Things that jerk my chain...

[morea]

you know what drives me crazy? here I am going through a bazillion job postings online - all supposedly within 30 miles of my zip code, and I find something that looks good... so I click "more info" only to find that the position is in Seattle, WA. That's a heck of a long commute from Albany, NY.

It works out to a 42 hours, 59 minute drive EACH WAY. :eek:

[Satchel]

My neighbor's dog that he just lets run loose... I caught him on film lastnight pissing on my car!!! The problem is we dont tie our dog up either, but she stays in the yard, and if she ever did leave the yard she wouldn't be pissing on peoples things!

[Satchel]

you know what drives me crazy? here I am going through a bazillion job postings online - all supposedly within 30 miles of my zip code, and I find something that looks good... so I click "more info" only to find that the position is in Seattle, WA. That's a heck of a long commute from Albany, NY.

It works out to a 42 hours, 59 minute drive EACH WAY. :eek:

Mo, if you drive fast you could easily cut that down to a cool 40 hours!

[Stever]

The cost of gas alone will kill ya' lol.

[morea]

I'd get part way home and have to turn back, lol!

Sorry bout your car Satch - I don't have any idea what I would do in your place. :eek:

[idaho]

shoot the dog

[Satchel]

shoot the dog

We live in city limits, I think I'd get in quite a bit of trouble for that... and the guy that owns the dog is a local ex-cop so he has friends on the force.

but if I could I would!

[morea]

have a couple beers, then go next door and pee on HIS car.

turnabout is fair play, right? :p

[Satchel]

sounds good Mo, but actually my car is not the only thing he's pee'd on... that's just the only thing I have proof of. He's pee'd on lots of stuff - our porch, my dogs chair, multiple cars, our garbage can and who knows what else... I should just bottle my pee for a month and splash his house/yard with it - that's more even!

[morea]

I second that motion. :D

[Stever]

have a couple beers, then go next door and pee on HIS car.

turnabout is fair play, right? :p
Yeah....I could do that but this is what would probably happen to me. Just as I pulled it out and started peeing, a cop would go by, I'd get busted for indecent exposure, littering, destruction of property, etc., and land in jail and have a huge fine laid on me. Then after I got out I'd get home and find more dog pee all over my tires...the neighbors would be laughing at me all the time and i'd have to end up moving. lol

[morea]

lol! good point!

[Satchel]

Yeah Stever, that would really suck - and I could see it happening too!

I think I'm screwed!

[Drorain]

hmm what if you accidentally left a hersey bar outside...open...on your porch

hmm that sounds more cruel than simply shooting it, sorry disregard that idea

[Satchel]

Does chocolate kill dogs or just make them sick?

[balou]

Only solution I can think of is if your area has a leash law, which it probably does but it's not enforced, call them in. That's going to effect your dog running loose though too. Which actually probably wouldn't be a bad thing to get them contained. They'll be safer.

[Satchel]

You're right Balou - I know we should chain her up, but honestly in the past 7 years that we have had her, and never chained her up I have only seen her out of the yard twice... and that was just across the street in a vacant lot - I am just making excuses now, I will speak with my mom and start chaining her up (probably) then once we do that and if his dog continues to pee on our things I will be forced to turn him in. Thanks for making me think rationally!

[Drorain]

DIRECT DEPOSIT...when it doesnt go through on time...oh I'm gonna love that bounced check...oh and I'll make ADP pay for it....bastards

[Neballer]

my MFing smoke detector is chirping at me and I can't make it stop or reset it because it's hardwired into the ceiling. And no, there isn't a fire.

[Drorain]

if I had a hammer...I'd hammer in the morning...I'd hammer in the evening

[Drorain]

okay...I'm ready to pancaking snap...its 2:30pm and the none is posted to my bank account yet.

the COO just gave me my pay stub too...LIES!

[idaho]

riding in a car for 9 1/2 hours with a pissed off pregnant woman.

[Malaclypse]

My neighbor's dog that he just lets run loose... I caught him on film lastnight pissing on my car!!! The problem is we dont tie our dog up either, but she stays in the yard, and if she ever did leave the yard she wouldn't be pissing on peoples things!

Cat urine.

Our previous residence had cats living underneath (including a previous previous owner's abandoned cats) and when it rained (i.e. all the time in Oregon) the smell of cat urine would rise up through the floor into the house. Eventually I put wire mesh around the base of the house, but there were still to many pancaking cats running free in the neighbourhood.

[reuber1]

This new DQ commercial with that pregnant man in the woman's dream sequence. I've seen it 4 times in a half hour. Sometimes watching the Cubs game at work really is a curse.

By the way, they won. :cool:

[TooTallVal80]

Mad longtime since I've been on here!

WHEN DRIVERS HAVE THEIR DOGS ON THEIR LAPS
I swear some dog owners don't think!! I've seen this lately: seeing the little dogs on the laps of owners while the car is in motion. I remember seeing a crash test vid of a dog flying through the windshield during a head on collision! Mercy!! Wasn't pretty!

[kerrysmagicshirt]

Celebrity career rescuing shows. don't know if the US gets these. I'm talking I'm a celebrity get me out of here, Celebrity love island, The farm, Strictly come dancing, celebrities on ice (not sure if that was the actual title) - here's the bord room meeting
'i've got a great idea for a show boss'
'go on then'
'we get a ton of pointless celebs who havn't been on the telly for ages and make them do stupid pointless stuff'
'mmm not convinced'
'well they will be cheap and we can make a killing from making people phone in and vote'
'we can make lots of mones by only laying out a small ammount?'
'sure thing boss'
'excellent smithers'

[Samakimoto Graphics]

When your boss smuggly announces that he can only afford you one day of annual leave (out of 30days) for the next three months, and that you will have to put in extra unpaid time :mad: :mad: in those three months, then proceedes to take three days off himself. Grrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr rrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr rrrrrrrrrrrrrrr!

[erichmond]

Clients that ask you for a word template to use as their letter headed paper!

[reuber1]

Going to school for design, and two years later when you think you've nailed a design position, you're actually fielding accounting questions while (if I'm lucky) doing a design here or there. I have no idea what half of the crap people say means; subsidiary, receivables, clearing, festezios, honestly someone can make up an accounting term and I'll believe them. And when they can tell I have no idea what they are talking about, they get pissed. Nearly 80% of the calls I've had in the last 3 weeks have been on the accounting portion of our software.

[Jeizzavelle]

That's when you go "pfffbbbbbbbtttttttt" into the phone! :p

[reuber1]

That's when you go "pfffbbbbbbbtttttttt" into the phone! :pI almost did. This last caller was a total bitch, and for some reason her calls are always directed to me from the phone system. Pisses me off.

[Jeizzavelle]

Ugh. Sounds like fun...NOT. I feel for ya Reuber.

[fyred1]

What get's my goad? People who complain about others and can't seem to see the same fault in themselves.

[reuber1]

What get's my goad? People who complain about others and can't seem to see the same fault in themselves.Doesn't that make you one of those? :p

[fyred1]

You got me! I'm caught, I'm ashamed, and I'm going back to my hole now. :mad::p

[morea]

dayumm reubs, get up on the wrong side of the bed today? :p

[reuber1]

fyred, I kid, you know this. :D

I didn't wake up on the wrong side of the bed, just at a REALLY early hour, against my own will. The damn loud garbage men need a kick in the throat.

[Jeizzavelle]

pfffbbbbbbbtttttttt out your window next time or just open it and start raving likea lunatic. (READ: quote any of my posts) That should scare em off.

[fyred1]

fyred, I kid, you know this. :D
Nope, too late for apologies. I'll take cash bribes only, at this point.

[reuber1]

Well, might as well pack a lunch then.

[Jeizzavelle]

You go Fyred! Remember: never take the first offer!

[AlexNJ210]

you know what jerks my chain, when roommates dont leave the ONE night of the week when your gf comes over.:mad:

[Jeizzavelle]

I WAS RIGHT!!! I argued with my boss and the silk screener half the day Friday about a screen and I WAS RIGHT! Now I get to do it a third time! I usally like being right! Errrr.

[reuber1]

They are playing that GODDAMN Pepsi commercial with Jimmy Fallon and the shitty techno music. God, why doesn't he just go away?

[erichmond]

Who's Jimmy Fallon?

[erichmond]

Listening to iTunes whilst browsing the interweb, then some bloody page blasts out a tune on top of your iTunes, messing up the whole experience!

[reuber1]

Who's Jimmy Fallon?Exactly!

He's a "comedian" here in the States, who thinks he's funny. He is to comedy what cancer is to humans. If you've never heard of him, consider yourself priveledged.

Oh yeah, definitely hate that with iTunes and suddenly a pop up comes up and says ENTER TEXT HERE SO I CAN TALK AND YOU CAN HEAR ME SPEAK RAWRR!!!

[reuber1]

Co-workers who don't login to the support phone system until you do first so that you get that morning a-hole who needs to call the second we open. They have done this 4 Thursdays straight. I tested them last week and didn't login until 7 minutes after getting here (I had other shit to do, don't worry), and as soon as I logged in, so did they.

[Jeizzavelle]

Pancakers.

[morea]

bastids who expect us to work for free.

[reuber1]

Evidently my destiny is to get every dickhead on the phone today.

What is it with our New Jersey clients?

[Logo-Mechanix]

When it takes an hour to drive the 20 miles to work it makes for ab ad start to the day, and it's monday.

[reuber1]

Well, they called approx 30 seconds before I was to log off for my last break. I'm still on the phone with them. That was 40 minutes ago.

Where's Mays Landing? Busy place?

[Logo-Mechanix]

I think Mays Landing is a shore town (near the ocean) but don't quote me. This time of year all the shore towns are gearing up for the summer onslaught.

[reuber1]

Hmm, I bet it's loads of fun on the shore during summer. We kinda get that summer rush what with being along the river; nothin' like 50,000 people in a town that houses 2,500. Anyways, I checked the logs and the last 7 times these guys called and I answered, it was never pleasant. :rolleyes:

[Logo-Mechanix]

It's unfortunate but alot of people in this area are down right rude, I appologize for my fellow jerseyans rudeness. As for the shore, my wife and I love the Jersey shore it's our favorite place especially Long Beach Island. We usually go at least for a weekend every summer, although we may miss this summer with the new arrivals and all.

[reuber1]

Buncha younger punks they were (well, probably my age or older). We have a few NJ clients who, unfortunately, are either rude as hell or dumb. Don't apologize for them, I know this isn't an overall indicator of Jerseyans. I'm sure there are quite a few Iowans who aren't very sociable either.

EDIT: "El-Oh-El"!!! They don't have an internet connection.

[AlexNJ210]

It's unfortunate but alot of people in this area are down right rude, I appologize for my fellow jerseyans rudeness. As for the shore, my wife and I love the Jersey shore it's our favorite place especially Long Beach Island. We usually go at least for a weekend every summer, although we may miss this summer with the new arrivals and all.


i wish i could live in LBI, man i love that beach, theres nothing like going swimming in chest deep water 100 yds off shore with great boogie/body surfing waves, and did i mention the dolphins that like to stop by and swimm with people. God i love that place in the summer:)

[Jeizzavelle]

Stupid pancaking job with 3 bosses who tell you all differant stuff and have their heads in their ass. And yell at you cause they pancaked up! The NERVE! Errrrrrrrrrrr. Ok, I feel better.

[reuber1]

When after I take a call, minutes later the goddamn phone que decides to skip everyone who is next and cycle right back to me again (minutes before my break). And, to add insult to injury, it has to be a customer who talks in extreme monotone, cannot explain his problem clearly, and pecs the keys when he types (I could hear him, slower than shit I tell ya). Dammit.

[balou]

Reuber, if your chain gets jerked anymore, it's just plain old gonna fall off. :D

[reuber1]

That's what she said.:p

Man, I can apply that saying to damn near anything.

Seriously, though, that pissed me off. We weren't busy at all, I had a call at 2:10. Easy call, but the guy asked like three questions that required a walkthrough on each. Then, no more than five minutes later, without ANY calls to anyone else, I get it, and this guy SUCKED. He was a total dick.

[Jeizzavelle]

Reuber, if your chain gets jerked anymore, it's just plain old gonna fall off. :D
Reuber, you're going to go blind. I'm worried for you! :p

[morea]

sounds messy. lol

[reuber1]

Goddamn car. Things a money dumpster.

[Jeizzavelle]

Oh, no. Bad news?

[reuber1]

Well, it could be bad. I was damn near late from lunch because when I left to come back, it wouldn't start. Just clicks and clicks and clicks. I finally got it to kick in, but it had to work to get there. I think the starter is going out, which is awesome because in about four hours I'm going to pay over $200 worth in fitness center fees. I wish I lived within a mile or two of work, and I'd just hoof it or bike.

[Jeizzavelle]

Well, it could be bad. I was damn near late from lunch because when I left to come back, it wouldn't start. Just clicks and clicks and clicks. I finally got it to kick in, but it had to work to get there. I think the starter is going out, which is awesome because in about four hours I'm going to pay over $200 worth in fitness center fees. I wish I lived within a mile or two of work, and I'd just hoof it or bike.
Sounds like the bearings in your starter are siezing up. It'll probably cost you about $80 for a new one. Or maybe you could get off cheaper with having it rebuilt. Do you have any mechanical skills?

[reuber1]

No. I have my oil changed elsewhere all the time, and changing a tire is hit or miss. I suck with cars.

[Jeizzavelle]

Wow. Ok, so you are looking at over $100. Ouch. Try to find a small shop. Or an oil change place. They might be cheaper. Good luck.

[reuber1]

Yeah, I know where to go. Just spending money on shit that I don't want to spend it on pisses me off.

[Jeizzavelle]

I hear ya. At least you know where to go.

[reuber1]

2 o'clock Central time must be National Numbnuts Hour. Each day for the past two weeks, I've had someone who is a complete ASS on the phone to try and help. These are the "I PAY YOUR SALARY, NOW DO AS I SAY" people. ****ing *******s.

[reuber1]

******* co-workers who vacuum their goddamn cubicle when you are less than ten feet away, and you are on a phone call. Someone needs to shove a garden hose up his ass.

[Jeizzavelle]

Love the new sig, Reuber. Try stuffing the vacum. Much more astisfying.

[reuber1]

Yeah, maybe he'd be less full of shit.

[Jeizzavelle]

Hehehehe.

[carter the artist]

What's jerking my chain right now is that I just found out I have to move out of my house because my roomate (whose family owns the house) is having his girlfriend of a few months move in and I'm out on the streets. Some friend huh? To make it even better? I checked into low income programs, it seems that I make too much money to qualify?!! I don't even make enough to offord their rent, yet I make too much?

[Samakimoto Graphics]

bastids who expect us to work for free.


Ahmen! Chain them to a rock and toss 'em off the end of a pier.

[morea]

let's go! We have to catch em first. :D

[Mynock]

the tightness in my shoulders

[reuber1]

"Back to the grind." :rolleyes:

First thing I get to do is remove the faint shadow text effect that was done in someone's Photoshop file. Fortunately for me (and this is sarcasm, by the way), I only have access to the jpeg exported version of the file (you know, to print out on, because JPEG is the most efficient print format), so instead of just editing the layer properties, I get the "opportunity" to erase around the text manually. 300 dpi file that should be no problem, but I can endure the challenge when it's a 72 dpi document instead (this is a printed document). Of course, why would they use nice bold text that I could easily work around when instead they will use thin, faint serif fonts (yes, fontS, plural, as in more than one serif font on the same document...this is on a 3.5" by 2" gift card, BTW). Rather than my boss asking for another copy of the file that has been updated, we'll just work with what they've got, nevermind that nearly everything about this file is wrong in every way.

I wanna go back in vacation. At least it's Thursday already. Somebody knock me out.

[Jeizzavelle]

You don't really want that, Reuber. You just think you do. Just think...if someone knocked you out you might miss Friday. If it gets too bad just do what I did for the past 2 days and play "sick".

[Elrod]

The thing that jerk my chain....people in general.
Not all people...just those select few.
They should be forced to wear ID tags...we would know who to avoid!

Tag ideas:

Giant Noob

Pissed off for no reason...don't come near me.

I smell...stand back.

No brain..beware.

I am an ASS.

I think I am GOD.

What is toothpaste?

or

What are teeth?..I don't remember having them. ( old people not included)

I will annoy you till you die if you start talking to me.

Tags would help.

:D

[reuber1]

Nice, Elrod.

I would probably wear the "Pissed Off For No Reason" one, although there is usually a reason...a shitload of reasons.

[Jeizzavelle]

Elrod- You forgot....

Too stupid to be allowed the luxury of drawing breath

Bimbo...shoulderpads are for my protection


I know everything so just shut up and let me tell you how to do this so that when I FUBAR it I can blame you

manhater

sexist pig

plauge of the planet (I have no skills beyond mooching)



Wow. It's like a family reunion! :D

[reuber1]

Cannot operate automobile

Loves fonts that rhyme with "toxic sand"

Cockblocker

Tease (wait, they do have labels...in the form of skimpy clothing)

Religious Zealot

Spoiled

Soiled

Pro-abstinence

Not Able To Handle Alcohol

Mean Drunk

[Jeizzavelle]

Tease (wait, they do have labels...in the form of skimpy clothing)

Spoiled

Not Able To Handle Alcohol

Hey, I resemble those remarks. Oh and add to that...trying out for nascar every time they drive. That's me too. ;)

[reuber1]

UNDERRAGE FEMALE

There we go, perfect. I can count about five of my previous co-workers at Target who certainly looked of age, who certainly were not. Especially when they follow you around the store all the time because you're constantly ignoring them or trying to avoid them and thus you're a challenge and every other guy in the store is a sexual equivalent of elephant piss. You know how young they are and you don't want a one way ticket to prison along with a homepage on sweetstatuatory dot com. It happens to the best of us.

[Jeizzavelle]

UNDERRAGE FEMALE

There we go, perfect. I can count about five of my previous co-workers at Target who certainly looked of age, who certainly were not. Especially when they follow you around the store all the time because you're constantly ignoring them or trying to avoid them because you know how young they are and you don't want a one way ticket to prison along with a homepage on sweetstatuatory dot com. It happens to the best of us.
Those suck. I aam glad to not be a guy because of that. Girls these days look so much older than they really are, I would be scared to trust my judgement.

[reuber1]

Remember that one I talked about in that sex offender slaying thread? She was one of them. OMFG is all I can say to that. Too bad too, because she was faqking cool.

[Jeizzavelle]

That instantly popped into my mind. Those girls are like the ultimate tease cause they (mostly) are not mature enought to deal with an adult relationship. They can be very mature but the emotional development is not there. It sucks ass all around but it's a fact. And women are physical so when you get into a physical relationship they get more serious faster and then add in that immaturity it's like a ticking timebomb.

[Elrod]

Nice, Elrod.

I would probably wear the "Pissed Off For No Reason" one, although there is usually a reason...a shitload of reasons.


I should make some up...wear them...see if they work!

[Elrod]

Elrod- You forgot....

Too stupid to be allowed the luxury of drawing breath

Bimbo...shoulderpads are for my protection


I know everything so just shut up and let me tell you how to do this so that when I FUBAR it I can blame you

manhater

sexist pig

plauge of the planet (I have no skills beyond mooching)



Wow. It's like a family reunion! :D


Can you imagine...how nice the world would be with TAGS!
I would just be avoiding people all day!
" No..I'm sorry I can't deal with you...uhm..it's your tag...uhm..you not worthy!

[reuber1]

Sounds like a neat little side project you could work on. ;)

[reuber1]

Literally labelling people. Fun times!

[Jeizzavelle]

Make one for the Target sluts that says young and stupid. I'll ruin your life.

[Jeizzavelle]

Yes, god forbid I get labeled but when it comes to everyone else..LET THE HIPOCRISY BEGIN!!

[Elrod]

Yep! I should start with myself.....

Ultra Mega Geek...
comes with comicbook and an opinon!


He heh he...that's me!

[Elrod]

Literally labelling people. Fun times!


Sure why not....makes me think of the Scarlet Letter!
Now, wear your A and be proud!

[reuber1]

They're not quite sluts, just "naive." ;) Besides, remember:

and every other guy in the store is a sexual equivalent of elephant piss.Now, my ex who was a former co-worker and is my age who wound up being a stripper later...yeah, she was a slut. I heard many, many, many things. You know how in Office Space where Peter keeps saying "I think she's cheating on me" and everyone else says "Yeah, I know what you mean"...yeah, just like that.

[Jeizzavelle]

Ouch. Usallly though (maybe a sign of the times) anymore those girls see an older guy as a status symbol. Like a notch on the bedpost but they want the guys to be with just them.

It could just be me hating on other women, though.


My label: DOES NOT PLAY WELL WITH OTHERS. EVER. THIS MEANS YOU!
(unless you talk dirty to me, of course!)

[reuber1]

I felt like Monty from "Waiting"

Monty: So, what do you think of Natasha?
Dean: I think she's illegal.
Monty: Yeah, and I've made peace with that...Seriously, look at her. You know she has that Scooby-Doo tongue.
Dean (in Scooby voice): Statutory rape.
Monty: On the other hand, maybe she is too young.
Dean: Like that's ever stopped you before.
Monty: That is a very, very good point...And I'm convinced Natasha will be mine. Thanks for the advice, buddy.
Dean: Hey, anytime.

[Jeizzavelle]

That's messed up. But too funny and too true.

[reuber1]

lol
You see I don't work with any exact boundaries of the law because I wasn't consulted when the god damn laws were made. No, instead nameless, faceless politicians, the so called protectors of the moral majority decide what is right and what is wrong. I mean come on. I govern my life around my own personal code of ethics, and I suggest that you do the same. That way if, within the constructs of my own morality, I were to do something that is considered illegal, so be it. I feel no guilt whatsoever and futhermore, if I were to buckle under the social weight of the system by adhering to laws that I do not truly believe in then I would be extinguishing the very fire of patriotism and individuality. So in a sense....by having sex with Natasha, I'd be preserving the rights our four fathers fought and died for, right.

[Jeizzavelle]

Yeah, but then the same guy wants to cry cause he GOT in trouble, knowing it was illegal and choosing to do it anyhow. It's a no-win situation I guess.

[Elrod]

Thought of another tag..but this is for my BF....

Man...run away now!

I love him...but sometimes I want to plant him in the backyard.

It takes all kinds of critters to make Farmer Vincent's Fritters!
"Motel Hell"
:eek:

[Jeizzavelle]

I love him...but sometimes I want to plant him in the backyard.
:eek:
Don't feel alone. How does my garden grow?? :rolleyes:

[Elrod]

Don't feel alone. How does my garden grow?? :rolleyes:

I wonder if you plant a man...do you get little boys or little men?
:D

[Jeizzavelle]

They all turn into dicks so what's the differance?

[reuber1]

Better than an ass hole.

[Jeizzavelle]

Better than an ass hole.
What do you think you plant them in...they are dicks. :D

[reuber1]

Pussies (http://www.cucco.org/CatPictures/Cat%20Nap.jpg) ?

[Jeizzavelle]

Bah, no need to do all that. Then they want to hang out and what kind of a nut wants to hang out with a dick all day long. They just want to lay there.

[reuber1]

Nuts want to hang out with dicks, that's who. Better than being a lonely pussy (http://www.cucco.org/CatPictures/Cat%20Nap.jpg). That's why dicks like to poke fun at them and spit on them.

Ass holes are lonely too, because they're cheeky ass holes (usually hiding in the back) but give a dick a chance and he'll poke fun at and spit on them as well.

[Elrod]

They all turn into dicks so what's the differance?

Oh...that was a good chuckle!
Dicks...little or big..still dicks!

New tag:
Man...
plant, water, grows in to a lovely dick.

[Jeizzavelle]

Yeah, but if dicks would just keep their hands to themselves, pussy can handle itself too. Usally better than some dick. And ass holes just need to stay away cause dicks just want to hurt them.

did that even make sense?

[morea]

so, how bout those mets.

[Jeizzavelle]

I'm a girl who doesn't much get into baseball. I like your sig, Morea. Reuber and I were joking around. No worrries. He got that new avatar and got all cocky.

[reuber1]

I'm a girl who doesn't much get into baseball. I like your sig, Morea. Reuber and I were joking around. No worrries. He got that new avatar and got all COCKY.Goddamn right. **struts around**

[Jeizzavelle]

Uhhhhhh....Reub, that's not a good thing.

[morea]

just saying, this thread is rated PG. ;)

[EC]

http://www.planetsmilies.com/smilies/confused/confused0092.gif

[reuber1]

OK, let me get this thread back on topic.

When a co-worker decides to not answer his phone when a call is directed to him. After 20 seconds of ringing, the call goes to the next person in the queue, which was me. Last time this happened, it was a senior tech who makes nearly twice as much as me who did it, and I wound up stuck with a case that lasted two months (which dealt with accounting, my "D" subject). Well, this time I got a cranky hosebag with more accounting questions...never gave me her name or contact info, I had a solution for her, but she hung up on me. :rolleyes: Between co-workers and customers, I don't know man.

...all only because two employees were busy having a dork-gasm by talking about World of Warcraft, a topic that can't wait for a phone call.

[reuber1]

I was actually going to direct that conversation to CNSFW, but I'm edgy. I'm the softcore porn during Saturday morning cartoons.

[Jeizzavelle]

Well, Reub, I am feeling ill. I think I am heading to the lounge to lie/lay/whatever down. I never get those right.

[reuber1]

White Sox announcers when they play the Cubs. "HEE GON'!!!!" What does that even mean? "He is gone?" "He's gone?" Speak a complete sentence, you tard. God, I love it how Cubs announcers are fair and call the game rather well with benefits to both sides, while the White Sox announcers have no qualms showing their hatred for any other team.

[smartbunny]

When I got this job over a year ago I received an outline of my duties (design and produced quarterly catalogs, design shirts, hats and other apparel, do web graphics, etc etc). When I came to the job I learned that the owner's wife has a side business doing party favors (t-shirts, bags etc) and it was also my job to design logos and things for her business. I have maybe 2 things a week from her so it's not a big chunk of my time. It's just annoying.

Now my boss (owner of company) has been giving me things to do for his friends; a foldout brochure for a friend's video business, (wedding, barmitzvahs etc) and the other day he told me to do a logo for his friend's website (the guy sells watches). My boss gets some money or services for my work; like he'll get a free watch for this logo and business card I made.

I don't see this as ethical; I've been doing this kind of work for a long time and I have done freelance stuff and I always get paid. In my boss's eyes I *am* getting paid... these projects are using HIS time, therefore HE gets a prize for utilizing my skills. Is this at all fair? I could choose to do these projects "on my time" and get a paycheck from the client, but I *have* a fulltime job, I don't want to go home and work for 2 hours on something ELSE.

Just because this guy has an artist on staff, does that mean he can just tell his friends I will design everything and anything they might need?

What do you think?

-rg

[Elrod]

Smartbunny get paid.....give your boss a bunch of your biz cards and tell him you'd love to gen new biz contacts....for frerlance.

Or become so busy at work..you can't to his buddies stuff unless you get over-time.

He should not just use you....damn..ask for that free watch!

[nyc_skater]

What the **** is up with the smell of my multi vitamins...I mean can't they fix that...I open the bottle of these organic anti oxidant horse pills and it smells like the ****ing plauge!

[morea]

they are rancid. I've taken them before and they give me a stomach ache.

[LittleBlu]

So we are all semi-perfectionist freaks who want a better world and are on the same page? I think that I must have just stepped into heaven.

#1 people that drive me absolutely off my nut: when a know-it-all employer has his secretary/wife/whomever tell him or her that they have a "creative streak" --the employer proceeds to attempt designing ontop of your work *shudder*.

#2 (as part of #1): Know-it-all, non-creative employers and management who stand behind you while you work and tell you to "nudge that word toward the scrollbar just a teeny but" for hours on end. (Why did you hire me again?!)

#3 big, giant, fat men who walk around in their speedos with no shirt on, rolls rolling, and have the balls to point out that it is wrong for a woman to be topless in public.

#4 MICROSOFT (er, um, anything...)

#5 people who talk and moan about their Jenny Craig, Atkins, or Weight Watchers diet while they shove cake into their face and say: "Well, I can make it up later". Eat a bloody carrot already, do some "yoga", and spare us!

#6 Americans who think that anything above the 49th parallel is solid ice and snow. Oh wait, I take that back, I did just get electricity and internet to my igloo last month!!! Lets have a maple-syrup party to celebrate!

#7 Getting less than 12 hrs of sleep at night... wait, must post more later.

LittleBlu

[urstwile]

To smartbunny,

You are being treated like a slave! Make your boss stop now, if you have the courage. Sheesh...what is it with people? You do the work, he gets the perks, pancake it!

Next thing you know, he'll be asking you to pick up his dry cleaning, on the way back from you delivering the business cards you did for his friend of a friend that the printer wouldn't deliver because it was 400 miles away, and then next thing you know....Aaargh.

Make it stop now!

[urstwile]

1) drivers who roll into the crosswalk while I'm trying to cross the street

2) people who say it's a "mute" point

3) cellphones, especially on public transportation and at concerts, movies, etc.

4) people who say "I have a friend of mine"

5) being labeled just "production artist" or worse, just "N" on a work or change order from account executives and my production manager (recent e-mail, no joke, was addressed to "N&N" (my fellow production artist's name also starts with an N, as in iNterchangeable)

6) George W. Bush's smirk

7) Nude people who really shouldn't be nude

8) bus benches in the sun made of concrete

9) supersizing

10) George W. Bush's smirk

[EC]

http://blogs.warwick.ac.uk/images/ajtaylor/2004/12/17/george_bush.jpg

What.

[JPnyc]

"The thing of it is, is....." UGH! If the phrase must be used then it's "The thing of it is THAT............etc." "IS's", unlike breasts, should not travel in pairs.

[smartbunny]

Thanks for the advice, I think I will inform my boss that I can't accept any more work for his "friends."

GWB's smirk bothers me too... it's like he thinks everyone else is a moron and he's the smart one.

[The_Black_Knight]

1) drivers who roll into the crosswalk while I'm trying to cross the streetSomewhat related to this, people that think using the crosswalk means "take all day to cross the street, if you wish, and don't bother looking to see if there are any cars coming before you step out into the street. Just ignore the screeching tires, honking horns, and screaming drivers, because you have the right of way."

2) people who say it's a "mute" pointAnother one that drives me nuts is when people say, "We need to flush out this concept," when they mean, "We need to flesh out this concept." If you don't really know what a word or expression means, it only makes you sound dumber when you say it, not smarter.

I also hate it when people say "VIN number" (or "Vehicle Identification Number number") or "ATM machine" ("Automated Teller Machine machine"). Hello, this is the Department of Redundancy and Needless Duplication Department calling.

[reuber1]

When the weather man/woman calls for rain, when it is overcast all day, and co-workers still leave their windows down.

"DUUHHHHRRRR!!!!"

[Logo-Mechanix]

When I ask someone what size they would like their logo to be on the mousepads we are printing for them and they say 3 lines past the 1 on the ruler. My reply: is your ruler a 32nd, 64th or 16th ruler. His reply: I don't know. I'm thinking, are you that friggin' dumb you don't know the difference.

[Kool]

When the weather man/woman calls for rain, when it is overcast all day, and co-workers still leave their windows down.

"DUUHHHHRRRR!!!!"

Why would that jerk your chain? I would think it would be pretty amusing. Unless you were one of the ones who left your windows down. ;)

[reuber1]

Because we're all logged in to customer support systems. When it rains, and they leave their windows down like dipshits, they have to make themselves unavailable with that bastard "Unavailable" button (which is there mainly for the employees who to the bathroom to masturbate/take a piss) and thus I'm the only one left to take a call. Especially when I'm not supposed to be next in the queue, though by process of elimination I become the ONLY one in the queue. GRRR.

[Kool]

Oh ok :p

[reuber1]

HUMIDITY...

Fellow midwesterners, did the humidity just like skyrocket by 4000% today? Jesus H., another one of those air chewing days. I was getting used to the "sunny but really frickin' windy."

[reuber1]

I have been on the phone with this same person for an hour and a half. My lunch started ten minutes ago. I'm currently on hold for him. GOD DAMMIT.
:mad: :mad: :mad:

[emmerse]

people who misquote lines in their signatures....

*cough, cough*

[reuber1]

Who said it?

[emmerse]

http://i3.photobucket.com/albums/y82/agentsof/Wooderson.jpg

brian was doing the line ^^he^^ says

you could always edit your sig to say "high school girls...yes they do. - Wooderson brought to you by Brian Griffin" :)

[reuber1]

OK, I figured it was a reference to something, but it was kind of funnier that I didn't know it was. Oh well.

[reuber1]

Websites that ask for phone numbers, they don't tell you how to input it. Like, with hyphens, without hyphens, with spaces, no spaces, whatever, and you enter your number in failure. Be helpful, websites, a little thing like eg 5559991213. Don't make me feel like a nimrod when I make an assumption based on zero information.

[Jeizzavelle]

What is it about tattoos that makes people think you want to hear their stupid comments about the many ways you have ruined your life? Shut-up! My life was great till you waddled up. Geez.

[Silence04]

3 day weekends that end too soon...

[reuber1]

Oops, sorry Jeizz. :p

[reuber1]

3 day weekends that end too soon...Co-workers who extend 3 day weekends into 4 ("I'm 'sick', *cough* *cough*."), and leave you with more work.
http://www.hulklibrary.com/hulk/images/characters/joerubinstein-hulk-small.gif

[Jeizzavelle]

Oops, sorry Jeizz. :p
Morning Reub. Co-workers suck. I just hate when people tell me "you just got tattoos for attention" or theclassic "you'll never get a good job" and "what will you do when you're 80 and they sag" . Why do you care since according to you I'll be nothing more than an 80 year old attention whore? Grrrrr. I like tattoos. I think before I get them and when I'm 80 I'll be too busy trying to find my teeth and not trip over my boobs to care. And attention? If II wanted your attention I'd flash you. Geez. I can cover every one of my tattoos for a work environment and any future bosses don't even need to know I have them. Are there not bigger things to worry about like world hunger or something?

[Jeizzavelle]

Sorry. I have issues. If all the stupid people would just stop wasting my oxygen.... I might need that air to sneeze one day.

[idaho]

People that buy t-shirts from West Coast Choppers or Orange County Choppers so they can look like a biker even though they drive a VW.

[idaho]

When my employer claims to have on-site daycare as a benefit and it's the most expensive place in town by a long shot! People who make less than $15/hr can't afford it.

Yeah I'm pissed off.

[Jeizzavelle]

DAy care is always a problem. Finding a good one is worth the cost. But I understand the "bonus on site" thing, too. That's crap. It's easy for the boss who makes muko bucks to pay but what about the workers??

[reuber1]

My left eye has been throbbing off-and-on since Friday, the work day from hell. I think work related stress has been getting to me lately, which sucks because I've been gone from vacation for two weeks.

[Jeizzavelle]

Are you experiencing any nausea or sensitivity to light/sound? Do you have any bad teeth? It could be allergies, migraines or a bad tooth.

[reuber1]

No nausea or sensitivity to light or sound. My teeth are fine.

[idaho]

DAy care is always a problem.

Try finding, and paying for, daycare for twins! I'm looking at $1200/month and I only bring home $2000.

I'll save the rest of my rant for another thread so I don't hijack this one.

[reuber1]

The only way to hijack this thread is to be happy.

[Jeizzavelle]

No nausea or sensitivity to light or sound. My teeth are fine.
Then you need a new job. Just kidding. Try an exedrin, migraine. It'll stop hurting.

[Jeizzavelle]

Try finding, and paying for, daycare for twins! I'm looking at $1200/month and I only bring home $2000.

I'll save the rest of my rant for another thread so I don't hijack this one.
Don't worry about this thread. Being pissed off is the point in here. Maybe you could do a price comparasin. Some places will give you a discount for more than one child. Sometimes, if you can find a small daycare they charge less. I take my boys to a small place and they are about half the price and better than the others in town. You just have to look around. Then you have to make sure you'd be comfy leaving you boys there! Good luck!

[reuber1]

Wow, this has been a dogshit week for workouts. I've had to stop in the middle of my 30 minute run at least twice every day this week because it feels like my goddamn calf muscles are going to explode. :mad:

[Virgo Nightingale]

1. People who are brainwashed by religion in general, but more specifically the freaky old zealot out west who, along with his family and his church, have the BALLS to protest at the funerals of sodiers who were killed in Iraq saying that he/she DESERVED to die because he/she fights for country that allows homosexuality. If you don't like this country, just get the f* out and start your own sovereign state where oppression is okay.

2. Censorship, especially when it involves non-sexual nudity. Oh no! It's Janet Jackson's breast! WHO CARES! You sucked on one of those things as a baby, there's nothing wrong with it. The naked human body is perfectly natural, stop making people feel ashamed of themselves and their bodies. We were all born that way, and are still that way under our clothes. What is the big friggin' deal? Okay, her breast was a little on the ugly side with that huge piercing, but that's beside the point....

3. Parents who don't discipline their kids or keep an eye on them when they're out in public. I used to love it when I was waitressing and carrying a tray of martinis or five heavy plates of hot food and a kid would run in front of me and nearly knock me over. And the parents don't even bat an eye or say boo to the kid, nevermind an apology.

4. Clients who habitually bring projects to you at the last possible moment. Like asking you to design an invitation (for an event that's been in the planning stages for months) complete with a series of original illustrations, WITH AN RSVP DATE THAT'S ONE WEEK AWAY. Learn to plan ahead, people.

[reuber1]

People Who Call A Support Line Three Minutes Before Closing And Go Slower Than Shit Need To Take A Gun And Shoot Themselves Right Now. This Is ****ing Ridiculous.


So much for getting out on time. Maybe I'll get paid for this this time?

This is ****ing bullshit.

[reuber1]

Has Friday become the worst workday of the week for anybody else?

http://www.scripting.com/images/notAngry.jpg

[idaho]

Sean Hannity and Alan Colmes!!!

[Drorain]

al franken and.... .. . ...hmm... ... oh howard dean

hahah just kidding, let me guess Idaho you just heard Sean toss Anne Coulter's salad on the radio, praising her vile book

[reuber1]

When somebody else upsets a customer, and said customer takes it out on me, just because I happen to be there. The good old customer service punching bag. I can't count how many times I want to tell someone off.

[The_Black_Knight]

I work for a multi-national, multi-billion-dollar corporation. I work in the corporate headquarters for the consumer health division of said corporation, an office building of four floors, with room for about 1,000 employees.

How many microwaves do you think there are in the entire building, which has a cafeteria and over a dozen break rooms, that cost conscious employees can use to microwave their meals that they bring from home?

If your answer is ONE, then you guessed correctly!

One freakin' microwave in the whole freakin' building? You gotta be kidding me.

(Oh, it used to be TWO, but some moron didn't clean up after his mess, and ruined the microwave, so now we're down to ONE. People not cleaning up their own messes as if they're still five years old is another chain-jerker, but I'll save that rant for another time.)

I guess I can't complain too much, since this seems to be one of the few downsides to my job, but still, ONE microwave?

[balou]

Oooh, don't get me going on dirty microwaves in the work place. That drove me insane! I'm being totally sexist here but men should not be allowed to bring and heat up chili for lunch. That's all I'm gonna say. *runs and ducks to avoid flying chili bowls*

[reuber1]

Flying chili bowl #1

This was at Target. Before I went to heat up a can of Campbell's Chunky Noodle soup, because I was eager to be like Donnovan McNabb, one of my bosses (female) was heating a thing of Chef Boyardee pasta or something. She forgot to take the metal lid off, and the thing friggin' exploded everywhere. My soup tasted like nuked spaghetti in chicken broth.

[morea]

people who borrow my stuff and don't put it back where they found it.

You know who you are. :p

[The_Black_Knight]

To counter balou's sexist remark, I'll offer my own:

Women should only be allowed to microwave their Lean Cuisine/South Beach/Diet Fad of the Month microwavable meals for a maximum of four minutes. I swear that women will leave those things in the microwave for over ten minutes, and not care that someone else is waiting for the microwave...

Just sayin'. :D

[balou]

people who borrow my stuff and don't put it back where they found it. You know who you are. :p

Sorry Mo. Nuero is in the garage. ;)

[morea]

LMAO... well, I tried to let it stay anonymous. :D

[balou]

*throws crispified Lean Cuisine bowl at Black Knight*

[The_Black_Knight]

*throws crispified Lean Cuisine bowl at Black Knight*[DUCKS]

Hey! Careful! That stuff is dangerous!

[balou]

lol! You're wearing armour and you duck for a plastic bowl. :D

[The_Black_Knight]

lol! You're wearing armour and you duck for a plastic bowl. :DAre you kidding? That stuff gets as hot as lava after being in the microwave for so long! That, and I'd have to re-polish my armor, which is a real drag.

[balou]

It's called the "MW TooLong" diet. You triple the microwave time on your icky frozen diet meal and that way you can only eat two spoonfuls from the center, the rest is petrified ick. It works! lol! :D

[The_Black_Knight]

It's called the "MW TooLong" diet. You triple the microwave time on your icky frozen diet meal and that way you can only eat two spoonfuls from the center, the rest is petrified ick. It works! lol! :DAh, so there is a method to the inconsiderate madness after all.

[idaho]

al franken and.... .. . ...hmm... ... oh howard dean

hahah just kidding, let me guess Idaho you just heard Sean toss Anne Coulter's salad on the radio, praising her vile book

No I just get tired of hearing them talk out their asses. They are so full of shit it's scary.

[LittleBlu]

...I hate losing things... and people who help you to lose things. Oh, and losing people. And, uhm, people who think that killing other people gives life purpose.

Anyways... where did that bloody thing go?!?

[Samakimoto Graphics]

When my 3 day leave is cut short beacuse *someone* forgot I was to layout some five A4 two-pagers for promoting a publication. Then I arrive from my cut short leave to find they have not finished editing the copy to go on these sheets!:rolleyes:

They then proceed to tell me that the deadline is by Monday:rolleyes:, which means I'm saddled with a weekend job!:mad:

[TooTallVal80]

When you don't know what to tell a customer when your boss promises them that there postcards will be mailed out on a specific date.

Same goes for our salesman and our pre-press printer who makes promises to customers. My rule: do not make promises to these people! Especially realtors who need to get there postcards mailed out a certain time! Then they will start jumping on your back and you can't do nothing about it!

[TooTallVal80]

Has Friday become the worst workday of the week for anybody else?
Oh heck yeah!!!

[Samakimoto Graphics]

:mad:... then they proceed to give me the *not finally edited* copy so I still have additions and deletions to make after the design is made...:mad:

[Drorain]

GRRR ...Ursula's song from the little mermaid is going through my head, and I almost wanna make a drama here at work dancing down the line of cubicles singing...

"PPPPOOOR Unfortunate Soullssss....just Poor Unfortunate SOULS!"

wow that would be a comedic commercial....rushes to call up disney vacation commercial creators

[Logo-Mechanix]

Customers who make so many spelling errors on their order you wonder if they made it past kindergarten. Then they bitch because you spelled a name worng on the proof. Hello, thats what proofs are for, not to metion all the errors you made that I fixed.

[Drorain]

Artist: The Little Mermaid Lyrics
Song: Poor Unfortunate Souls Lyrics
URSULA
The only way to get what you want is to become a human yourself.

ARIEL
Can you do that?

URSULA
My dear, sweet child. That's what I do. It's what I live for.
To help unfortunate merfolk like yourself.
Poor souls with no one else to turn to.

I admit that in the past I've been a nasty
They weren't kidding when they called me, well, a witch
But you'll find that nowadays
I've mended all my ways
Repented, seen the light, and made a switch
To this
And I fortunately know a little magic
It's a talent that I always have possessed
And dear lady, please don't laugh
I use it on behalf
Of the miserable, the lonely, and depressed (pathetic)

Poor unfortunate souls
In pain, in need
This one longing to be thinner
That one wants to get the girl
And do I help them?
Yes, indeed
Those poor unfortunate souls
So sad, so true
They come flocking to my cauldron
Crying, "Spells, Ursula, please!"
And I help them!
Yes I do

Now it's happened once or twice
Someone couldn't pay the price
And I'm afraid I had to rake 'em 'cross the coals
Yes I've had the odd complaint
But on the whole I've been a saint
To those poor unfortunate souls

Have we got a deal?

ARIEL
If I become human, I'll never be with my father or sisters again.

URSULA
But you'll have your man, heh heh. Life's full of tough choices, isn't it? Heh heh.
Oh, and there is one more thing.
We haven't discussed the subject of payment.

ARIEL
But I don't have-

URSULA
I'm not asking much, just a token really, a trifle!
What I want from you is - your voice.

ARIEL
But without my voice, how can I-

URSULA
You'll have your looks, your pretty face.
And don't underestimate the importance of body language, ha!

The men up there don't like a lot of blabber
They think a girl who gossips is a bore!
Yet on land it's much prefered for ladies not to say a word
And after all dear, what is idle babble for?
Come on, they're not all that impressed with conversation
True gentlemen avoid it when they can
But they dote and swoon and fawn
On a lady who's withdrawn
It's she who holds her tongue who get's a man

Come on you poor unfortunate soul
Go ahead!
Make your choice!
I'm a very busy woman and I haven't got all day
It won't cost much
Just your voice!
You poor unfortunate soul
It's sad but true
If you want to cross the bridge, my sweet
You've got the pay the toll
Take a gulp and take a breath
And go ahead and sign the scroll
Flotsam, Jetsam, now I've got her, boys
The boss is on a roll
This poor unfortunate soul

Beluga sevruga
Come winds of the Caspian Sea
Larengix glaucitis
Et max laryngitis
La voce to me

Now, sing!

ARIEL
Aah...

Keep singing!

[Kool]

Dro, why are you thinking about the little mermaid? Damn, we really need to find you a girlfriend. ;)

[Drorain]

lol, That'd be great...actually I think it would be great just singing and dancing this through the office...I really do

People at work ask me why I always have a sly smile on my face its cause I'm thinking of pancaked stuff like this

[Drorain]

Etrade, transfer agents, restricted stocks, approved yet no action…stock is plunging while I wait for these morons to get off their asses to transfer a stock certificate that’s been in process for 3 freaking WEEEEEKS! I wish I could sue them for losses :P

Okay ending rant now

[Jackimalyn]

I worked in customer service for 5 years. I don't have enough time in the world to write THAT list.

I hate people in general.

[morea]

you'll fit right in here. ;)

[Drorain]

Morea do you have a nice club I could use, I need to go knock some people off the head

[reuber1]

Morea do you have a nice club I could use, I need to go knock some people off the headDon't you already have one, Mr. Stamper? ;)

[morea]

pick your poison, Dro... here are a few from my armory:

http://img66.imageshack.us/img66/1623/clubs8wc.gif

[The_Black_Knight]

Ooooh...

I'll take the flail, thanks.

[Drorain]

yes Ray I have a "Mushroom Stamper +3" effective against *******s, but I need a nice mace to club these financial *****s that are wasting my time (and money)

[reuber1]

Jesus ****ing christ, we've been backed up since 1 o'clock. I have been on the phone non-****ing stop, answering accounting questions I know nothing about, magically fixing people's Windows problems as though I know what I'm talking about, somehow I'm supposed to fit my design time in between calls (which is approximately 30 seconds), and I haven't been able to eat my goddamn food. I'm on the phone now with someone who is trying to copy and paste some text, with limited success.

This week blows. This week ****ing blows.

[Drorain]

working through your lunch?

no no no no no no no no no no no no no no
dont do that, your not paid enough to do that, and I'm not paid enough to do that. I get up from my desk and leave it 1 hour every day. I would even do that if I was a manaanager here. Regardless
allwise they can kiss my grundle

[reuber1]

I run on my lunch breaks, I can't stand sitting at my desk for 9 hours out of the day, and come hell or high water I get my 30 min run in every day. Unfortunately, my run time also includes driving to the fitness center, getting changed, warm up jog, cool down walk, shower, and drive back, which winds up being an hour and cuts out my entire lunch time. Thus, I eat while working. Usually it's not a problem, but today has been ridiculous. Fridays used to be dead up until the past few weeks, and this Friday has been the worst.

I'm eating on my break/break, which is now, thank god. My stomach was not happy for the last three hours.

[reuber1]

Who uses a ****ing SPACE HEATER during summer!? Especially in an office full of running computer towers!?!?! I'm hot as hell.

[Drorain]

nude models in an ac-ed studio room

...oh that was a rhetorical question

[Drorain]

WTF IS WRONG WITH THIS PANCAKING WEEK!

first car craps the bed. then the a coworker quits. NOW direct deposit didnt go through for work...I'm ready to get up and walk out right now...

[reuber1]

WTF IS WRONG WITH THIS PANCAKING WEEK!I've been saying that since Sunday at 12:01 in the a.m.

Seriously, I've been saying it since Monday. Two and a half hours to go.

[Drorain]

does it help to say it's the fourth time this year?

[reuber1]

No because that would be a lie. I'd say at least 8. Just had someone go apeshit on me because they were having a problem with Windows ( :rolleyes: ) and I told him that it's something I could not help him with.

[Drorain]

Yah so they hand out pay stubs...money deposited on todays date blah blah blah...

LIES! ALLL LIIIIIIIIIIIIIEEEES!

[reuber1]

:rolleyes:

Just had to give someone the farking url for google. Had to spell it too. Cause they couldn't find our site and the url I was giving "wasn't working."

[CatintheHat1]

Okay, there's this uh...er....."woman" who decided to start calling herself a professional designer about a year ago. Well, today I stumble across her online portfolio where she claims to have four years' experience and says "I don't use page makers to create your grapics, I use in Paint Shop Pro." I don't know...are designers "cheating" if they use PageMaker? LOL. Now, I have a sense of humour, but she has a half dozen or so examples of work she's done for real clients. Give me strength and then give me a cookie.

[G-Man79]

PANCAKE YOU VH1! I want to watch the Pearl Jam storytellers clips but NoooooOoooo, PC w/WMP only! Are you pancaking kidding me? Take your non-cross platform DRM and shove it up cornhole.

GAWD!

[Jackimalyn]

"I don't use page makers to create your grapics, I use in Paint Shop Pro."

Im pretty sure that's a negetive statement against herself. Why would she brag that she wouldnt fork up a couple bucks to buy a program thats actually FOR page layout. Shes bragging that shes using improper software.

Would you be willing to post her portfolio link? or some of her amazing work done in Paint Shop?

[cmont]

Please post it! I love seeing that kind of stuff!

[mac.FINN]

A winch.

get it? No? ...Ah screw you!

[reuber1]

****ING LAST MINUTE PHONE CALLS.

God I hate these people. On a ****ing friday. This is like the goddamn 4th week in a row. :mad: :mad: :mad:

[reuber1]

I don't get it. It's like it only happens on Fridays. Do people do this on purpose? It's the second most annoying thing in the universe, tied for second with James Blunt and behind the first place nod to people who tailgate your automobile on the road and then give you a shit eating grin when they pass you. And it's like when I answered, he waited for me to ask him three panckaking times if he needed help before he responded, and only to realize his problem was on the opposite end of "Critical" on the priority spectrum. Every person who does this should be boiled in a McDonald's french-fry frier.

[reuber1]

People who leave cell phones at their desk, powered on, when they are away from the desk. It's a MOBILE phone. TAKE IT WITH YOU!!!

Doesn't help when the ringtone is annoying too...which is nearly every ringtone.

[JaCkinbOx]

I agree on James Blunt. Anyone see his SNL performance? That dude's eyes were freakin' me out.

I think he's on something.

[Neballer]

Sandwiches without mustard.

[Red Kittie Kat]

I agree on James Blunt. Anyone see his SNL performance? That dude's eyes were freakin' me out.

I think he's on something.


:eek: I love James :D




........ ok things that jerk my chain........ running out of cigs in the middle of the night and having my sister parked behind me and I can't find her keys to move the car :rolleyes:

[reuber1]

Somebody needs to get my co-worker some goddamn CDs. He's listening to "Ran so far Away" by Flock of Seagulls. ARGHHHH, NOOOOO 80's MUSIC!!!.

Just had a customer go apeshit on me, and tell me that "I didn't know what the hell I was doing" and hung up. Excuse me all to hell for not being your accountant. Though technically he is kind of right. You'd think a software developer would supply their support techs with some sort of training ("here's the help file. Enjoy!"), but pertaining to his problem, I had to suddenly become his bookkeeper.

Thank god for breaks. Each time I've picked up the phone today, I've been ripped a new *******.

[Jackimalyn]

Somebody needs to get my co-worker some goddamn CDs. He's listening to "Ran so far Away" by Flock of Seagulls. ARGHHHH, NOOOOO 80's MUSIC!!!.

I feel your pain. I used to work in a print shop... I worked in the office with the press room right behind it. When my boss ran the presses, he would blast THE SAME "Best hits of the 80's" CD on repeat from 8-5! There are only so many times a person can hear "Dancing Queen" before she goes insane.

[Neballer]

The class I'm sitting in right now, booooring. And what really jerks my chain is that I'm paying good money for it.

[Jackimalyn]

UGH! Why dont desktop pen holders have weights in the bottom or something? Mine keeps tipping over and sending pencils and sharpie's everywhere!!!! AGH!

Sorry, thats my overreaction for the day.

[Ieatsox]

People who think that they are badasses at Graphic Design, and think that they are better than you.

[Samakimoto Graphics]

UGH! Why dont desktop pen holders have weights in the bottom or something? Mine keeps tipping over and sending pencils and sharpie's everywhere!!!! AGH!

Sorry, thats my overreaction for the day.

Your solution could be nikklemomo's "Peek-a Boo" penholder ;).

[Samakimoto Graphics]

I feel your pain. I used to work in a print shop... I worked in the office with the press room right behind it. When my boss ran the presses, he would blast THE SAME "Best hits of the 80's" CD on repeat from 8-5! There are only so many times a person can hear "Dancing Queen" before she goes insane.

Dancing Queen(ABA): That's the late seventies me thinks. *nostalgia* those were good times...:p .

[rikbarwick]

Suits, why is it when your on the London Underground, if you wear a suit you loose all sense of manners and become arrogent to people around you.

Uniform officers at work, I work in a design studio that has to wear trousers and shirt because of the sales staff complain, Jeans are not scruffy, i barely see the outside world, let me wear JEANS!

People who think design work takes 5 mins and won't pay for the services!

Racists - I have never witnessed so much racisim until i went to a hotel in Israel, White people are not the only racists in this world.

Arsenal Football Club, come on you Spurs!

[reuber1]

Heat exhaustion. I haven't run right in 2 weeks, and it doesn't help when the temperature in the cardio room is no less than 80 degrees. Yeah, cooler than outside, but it's still pretty damn warm.

[reuber1]

I can't take any of my own posts seriously with this new avatar. It makes me laugh. I think Uglycat has been put to rest for a while.

[yarusskii]

People that have courage to talk about rules and say what is good and what is not, without having any experience what so ever, being stuck up and trying to push their personal opinion on others.

[reuber1]

Yipay!!!! Nothing like going into town to get more resume paper (I think I'm on my fourth ream of that stuff) and printer ink, and to treat yourself with a nice set of JBL speakers for your computer (the Creature speakers, the ones that look like big domes and sound awesome) because you haven't really treated yourself to anything in many months, but instead halfway on the 30 minute drive your car's alternator decides to go out to the point that literally almost nothing works, and the steering wheel and the the PANCKAKING BRAKES can only be controlled by someone with superhuman strength, making pulling off the side of the road nigh impossible, and having to pay $70 to get towed to a local garage shop that says that the alternator and battery are gone, so I have to get those replaced and that winds up being $480. So instead of spending about $110 today, I spent $550 (not counting the resume paper and ink). God dammit.

[balou]

Aw crap reuber! That sucks.

[Samakimoto Graphics]

*Pole* Reuber

[reuber1]

The secretary leaned across my cubicle and against the back of my chair, as I'm sitting in it, to shake the hand of someone on the other side of my cubicle. Um, HELLO?

[Pica]

the guy whose last day is on friday, and even though our production week ends on wednesday, still comes to work on thurs and friday yet refuses to take any ads since he won't be here at the end of the issue.... why didn't he just plan to leave 2 days earlier or 2 days later?! well, i guess it's not like he did that much work in the first place

[Drorain]

what jerks my chain...?

we're only 42 minutes into the work day

[Logo-Mechanix]

What jerks my chain? The moron on the motorcycle who rides in between cars in traffic, makes me want to open my door as he's going by.

[morea]

what jerks my chain?

Just about everything lately... but especially the fact that I am getting NO responses back from the resumes I am sending out, I have no way to pay the mortgage but putting it on my credit card (which is filling up fast), and I am afraid I am going to lose my house...

*sigh*

[Logo-Mechanix]

That does'nt compare to the posts here Morea, the others are just common bitching. Yours is much more serious, are their any stores near you where you could work for the time being, I don't mean like Walmart, I mean more like Home Depot, they pay fairly well here where I live. It might help you get back on your feet.

[morea]

walmart here pays $6 an hour, which just won't cut it. Ack.

I can't remember if I filled out an application at Home Depot, but I suppose I could call them. I have been applying for everything from working overnight shifts at local warehouses and everything, but life just seems out to get me right now.

*double sigh*

[Logo-Mechanix]

Try Home Depot, my mom works there and they start at about $10.00 an hour here in Jersey. I also know supermarkets usually have an overnight shift for stocking shelves and they pay better than the day shift, not sure what though. If there are any large companies near you, maybe try applying for secretarial. My wife is what they call a coordinator (fancy word for secretary) and let me tell you they pay her a mint where she works, granted it's a large company but it may be worth checking into.

[Jackimalyn]

Morea, if ti comes down to it... factories pay a lot!! Probably because it sucks so much, but as a temp thing, you'll start pretty high. I got some friends who worked on a line and started at $8-8.50 an hour no experience. Plus you can usually pick any shift.

It'll suck, but youll keep your house and you can eat (I always find that thats the first thing I give up when Im poor; food) or perhaps theyll have an art department you can weasle into