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- ********0
RIP Hasanabi's Twitch account... for now. Fuck that commie piece of shit.
- BusterBoy7
Had a board meeting yesterday for the startup I'm involved with. We booked a board room at a fancy hotel. The room itself was $380 for 2.5 hours. About what we expected. I asked if they had AV facilities, to which they said they did. Checked it out the day before...it was just an old plasma TV with an HDMI cable.
The woman at the hotel sent me an email saying it would be $450 for use of the "AV equipment" as it was all managed by an external "IT company". Get fucked I said (in my head) and politely declined.
During the meeting we ordered 6 coffees...then 4 plates of sandwiches. They came out as the thin soldier type sandwiches on white bread you'd get from the supermarket. They were fine...until the farking bill came through.
They wanted an EXTRA $440
I called the woman in charge and she gave some BS that they charge by time for the food service. I told her if I had known that was the case, I would have ordered 100 coffees and 50 plates of food!
So we're currently in dispute.
- Ridiculous!OBBTKN
- shameless. How do people have the balls to charge like that? I guess they just get used to it.Fax_Benson
- What has become of this world? I even complain about 7.50€ for a 0.33l beer in Paris but your coffee was much more expensive...SimonFFM
- Why did you need the hotel, it's all image. You could have a board meeting at a park picnic table. Cost = $0. The money saved, the company can invest in growth.shapesalad
- Once a company grows beyond 1 frugal entrepreneur the money drains like you're using a sieve for a bucket.shapesalad
- board meeting, fancy hotel, you expected hookers and cocaine for that price?sted
- hotel isn't just image, it's a clean quiet space with amenities at a good price. They saw that it was a business meeting and realized they want to milk youmonospaced
- Should have booked the Four Seasons.Akagiyama
- AUD$140 would seem a much more appropriate - if nonetheless absolutely disgusting rip-off, but hey - price for this sort of thing. $440 is obsceneNairn
- microkorg2
Right before I woke this morning a prophetic homeless guy said to me in my dream 'It's the first people who burn, not the millions!'.
When I woke I immediately googled it to see if it was a saying or quote from someone, but no.
What a f*ckin' quote though, eh?!
- Somnambulating Niemöller********
- No, not like his poem. I took it to mean something like moments in human awakening.microkorg
- People who speak out first will suffer
at the hands of the naysayers until the adoption of the thinking is accepted by the masses.microkorg - you're just into NFTs you're not changing the world, chillgrafician
- NFTs?microkorg
- ignore the trollmonospaced
- burn the trollcanoe
- Somnambulating Niemöller
- TheGreatGlorpo0
Rooted-in-reality hypothetical for the QBN fam:
If you were told that you were on track for a promotion within 90 days in September, and 90 days has come and gone, and it is December 17th, and the company end of year meeting came and went where promotions were announced (but not yours), how fast would you be looking for another job?
1. Immediately, or,
2. Within the week after the disappointment has subsided and morphed into determination.In this hypothetical, the person in question is extremely disappointed to see an almost immediate need to leave a company they love, and is unsure who to raise the issue to, out of fear that it’s possible their boss never told anyone else about the pending promotion.
Thoughts?
- Wait until after Christmas break, if they somehow accidentally on purpose forgot to give out promotion...then move on.utopian
- or speak up... don't be such a pussy and go have a professional conversation w/the person(s) buttering your ears back in september :)PonyBoy
- Act like you got the promotion, tell everybody, the boss will be pressured to do the right thing - if they "forgot"grafician
- Start looking. Put feelers out. Then ask why circumstances changed, why the promotion never occurred. I’d be asking why to whoever said it was on track... and..thumb_screws
- ...and then to whoever they report into. Ideally without the 2 having a chance to confer. Just be honest. If they don’t return the honesty something is up.thumb_screws
- Hypothetical Good luck working through it.thumb_screws
- Promotions are overrated. Ask for pay rise and a reduction in responsibilities.shapesalad
- I like Grafician's answer, just show up to the board meeting for the company heads like Costanza._niko
- Always be looking. Always keep your folio up to date. In reality if you want a promotion or a pay rise, by far the best way to achieve it is a new job.BaskerviIle
- Be demanding and call it out. Hint that you've been approached by another company. If they really value you, they'll get things moving pretty swiftly.BaskerviIle
- Always remember: you owe a company nothing more than what you are hired for. Any company would let you go if need be, you should be the same way about them.BaskerviIle
- Ask them what happened and ask if that's a sign you should be looking elsewhere. That will get you an answer an get them thinking of what it'll take to keep youi_monk
- Not sure why you need a week to build up determination. You should start looking now and also bring it up with your boss. Don’t tell them you’re looking.********
- Make it matter of fact, not “but you promised.” Discuss how you deserve the promotion and put it on your boss to explain.********
- The trick is to plan how to discuss this without making statements... instead, you should try to ONLY ask questions. Puts you in the driver seat.********
- In the meantime, spend your free time every day and about 1/4 to 1/3rd of your work day on portfolio, prep and applying then interviewing.********
- PonyBoy0
sitting here perusing google for apartments in the southern corner of New Hampshire / Vermont / North Mass... haha... someone in Northern Mass has a good sense of humor when it comes to naming towns (just west of Northfield, MA)...
- ********0
Lol, was doing a zoom meeting with a new client and the designer introduced herself and listed her pronouns. She was she/her and looked like a 20 something girl.
- This is commonplace and has been for a couple years, at least in nyc. It’s you who is out of touch.********
- Yeah a new social media whatever joined our dept last week and kept announcing "her" pronouns, and thankfully nobody else did after.i_monk
- Trans for suremonospaced
- why do they list it twice? Is it possible to be she/him?hotroddy
- she/his?hotroddy
- fuck/you********
- @Hotroddy: some people use she/their, he/them, etc but I don’t exactly know why********
- And doing the “he/him” thing saves time explaining. If you just were like “I’m Jim from Detroit, he, a designer” it would be hard for people to catch it.********
- I feel old and out of touch as well.hotroddy
- This is commonplace and has been for a couple years, at least in nyc. It’s you who is out of touch.
- kingsteven0
Just piss in the toilet
- poop tookingsteven
- — me pleading with my toddlermonospaced
- PonyBoy0
it looks like big brother and I are heading up to the Iditarod next March
- shapesalad0
If you had a 15year+ career that went from:
Print briefly > Flash/Web > Motion for 10 years.
How would you transition out of Motion Design into anything that doesn't require video work. I don't mind it being 10% of the workload, but not 100% of it. I'm far more passionate about typography, layouts, and static graphics.
- bear in mind I now have a side hustle and almost zero time to put a portfolio together, current 9-5 work doesn't result in any portfolio worthy material.shapesalad
- Maybe more of a producer role in motion design? Less hands on?stoplying
- Are you kidding? Motion is very in high demand these days
Just look for interesting projectsgrafician - It's too computer intensive. I feel like I'm becoming Lawnmower Man.. living in a computer reality:shapesalad
- https://www.youtube.…shapesalad
- ^ trying to quit web so I can focus on just printing my own stuff and sell online and do some here and there web projects.oey_oey
- I've got back into Flash (now 'Animate') after 20+ years. Creating generative pieces and selling them as NFTs. Most free and fun 'working' I've had for decades.microkorg
- hire an assistant and project manage/pitch for interesting stuff instead of spreading yourself thinArchitectofFate
- you would go to a position where you art direct and oversee other animators I supposemonospaced
- Everyone here in Melbourne is looking for Digital Producers. Maybe put your project management hat on?slappy
- agree with mono - art or creative directorcanoe
- stoplying2
Probably has been discussed here but I just watched the "Watch the Sound" series on Apple TV with Mark Ronson. Damn! It's fantastic. Episodes about synths, sampling, reverb, with some very respectable cameo appearances throughout. So well done, and entertaining as shit!
- ********2
Ever had a bad typo on your work?
- nope.utopian
- yaeh, lostFax_Benson
- ask Clintshapesalad
- only for short moments when fixing after utopiansted
- I did a bunch of stuff for the band Black Rebel Motorcycle Club, which went by BRMC - in all the materials that got printed I had used BMRC. No one caught it :(Gnash
- Not even the band caught itGnash
- LOLGuyFawkes
- yes.section_014
- Got fired once back in mid 90s for typos.DRIFTMONKEY
- I once pitched a brand design for some friends' partners' cafe. I mistook the name for the cafe for the pisstake name my friends had given the endeavour..Nairn
- ..so made a load of options with "Loafers" instead of "Loafing". The friend's partner I did not know well did not appreciate this.
Didn't get the job.Nairn - (the project took FUCKING AGES to get off the ground, so my friends had ribbed their partners about it, calling them 'Loafers').Nairn
- wayy too ofetnpango
- I uploaded the wrong file to a printer and we had to have 1000's of stickers printed and hand placed to fix a typo for a major co.fooler
- 50k flyers trashed and reprinted at night in 2 places because of one error on a map what nobody noticed just after opening the first package ahaha fun timessted
- Had a wear/ware mixup slip through to new store construction wraps. We'd caught it at the time but an Illy bug reverted the change and it wasn't caught again.i_monk
- GuyFawkes1
- GFY :)
Enjoy it. I'm not at all envious.Nairn - Crypto burnin’ a hole in your pocket?scarabin
- I'm taking a crypto break, buying some tangible shit nowGuyFawkes
- SweetAQUTE
- you're going into smuggling next?grafician
- ill be flying my cannabutter over the border to you Graf :)GuyFawkes
- China thanks you for providing visual confirmation of the target.shapesalad
- Be sure to start w/ a simulator connected to your rc controller if you haven't flown FPV before. Gets a lot of dumb crashes out of the waykoma_
- It would me dizzy after 2 minutesdrgs
- now with detachable vomit bagssted
- £1250??? using it for work or just an overpriced toy?hans_glib
- GFY :)
- Nairn7
I have a client reference for a job, which is codified and used to go out on my communiques, for one T Watson.
Concatated, that's 'twatson'.
I wish I'd noticed prior.
- drgs0
I've made a habit of holding a shopping basket hanging from my arm when I shop^
Is it gay?Btw, found these in my grocery store, and bought two of them -- smoky and woody. Can't tell the difference for the life of me
We go full debate on this one
- not sure how.
but yes.pango - Disgust.********
- Ouch! And yeahOBBTKN
- I do this.monNom
- There is nothing gay (or even remotely sexual) about what you’re doing. It’s not possible to hold a basket in a gay way.********
- Feels feminine if not gaydrgs
- If you hold it with your right arm it's not gay.
If you hold it with your left arm while sucking a big fat juicy cock it's gay.palimpsest - Gayer than Tony Blair's cottaging habit.********
- It's only gay if you stick your dick in it.i_monk
- not sure how.
- utopian6
Happy Solstice
- Sunrise here at 7:57am...grafician
- https://edition.cnn.…grafician
- Yes! The shortest days are over...OBBTKN
- Gardener24
The Scottish Daily Record have done a piece on my 78 find earlier this week
- Username doesn't checkout.utopian
- "At present the sound quality is poor and only a few words can be made out." it's Scottish, you won't understand it even IF cleaned up ;)_niko
- dude, if that's the oldest recording of an old firm match, pre-dating radio, I'd say you're in for a big payday :) let Rangers and Celtic have a bidding war lol_niko
- Scottish TV rang me about it this morning so there is more of this story to come from the old discGardener
- What Niko said! there will be some fans out there willing to pay daft money for this! Especially if it's their team that won the match ;)microkorg
- Did you get called gardener because you're always 'digging'?PhanLo
- Awesome, and congrats on the find!!!!instrmntl
- great story!whatthefunk
- Congratulations! NFT the shit out of that bad boy.********
- Great find!bezoar
- Gardener never ceases to amaze me. Nice find. +1cherub
- Thanks for your kind words guysGardener
- Congrats and some serious collection of vinyl in the background!fisheye
- today's national Daily Record newspaper
https://i.imgur.com/…Gardener - FAME! :) niiicested
- ********0
Is leasing a car, a bad idea?
- Good idea.monospaced
- Bad idea********
- most expensive way to get a car.capn_ron
- It's cheaper, actually. No down payment, monthly payments are lower than if you purchase, and in the end you can buy your own used car.monospaced
- I did that with my current car and if I had purchased instead of leased, I would have paid more every month for the same thing.monospaced
- A good idea with bad intentions.utopian
- Buy Bitcoin, borrow against it to pay for car... profit.shapesalad
- If you are a business, I think you can write off 100% of a lease payment. You have to depreciate a purchase over X years. So there's that.monNom
- Are you a freelancer/DBA/S-COR... Full tax deduction.ArmandoEstrada
- I think you always must pay more for a lease than to buy outright. Plus a lease has all sorts of mileage limitations and mandatory services that you must domonNom
- Case in point: my sister leased a car for 5 years, drove way over the allowed mileage and her buyout was close to the purchase price of the car when new.monNom
- depends on your circumstances, the purpose of the vehicle and whether or not you have the self control to not beat the shit out of a car over 5 yearsPonyBoy
- With rising inflation buying a car is a good decision. You car is an asset that will depreciate much less today than yesteryear.hotroddy
- i haven't had a car payment since 2000GuyFawkes
- <this. Sort of. Used cars have gotten way more expensive. I suspect new car prices are rising too, so expect to pay up.monNom
- what ponyboy said. you got kids? they'll puke in the seatscherub
- Terrible for the environment.i_monk
- it's a trap!stoplying
- Why is it worse for the environment than buying?CyBrainX
- Driving is terrible for the environment.i_monk
- A personal steam locomotive is much worse.monNom
- mono is rightcanoe
- Been carless for 6 years and never going back!sarahfailin
- dasohr2
First I browsed facebook for an hour.
Then I browsed Linkedin for another hour.
Now I need a lobotomy please.
- ********1
Do you get your boss a holiday gift?
My boss got me a gift and wrote a very nice card and gave it to me on my way out of the office today.
I didn't even think to get him anything.
- I leased a car for my boss and paid for it with some Bitcoins that I had found buried in my sofa.utopian
- damn, i thought it would be safe there. can't trust sofas anymorested
- A nice scotchscarabin
- We live in a tricky down economy last time I checked, so no. But you get the cleaner something.shapesalad
- Trickle down even.shapesalad
- can't go wrong w/scarabin's suggestion (as long as they drink)PonyBoy
- I asked mine for a single malt and got a fridge magnet :(sausages
- Always gift down, not upstoplying
