stupid, stupid director

[ihateprepress]

Originally Posted by morgan20

There's your problem right there, I would have told her to, oh never mind, I hate prepress too!

No, you're 100% correct. I'm a dumbass for breaking procedure. That's usually when shit goes wrong.

[LoganBlade]

my suggestion is to pull said new frind to the side. When I say to the side someplace no one will hear what you say. DEnial is easier with no one around

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I have been in the is industry for"input year here" If you EVER come to me with the attitude you did you will find a 4" ink knife jamed up your ass and your head stuck in the ink waste drum. Dont fuck with with me. The voices in my head don't like and and tell me do baaaaaad things. now fuck off and go do something productive.

It might not work but if you can do it in a a very monotone voice with out laughing he may be more than just your best freind

[ihateprepress]

Originally Posted by LoganBlade

my suggestion is to pull said new frind to the side. When I say to the side someplace no one will hear what you say. DEnial is easier with no one around

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I have been in the is industry for"input year here" If you EVER come to me with the attitude you did you will find a 4" ink knife jamed up your ass and your head stuck in the ink waste drum. Dont fuck with with me. The voices in my head don't like and and tell me do baaaaaad things. now fuck off and go do something productive.

It might not work but if you can do it in a a very monotone voice with out laughing he may be more than just your best freind

Nice suggestion, though since he's a director, I'd have to finish him off, or i'd be out of a job. It'd fuck them up more than me, but hey, he's a moron and therefore wouldn't know that until I was gone.

One thing is for sure - I'll never, ever fuck with you.

[morgan20]

Originally Posted by ihateprepress

One thing is for sure - I'll never, ever fuck with you.

dude, his avatar is tweety bird, c'mon.

[ihateprepress]

Originally Posted by morgan20

dude, his avatar is tweety bird, c'mon.

Like he said "calm monotone voice". He's under the radar; tweety is unassuming and therefore perfectly suited for sickos. Put that guard back up!

[morgan20]

Originally Posted by ihateprepress

Like he said "calm monotone voice". He's under the radar; tweety is unassuming and therefore perfectly suited for sickos. Put that guard back up!

Umm, OK I guess.

But this is prepress, we're ALL sickos.

[UncleTwitchy]

That's for sure. There's a reason I'm called Uncle Twitchy.

[LoganBlade]

You know what Tweety was a file i had from my daughter. I am not bill gates with horns coming out of my head... ANd how does that negate what I said. I missed the fact that he was a director but it still applies. Sometime they need a wake up call to the lack of understanding they have...

bluuuuuurrrphhhh!

[mc_hristel]

What will realy get someone like that mad(for some reason) is to say: "I can't change what has been done, but I would like to resolve the problem. How would you like me to do that?" They will either explode, or stomp off in a huff. 8)

[ihateprepress]

Originally Posted by mc_hristel

What will realy get someone like that mad(for some reason) is to say: "I can't change what has been done, but I would like to resolve the problem. How would you like me to do that?" They will either explode, or stomp off in a huff. 8)

That was my approach midway through the "discussion". I asked him to identify exactly where we went wrong and what we could change to avoid the same mistake down the track. He said we went wrong by not taking due care, and that we needed to thoroughly check every job. I mentioned the fact that his precious lead-times would be negated and then we started yelling again.

me: "get a reasonable deadline and we'll check the jobs like you require"
him: "clients dictate the delivery date; not me"
me: "you can educate clients as to how long it takes to get a job done. All those rush-jobs of the past have become the norm, yet nothing has changed witin the company."
him: "it's not the time that matters, it's your lack of eye for detail"

Not an exact script, but you get the point.