ONE reason why your job sucks.

[tony620d]

my boss is a drunk loud mouth @sshole. yes, he's drunk right now.

[Drawing a Blank]

My employee Tony won't get drunk with me. yes I'm drunk right now.

OK no my reason would be that I am the only designer working here amongst a bunch of people who have no taste, creativity or style but always want me to make things look the way they think they should look.

[danedawg99]

One Reason? hmmmm. I gotta narrow it down... OK here's one. I'm all by myself. We have this great big building, and my office is separate from the rest of the employees. Everyone else is in this community cube area in the back, i'm right in front inside the door. Behind glass, I feel like a zoo animal whenever a client comes in, b/c they'll stand by the glass and stare at me. No one talks to me unless they want something, or something's wrong.
and they wonder why I didn't want to go on the company camping trip. I'm not going out in th emiddle of nowhere with people I don't know! :eek:

[uncle carbunkle]

LOL@dab.

[Jay McLaughlin]

My boss constantly asks me to design layouts for her without actually giving me any of the content she expects to go on the page!

For example, she asked me on monday to do a new layout for the magazine contents page without telling me what is actually going in the magazine!

[morea]

I Just Got Fked Over On My Raise **again**

but the additional responsibilities are there to stay. So essentially, 3 people's work for less than one person's fair wage.

[tony620d]

One Reason? hmmmm. I gotta narrow it down... OK here's one. I'm all by myself. We have this great big building, and my office is separate from the rest of the employees. Everyone else is in this community cube area in the back, i'm right in front inside the door. Behind glass, I feel like a zoo animal whenever a client comes in, b/c they'll stand by the glass and stare at me. No one talks to me unless they want something, or something's wrong.
and they wonder why I didn't want to go on the company camping trip. I'm not going out in th emiddle of nowhere with people I don't know! :eek:

youre one step away from killing roaches in the basement LOL. dont go on no stinking camping trip, unless its paid vacation!

[tony620d]

My employee Tony won't get drunk with me. yes I'm drunk right now.

OK no my reason would be that I am the only designer working here amongst a bunch of people who have no taste, creativity or style but always want me to make things look the way they think they should look.

LOL

[reuber1]

Managers that have the same or less college education than you but they make four times as much and do less than a quarter of the work. Seriously, my bosses are beyond dumb, but when I try to come up with a logical explanation/solution for something, it's shot down because I'm still a low-level peon.

After a day like today ("everyday", they're called), I could give 100 reasons.

[danedawg99]

youre one step away from killing roaches in the basement LOL. dont go on no stinking camping trip, unless its paid vacation!
actually, I currently have to kill GIANT FRIGGIN' BEETLES in my cage. (that's what i call my "office") B/C they're everywhere! that and crickets...lol

[Keyare]

http://ih2.com/images/animals.jpg

[danedawg99]

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v433/danedawg99/animals.jpg
lol :p :cool:

[morea]

LMAO!!!

"Designer" should be in COMIC SANS!

[Drawing a Blank]

LOL@Keyare
LOL even harder at danedawg99.

[Drorain]

....cause a lot of our stuff is templates...oh and we off-shore most of the work

[defjoe]

I actually like my job... but it's a rare one in this industry...

[Mynock]

I get paid more, but do less then my last job.

[D-Zine]

I complain about my job all the time but I know it could be worse. Hell I could not have one - that would definately be worse...LOL!

[vtwin_gary]

I complain about my job all the time but I know it could be worse. Hell I could not have one - that would definately be worse...LOL!


i found out about a week ago that the company i work for will be shutting the doors at the end of the month.

well at least i have time to take home my parting gifts

[woodwardo]

Because I have way too much work to do. I fired my last designer because he showed up hungover and late every day. Now I can't seem to find a decent replacment for him. :(

[morea]

I'm ALWAYS sober at work, woodwardo... want me to send you my resume? :p

[Eraser Nubbin]

11 male employees, no women(one secretary but she doesn't count).
Jailhouse mentality boys and girls.

[Patrick Shannon]

Don't get your honey where you get your money, Eraser. ;) Or you said jailhouse mentality? Should I be saying "don't drop the soap?" :P

I'm in a similar situation, but one of the (few) perks of my current job is that the cute girls working at the Missouri Department of Transportation walk by here every day.

[Jimeda Fork]

They require me to show up. and then work.

Don't get your honey where you get your money - Patrick

Sh*t man, that's were I found my wife. 10 year relationship - 6 married.

[benjo]

Well I was looking for honey where I get my money and you won't beleive what I found in the closet.

[D-Zine]

what benjo, what??? ;)

[vtwin_gary]

i found out about a week ago that the company i work for will be shutting the doors at the end of the month.

well at least i have time to take home my parting gifts


11 male employees, no women(one secretary but she doesn't count).
Jailhouse mentality boys and girls.

the company i work for (for now) is a womens fashion clothing store. i am one of 3 men (the other 2 don't play on the same team as i do)that work for the whole co. aprox 100 employees. most guys think this is great but... when women work together there cycles seem to become one & whooo nelly :eek:

[D-Zine]

... when women work together there cycles seem to become one & whooo nelly :eek:

No doubt Gary..sorry but that's true! I can say it bc I'm female...LOL!
Hey better to get it overwith all at once as opposed to 10 ppl one week and 10 another week and so on and so on, and it be never ending..LOL

;)

[tony620d]

gary, get them some pms medicine. before the secretary was on her levelizing pills, she had daily fights with the copy machine. lol

[keith1]

Why my jobs sucks? I'm the only lonely inhouse designer
Why it rules? I created the position 5 years ago myself and no one knows how long it really takes me to complete a task hence the frequent forum visiting.

[VisualizeDesign]

I guess I like my job. I get to work on an event, design a little here and there. Play in p.s. when no ones looking, go thru forums here and there. The office is super tense and full of stress but, at the same time its chilled. I dont have to do the suit thing every day, which is cool. I start at 9:30, take an hour or so lunch and leave at 6. So I dont even have to deal with 70% of the rush hour traffic.

I have an irritating co worker. She's a little condescending, all the time, loves talking poop about everyone and is in everyone's bees wax. And it becomes irritating when I am trying to work and she wants to tell me all these negative things about every one we do business with. I hate being interrogated and have a certain distaste for busy bodies. Kinda like a 40 year old cheer leader, on puppy uppers, who likes causing drama, has a fake smile and speaks valley girl. Other than that I love my job. I just tune her out with my head phones, or laugh off her condescending statements.

[Eraser Nubbin]

Patrick - If not at work, then where? If your fishing at the gymn you have to compete with the meat heads, if your are searching at the bar you have to compete with.. well with the meat heads, and if you are lurking at the grocery store you have to compete with the healthy eating folk, many of which.. are well... meat heads

Gary - You ever notice that the their cycles seem to coincide? Making me think that it is some kind of planned conspiracy, once a month women across the nation boycott sex because of their "cycle" to remind men across the nation that we are indeed, slaves to the opposite sex.

[VisualizeDesign]

......once a month women across the nation boycott sex because of their "cycle" to remind men across the nation that we are indeed, slaves to the opposite sex.

For no reason in the world will i boycott sex, gotta earn the red wings. :cool:

[Mynock]

What does p.s. stand for?

A) Play Station
B) Post Script
C) Political Science
D) PrintShop
E) Photoshop
F) Paleontological Society

HUH?

[VisualizeDesign]

E :)
woo hooo im outta work bye people

[idaho]

I wasn't too fond of the anal probes at my last job.

[Keyare]

Oh. Sincere apologies.

[Eraser Nubbin]

Haha nice VisualizeDesign, nothing like cracking out the dark sheets once a month for a special occasion. Don't women's sexual drives max out at that time of the month?

[morea]

lol @ Keyare!

Mynock, given the context I would presume that ps is Photoshop.

Eraser, that's what I would presume the shower is for.

[Eraser Nubbin]

The only problem with the shower is the chance of having blood start gushing from other places, namely head wounds and such after slipping and falling unless you have those slick little flower petal sticky pads in your shower.
You have to worry about the logistics of height differential as well.

[danedawg99]

that's why your knees bend, my friend. ;)

[greyghost]

The worst thing about my job?

I keep a rotten client. Therefore, I create my own problems.

[jdeeesign]

Being the only in-house designer has it's advantages, just like Keith says.

BUT

the thing that sucks about it is...

Everyone needs me, "the print guy" to do something for them. Translates to 10 different guys giving me 10 different projects that all need to be done today. Also translates to 10 different people behind my monitor watching me design.

[VisualizeDesign]

Also translates to 10 different people behind my monitor watching me design.

I dont think I could deal with that. :eek:

[greyghost]

I dont think I could deal with that. :eek:

I know I don't deal well with that.

I had a job for a while where the boss would stand over and watch you work. And direct. And lean on the arm of your chair, causing the whole chair to tip sideways.

I knew he needed me, and could not replace me, so on more than one occasion, I did tell him to F-ing back off and let me work.

Which amused the other artist to no end. Because the boss did the same thing to him, and while he'd never cuss, he did get grumpy enough that the boss would go away.

[uncle carbunkle]

add "the boss eats your lunch that you are too busy to actually eat but were trying to eat at your desk because you never actually stop for a lunch break and were too busy photoshopping his double chin and pot belly out of a photograph" to that list and i've worked there.

[greyghost]

add "the boss eats your lunch that you are too busy to actually eat but were trying to eat at your desk because you never actually stop for a lunch break and were too busy photoshopping his double chin and pot belly out of a photograph" to that list and i've worked there.

BWAHAHAHAA!

My boss has never done more than snack on my lunch. He had, however, made me work until 2am without any dinner several times - because I was too busy to run out and get anything, even though HE went out and ate dinner and partied and came back around 9pm DRUNK.

I have had to photoshop out a different boss' haircolor, body size (she wanted to be a lot slimmer) and wrinkles (she was in her late 70's). Too bad I also couldn't photoshop out the butt smell she had that was so strong you knew she had been down that hall 5 minutes earlier.

[GreenThumb]

I dont have anything to contribute to this thread :P

[tony620d]

I dont have anything to contribute to this thread :P

are you hiring? ;)

[The_Black_Knight]

I dont have anything to contribute to this thread :P

Actually, for the first time in a long time, I'm able to say the same thing. The worst I can say about my job is that it's a little dull, and the commute is a little long (but it's a drive through a nice area with very little traffic, so I don't even care about that anymore).

Don't get me going about my last job, though.

[BlackBox]

I'd love to blame things i don't like about my job on the place where I work, but the fact is, I chose that job, i work there and still do..sure I'm not getting paid what I want but i can move on. i just need to do it is all. That said, I am the ONE reason my job sucks

[morea]

I work with monkeys.

[MD]

WOW! That must rule Morea!!! :) I love monkeys! (except when they fling poo) If I had a monkey I would put a diaper on it and call him Bob. We would be an inseparable team like captain and tennille or B.A. Baracus and Hannibal. If my monkey was bad I would spank him. I would spank my monkey all day long until he learned his lesson. I would be all like BAD MONKEY and bob would be all like sorry man in his broken monkey sign language. That would rock the pillars of hell with its radness!!!

[The_Black_Knight]

WOW! That must rule Morea!!! :) I love monkeys! (except when they fling poo) If I had a monkey I would put a diaper on it and call him Bob. We would be an inseparable team like captain and tennille or B.A. Baracus and Hannibal. If my monkey was bad I would spank him. I would spank my monkey all day long until he learned his lesson. I would be all like BAD MONKEY and bob would be all like sorry man in his broken monkey sign language. That would rock the pillars of hell with its radness!!!

There are so many things I could say in reply to that, but I just won't go there...

[MD]

roger that.

[BlackBox]

imageshack
I work with monkeys.

like this dude?

http://img123.echo.cx/img123/2368/monkey8ib.jpg

http://http://img123.echo.cx/img123/2368/monkey8ib.jpg

[Neballer]

Today, once again I can say I don't mind my job - but I'm sure that will change tomorrow, because the people I work for suck balls.

[MD]

the people I work for suck balls.
Sounds like a nice perk. Got any openings?

[tony620d]

lol that monkey pic is cracking my shhht up!

[Silence04]

i have to spend my whole day on Windows. <-- enough errors to make you want to kill yourself.

[Neballer]

Sounds like a nice perk. Got any openings?
LMFAO!
Only if you want a 65 yr old man to do it, or a 40 something with a fupa and little boy hair.

[MD]

ROFL!....a 40 something with a fupa and little boy hair....OMG that is too pancaking funny :D Thanks for the imagery.

[Neballer]

MD, I'm so-totally glad that you get a kick out of that - because pancaking somebody should. :o