Seriously pissed, need advice
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- harlequino
Ok, I'm either looking for advice, or just some solidarity here.
The company owner's manish daughter is getting married. She's hounding me to make some horrible "cartoon" about her and her fiance meeting, to be shown at the wedding. I am NOT interested.
I made it clear to her I would be happy to hear her idea, and give her my freelance rate card. She went whining to daddy because she doesn't want to pay. Now they're both twisting my arm, no matter what I say: I don't do this type of work, no time, 80 hour job at least, and so on.
Any stories? Any advice. Fuck sake, help.
- kelpie0
put them in touch with a mate that could do it and explain that you are not doing it.
Mate they can't force you, they really can't - do you like them? are you that bothered about putting them out?
- agentfour0
simple
say no
- robotron3k0
i say do the cartoon and give the manish daughter a 5 o'clock shadow.
- todelete__20
Get them in contact with someone who would be willing to do it.
But if she isn't willing to pay fuck that.
Do a test cartoon. Make her look absolutely hideous in it. Say you aren't much at drawing and that's t the best you can do.
- dirtydesign0
Our account director pulls this shit all the time. We had to her daughter on a piece of point of sale.
- tehgee0
there is no easy way out of this trust me - i had to do a whole barmitzvah party planning it was awful AWFUL...
- tehgee0
omg i have a way out!!! you have to find some crazy religious reason why you cant do it!!!
- mr_snuggles0
kick her in the box!
- ldww0
why can't you just do it on the job?
but yea - fuck free work.
- gradiate0
I get stung doing wedding shit for people all the time. Sucks being a designer at times.
- harlequino0
Good to hear other tales. Thanks for the tips.
I can;t stand these people. Self-serving, cheapskates, with some a sense of entitlement.
I think I'm going to male the whole situation incredibly complex, and try to scare them out of it.
- JazX0
Captain Caveman is the answer
- harlequino0
omg i have a way out!!! you have to find some crazy religious reason why you cant do it!!!
tehgee
(Jan 11 06, 07:29)Haha! Not bad. After all, they are Jewish, and I am a Zen Surrealist.
- skt0
i say do the cartoon and give the manish daughter a 5 o'clock shadow.
robotron3k
(Jan 11 06, 07:27)and a penis.
- honest0
My friend at F1 does the art homework for Bernie Ecclestone's daughter.
I'd take the job, make it look hideous and show her father and make it clear that you work at design company and this is a stunning example of the quality work you are called upon to render on a daily basis.
- harlequino0
UPDATE:
Fuckin yeah! I won, baby!!
Made up this whole story about not having the requisite skills. Hook, line, and sinker.
I feel clean again. :D
- mikotondria20
My fiance has just called in tears because the fantastic cartoon she was going to have shown at her wedding cant be done.
The designer's a schmutz or something, and cant draw..I mean hes supposed to be a designer, graphic sort of guy.
My daddy's going to fire his gentile ass, you see.Yours sincerely,
Violet Beauregardstein.
- todelete__20
just for giggles, do some stick figures of her and leave them on your desk in various places.
label them....
(her name) concept 1. and have it like her and her husband as stick figures in a stick car driving down a stick road.
(her name) concept 2... our first dinner. have two stick figures at a table stuffing their stick faces with a pigs head in the middle.
make em real horrible.
it will help sell your lack of skills, and, make you laugh everytime you see them.
- kyl30
hahaha
- harlequino0
it will help sell your lack of skills, and, make you laugh everytime you see them.
kOna
(Jan 11 06, 09:41)Already had something similar in my back pocket in case I needed backup.
Nooch.