Mm.
I figured it was about time I make a real entry, so here it goes.
Most of it will be under an lj-cut, because a lot of it is just me ranting about work.
I could go into explaining what my job is, but it's sort of hard to explain. So, I'll just put it simply. I make the ads you get in the mail every week or in the newspaper for Albertsons, Shaws, Acme, Acme and Lucky.
Well today we were shipping the Albertsons ad for the second week of February. It was my turn to do the liquor pages, which is always a pain in the ass to do because there's so many versions that go so so many different cities and states. I finished working on the ad yesterday and had to switch over to working on pages for Acme. We're "supposed" to be putting the base of our ad on the production drive so other people can access it in case they need to work on your ad if you're not there. A lot of the time people don't do it. I was swamped yesterday, so I didn't get a chance to put an updated one on there.
Well today was proof reading day for those pages. My liquor pages came back for corrections and I found out that they also came back after I left for the day, yesterday. Debbie and Laine (the married couple on my team, and also the anal whiney... jerks) informed me they had to work on my pages. Debbie comes up to me when I'm working on my back cover for another date and proceeds to basically tell me what a crap job I did.
I apparently put the wrong Kodak in (which I didn't, because they told me what I was supposed to put in and she went and changed some of it), had the wrong Dreamworks Home Entertainment logo in (there's about 5 different logos that say the same thing, and I guess I used the wrong one), my base wasn't updated, my layers weren't named correctly and a bunch of other stupid things. It just really pissed me off that she singled me out, because people do way worse stuff than me. Her husband, Laine, is even worse at liquors than I am and he royally screws them up on press day. It's my liquor page, I can name my layers however I want to layer them. I can group what I want to be grouped and you have no right to tell me I did it wrong. And the fact that she made such a big deal with me not having my base in there also pissed me off. I'm not the only one who doesn't put a base in there. I had mine in there to begin with, it just wasn't up to date. Other people don't put one in there at all.
*Sigh.* She then tells me... "Oh, you're still doing an okay job." Gee, thanks. That makes it a whole lot better. I'm one of the most experienced Photoshop and Illustrator users of the production artists and I have to constantly help the two of them because they don't have "formal training." So I have to create their headers, their swooshes, their sub headers for them. And for what? So they can bitch to each other behind my back about what I did wrong? Getting tired of it.
Just needed to get that off my chest... Still pretty annoyed by the whole situation, was avoiding them practically all day and probably will be for a long time afterwards. I might be blowing it out of proportion, but I don't really care at this point.
As mentioned before I tend to have to do Laine and Debbie's design work for them. Laine was working on the front cover for St. Patrick's day and he needed a swoosh to be made. He asked me to do it. Phil, our designer, made a bet with the rest of the design team to see whether A: He'd do it himself or B: Pawn it off on me.
He chose option B.
I was happy to do it, really. Anything to show what I can design helps me in the long run. Besides, Phil said he would rather me do it anyway because Laine is just terrible at designing things. Well after designing the swoosh from what Phil gave me (he created one already I just needed to tweak it, add some copy, some images and make it bigger), he told me that when he quits (February 16th is his last day. :/), I should post for his position. He said he really likes what he sees from me, saying I could do this job even though I don't have much experience in the field.
I was kind of shocked really, because hearing that from a designer who's been in the business for awhile tell you to take over his job is really flattering.
Some rumors were going around that Andy (he's a designer for the corporate ads) might be taking over, because we won't be doing the corporate stuff anymore, whatever that means. I'm kind of sad, but I'd rather him take it over rather than me. I'm not sure if I could handle it, or even if Albertsons would like how I design things.
Guess we'll see what happens after February 16th.
Mm... Valentine's Day is approaching quickly. As much as I would love to receive flowers, chocolates, love notes, cards, candy, etc. I hate the holiday. I believe you don't need a specific day to tell someone you love them. You should be doing that everyday anyway. You shouldn't need a day to spoil the person you love, should be doing that anyway. *Shrug.* Maybe I live in a fantasy world where guys don't do that, I don't know.
Cory must be a rare breed, because he spoils me all the time and we're not even dating.
Not looking forward to the holiday though. I wish it was like how it was in elementary school, where everyone decorated a paper bag for your class mates to put cute little Valentine's Day cards or candy inside. Everyone would get something and no one would feel left out.
Heh, those were the good old days I suppose.
Most of it will be under an lj-cut, because a lot of it is just me ranting about work.
I could go into explaining what my job is, but it's sort of hard to explain. So, I'll just put it simply. I make the ads you get in the mail every week or in the newspaper for Albertsons, Shaws, Acme, Acme and Lucky.
Well today we were shipping the Albertsons ad for the second week of February. It was my turn to do the liquor pages, which is always a pain in the ass to do because there's so many versions that go so so many different cities and states. I finished working on the ad yesterday and had to switch over to working on pages for Acme. We're "supposed" to be putting the base of our ad on the production drive so other people can access it in case they need to work on your ad if you're not there. A lot of the time people don't do it. I was swamped yesterday, so I didn't get a chance to put an updated one on there.
Well today was proof reading day for those pages. My liquor pages came back for corrections and I found out that they also came back after I left for the day, yesterday. Debbie and Laine (the married couple on my team, and also the anal whiney... jerks) informed me they had to work on my pages. Debbie comes up to me when I'm working on my back cover for another date and proceeds to basically tell me what a crap job I did.
I apparently put the wrong Kodak in (which I didn't, because they told me what I was supposed to put in and she went and changed some of it), had the wrong Dreamworks Home Entertainment logo in (there's about 5 different logos that say the same thing, and I guess I used the wrong one), my base wasn't updated, my layers weren't named correctly and a bunch of other stupid things. It just really pissed me off that she singled me out, because people do way worse stuff than me. Her husband, Laine, is even worse at liquors than I am and he royally screws them up on press day. It's my liquor page, I can name my layers however I want to layer them. I can group what I want to be grouped and you have no right to tell me I did it wrong. And the fact that she made such a big deal with me not having my base in there also pissed me off. I'm not the only one who doesn't put a base in there. I had mine in there to begin with, it just wasn't up to date. Other people don't put one in there at all.
*Sigh.* She then tells me... "Oh, you're still doing an okay job." Gee, thanks. That makes it a whole lot better. I'm one of the most experienced Photoshop and Illustrator users of the production artists and I have to constantly help the two of them because they don't have "formal training." So I have to create their headers, their swooshes, their sub headers for them. And for what? So they can bitch to each other behind my back about what I did wrong? Getting tired of it.
Just needed to get that off my chest... Still pretty annoyed by the whole situation, was avoiding them practically all day and probably will be for a long time afterwards. I might be blowing it out of proportion, but I don't really care at this point.
As mentioned before I tend to have to do Laine and Debbie's design work for them. Laine was working on the front cover for St. Patrick's day and he needed a swoosh to be made. He asked me to do it. Phil, our designer, made a bet with the rest of the design team to see whether A: He'd do it himself or B: Pawn it off on me.
He chose option B.
I was happy to do it, really. Anything to show what I can design helps me in the long run. Besides, Phil said he would rather me do it anyway because Laine is just terrible at designing things. Well after designing the swoosh from what Phil gave me (he created one already I just needed to tweak it, add some copy, some images and make it bigger), he told me that when he quits (February 16th is his last day. :/), I should post for his position. He said he really likes what he sees from me, saying I could do this job even though I don't have much experience in the field.
I was kind of shocked really, because hearing that from a designer who's been in the business for awhile tell you to take over his job is really flattering.
Some rumors were going around that Andy (he's a designer for the corporate ads) might be taking over, because we won't be doing the corporate stuff anymore, whatever that means. I'm kind of sad, but I'd rather him take it over rather than me. I'm not sure if I could handle it, or even if Albertsons would like how I design things.
Guess we'll see what happens after February 16th.
Mm... Valentine's Day is approaching quickly. As much as I would love to receive flowers, chocolates, love notes, cards, candy, etc. I hate the holiday. I believe you don't need a specific day to tell someone you love them. You should be doing that everyday anyway. You shouldn't need a day to spoil the person you love, should be doing that anyway. *Shrug.* Maybe I live in a fantasy world where guys don't do that, I don't know.
Cory must be a rare breed, because he spoils me all the time and we're not even dating.
Not looking forward to the holiday though. I wish it was like how it was in elementary school, where everyone decorated a paper bag for your class mates to put cute little Valentine's Day cards or candy inside. Everyone would get something and no one would feel left out.
Heh, those were the good old days I suppose.