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- anxiousarms0
forced to take vacation time? jesus.
- haha I know....It actually was kind of cool, but the numbers aren't looking good for us (publishing co)designbot
- silentseven0
Was it paid?
- yeah, we were just forced to use vacation time.designbot
- monospaced0
I haven't had anything to do this week yet.
- fusionpixel0
- a man can dream :Pdesignbot
- you want extratime with that?islandbridge
- johngrif0
doing well at www.cutcaster.com and looking forward to the new year. i'm the founder.
- arent you modest and humble?fusionpixel
- spamsilentseven
- ha. i'm collecting unemployment. left my day job last year and building it up so how is that for modesty. hahaha.johngrif
- megE0
we were forced to take a week off between the holidays without pay unless you had remaining vacation time
right now, i think we're ok - we already went through one phase of layoffs
i'm just keeping my head low and working hard
- falcadia0
Yes. pay cuts across the board to keep the lights on.
- bliznutty0
we're kicking ass over at Zed!
- anxiousarms0
i'm freelancing at a full service agency for the past 4 months... 98% of their clients are pharmaceutical companies that are extremely wealthy compared to normal design clientelle... so they seem to be doing alright. if your soul can stand it.. find/do work for pharma
- every project you do you die a little bit more on the inside working for pharmsilentseven
- ...theres a pill for thatmtgentry
- fusionpixel0
at a place I used to work at many moons ago, we were always required to take 2 weeks off during the summer - unpaid - because the boss took those 2 weeks off for vacation, and of course he set the dates... and that was all the vacations we got for the year, if you wanted to take any more time you had to take your extra time unpaid because of course was not part of the yearly vacations. I know I know, i was new at the biz.
- designbot0
I noticed it has been freezing cold in my building off and on as well.
I theorize that they are cutting the heat way down to save money.....I could be wrong though.
- harlequino0
We're less than ten people, so it's pretty lean. But, we did just cut a senior person's hours in half, and she may get canned entirely in a another couple months. She works on only this one account, and she has no real skills beyond that, so it's a stand alone circumstance.
Otherwise, we actually seem to be gaining a bit of business here and there. I think it's because we're so small, we can do larger "agency sized" projects cheaper, in addition to our standard banner crap and one page sweepstakes type promos. But we're all squirrely anyhow and watching the ad age pages.- I think you're right...the smaller agencies might actually do really well in all this.designbot
- b_electro0
No raises or bonuses, 1 layoff, nothing really that promising coming thru the door for Q1. I've been predicting us going down the tubes for months now but strangely it hasn't happened yet. I think we're secretly funded by the S.African mafia.
- what's in it for them I wonder. Maybe I need to check into this racket.JayCee
- scarabin_net0
i was forced by laziness to take a two-hour lunch today
- mimeartist_limited0
You'll find bonuses were a clever way of not being given as big a raise... i.e giving you 10k bonus is going to cost them far less than a 5k raise with tax etc over the next few years... and doesn't bump up redundancy packages.
- BonSeff0
i gotta respect our pres, he knows the economy is in the tank and is hustling his ass off and traveling like a mofo to bring in work and make moves.
- kld0
I just got a nice raise.