Specific work gripes
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- DCDesigns0
Managers constantly telling me how to do my job, because obviously I don't know how to do it.
- mikotondria30
"Why is this taking 2 days" - said 24hrs after the start of the project, at 3pm...
"It's taken 3 days to come up with those 3 logos ?" - Yes, yes it has. Let me show you screenshots from every 30 seconds and you'll see why what I've produced IS exactly the right logo for that client, and NO I don't care if they want a little diagram of exactly what their company does because they think thats what a logo IS. It's not a one-frame cartoon of what they do, and if they think that Im just going to sketch out THEIR idea of what they think they want, they've got another (very expensive) think coming.
I don't stand over their shoulder while they build their farm machinery tutting and telling them the drive shaft needs to be more 'spinny', and that the corn should pop out of the top 'higher and faster', you know - to make it seem more 'corn processey', do I ?
You'd quite simply tell me to fuck off, wouldnt you ? AND you wouldnt put up with me pissing and bitching about the price for your sodden corn processing piece of shit, would you. WOULD YOU?
NO
No you fucking wouldnt. I'd ask you do build me a corn processing machine, and you would tell me how much it was, and when it would be ready. You wouldn't even let me in the fucking factory to stand over your shouldler, or expect you to take pictures of how the building of this corn-processor was going and send them to me every day so that I could criticise how "I" thought it should be goind, despite ME being a graphic designer, and YOU being the cunt that I've actually PAID to do the JOB you are competent at, and have made a living doing quite happily until I came along with my half-assed ideas and fist full of used notes. Fuck you all.Heh.
- calculator0
- My blood pressure went up just looking at that thingGlitterati_Duane
- SigDesign0
this is fun...
+ designers who create a PSD for a website, and have 1 million layers, and only 9 of them are relevant and I can't open the file.
+ being asked to create a website, but they don't have any content.......
+ people who constantly complain about their job, surrounded by other people constantly complaining and griping... I mean everyone complains a bit...this is complaining, but not every single day.
+ helping other designers search for stock photos for their boring advertisement
- roundabout0
Flash Plug-in and the way it slow down my fucking computer for no apparent reason. 100% CPU usage, Fuck you Macromedia.
- um, adobe owns flash.anxiousarms
- time to clean up the processes running on your PC!SigDesign
- << No shit. Flash plug-in should not slow your machine down.404NotFound
- Glitterati_Duane0
Clients that know enough about design to tell you what a vector file is and think that means they know enough to tell you how to do your job.
- zenmasterfoo0
The alternate for me: when people who want/need you to do something and REQUIRE/DEMAND that you come to their desk like some kind of new fucking hire so they can sit behind their big useless desks and look at you sideways like a dog does a doorknob while you tell them they are stupid. A waste of the 10 steps from my desk to theirs.
- MSTRPLN0
Project managers keeping a brief secret for a week, and then telling you at 4:45pm the day before it is due that it needs to be done ASAP and is due the next morning.
- cannonball0
CDs who dont give any creative input and when the client picks your direction you have a week to build the site. When you aren't going fast enough, the CD gives it to another designer, who builds it from the ground up and fucks up all the ID work.
- chossy0
when someone doesn't brief you with any ideas, you go and do something then they all of a sudden have loads of ideas to bring to the table.
- +2doesnotexist
- Oh, I'm sorry I thought i told you that....or Oh, I am so sorry, I forgot to tell you...OSFA
- cannonball0
Projects that dont have any creative brief.
- univers0
My hands smell like shit.
- cannonball0
Calmly explaining what your issue with the project is and then suddenly becoming "difficult to work with"
- mistermik0
moany designers.
- mg330
I'm not sure how it works out this way, but every time I wash my hands in the kitchen or coffee area, the paper towel roll always seems to be down to one last square, making me have to go into the cabinet and get out a new one.
Other than that my job is great.
- turk_1820
sub-contracting for agencies that hang that 'carrot' out in front of you by telling you that you'll be art directing this and that and that and this... months later you're still grunting away on things that nobody else wants to do... and when you do get a chance to put some concepts together - they request the source psd's... only to completely revamp what they just said was 'ace'... makes no sense... but i get paidz...
... :(
- Gifto0
Having to share a toilet with the office downstairs — which is either always occupied or when I actually do get in, someone has dropped a load that stinks to high hell.
- toe_knee0
narky fucker