Do your job and shutup
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- abizzyman
"Damnit Jim,
I'm a designer, not a copy-editor."
soooooo friggin' tired of being having to copy edit shit... what the hell do I have an editor for?
- Gorbie0
Dude, bro,
I draw floorplans and change them. I get forwarded faxes from engineers and architects and marketing directors. I speak in tongues the entire day.
My job title??? Graphic Designer
- mayo0
i love copy editing...maybe that's why i'm still single :/
- abizzyman0
if people (publishers... editors... creative directors etc...) want their crap on time (I put emphasis on 'their' crap).... then they should make sure that they say what they want to say --- and approve it LONG before the freakin' pdf is being ripped to plate.
- mayo0
that's in an ideal world, babe. I am working on a 120 page catalog [and of course it's a rush] that i spent two days proofing and cleaning up the "final copy". Only to be told that the copy is being totally rewritten. So not only were the two days of rushed proofing wasted but also the time it took to lay it all out.
- mayo0
um, why i spelled out where all the wasted time went, i have no idea. my apologies. :)
- abizzyman0
in an ideal world... people would realize that my grasp of the english language and my concept for grammar SUCK....
hehe. mayo - you're a rockstar.
- blastofv0
clients need to know that designers can't spel
charge more money if they want you to handle that crap, and have them sign off on your proofing before you go to press
- nh0
I'm supposed to have creative control of the design/programming of a web application project but have been transferred (without my understanding) to programming some bullshit man machine interface using crispDraw on a 100 mhz vax machine running vms.
you've got it easy.
- abizzyman0
nh —
... you're right... I have it easy. DAMN! I feel for you though, man... I do endure and dwell in the land of slow machines and non-working periphrials — alas --- at the end of the day --- It's only a job.