Specific work gripes
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- kona0
+ hearing about a project at 11am, that is due by EOD
+ telling the pm there is no way a psd concept workflow can be designed in one day and maybe, MAYBE i can sketch out the flow to show proof of concept, which is all the client really needed
+ getting approval to sketch out the flow with absolutely no time to consider usability, and spend the day drawing semi-high detail sketches showing the flow of the process, complete with hand-drawn icons and colored pencils to help the client get it, which the pm assured me the client would in fact get it.
+ hearing back 3 days later that the client in fact did NOT get it and i'll have to create in Ps what i sketched, and i only have one day to do it.
+ the client loves the concept and wants to proceed with the project and ask for a timeline. the project would be the equivalent of building a car on any major carmakers site. i tell the pm and em that something like this would take at least 5 - 6 months considering usability studies, wireframes, testing, re-testing, design, development, testing... etc.
+ they informed the group on monday that the project has to be live jan 1 because the client had 500k they had to spend this year, and no matter who we had to throw under the bus we were going to get that 500k.
+ welcome to the 70 hour work week until jan 1.
- univers0
Getting Sexually harassed all the time by my hot colleagues that are chicks. It hurts my feelings, but what doesn't kill me only makes me stronger.
- DaveO0
+ smelling like alcohol the morning after a really boozy night....and being told about it in front of everyone
- OSFA0
Other designers that are told to come up with concepts for a project and turn in a very poor copy of yours.
And nobody realizes!!
- Stugoo0
+ IE6
+ the boss who expects you to drop your next day deadline because he has a pitch in 3 days.
+ breifed with 'do a home page' for client x
+ coming up with a design the day before the pitch only to be told 15 min before EOD that he wants it more like this shows website of compleley different website]]
+ IE 6
+ client who asks for a site design for 1024x768 then complains because they are using a 800x600 resolution
+ recieving 6 emails of changes for one website at once.
+ IE 6
+ the client who has a son that 'knows HTML' and gets a hold of thier mothers work CMS and inputs <table>'s and <font>'s into your code, breaking the layout and killing the accesisibilty.
- DCDesigns0
Managers constantly telling me how to do my job, because obviously I don't know how to do it.
- mikotondria30
"Why is this taking 2 days" - said 24hrs after the start of the project, at 3pm...
"It's taken 3 days to come up with those 3 logos ?" - Yes, yes it has. Let me show you screenshots from every 30 seconds and you'll see why what I've produced IS exactly the right logo for that client, and NO I don't care if they want a little diagram of exactly what their company does because they think thats what a logo IS. It's not a one-frame cartoon of what they do, and if they think that Im just going to sketch out THEIR idea of what they think they want, they've got another (very expensive) think coming.
I don't stand over their shoulder while they build their farm machinery tutting and telling them the drive shaft needs to be more 'spinny', and that the corn should pop out of the top 'higher and faster', you know - to make it seem more 'corn processey', do I ?
You'd quite simply tell me to fuck off, wouldnt you ? AND you wouldnt put up with me pissing and bitching about the price for your sodden corn processing piece of shit, would you. WOULD YOU?
NO
No you fucking wouldnt. I'd ask you do build me a corn processing machine, and you would tell me how much it was, and when it would be ready. You wouldn't even let me in the fucking factory to stand over your shouldler, or expect you to take pictures of how the building of this corn-processor was going and send them to me every day so that I could criticise how "I" thought it should be goind, despite ME being a graphic designer, and YOU being the cunt that I've actually PAID to do the JOB you are competent at, and have made a living doing quite happily until I came along with my half-assed ideas and fist full of used notes. Fuck you all.Heh.
- calculator0
- My blood pressure went up just looking at that thingGlitterati_Duane
- cannonball0
CDs who dont give any creative input and when the client picks your direction you have a week to build the site. When you aren't going fast enough, the CD gives it to another designer, who builds it from the ground up and fucks up all the ID work.
- cannonball0
Projects that dont have any creative brief.
- cannonball0
Calmly explaining what your issue with the project is and then suddenly becoming "difficult to work with"
- mg330
I'm not sure how it works out this way, but every time I wash my hands in the kitchen or coffee area, the paper towel roll always seems to be down to one last square, making me have to go into the cabinet and get out a new one.
Other than that my job is great.
- turk_1820
sub-contracting for agencies that hang that 'carrot' out in front of you by telling you that you'll be art directing this and that and that and this... months later you're still grunting away on things that nobody else wants to do... and when you do get a chance to put some concepts together - they request the source psd's... only to completely revamp what they just said was 'ace'... makes no sense... but i get paidz...
... :(
- Gifto0
Having to share a toilet with the office downstairs — which is either always occupied or when I actually do get in, someone has dropped a load that stinks to high hell.