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- ukit
Have you ever produced a piece of work that was just absolute, total shit? How did you explain yourself to your boss or client?
- ********0
You obviously have. So sorry.
- toe_knee0
Redo it
- slappy0
Yes, I just said
"Here are the changes you asked for"- hahaha! Well done!!!********
- yes, well played, sir.iCanHazQBN
- ha! i'm scared this will happen to the comp I made todaytymeframe
- lol, awesome. i've spent an entire week doing that.Cptn_Uncanny
- +1111111111111tOki
- hahahahaukit
- hahaha! Well done!!!
- airey0
oh yeah. i did a flyer for a butcher at my last job that needed to be done fast and the client liked it but it was an absolute piece of shite. we always used that as the 'piece of shite benchmark'. when some thing was not great we'd say 'yeah, but it 'aint that butcher's flyer'. a little piece of me died everytime we said that.
- PIcs..Juddly
- *Pics...Juddly
- surprisingly i didn't take a copy with me! and mr100 aint working there no more so no way to get it!airey
- Get me the name and I’ll get it. I have my ways. At least you had the salt packet.MrOneHundred
- meat man it'll be a A5 number. do it. my best work.airey
- you do design for butchers?********
- Ahhh shit I have been threw that. no worries though********
- version30
why haven't you deprived yourself of food water and sleep immediately before the deadline, ie "crunched" yet. if performed properly will impress both you and your client. keep practicing
- version30
~ pepsi gravitational theory ~
- MrOneHundred0
I just ’fess up and say “Here it is – it’s a piece of shit” as I throw the printout on the table. They get used to it after a while.
- use a laser pointer to emphasize said shit, this tactic should distract themversion3
- airey0
looks like mr100 can get my 'meat man' flyer (butcher, not emukid's rentboy franchise). this thread should soon become the 'hall of shame' thread for artwork we did that proves we suck.
- I have their archive database on this machine. I’ll narrow down the number and get my mole to retrieve.MrOneHundred
- ribit0
A lecturer at my industrial design college said one of my projects suffered from 'squashed turd syndrome'. He was right.
- robotron3k0
daily.
- ********0
I cranked out a turd at one of my jobs. I got the can two weeks later. Oddly enough my then boss will be hitting me up for work in the future. I'll play with him.
- Affluenza0
Yup, I've produced a shitter under nasty pressure and bad management. Luckily I was able to press for more time from the client and I completely redesigned it... my way.
- BuddhaHat0
My boss gave me about 10 minutes to draw up an ad for our local paper. I did one handed it to him and said 'i'm only half sorry for giving you total shit, 'cos that's what you get for 6 minute's effort.'
He gave it straight back to me and said 'i'll ring and get the deadline extended. do it again.' We both learnt from that one; he learnt to give me more time, and I learnt he won't tolerate complete shite.
- Jnr_Madison0
All that talk of a butcher, airey, and not one reference to the work being 'butchered'.
- Scotch_Roman0
Yes. Sometimes it was the client's fault, sometimes my fault, sometimes the fault of management.
I did a job a couple years back that was a total production wreck. It was a folder with a number of loose multi-panel brochures within. Never got copy for the last brochure, and I was so mind-bogglingly busy (I think I had 12 live projects at the time), that it escaped my notice as well as the clients. They printed the last brochure in the piece with "HEADLINE GOES HERE" in 42 pt Bauer Bodoni. Part my fault, part client fault. Thought I was going to lose my job over it. Ironically, I lost my job two years later, completely unrelated to that job or any other.
- It could have been a clever post-modern statement of some kindukit
- ********0
if you produce shitty work i believe 75% of the time its the managements fault because of the lack of resources, direction or clarification.
- hahaha. ahhhh. this guy. this guy cracks me up. is this lloyd / uber with yet another screen name?airey
- penelopes0
hide in the bathroom
- ukit0
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- Amicus0
Always blame the client, or the bad direction from a boss who stole his idea for a brochure from the Apple Website or Windows Vista bubbles screen saver (true stories).