posers!!
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- dsmith7
ok...here comes my monday morning gripe. I am ready to leave on Friday evening to go home from work and I get a phone call from a freelancer who says he has been hired by one of my clients to do a redesign of their site and that it is all finished and can I put it up and make it live that afternoon.
My first reaction is, wtf!? If they want to go behind my back whatever, its there loss. Then I check out the site he created and its all like f*&%ing remedial templates from DW and stuff. No originallity and all of the code is messed up to boot (ex. table width=720%)
Now I have to correct _his_ mistakes and make it live for them today. I don't have a choice because my boss is like, "Oh well, thats just too bad we lost that design" But I am like furious. There is nothing I can't stand more than f&*^ing POSERS.
If you don't know how to code/design then don't front like you do.
I am sure other designers feel the way I do. I really hope I am not being too pompous but I feel that I put so much effort into getting better at designing and developing every single day and yet some g*d damn slacker comes along and just sh*ts over the whole design process.
btw, the freelancer happens to be the brother-in-law of the guy in charge of the website. Another case of "my nephew dezines web pages with Front Page!"
And sorry but I can't post links right now.
- MR_T0
shoot first..ask questions later
- unknown0
well does he use DW or does he use frontpage? Its inconsistencies like those that ruin a tale.
Leav his code f*cked, infact, fuck it up some more and leave a personalised message.
- dsmith70
he used DW but I am just illustrating the typical corporate dolt and how they always seem to have some relative that does "we dezine"
great example: http://media.k10k.net/issues/iss…
- dsmith70
i guess no one else has a problem with posers, huh?
- JazX0
sounds typical to me
- Bridgetown0
We need a union, that with certain "time in the feild" and skills &ability aptitude tests contribute to rank and elevation, filtering the quality jobs to those deserved, and the crap jobs to the remedials. I know its far fetched but wishful thinking.
- Bio0
i screwed up my fair share of code when i was learning.
but i never posed.
well, then again...
- Gorbie0
I don't understand why you are fixing the freelancers code?
Please explain.
- JazX0
'cause he fucked it up
- Mick0
I've come across a few of these in my jobs... do your best to let it roll off you, focus on making good stuff yourself and the other person will get what they deserve down the track. You gotta work with them so just know you're better and relax, njoy your day, and they'll be "found out" eventually.
- Bio0
do keep in mind that there is no such thing as kharma.
- k0na_an0k0
k.... after a brief absence from NT, i'm back... with a mutha - fecking vengence.
so let me get this straight. first your "client" as we'll call them hires another "designer" to change a site. then the little prick calls YOU and asks you to post it live. THEN your boss says "O.K." like a dip shit having you spend YOUR time, i.e. his money updating this pricks site.
here's the plan... a-team style. really piss up his code. misspell shirt to say shit and as to say ass, buck to say f.... you get the picture. then only update half of the site. wait 2 hours then take the whole site down again. then wait a day and put up the other half.
oh, and for a finishing touch send 2 rabid chinchillas into your bosses office to chew what's left of his nuts... assuming he has any to begin with.
done.
- visible0
i pose as madonna
- dsmith70
I am fixing the code because my boss has told me to do so.
The client is a well-known, high-profile, company in the stock market and i guess my boss feels that we can't afford to say anything to jeopardize losing there business.
I dunno if I am being pompous but I feel like we should tell them like it is and explain why his code sucks and we have to change so much crap.
- Bio0
Dr. k0na has some good advice.
listen to the man. he knows what he's talkin about.
- dsmith70
I am _hoping_ they will be found out to be nothing but a poser but, like I said, its one of those friend of a friend deals and he's already being made out to be the hero.
- dsmith70
great idea kona but I _do_ value my paycheck. Good effort though.
- k0na_an0k0
your boss is an idiot. plese resort to the rabid chinchillas.
- Bio0
i have some rabid gerbil sex-bots if you need them.
not as nice as chinchillas, but still...
- k0na_an0k0
indeed bio, gerbils might be the way to go. chinchillas are hard to come by this time of year.
just make sure the gerbils are rabid.... oh, and just in case... put some bees in the gerbils mouths so that when they bite they shoot the bees.