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Melody wrote:Rusti wrote:
*tacks on another question* And are you going to only do ebay for the last hundred? 🙁
I wasn’t planning to, however I’m beginning to think Olimpia should paint them all.
She has painted a few other colors on these dragons that are gorgeous, also. That could eat up quite a few of our last castings, if she does twenty or so of each.Well fiddlesticks. There goes much chance of owning one. 😛
KoishiiKitty wrote:I think that is the one thing that would bug me..i would not want my name associated with something that dose not portray my real skills.
*That* is my issue here.
Most of the time I just shrug and do it because the boss said so, but when my name is on it, I hit my limit.
I *wish* I could write “Gary’s idea!” down in a corner. I’d like to think that most of the folks in that office *know* he’s a punk, but sometimes I wonder.
lamortefille wrote:All good advice already. I would just add that if you hate the kind of boss you have, you should strive to open your own business. I think crummy bosses far outnumber good ones these days. I would document your work, too. You’re bound to run into somebody that’s going to take your work and take the credit for it completely.
Honestly? After all the bad bosses I’ve been through, doing my own thing without a boss is something I’m desperate for, it’s just a ways off yet. I think I’m far too much like my father (who has owned his own business all of his life, and would never ever be able to work *for* someone).
Barrdwing’s idea is a good one though, I just might do that.
Every time I manage to regain a little bit of faith in humanity, I hear stories like this and it all goes to pot again.
People irritate me. Bunch of thieves.
Tintaglia wrote:We have 3 refrigerators at work. Not only do bag lunches come up missing sometimes, but we’ve had incidents of employees finding their tupperware (or similar container) still in the refrigerator, but the leftovers they brought from home in it, are gone.
Jiminy Christmas…
Why would you steal someone else’s *food*?
The problem with that is he thinks he’s the be all/end all of all design in the office. Even if another person has asked me to do a flyer, he still thinks he’s got the right to make final changes to their requests.
Most of the time I turn in the work I do to the people who head the student activities (this is a student job, btw, it’s nowhere near permanent, but I’m not learning a darn thing), they OK it, and then he has to piddle all over it like a dog marking territory.
Case in point being we’re having Appreciation Week soon, which means services are free for faculty, alumni and staff. He was so stuck on ‘free week’ that The Boss had to tell him to change things to ‘Appreciation’ week, not ‘free’ week. Even student workers in other part of the office were going: “No, that’s Appreciation week! Change it back, it’s not ‘free’ week!”
(couple sentences of screaming ahead – taken from my LJ and edited for language)
How do you tell your boss ‘no’? Especially a controlling, passive aggressive butthead.
My boss at my design job has no sense of design, and I’m stuck having my name associated with the hideous mess he makes me churn out. The worst being today, where I really wanted to just pick up the stack of paper i printed out in order to do this bulletin board and throw it in the recycle bin and say: “No.”
It started out as a mock certificate, I liked it, my coworker liked it. My boss? “I just want it to say appreciation week. Erase all that and make ‘Appreciation’ real big and ‘week’ small.
It looks like crap, and I want to throw all the paper I printed on to tile it away, tell him I’m not comfortable doing that bulletin board that way and if that’s all he wants I’m going to redo it so it looks good. The more I think about it the angrier I get.
And my mother (who usually has good advice) is not helping. I AM SO SICK AND TIRED OF HEARING: “He’s your boss, he said do it, that’s just the way it has to be.” That’s just ticking me off ten times worse! That is not how is has to be!!
I AM NOT A SLAVE!! I AM AN EMPLOYEE WHO IS THERE TO LEARN AND NOT SOMEONE TO BE DEMANDING A ‘YES MASTER’ FROM!!!!!!!! YOU WILL NOT GET IT!!
I am a person, not a peon! I am your graphic designer, and you should at the very least take my opinions into consideration, if not value them! I am not stupid. You are a marketing person, you never had a design class in your life and the stuff you do looks like something I did in kindergarten. You wouldn’t know good design if it bit you in the face. I am not happy when you ask me to do way less than I’m capable of and diss me when I push my abilities.
Yes, it may only be a two hour a day job, but I didn’t take it to be insulted.
ARGH!
ddvm and PT covered everything I was going to say, pretty much. While the decision was difficult, and you might second guess yourself for a few days, it was the right one.
My sympathies for your loss, hun. It’s the hardest thing a pet owner ever has to do.
lamortefille wrote:Excellent layout, Rusti, but that yellow hurts my eyes. 😯 😆
*laughs* Well, I was lazy and didn’t do everything I could to exactly color match to the yellow on the site, I just got as close as I could. It was a ten minute whip-up in Illustrator!
Edit: I do take design jobs if you’re that impressed. ;P
Jasmine wrote:See, this is how I think too much…it’s a great movie for the action and everything but at the very last scene, all I could think was:
If I wanted to make out with someone, it wouldn’t be on top of another sentient being…
I think the autobots are closet voyeurs. ;D
I could totally picture Ironhide and Ratchet fighting over who gets to peek in the second story bedroom window to find out what the humans are doing.
There’s a way to change the image so that a different one loads every time you bring up the page, but I don’t know that html yet.
Or at least, I don’t have time to look it up. They could do that too, instead of having one static image every time the page loads
Greater Basilisk wrote:I like both versions, though I think there should be at least one dragon on the page. And I love the line about Nrivanacat’s cleavage… 😆
I just grabbed the closest image, which happened to be Nam’s Griffins. The image is changable, and the layout was just a suggestion.
This is what I’m going to school to do (design) after all! 🙂
