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- ********0
confession: I made that up to make chossy feel better
- ********0
me too
- tasty0
One time i toyed with a copywriters copydeck as a joke -- he printed 5 copies and the word "F#!*" was thrown in there in a few spots...luckily he proofed it b4 the client meeting 10minutes later.
Didnt realize the severity of my "prank"
- Gucci0
I was two months into my first job, i fucked up an illustrator file pretty good. I deleted the white background of an ad.... so 200,000 Yellow Pages were printed with white boxes behind pictures that were supposed to be on a white background.
we lost the client 4 months later
- IRNlun60
I made big a mistake a few weeks ago.
I've been working on a site for several months, one that should have taken about a month but the project manager kept dragging her feet. I built the site, everyone ok'd it. Cool.
3 days before the site was set to launch my manager told the PM to change a functionality on the navigation. The PM said it wouldn't be a problem and told me about it. Ok, it's 3 days before a lunch and they want to rework the navigation??? I asked the PM about it and she said it wasn't her problem because the manager said to do it. At that point I told her there is no way we can do that and I said they are driving me f'ing crazy for requesting a big last minute change, especially since she's been dragging her feet for months.
Well, all in all I now have to find a new job because the PM said that she felt threatened by my attitude. The company is cool enough to let me fininsh a project which should take a couple months but it's going to be hard to find a job that pays as well... either way, I now have to find a new job, quick... just sucks...
- ********0
I once worked for a university and accidentally deleted the footage of about 4 lectures for the head of a Software Engineering Department.
I was like *gulp. He was P*SSED!!!! We had to re-record them over with no audience.
ha
- Gucci0
that's no mistake dude. that's you standing up for yourself.
this is one of the only proffessions where people are expected to get something done no matter fucking what.... like it's life or death.
and because there are no life or death implications, the people pushing the pencils say "oh well... it's not my problem. just wave your magic wand, computer boy"shitty about the job though, and good for you for sticking up for yourself.
- Tara0
chossy,
try not to make yourself sick over it.sometimes we make mistakes that we can't fix. i was really upset about it. i felt so bad. i wrote him this long apologetic note. but actually, looking back on it, it's hysterical b/c he turned out to be a real jerk. i have substantiated personal reasons behind saying that. so maybe he got what he deserved. hehe
- chossy0
cheers taratara, I'm in a bit of a daze right now and I have to do a very comlicated animation and I really don't feel like it.
- Gucci0
pretend you're all dizzy and disoriented, and go to the doctor.
that way when you get back and they tell you what happened, you'll have a built in excuse.not completely moral, but hey, it might buy some sympathy.
- ********0
About 1,500 Japanese and Russian software engineering students were affected. It was for a Blackboard-based Distance Learning initiative.
hee hee I f*cked up their entire curriculum
- mayo0
chossy, i've found that, over the years, how you recover from a boo-boo like this usually sticks in people's memories more than the accident. How hard you work to fix it will leave the lasting impression. Just take a few minutes to calm down and then go to work. Who knows, you may make things even better.
- ldww0
one time right before i was about to leave a job i accidently flattened all my psd work.
oh wait... maybe that was not an accident.
- Tara0
i like gucci's idea
- tkmeister0
Today, I lost about $1000. Not cool...
- version30
$2000
- josimarX0
Good luck Chossy ya mad rocket.
Here's two of my regretable moments to cheer you up:
a) I sent a messenger message to a guy at my previous work seconds after he'd been at my desk talking about 'mobile communications' shite as he thought I was interested in it and pretended I was. The message which was intended for a fellow designer who sat a whole metre away from me said:
"Does Tony really think I give a shite about that stuff?"
and yes, Tony was the dude who'd just been at my desk. HORRIFIC.
b) Me and another guy at my current work were emailing each other about some dudes who sit near us who were being loud and a little annoying all standing up and acting like tits, a few emails went back and forth until I started typing "I wish Peter would just FUCK OFF!..." at which point I heard behind me Peter saying "oh, so you want me to fuck off do you?". AAAAAAAAAAHHHH.
See, I'm a total cunt in real life too folks.
- JamesEStone0
before my grandpas funeral (he died on xmas eve) my auntie (his daughter and very religious) mailed me the reading i had to do... i mailed my girlfriend saying 'I'm never going to learn all this shit' but thank to the google conversation thing in gMail... actually mailed my auntie with it straight back... oops!
- gruntt0
a friend of mine has this tattooed on his upper arm, fairly large:
the first time i saw him after he got it he said "come in here i want to show you my tattoo, and had me, for some reason, look at in the mirror." I said "looks pretty good" to which he replied "look closer" - then it dawned on me, it appeared correctly in the MIRROR. It was backwards on his arm. That tattoo artist fuuuucked up.
- Tara0
omg
that google conversation features freaks me out