I've started to understand what has caused me to become so apathetic about work lately.
Spoilered for length and its minimal relevance to most people who don't associate with tiny islands in Alaska.
I work at a small weekly newspaper. I'm the only reporter and I'm responsible for all the content, including stories and photos. There is one woman I work with who runs the office stuff (register, subscriptions, office supplies, classified ads) and there is another one who does layout. Now, I end up wasting a good portion of my week after working the usual 9-5 at meetings and at other events taking pictures and gathering stuff for the paper. Normally these are things I don't want to do in the first place. But, hey, it's an opportunity to do good work and, you know, build a portfolio for future work.
The problem is, the woman that does layout is terrible. Terrible at most everything. For instance, I had to shoot the High School Prom last weekend. She put in four good photos, which is great, but she chose the title, "From Grand March to Limbo, this year's prom was Beach-y." And I shudder when I type that. So, now that she's committed that abomination to print I'll never actually be able to use those photos as clippings in the future. So, basically, I wasted a good portion of my Saturday night, doing something I really didn't want to do, and now have something incredibly terrible and ridiculous to show for it.
She's been bothering me to put in a story for the last two weeks about Close Up, which is a program through the High School that gets some kids together to study the democratic process, and later take a trip to Washington DC. Her logic for that is that it will make the parents of those kids happy to see it in the paper. She's right there. However, she's willing to put that in the paper for those 5 students who were involved, but she's not willing to put in the photos I took of the Little League season opener, something the parents of those 100 kids would probably be interested in seeing. She does these things because her kids are involved in Close Up. And now all the time I spent photographing there has been wasted.
What's worse is that she's not even my boss, she stymies most attempts I make to improve this newspaper through her ham-handed layout job, she encourages people to ask me to do a story about an event they have coming up, instead of encouraging them to buy advertising, and she's generally very passive aggressive about getting her way. She actually wrote to my boss to get him to tell me to do the Close Up article, and because my boss is on another island I've yet to be able to make my case regarding her goofy priorities.
Basically, it makes me not care about my work, because she either shits it up, or tries to put other shit in its place. I don't really care about science fairs in the first place, but if I'm going to cover it it better not get a terrible title and become completely unusable and mildly embarrassing.
Anyway, I'm whining abloo abloo.
Just tell her the truth. I mean, tell her that she just keeps wasting your time, that all those photo's are being wasted, and your about to let 100 parents down, that her title for the newspaper was beach-y. If she's ballzy enough to fuck shit up, you got to ballzy enough to fuck back yo.
Word.
I'll reserve my spiteful comments until we actually get the thing back from our press. I've tried to go over this before, but she tends to just clam up when you criticize her, and then she'll e-mail my boss and say that I was being mean. That aside, we will have to have words.
She also crops my photos to fit the spaces she wants them in. Resizing is fine, and minor cropping is fine too, but a lot of times she really destroys any merit the photo had because it's easier for her to fit it in that way, rather than because it makes it a better or more relevant photo. Actually, I think laziness is the motivation behind a lot of the things she does.
I wish that the boss was here sometimes, just so he could see what I'm dealing with. I'm not about to play the whole e-mail game that she does. Though I'd like to shoot one off with thumbnails of all the shots that didn't make it into the paper and ask why the others were picked.
Meh, it's about time to find a new job anyway. Alright, I'm done whining.
(at least here. I'll go whine somewhere else for awhile)
So I went job hunting today, and the only interview I had today was at this new restaurant called Cheddars. However, the manager that "interviewed" me was my old manager at the last place I worked at, and last I recall he wasn't the nicest guy to be around.
Oh Karma....
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I started out a little rocky, but by the time I left was on good terms with the General Manager, so I wasn't fired or anything. This guy's just a bit of a hardass, and since the ball's in his court now he can decide if he wants to hire me or not. At my last place it was up to the GM, and he was a real nice guy.
So I dunno. I guess i'm being a bit paranoid, but usually i'm right about these things when it comes to jobs.
hey guyz i'm gonna buy a drawing pad for my computer so I can draw stuff, what is one thats mildly cheap and relative to drawing padness that is mildly good
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What's your definition of mildly cheap?
Also, I know I've said I would try any dish once, but i'd have to draw the line at:
Deep fried spider
Fried spiders ... a vendor sells deep-fried spiders at Skun, Kampong Cham province, east of Phnom Penh.
It costs around $2 for 10 deep-fried spiders, which come seasoned with garlic. The fist-sized arachnids are crunchy on the outside and taste like cold, gooey chicken on the inside
mildly cheap in terms of pricing for drawing pads mully said they vary from 100 dollars to 1,200 dollars, so uh, whats a good one in that range of price
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mildly cheap in terms of pricing for drawing pads mully said they vary from 100 dollars to 1,200 dollars, so uh, whats a good one in that range of price
Best buy. If there is one near by.
I bought the smallest one for like 60 bucks. It just comes with the instillation/pen/pad and thats it. No mouse.
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I've been wanting to start practicing on the computer sooner or later and that iscribble session finally pushed me to make plans for visiting best buy tommorow
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Using a tablet instead of a mouse is sooooooo much nicer. Your hand and wrist are in a much more natural position, too.
Also, I'm surprised how many people don't know about the whole "open up the bottom of your mouse to clean it out and make it work better". Somebody I know (can't remember who, though...maybe one of my roommates? One of my friends?) had been periodically throwing out their ball-mouse after it stopped working 100%. When I told them about how you need to open up the bottom and clean it out, and clean off the two rollers inside, they told me they'd probably just continue to toss the mouse, rather than do that.
Using a tablet instead of a mouse is sooooooo much nicer. Your hand and wrist are in a much more natural position, too.
Also, I'm surprised how many people don't know about the whole "open up the bottom of your mouse to clean it out and make it work better". Somebody I know (can't remember who, though...maybe one of my roommates? One of my friends?) had been periodically throwing out their ball-mouse after it stopped working 100%. When I told them about how you need to open up the bottom and clean it out, and clean off the two rollers inside, they told me they'd probably just continue to toss the mouse, rather than do that.
Using a tablet instead of a mouse is sooooooo much nicer. Your hand and wrist are in a much more natural position, too.
Also, I'm surprised how many people don't know about the whole "open up the bottom of your mouse to clean it out and make it work better". Somebody I know (can't remember who, though...maybe one of my roommates? One of my friends?) had been periodically throwing out their ball-mouse after it stopped working 100%. When I told them about how you need to open up the bottom and clean it out, and clean off the two rollers inside, they told me they'd probably just continue to toss the mouse, rather than do that.
wow, no no, I clean my ball mouse out instead of throw them away like a dumbass
I think it would be a lot of fun to be a producer on a shit-hot looking Blade Runner game, because in the time between the game is announced and the first screenshots are released, you would get to say, "I've seen things you people wouldn't believe" to the press ad nauseum.
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Word.
I'll reserve my spiteful comments until we actually get the thing back from our press. I've tried to go over this before, but she tends to just clam up when you criticize her, and then she'll e-mail my boss and say that I was being mean. That aside, we will have to have words.
She also crops my photos to fit the spaces she wants them in. Resizing is fine, and minor cropping is fine too, but a lot of times she really destroys any merit the photo had because it's easier for her to fit it in that way, rather than because it makes it a better or more relevant photo. Actually, I think laziness is the motivation behind a lot of the things she does.
I wish that the boss was here sometimes, just so he could see what I'm dealing with. I'm not about to play the whole e-mail game that she does. Though I'd like to shoot one off with thumbnails of all the shots that didn't make it into the paper and ask why the others were picked.
Meh, it's about time to find a new job anyway. Alright, I'm done whining.
(at least here. I'll go whine somewhere else for awhile)
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Oh Karma....
I mean... I jobs a job.... kinda.
So I dunno. I guess i'm being a bit paranoid, but usually i'm right about these things when it comes to jobs.
Just say no....to RPG.
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Nope i just like to say I levelled up when I learned a chunky amount of stuff in one day
*grunt*
Because, guess what I'm doing.
Jesus. Someone call a priest or something. There's something unholy in my butthole.
Also, I know I've said I would try any dish once, but i'd have to draw the line at:
I need to find me a Best Buy.
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Best buy. If there is one near by.
I bought the smallest one for like 60 bucks. It just comes with the instillation/pen/pad and thats it. No mouse.
Using a tablet instead of a mouse is sooooooo much nicer. Your hand and wrist are in a much more natural position, too.
Also, I'm surprised how many people don't know about the whole "open up the bottom of your mouse to clean it out and make it work better". Somebody I know (can't remember who, though...maybe one of my roommates? One of my friends?) had been periodically throwing out their ball-mouse after it stopped working 100%. When I told them about how you need to open up the bottom and clean it out, and clean off the two rollers inside, they told me they'd probably just continue to toss the mouse, rather than do that.
....what??
I think that's where I got mine a few years back, for about that same price. May've been $215 or something.
Is this guy one of the Retard Rodeo of Roommates?
wow, no no, I clean my ball mouse out instead of throw them away like a dumbass
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I wish I could find a copy of it somewhere. It was on like, what? 4 CDs?
I'd still give my left nut for a new BR game though.
Given your alias and the subject matter in a lot of your paintings, this statement is pretty astonishing.
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