course of 30 minutes.
For the 3rd time this week.

My 60 minute commute is actually a 90 minute commute half the time now, and it is making me crazy!

[morea]

ok, one more...

I just spent the last 90 minutes cleaning out our store room, because people are constantly telling me that we are out of letterheads, envelopes, invoices, etc.

I labelled everything and stacked all the boxes on the shelves - which I had to adjust for height, I repacked everything and cleaned up the room so you can walk through it without tripping on something and breaking your neck.

I thought it was quite an improvement... so next time my boss walked by, I told him "hey, check out the store room!"

He didn't notice a difference.

<sigh>

[Keyare]

Where's Magnus when you need him? He'd tell you to take a dump on his desk, and in this instance, I think he'd be right.

[D-Zine]

that sucks morea!!! I am constantly straigtnening ours everytime I order new supplies and get them in...but ppl are lazy, leave empty packages and everything. Totally sucks.

How could he not notice....jeebus!! pfft

[uncle carbunkle]

schedule him an eye exam.

[Kool]

You could go back and re-trash it. That would be fun.

[morea]

it was a riot... it looks like a completely different room now...

then again, a while back I redrew all of our manufacturers logos for our website because they gave me a pixellated mess... I also resized them so that they were the same width to make the page consistent. It took about 2 days to get it all done and uploaded. I asked my boss if he noticed the difference and he said "it's different?" :p

[morea]

The people I work with are a bunch of stiffs... none of them would go run around the building with me during lunch! :p

[uncle carbunkle]

for the rest of the day, as soon as their backs are turned, give them the old 'L' loser salute.

http://www.sallad.net/blog/loser.jpg

if nothing else, it will make you laugh.

[morea]

I like to throw my shoes at them when they walk by. :D

[Neuro]

I hate my cars! If I went one damn week without having to wonder what was going to go wrong with one of them, it would be a freakin' miracle. I am so sick of spending money on them to have something else go wrong and have to figure out how to get it to the mechanic that is the only one I can trust, after being raped too many times by everyone else around here, that is only open M-F.
Well today was the ultimate in SHIT! We take the older of the two cars to the mechanic because it keeps going through coolant and power steering fluid, like it's a freshman bimbo at her first kegger! We get it there and the damn thing descides it wants to dump whatever fluid it did have left inside itself all over the damn ground. It's like the freakin' car had been holding it and just desided to pee and pee and pee and pee until it leaked the coolant all over the damn place! ARGH!
Positive note in this whole thing?! At least it dropped it's load at the damn mechanics place and not in my damn garage.
I hate my cars!!! :mad:

[uncle carbunkle]

neuro - that was the PERFECT place for it to happen.

just think *small* miracles.

[Ghastly]

Things that jerk my chain ---> chain jerkers

[morea]

ok, it took me OVER TWO HOURS to get home tonight.

My exit on the highway was closed, I got bad directions, I got lost. No map in the car. No cell phone. No way to get help.

I stopped again and got better directions, my car overheated twice, I had problems with my brakes 3 times that almost resulted in me ramming into the car in front of me, and when I finally got on the highway it was SO backed up that I overheated AGAIN from sitting there.

Well, I finally got home 2 hours later, hysterical but in one piece. AND we are out of beer.

I have to get thecar back to the mechanic who just did the brakes last month, and that means I have to miss work, with NO pay.

Somebody shoot me.

[uncle carbunkle]

oh dear.

some tough decisions there, morea. well, no...not really tough decisions, just some feduciary juggling? time to shoot that lame horse of a car, i say.

how much are you pouring into it every month? wouldn't it be more economical to rent a cheapy budget-model for a week or so until you can figure out a lease or a new car? how can you justify the precious minutes of your life wasted by stress and the money that you throw away on it?

heck, rig up the cats to a skateboard.

[morea]

if only! I think the cats wouldn't make it to the highway, let alone the next 40 miles.

the other car died yesterday. This is all that's left. And all the repairs go right onto the credit card... do not pass go, do not collect $200.

I can't lease, since I put 550 miles a week on the damned thing. Argh.

[morea]

today what jerks my chain is people who are in shite moods and take all their issues out on you - because you are there.

[Patrick Shannon]

Geez, and I thought I had problems...as far as economically I have it good next to your car mess, Neuro/Morea.

I always wondered if there is night classes for mechanics, I think that'd be some good skills to have, knowing how to fix things in a car. Probably save a bundle on repairs (labor, anyway)!

[morea]

^ you're not kidding! That's a great idea, even if it only covers the "basics". Maybe I'll look into it, too.

Then if this GD gig doesn't work out, I can apply to work on cars. I bet it pays better, too. :p

[Kool]

I always wondered if there is night classes for mechanics, I think that'd be some good skills to have, knowing how to fix things in a car. Probably save a bundle on repairs (labor, anyway)!

Wouldn't that, in the eyes of a professional mechanic who has spent years perfecting his trade and learning all the pro equipment, make us the same as these amature designers we all complain about so much.

Or what about these 1000 full color business cards for 19.95 we all send our files to that are putting out of business the small shops who can't compete with these sweat shops. Try and get a rush by tomorrow morning job from one of these places.

I'm not critisizing anybody I do it too. But maybe something to think about next time we're posting a thread about how the amatures are destroying our industry posts.

[morea]

good point, Kool... but I think that the major difference is that I had the screws put to me by half a dozen different mechanics, and that's why I would consider doing the work myself.

I guess that there are "dishonest" graphic designers out there, but their work doesn't put lives in danger! :p

[Ghastly]

I guess that there are "dishonest" graphic designers out there, but their work doesn't put lives in danger! :p

Ah but what if they said that their design skills were *well ace* and a blind man asked em to make em a hazard sign that says: beware of the 50 rabid rottweilers, enter at your own risk and they go make him something else...something well wrong. Wouldn't that put lives in danger...eh?..eh? :D

[D-Zine]

Things that jerk my chain eh??

Doctors offices!!! HOW LONG can it take to do a referral. Oh wait..yeah I got the referral but they screwed that all up...so...How long does it take to get a referral that's not all fkd up??? ARGH!! Oh your in pain? Well who cares!! You can't walk much? Oh who cares...we'll keep screwing your stuff up so that you can never get in to see someone and get your situation straight! DAMNIT!

Did I mention that I *hate* Doctor offices???

:(:(:(

[morea]

when my boss wants me to put a flyer together to fax out to our clients, and says "no, don't worry about what it looks like! Just get the information on paper and send it! They will buy it anyway!"

shoot me! :(

[morea]

and today's rant:

my review was due on May 16th, as was my raise...

I finally got the questionnaire I needed to fill out yesterday, after a month of hounding my boss about it. He agreed to meet today for the review.

It took me several hours to fill out all of the answers to his questions.

When I got in today, I learned that the review has been postponed. Again.

[morea]

funk. funk. funk.
I'm in a funk.

[G-Man79]

Dang Morea, that stinks. I would definitely bring in some soiled kitty litter and put it in your boss' desk drawer. That should get the message across.

[morea]

exactly! That's what they say, right? Tomorrow Never Dies! no wait, I think that's a movie... tomorrow never comes! That's it.

Well, regardless, he has successfully cheated me out of the raise for the last month's work. I emailed him and asked him if the raise would be retroactive to its due date. No response yet, but I shall not hold my breath.

Sticking some "kitty surprises" to the underside of the desk may be a viable option.

[morea]

I brought yogurt in my lunch today, and I FORGOT A SPOON!

I shall have to fashion some sort of eating implement from the supplies in my office....

[Patrick Shannon]

I hate it when you send out a million emails (w/ attachments) and you get a call back from each one you send to telling you that they can't open your document. (How the hell can you NOT open an EPS?)

I am NOT going to miss this....

[morea]

I have answered 92 phone calls so far today. I am so sick of this shit.

[DeleteYourself]

d'oh!

[morea]

I just got the "so what do you do, play around on the computer all day?" line from the new guy. Ugh.

I told him that when you say that to a GD they reach for a bat.

[D-Zine]

I hate when ppl say that!

I also hate the "I taught her everything she knows" line. Yeah its cute, but after the billionth time.... ahemm..

I just finished the media kit for our other newspaper, I show my boss and he loved it (for once) and then he turns to a salesman and says "I taught her everythign she knows!"

morea - where's yer bat girl? lol I'm gonna need to borrow it!

[Mynock]

I hate "so what do you do, play around on the computer all day?" line, because it's mostly true atm with how slow it is.

[morea]

The bat-usage has adapted, thanks to some fine-tuning from a coworker who grew up in the Bronx.

Originally, the plan was to take a wiffle bat, and fill it with sand. But it gets really heavy doing that if you plan to swing it more than once.

Here's the modification: only fill about 8 inches of it with sand... it's lighter to swing, and it adds a nice "snap" if you follow through properly.

[bon]

Excessive moaning :eek:

[morea]

in a good way, I hope. http://mysite.verizon.net/amthibodeau/coolcat.gif

[Rus]

People who make you change a design just because they want to be part of the process (and because they are your boss).

Seeing small children out playing with no adult supervision.

Dirtbag, lowlife F***ers that exploit, harm, touch in a bad way, abuse kids.

People who listen to the ranters on radio/tv, then argue that point like it's their own thought.

People who force their agenda on others through legislation.

I have to quit now, I'm getting pissed.

[Patrick Shannon]

Internet Exploderr....I've had to scrap a design idea which Firefox displayed dandy, but IE is too much of a wimp to handle it. Absolutely no excuse to use IE now. "Oh, I need IE to....." shaaaudddup!

[rickself]

Clients that give you this kind of logo



and ask you to "smooth it out, make it cleaner"

AAarrrggghhh

[cjoe]

Clients that give you this kind of logo



and ask you to "smooth it out, make it cleaner"

AAarrrggghhh

yeah i love it when they email you those scrap documents that are created by copying and pasting from word documents. or they resize the image because they think it looks alright.

[reuber1]

Clients that give you this kind of logo



and ask you to "smooth it out, make it cleaner"

AAarrrggghhh

"I just took a big dump in a paper bag. Now polish it." Sort of the same thing.

[rickself]

"I just took a big dump in a paper bag. Now polish it." Sort of the same thing.

LMAO...you been there too!!!

[morea]

good analogy. Ugh.

I have had virtually NO work for the last month. Today I got ALL of it. Argh.

[Mynock]

LMAO...you been there too!!!

You've polished poop you got in a bag?

[chalsema]

I have had virtually NO work for the last month. Today I got ALL of it. Argh.
I know what you mean. I've had pretty much nothing to do all summer... I knew I should have taken a class this summer instead of working full time. :rolleyes:

[D-Zine]

Know what makes me nuts?

When someone takes 2 days off of work, and then when they come back the following week - all they do is b!tch and moan about how far behind they are, how they shouldn't have taken that two days off, how they will never get caught up again...blah blah blah..

shut yer damn cake hole, yanno?? pfft

[rickself]

You've polished poop you got in a bag?
No, no, no...to polish it you need to send it to BINDery

[TooTallVal80]

Clients that give you this kind of logo



and ask you to "smooth it out, make it cleaner"

AAarrrggghhh

Oh!!! I can't stand that!!!


When a co-worker constantly asks the most stupidest question: why are you sexy? Why are cute? I just...shrug..and answer: "You got me!"

[morea]

tell him that you are at work for a paycheck, not to be sexually harassed and that you are giving him one warning to cut it out before you report him to management.

That should shut him up.

[TooTallVal80]

tell him that you are at work for a paycheck, not to be sexually harassed and that you are giving him one warning to cut it out before you report him to management.

That should shut him up.

I'm saying....good grief!!

[Mynock]

maybe you should let us be the judge on how cute you are? jk
beware of Ulysses though :P

[morea]

I'm saying....good grief!!

well, if it really bothers you, that's why those policies are in place.

[Cyclops]

I hate clients or agency people who asks for technical info on haw a file should be made for printing and after that they give it to me all wrong and say they are in a hurry, could I make a proof quik so they can go golfin or something....%$@#&%$

[TooTallVal80]

well, if it really bothers you, that's why those policies are in place.
It doesn't bother me. It's just that I already I get the point, lol!! And it comes out from one ear to another.

OT:And Mynock I would post a photo of me, but unfortunately there is no where i can do that here. Or is there a thread you can post photos of yourself. ;)

I hate clients or agency people who asks for technical info on haw a file should be made for printing and after that they give it to me all wrong and say they are in a hurry, could I make a proof quik so they can go golfin orsomething....%$@#&%$

Oh, my goodness...I have experienced so many times at my job! It's insane! You see a file and your like what the heck??!! Then you have to call them and tell them what they did wrong. And some of them will try to be smart and blame it on you for not telling them the right info! Sheesh!

[Kool]

Yes there is Val :D

Names to faces thread (http://www.graphicdesignforum.com/forum/showthread.php?t=28)

[TooTallVal80]

Ha! Thanks Kool!!

[morea]

Ugh. Somebody just give me a hug and tell me that everything is going to be "ok". :(

[rickself]

Ugh. Somebody just give me a hug and tell me that everything is going to be "ok". :(
Just close yer eyes, click your heels together 3 times and repeat, "There's no place like GDF. There's no place like GDF. There's no place like GDF."
That's GOTTA make ya feel better.

[Neballer]

Today it's clients that say, "I don't know, just do something creative." When I ask them what they have in mind for their company's logo. No sh!t, something creative? Damnit, and I had planned to use comic sans and a swoosh type thing.

Oh, and my pancaking speakers at work - only one works, so I drove to work today because I brought my own in. Guess what, they don't work either.

[morea]

I can sympathize with the "just do something creative"... my current project briefing went:

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boss: "I need you to put together a quick flyer to send to laundromats."

me: "ok, what should it include?"

boss: "we want to sell them laundry equipment. just put something together."

me: *blink*

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[Neballer]

http://www.rgsdesign.com/carp/washer.jpg
tell your boss that there is no way this won't triple washer sales. :D

[morea]

LMAO! nice.

[Drawing a Blank]

Morea, if you really want to impress your boss you should add a starburst to Neballer's idea. That should blow him away.

[morea]

:D I love you guys!

[DeleteYourself]

I love you too, morea, but you're not getting my Sierra Nevada!

[morea]

(d'oh!)

[keith1]

morea this is a great opportunity to use your swooshburst invention!

[morea]

that'll teach him... but since we're printing it here on a black and white printer the groovy rainbow gradient will lose some of its punch!

[D-Zine]

Morea - be sure, please, that you include that starburts..and hey, as my boss always says "Jazz it up a little!" I'm sure that you know what that really means is "don't leave any white space and please use tons of red and yellow! It works for McDonald's!" :eek:

[Drawing a Blank]

A lot of lazy people work for McDonald's too, but I wouldn't use them in my design.

[Mynock]

we once had a client that said he wanted the yellow in his bis card to be the color of mc donalds french fry. he was running a trucking business

[morea]

ack.. want to know what jerks my chain?
ALLERGIES!

My eyes are all itchy and red and I look like someone punched me in the left one cause it is so puffy!

Drat.

[LeftBrain Artist]

I feel your pain. That Zyrtec stuff seems to work OK - when I'm on it I can even tolerate a house with cats (which in the past nearly killed me) - and hayfever's nothing to worry about.

[The_Black_Knight]

Morea - be sure, please, that you include that starburts..and hey, as my boss always says "Jazz it up a little!" I'm sure that you know what that really means is "don't leave any white space and please use tons of red and yellow! It works for McDonald's!" :eek:

My immediate mental response to the phrase "Jazz it up a little" is, "You have no idea what you're talking about, have absolutely zero design vocabulary, and even if I were to actually 'Jazz it up,' you wouldn't like it anyway." This one ranks right up there with "We want you to think outside the box, but make it mostly the same as it was before," and, "You have to use [specified font], these photos, these exact colors, and follow this grid. Be creative!" Yeah, right. Uh-huh.

But I'm not bitter, or anything.

[LeftBrain Artist]

My immediate mental response to the phrase "Jazz it up a little" is, "You have no idea what you're talking about, have absolutely zero design vocabulary, and even if I were to actually 'Jazz it up,' you wouldn't like it anyway." This one ranks right up there with "We want you to think outside the box, but make it mostly the same as it was before," and, "You have to use [specified font], these photos, these exact colors, and follow this grid. Be creative!" Yeah, right. Uh-huh.

But I'm not bitter, or anything.


That must have been a commonplace request back in the day. Lets do what we can to phase it out. Oh, and the literal translation of "jazz it up" into designer terms means to "use bevel and emboss and drop shadow".

Next time I hear that phrase, I'll place some Miles Davis sheet music into the layout. Or I'll start scratching my arms, then ask them to wait a moment while I go get my fix - I've gotta be in the proper frame of mind to perform the jazzification.

[The_Black_Knight]

Next time I hear that phrase, I'll place some Miles Davis sheet music into the layout.

That thought has crossed my mind. I'm enough of a smart-aleck to think it, but fortunately not enough of a smart-aleck to actually do it.

[morea]

watery coffee.

Eew.

[LeftBrain Artist]

The office is 83 degrees today. I'm wearing shorts to work tomorrow.
Oh yeah, poor plumbing. The 2 toilets in the girls' bathroom are on the same drain line as the one in the boys'. This drain line is pancaked up, cuz it gets plugged up pretty easily. To plunge it, you ideally need a plunger at each of the 3 toilets in the two separate rooms, otherwise you're just pushing water back and forth between the 3 toilets - woe to anyone sitting in the other room. This is a fantastic when clients are visiting.

[keith1]

The office is 83 degrees today. I'm wearing shorts to work tomorrow.
Oh yeah, poor plumbing. The 2 toilets in the girls' bathroom are on the same drain line as the one in the boys'. This drain line is pancaked up, cuz it gets plugged up pretty easily. To plunge it, you ideally need a plunger at each of the 3 toilets in the two separate rooms, otherwise you're just pushing water back and forth between the 3 toilets - woe to anyone sitting in the other room. This is a fantastic when clients are visiting.

Sounds like the exact same plumbing as my work.

[morea]

oddly enough, were I used to work (where Neuro STILL works) the septic system is ALWAYS backed up and the whole plant reeks of sewage half the time... enough to make you sick to your stomach and give you a headache.

They are constantly bringing a truck into to pump the tank out. And the access area is RIGHT outside the lunch room window.

[idaho]

...and the access area is RIGHT outside the lunch room window.

Ewww!

[morea]

how about this one... our sales staff is responsible for contacting customers from a list of leads they get. Well, they have been piling up for a while now, so they have at least 100 contacts at this point.

They brought the stack of papers in to me this morning and said "well, you're in marketing, so it's your job to create a database and type in all this information, right?"

Um, guess what? NO.

These folks are all on commission and sit around chatting with each other all day, while I am trying to handle all of the marketing mailers, creating the advertisements, doing the research to write the copy for everything we send out, typesetting all of the in-house forms from the scraps of paper these folks bring to me, answering an average of 100 phone calls a day (until we hire a new receptionist), and cutting the checks for all of our payables, because the girl who used to do it went out on maternity leave and then decided she didn't want the responsibility back when she returned.

I just hate the fact that everyone ASSUMES that I have nothing to do. And any time something comes up that nobody else wants to do, it is given to me. Well, I don't want to do it either.

I picked up all of this extra responsibility, and am making entry level pay. My boss is "extremely grateful" but told me that he "can't afford" to give me a raise.

Well, I've been handling the damned payables, and have seen the company's finances. He can EASILY afford to give me a raise. He just doesn't want to. And you know, that doesn't make me want to do all of this extra work, either!

[pixelmonkey]

EASILY afford to give me a raise!

maybe you shouldnt go in for work today... maybe stay home and watch Kong Fu.


or review the movie "Office Space" several times, then go to work prepared and wiht a clean sense of mind
chris<pixelmonkey>:D

[chalsema]

I like that Office Space plan Pixel...

[morea]

office space is a classic. <sigh>

[Crimson]

I have a busy life outside of work with 4 kids. I stay up late doing all the stuff i didn't get to do after running everyone to practices and cubscout meetings. Every now and then I get behind in the morning. A few minutes 8:03 - 8:07. But the management needs to micro manage that shit. It never matters that I stay 10 to 30 min. over to catch up or take carre of some sales person that needs these last copies for a meeting he's flying out to that night. No they have to bitch about a few minutes in the morning.

[morea]

that's tough. You would think that people would be more understanding, or at least realize that a little flexibility can make a BIG difference in employee morale. Unfortunately, it seems like some managers get a real kick out of their "power trips".

[idaho]

Morea,

Tell those sales people to go do the database themselves. It's a sales job to maintain a client database NOT a marketing job. It's their clients for craps sake! If they don't have the authority to fire you then tell them where to shove their database. Don't take that shit from them!!!

They should be entering the clients into a database as soon as they get the client. That's just stupidity on the salespersons part.

I DESPISE people who pass on their own work to other people so that they can go jerk off somewhere. Lazy people suck!!!

As for getting raise from the boss, tell him you are familiar with the companies finances considering you are cutting the checks for certain things and that you know that there is money available for a decent raise. Be sure to pull out the Bull-Shit-O' Meter.

Oh and if you still end up doing the database because the boss tells you to, put in all of the wrong information and lose the hardcopies of the files. :) Pancake 'em if they can't take a joke!

[idaho]

Crimson,

I just noticed that you are located in Indianapolis. Where specifically? I just moved from there 2 years ago.

[chalsema]

Wow... so many people from Indy. I'm from there, too Idaho. :) The north side...

[uncle carbunkle]

Pancake 'em if they can't take a joke!

that's classy!
:D

[morea]

lmao. I didn't do it. They weren't pleased, but too damned bad! :p

[idaho]

that's classy!
:D


Sorry if you don't approve.

[uncle carbunkle]

oh for ****'s sake. i did approve. that's what the frickin' smilie meant.

it's a cold, hard, ambiguous world of type we e-have-no-lives-in...

pfft! :D

[LavaMan]

I don't post often but here we go....

Been dealing with a customer for week and a half now and he wanted to get 30 vinyl cut signs made. They are 18X30 and sit in those steel wind spinners. (Don't know if you know what I'm talking about, shell uses them a lot at their gas stations.) Anywaaaaay. Conversation.

Me: "Ok, what colours do you want?"
Him:" "I want orange letters on black."
Me: "You're Serious?"
Him: "Yes, Why?"
Me: "These are going to scream Halloween, and I would recommend you go with something a little more conservative considering your advertising retirement condos."
Him: "No, Orange and Black Please."

So I finish up the docket, take his money, finish the job, and he picks them up.

Fast Forward >>>>> First thing this morning. (3 days later)

Guy comes storming in like he is on a mission from God. Conversation.

Him: "We got a problem."
Me: "Something with the signs?" (Wait, Wait. Let me GUESS!)
Him: "Yeah, they look like I throwing a halloween party in august."
Me: "I know, I mentioned this very strongly to you when you made the order."
Him: "Well I don't care I need them redone."
***Yadda, Yadda, Yadda, New Docket, Call to vinyl guy on turnaround****
Me: "Ok, What colours do you want."
Him: "Black and White."
Me: "Ok, I'll give you a 15% discount because you gave us a good first order"
(And we have a 15% discount for idiots, Im not kidding we actually do for stuff like this.)

Him: "Whoa, Whoa, Whoa! I have to pay again?????"
Me: "Yea We can't salvage any of the old signs because they arent the same colours."
Him: "Yea but you guys F*d up why do I have to pay again?"
Me: "You requested orange and black, I said it would look bad, you didn't take my advice, you signed the proof. I can't rerun this for free."
****10 minutes of explaining why and none of it penetrating his thick skull***
Him: "Well you run a great business here!!! I will never come here again, and I will tell everyone I see to do the same!!! I hope you go belly up!!!! You're going to get fired!!!"

Best part.. He's leaving my office and goes to push to door open. WHAM! face meets a PULL door. I crack a smile.

Him: "***** You!"

The end. I feel better.

[vtwin_gary]

lol - i worked at a sign company for 10 years, i've been there more than once.

[morea]

wow, lava man. Some people, huh? :rolleyes:

[uncle carbunkle]

Best part.. He's leaving my office and goes to push to door open. WHAM! face meets a PULL door. I crack a smile.

Him: "***** You!"

The end. I feel better.


aaaaaaaaahhhhahahahaha.

karma's a bitch, eh? :rolleyes:

[Patrick Shannon]

I tell you what gets on my nerves......clients who submit photos from a point-and-shoot camera and don't have the common decency to turn the f**king timestamp off!!! "Oh, they're graphic designers, they can edit that out like nothing," they think. While sometimes that is the case (when the date is over a plain/repetitive background), about 80% of the time the stamp is over a complicated backdrop making it much harder to convincingly edit out.

"Oh, I can't figure out how to turn the stamp off..." SHUDDUP. If these pictures were going into the family album, you'd have that timestamp figured out real quick.

At my old job, I used to get even with these people by cropping out the bottom portion of the photos (with the stamp).

[morea]

Patrick! You're not allowed to complain any more! :p

[Mynock]

I think we need more Patrick rants, he's a ghost on the forum now.

[Ryan8720]

Mail services jerk my chain. I ordered my CDs last Thursday and they still aren't here.

I ordered my digi cam on Monday and today I get an email informing me that there is a delay and they haven't shipped yet.

arg...

[Mynock]

is your free ipod in the mail too?

[Ryan8720]

No, I still need two more people.

[PrintDriver]

Whoa, Lavaman... That is an incredible conversation.
No one has a sense of responsibility for their own actions these days. Lucky you didn't get sued for the door being installed wrong too... <sigh>

[morea]

shit. I give up. today is hopeless. I'm going to curl up with a bottle of wine and cry.