moment in work stupidity
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- Llyod
A few years a go I was working on some xbox banners and I left www.yahoo.com as the click though on them for review. Thinking back it was half intentional/half stupidity.
- Llyod0
your stories plz
- OnesandZeros0
I made a 48" x 72" poster at 300dpi and argued with the printer when they said I didn't have to make it at that high of a resolution.
It was my first job as a designer.
- explain... i don't speak print7point34
- dots per inchLlyod
- huge jobs are often lower rez cus they have a ginormous halftonekerus
- @ kerus:
ah ok that's what i assumed, but i wasn't sure7point34 - I'm print illiterate also, I have to create a 22x34 poster, for that size should I go 300 dpi? Or lower?stoplying
- i'd do something that size at 300, but it depends on the printer.OnesandZeros
- Okay, thanks...stoplying
- ask the printer what the LPI is (lines per inch) then double it for DPI. (so 85 LPI... most newspapers... 170 DPI)cramdesign
- I had that same argument when I started out with a printer over a billboard design.monkeyshine
- ...no wonder printers loathe designers. :)monkeyshine
- onesandzeros they most likely print at about 150 dpi. thats why they were arguing.Iggyboo
- yeah... i'm a wiser man now, but at the time I must have had rocks in my head.OnesandZeros
- e-pill0
10 years ago i got married.
today i got divorced.- finalized today i assume? congrats7point34
- congratulations!Llyod
- YES AND THANKS!!!e-pill
- "FREE AT LAST"kerus
- feel your pain dude... last year i split with my gf of 10 yrs... now im shaggin 3 birds loltrooper
- There are a lot of divorced dudes around here.
*Raises a drink to e-pillJackRyan - Wow. You were married? It just doesn't seem like... you, I guess.JerseyRaindog
- i'l drink to that one
congrats mate
:) now get shaggingWeLoveNoise - Both sad and happy for you e-pill.jevad
- Time to get that very fast car you have all-way wanted, did she take you to the cleaners, if so that car might not happen.********
- that was work relatedPoint5
- congrats. I only lasted 4 years myselfflashbender
- 7point340
i let marketing have control over a graphic header
- they treat graphics the way they treat putting their makeup onLlyod
- marketing is the death of deaignkerus
- I'm valuable because I don't know buzzwordsLlyod
- haha llyod, i wish i lived in a world where buzzwords didn't exist7point34
- that would be an interesting paradigm. very 2.0cramdesign
- kona0
I was doing an email for Notre Dame and was just really pissed off at them because they were always asking for stupid shit, dumb changes and I hated them. Whatever. So they have me put in a few images of mens clothing and it’s late, I’m tired and pissed so I write in my own text in the description of the items. This was just for our internal review so we’d all get a kick out of it.
Mens Herringbone Sweater – A sweater any man is sure to love except of course a real man because good Lord, no self respecting man would ever be caught dead in this.
Rugby Shirt – Hey be original and buy this Rugby shirt so you can stand out from every other guy wearing the same shirt tucked into their oversized belt buckle bellying up to the bar buying .50 cent Natural light drafts on a Tuesday at 10am thinking they’re original too.
There were two others but those are the only two that I can remember. I was supposed to take that text out when the email went live but I totally forgot. I got a call real late the night it went out being yelled at by the marketing chick who really should have seen that before she sent it out. Since it was calling all the info from our server (it was just 3 large images) I had to go in late at night and add in the correct text, push the images live so anyone who would see the email on Saturday would see the correct shit. I caught some hell for it but luckily my boss was a Purdue fan and hated Notre Dame just as much as I. To my knowledge not many people saw the incorrect version of the email but we did get a handful of calls.
- ********0
clicktags, i always forget the correct clicktag
- ********0
I did a postcard invite for a museum and the account exec put her direct line for reservations instead of the museums. HA. she had like 20 VM the next morning
- The_CCG0
Watching streaming surf cams one morning, captivated by the swell, telling my co-worker that I wanted to watch this break before 'the boss' got back... and he was standing over my shoulder.
- welded0
The manufacturing company I was working for at the time didn't have a dev. server so I worked right on the live e-commerce site and, as you'd imagine, there were a number of times I broke it. Most of the time I noticed right away and fixed/undid the problem but one time the shopping cart was unusable for hours. Oops.
- ukit0
My first job out of college, working in a small print shop. The second week on the job I took an order for their biggest client, the local Chamber of Commerce, for their annual report. The project was prioritized and completed in record time, I was feeling pretty good, then I get a call from the client the day the report was delivered (also the day they needed it). Turns out I had missed a decimal place in the order - they had wanted 3,000 and I had delivered them 300, with no time to redo.
- oh shiernexbcn
- uh so guys...about ten of you will need to share. Can you skootch your chairs together to see?harlequino
- MrOneHundred0
I have one skill that towers above any of my design abilities. It works like this;
1. Make a mistake
2. Blame something/someone else
3. Convince self to believe it was the fault of something/someone else
4. Convince self incident is not worth remembering, since it wasn’t my fault
5. Forget incident.
6. Repeat, keeping record unblemished.
- svenreed0
I once sent a project to a printer with full bleeds. Except my InDesign file was setup with no bleeds. I just felt like a complete ass.
- TaylorB0
posting my wedding invite on qbn...
=)
- tank020
started working in a ad agency yes, that was stupidity.
- JerseyRaindog0
Years ago I set the aw for a calendar. To save time I copied and pasted each month... and it went to print.
- hahaha!!!********
- yikes//tank02
- oh fuckkelpie
- haha.
twitDancer - haha - what Dancer said. We all make rookie mistakes.JerseyRaindog
- hahaha!!!
- ephix0
Once I was doing a job for an annoying client so my friends and I came up with a new logo for them as a joke for ourselves.
The problem was that I accidentally left this file in the working folder of their actual website and it got sent to them in a zip when the project was completed. I never heard from them again.
- ian0
Ok, this one is bad. Real bad. Working on an annual report a few years ago, was very close to sign off and I deleted the folder. Deleted everything. So we had two days to get a full version together while the client made corrections to the last hard copy we had sent over. We got it all done but in my haste to get it finished, I used old artwork for the cover, which had the wrong year on it.
So a couple of weeks after it went out we had to get all the copies back in, reprint the cover and remove the old ones and reattach. I nearly threw up when I had discovered I had deleted the files and that was me back on the cigarettes.
- been there done that. Thats why god invented ipods and backup hadr drives ian :)Iggyboo
- Dancer0
I was in my first job, desparate to leave and was using work resources (mac/software/time) to create my CV. I went to distill my .ps file and it disappeared... I was thinking "I wonder where that is...?"
Anyway a day later my CD pulled me aside. He then went on to inform me that I had put my cv and letter of application on the very top of the server and nearly everyone in the company had seen it... including the CEO :/
I left shortly after