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- brandelec
I need you wisdom
I was originally brought in to studio a to completely overhaul their website. after successfully doing this, I was offered a role to maintain it as well being the AD's right hand man over in graphic design dept.
recently the owner that's been running the show has been coming up with bogus ideas for websites (that have been down 1000 times over 5 years ago). I feel like this fucking web pet that can somehow magically make these retarded ventures into reality in 1, 2, 3 weeks time. this is all completely outside what studio a is doing by the way.
i'm in a place right now where i need this place but i don't need this place, uknowwhatamsaying, i'm comfortable. so how do i tell them that they're idea is shite and can i please go ahead and proceed to do the work i was hired for.
- end rant
- cannonball0
You tell them that.
"Boss, this idea is good in words but we don't have the time to do it with the work we are doing now."
- kona0
life is too short to work at a job you hate
- Unless you're starving.pylon
- touche'kona
- even shorter when starvinghallelujah
- True that.pylon
- did someone say pylon?mimeartist_com
- mikotondria30
"Oh hey, Brandelec - you seem a bit down, whats the problem ?"
"Oh it's just that your idea is shite, so can i please go ahead and proceed to do the work i was hired for.?"
"Well, we are paying YOU for YOUR expertise, our ideas are evidently so shite that we to get someone else in to come up with other ideas, so why not - go for it."
- epikore0
I love my boss, but i'm actually in a similar dilema where the CEO loves designing but isn't the best at it. I try to nicely give my input but it hurts his feelings so in the end I end up saying his work is great.
- brandelec0
the rub here too is that the latest 'idea' is coming from the owner's parents. so i can messages from the dad and the mom like:
'Oh i heard you're going on vacation in a couple of weeks - so let's try to get that site up before you go yea?'
- cannonball0
HAHAHAH
Billy and Jenny are coming over with the kids and we expect you to show us that site your company is doing.
- kona0
we have a guy acting as 'cd' here once in a great while on projects. he literally needs to see 5 of everything when creating a concept. 5 navigation treatments, 5 picture treatments, 5 search treatments... it's absurd. so much time wasted. in my mind it should be 'i chose this navigation treatment because for this instance i thought this solution works the best'. oh well. hang in there brandelec.
- brandelec0
it is absolutely fucking brutal
"ooooh you haven't started yet?? well, you're in a lot of trouble, my husband is coming by later today"
insert my 'wtf-get-out-off-my-face-i'll-fu... look
- CALLES0
raise
- brandelec0
I overheard this earlier:
"ok, nobody print"
*printer is working its nuts off printing a hundred pages*
*stapler failing*
"do we have a larger stapler for this? oh how about that one"a minute later a fucking 50 page document how to design a website that's google friendly is dropped off on my desk from the mother.
- CALLES0
sounds like george contanza's boss
George Steinbrenner