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RosieHS · #11 (**permalink**) 03-17-2006, 03:55 PM

Woo-hoo!!! Check's in the bank and boy does she look pretty!!! :mrgreen: :mrgreen: :mrgreen:

Adam · #12 (**permalink**) 03-17-2006, 09:08 PM

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Originally Posted by RosieHS

Woo-hoo!!! Check's in the bank and boy does she look pretty!!! :mrgreen: :mrgreen: :mrgreen:

AND this is a three-paycheck month!

Cha-ching!

Jezza · #13 (**permalink**) 03-19-2006, 11:49 PM

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Originally Posted by prepress_brillance_43

Yes, you are the man!! and truly deserve the signature you so proudly wear!!!

I took it as a complimet

prepress_brillance_43 · #14 (**permalink**) 03-20-2006, 03:17 AM

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Originally Posted by Jezza

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Originally Posted by prepress_brillance_43

Yes, you are the man!! and truly deserve the signature you so proudly wear!!!

I took it as a complimet

OH GOOD!!! It WAS meant as one.. :P

IKnowMyPlace · #15 (**permalink**) 03-25-2006, 08:49 PM

We work 3 12 hour shifts here 24/7 with approx 12-24hrs OT every week.

ihateprepress · #16 (**permalink**) 05-18-2006, 02:03 AM

I hate those days.

Back in the days of traineeship $6.50 per hour (aussie money), I worked from 7am on a Monday, through to 11am on the Tuesday. It was in the early stages of a new major client and the work had to be done.

I wasn't too phased at the time, as I was still in the honeymoon period and prepress was still novel to me. I also got a gobsmacking $13 per hour of OT. Add to that 2 days of paid leave and I was a happy kid.

Carla · #17 (**permalink**) 05-18-2006, 04:21 AM

In Atlanta in 1993, we had a blizzard the later part of March. I was the only person out of 8 (3 strippers, 1 camera operator, 1 typesetter, 1 paste-up person, 1 quality control, 1 Miso operator/platemaker - Me) in pre-press to show up for a 12-hour shift. No one could get to work because of the snow and ice so I ended up staying over 36 hours straight doing every one's job because 60% of the pressroom showed up and they wanted to run.

I kept making plates to keep them going and checked every version as it came off the press (3 web presses running). While I was checking readers, I found an error, typeset the correction, pasted it up, shot the new neg., stripped it up, remade the plate and got them going again.

The worst part was I didn't have a toothbrush with me and didn't get to take a shower until I got home, yuck!

ihateprepress · #18 (**permalink**) 05-18-2006, 06:44 AM

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Originally Posted by Carla

In Atlanta in 1993, we had a blizzard the later part of March. I was the only person out of 8 (3 strippers, 1 camera operator, 1 typesetter, 1 paste-up person, 1 quality control, 1 Miso operator/platemaker - Me) in pre-press to show up for a 12-hour shift. No one could get to work because of the snow and ice so I ended up staying over 36 hours straight doing every one's job because 60% of the pressroom showed up and they wanted to run.

I kept making plates to keep them going and checked every version as it came off the press (3 web presses running). While I was checking readers, I found an error, typeset the correction, pasted it up, shot the new neg., stripped it up, remade the plate and got them going again.

The worst part was I didn't have a toothbrush with me and didn't get to take a shower until I got home, yuck!

Very solid indeed. I was pinging off the walls and felt crook in the guts from all of the coffee i had pumped into me. I only did 28hrs and it was all typesetting. 8 more would have killed me.

bookiegnu · #19 (**permalink**) 05-25-2006, 05:37 AM

Having just got home from about a ten hour day (so not a particularly long one), I got a call from my manager, saying a director had been on, screaming that some artwork needed altering straight away, and could I go in to do it because he (manager) lives further away than me. Went in, spent a few hours changing the art, got it approved, ran plates, went home.

Next morning, director comes in to the office saying they're going to go with the original art. No thankyou, no sorry. Grr.

Moral of the story: Always live further away from work than someone else.

ihateprepress · #20 (**permalink**) 05-25-2006, 03:32 PM

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Originally Posted by bookiegnu

Having just got home from about a ten hour day (so not a particularly long one), I got a call from my manager, saying a director had been on, screaming that some artwork needed altering straight away, and could I go in to do it because he (manager) lives further away than me. Went in, spent a few hours changing the art, got it approved, ran plates, went home.

Next morning, director comes in to the office saying they're going to go with the original art. No thankyou, no sorry. Grr.

Moral of the story: Always live further away from work than someone else.

Maybe your manager wasn't being lazy at all. He might have worked the previous 20 days, 16 hours per day and it wouldn't have been safe for him to drive? Perhaps he thought you'd appreciate the extra OT. Perhaps he was indeed a lazy git. I've never met a lazy prepress manager though.