I. Don't. Do. Copy. PERIOD...

[CkretAjint]

GRRRrrrrrrrr...



So I know that I really really suck at spelling and grammer. So for me to find a mistake, it has to be pretty bad. I am so bad at this that I will NOT for the life of me, make copy edits to a clients files. If it is wrong, I don't touch it.... period, end of story.

Who calls me today? My mother. She asks me to help redesign her resume, again. No problem send over the file and I'll take a stab at it in my free time. I get the email, what's the first line in the email?

"It needs major tweaking. It is wwwwaaaayyyy too wordy! See what you can do to make it snappy and more concise!"

OYE!!! :mad:



Thanks for letting me vent! LOL :D

[Jackimalyn]

oooh! make it SNAPPY!

[CkretAjint]

LOL. I just replied back:

"Mom,
I do design, not copy edits. That is your field...."

I mean, the woman is an English major, you think she would do that herself! ;)

[tZ]

See… my parents know I suck at grammar so they don't ask. They just ask for help with anything related to art(as they like to call it),lol.

[Virgo Nightingale]

My mother thinks I'm her IT guru.

[CkretAjint]

My mother thinks I'm her IT guru.

You should have heard my mother on the phone with me walking her through hooking up her new DVD player the other day.

"Are you sure the red cord goes into the red hole? The yellow in the yellow one? same with the white one? Really? Are you super sure, I don't wanna screw the machine up."

*bashes head into wall* :p

[tZ]

yep, IT all the way.

Just because I work on a computer I know everything about it,lol

[DesignVHL]

meh its more like our parents are lazy, lol....my dad does this to me....tho HE IS super bad w/ writing/grammar, and I happen to be pretty decent in it (tho at times i do get a bit wordy, lol which is obvious from my posts probably, hee hee)....

But yeah I'm putting a booklet together for my dad (no pay OF COURSE) so it goes...i mean he did help pay for my educ. so yeah, I have to basically write all the content for his brochure/booklet on his company.....and he just threw a TON of research info for me to go through its crazy....oh the things our parents have us do! I bet a lot of us would agree that sometimes our parents are our worse clients!

[CkretAjint]

Just because I work on a computer I know everything about it,lol

I know exactly what you mean...

*pokes his computer with a stick*http://www.teamzx2.com/Smileys/others/fruit.gif

[CkretAjint]

I bet a lot of us would agree that sometimes our parents are our worse clients!


Yep. Next to ourselves though.

[DesignVHL]

tell me about it...i still can't design a logo i like for myself! I've never HAD to market myself too much because I've always had this constant flow of clients - I can't handle too many due to ft job.....so that is mainly why I would guess.....

[Ovaltine]

I must have the best parents in the world... They love everything I do (for them or anyone else).

Edit: When they decide they want to pay me for something, it's usually when they want to "give" me $ without "giving" me $. It's cute really.

[morea]

you don't do copy for your MOM? :eek:

How long was she in labor with you? (And hasn't she reminded you of this fact herself?) :p

[Ovaltine]

^^Agreed :) ^^

And as a mom, I think that at least one birthday present should go to the mother who put up with all the back pain, and morning sickness, and OBGYN visits, and nasty vitamin pills, and needles etc etc, during pregnancy, along with the pain and agony of the labor and delivery process in order to give a child life.

Good grief, we give the kids all the presents, and what did they do? :p Nothing.... they managed not to die, again, though no effort of their own, but through the good care of the parents. :rolleyes: And what thanks do we get? A card at mother's/father's day.

I think on our birthdays we should call our parents (mothers especially) and thank them for all the crap they put up with from us, and for giving us the gift of life.

Then again, the shock of this behavior might give some of them a stroke.:eek:

[carter the artist]

hell, my dad knows more about computers than I do, he went back to college to learn e-business. Now he has a computer at home that runs linux... i know nothing about linux.

[DesignVHL]

lol whereas the that is the opposite for me, my dad has a computer, and tries to use it but never takes the time to really learn...on the otherhand, my mom has become quite the wiz! She's better than I am with excel, and certainly knows her way around....but still I am and always will be the IT person of the family, lol so it goes!

[Virgo Nightingale]

My mom can use a computer for the basics: email, web surfing, word docs, general printing, etc.

My father on the other hand I don't think has ever even touched a mouse. Aside from the one he killed in his kitchen (it crapped in their toaster, he felt the need to show it a little tough love – perhaps he was a little too tough...).

[DesignVHL]

it crapped in their toaster
BLECH! I have a mouse crap story for you Virgo! lol! We were at Summercamp Music festival - the year of tornados actually (been going for like 7 yrs now), and we had used my friend's uncle's RV - which they rarely used....my boyfriend and i shared the pull out couch bed....i got up early the first morning to hit the bathroom or get ice or something...and when I came back, my boyfriend was curled up in a little ball on the hard dirt ground...i nudged him and I'm like "why the F are you sleeping on the ground outside?" and he goes "I think I'm going to throw-up. The bed has mouse shit all over it" After that, I wanted to throw up. I immediately hit the showers....

[Virgo Nightingale]

:eek:

ewww...

[frankster]

We were storing two couches, one upside down on top of the other in our garage and some snails got in there and then mice came and ate the snails, so there were snail shells and mouse crap all over the one sofa when we came to get them out. Smelled a bit, but it wasn't that gross or that hard to clean. I grew up around farm animals though, so maybe I need more to gross me out. Sleeping in a bed full of crap would probably do it.

Pulling the birth and labour card on your kids would be a bit of a stunt. I barely remember any of the pain or trauma from giving birth either time. It just fades really quickly and you get left with this rose tinted memory of the nice bits, which makes you do stupid things like have more.

[budafist]

I edit for my mum all the time but that's coz English isn't her first language and some of the stuff she comes up with is hilarious! It's ok, I'm allowed to laugh at my mum. However, YOU are not. :D

If this stuff isn't your strength, can't you pawn the job off to another sibling that can do better?

[teniworks]

Whenever my mom wants me to hook up something electrical (which is everything) or explain to her why the internet is not working. I remind her that I am not her servant. Her reply...laughter and the reminder that this is pretty much the reason that she had me...to fix things. :)

[Navian]

I'm lucky, my mom, and fatherl-in-law will NOT touch a computer.

However, my dad however uses the internet for the web cam (he uses it to sign to us instead of a TDD or a instant messanger.)

Then, I'm not so lucky, because I am my mother-in-law's tech support for her old cruddy computer (she has a 10gb hard drive that has 2gb left.... to run WinXP.) she calls me, all hours of the day. :( I have to use every trick I can find/or know to keep that lousy ancient P.O.S. up and running... When it crashes/errors because she deleted something (sometimes an important file) she calls, then I have to show up that saturday to fix it.

/sigh

[WannaBrie]

All these posts about parents made me laugh, my Dad (who was an engineer before he retired) used to be quite the whiz with computers. I remember when I was a little kid he took me to his office (he worked for GE) to see the "supercomputer" they had there. It filled an entire big big room! and printed out these cards with little holes in them. Very high tech at the time. Nowadays he's getting older and constantly has trouble with his computer and is forever asking me to fix stuff for him.

The mouse stories reminded me of once I lived in this house and in the winter I had a family of mice take up residence in a cabinet in the kitchen. Well, I had a cat, but he didn't seem to be all that keen to catch them. So, me being the humanitarian I am, I thouhgt I'd get those sticky traps so the mice woulddn't get squished. (of course I didn't think ahead to what would happen if one got on the sticky thing) Anyway, I wake up to a terrible noise and scufflle in the kitchen at about 3am, sure enough I had caught one and it was screaching its little head off! While I'm standing there trying to figure out what to do with it my cat comes over and decides its time to investigate, he sticks his nose right onto the sticky thing! now I've got a screaming mouse, and a meeeeooowwwing cat stuck to that damn thing! I pick up the mocha (cat) and sticky thing with mouse on it and try extracting it gently as his whiskers are caught on it, all the while they are both making this awful racket! I finally got my kitty off the thing (he lost a couple whiskers) but the mouse was fully stuck. It was awful, I had to take it outside and put it out of its misery.

I immmediately got rid of those sticky t hings and got some humane traps. Caught them all, let them go and they were back again withing about a month!

[DesignVHL]

lol its not really that funny, but it is....only because i can totally visualize this....man oh man!

[CkretAjint]

LMAO Wannbrie.... That really sucks! Glad your kittie made it out partially intact ;)

[Virgo Nightingale]

Brie, that sounds like something out of a cartoon!

I think my dad just cornered it and smashed the crap out of it.

My ex-boyfriend had a mouse in his house while he was living with his parents. His dad put out some poison pellets and soon they stopped seeing the mouse and didn't think much of it. About a week later, we noticed an awful rotting flesh stench in the kitchen. It took a couple days to finally find the dead mouse under the stove. :eek:

[WannaBrie]

Valerie, I know, its funny now when I think of whole thing and whenever I retell that story it always gets a laugh, but at the time, I was actually crying because I hadn't realized that there would be no way to extract the mouse from the sticky thing and that I would have to put the poor thing out of its misery, add to that my own beloved kitty who was wailing and flailing to high heaven (and scratching the hell out of me in his frustration!) It would have been quite a scene if anyone else had been there to witness it, but alas, I was alone in my cat and mouse struggle!

Oh man virgo, I KNOW that smell! I lived in a real dump of a house that had rats under it once and the landlord put out those pellets...man that is the most awful smell there is.

Thanks Ckret, he did indeed. Strangely enough, after that incident, he brought me lots of presents of dead things. ( he was indoor/outdoor as I lived in the country).