Criticism and your profession

[Jocephus]

nothing will beat ms paint

[thrill]

Seriously, you wouldn't believe the verbal abuse that we take. Anyway, that's not quite the same as what jl is referring to. I did get to listen to my wife tell me about where our smoke detectors should go.

Hahaa

I was a produce clerk for 6 years, an assistant produce manager for a year, and a produce department manager for 2 years, I have been a produce buyer for a major grocery chain for 12 years, yet my wife still tells me how to pick out the best fruit at the store.

I only know the avocado trick where you pluck off the stem nub to look at the color underneath. A Wart's guide to picking fresh produce would be welcome.

[Jocephus]

JERRY: Why do I feel like I'm doing something wrong?

KRAMER: All right now here's the list.

JERRY: All this? It's too much. What do you need five mangos for?

KRAMER: I like mangos.

JERRY: Avocado? I don't know how to pick out an avocado.

KRAMER: Well they gotta be soft.

JERRY: How soft?

KRAMER: Not too soft. Better too hard than too soft.

JERRY: I'm not going through this every week, I tell you that right now. And what are these? Plums? What is that?

KRAMER: Yeah now get the ones that are red on the inside.

JERRY: Well how do I know what they look like on the inside? What do they look like on the outside?

KRAMER: Oh! And get some plantains.

JERRY: Plantains?

KRAMER: Yeah.

JERRY: What the hell is a plantain.

KRAMER: It's part of the banana family. It's a delicacy.

JERRY: You're not getting any plantains.

[Freed Roger]

Accountants get it more for being bearer of bad news. And Once had a client walk in and just throw a book on the desk "PAY ZERO TAxEs!"

Often people dont understand what paycheck witholdings mean. Which for workers, is understandable. But an employer once was [expletive] at me because he had to pay the amounts he withheld on his employees over to the govt.

[TheoSqua]

Building web sites for people on the side is the worst. I built a contractor site for a friend. He described in detail what he wanted, which I told him would look like a giant turd. I created a mockup so he could see this giant turd and I told him again that this was a bad idea.

Alas that's what he wanted. So I spent a weekend skinning the mockup and creating the site. It looked terrible. He says thanks and is all happy and says he'll pay me next week (I asked for like $100, so I would have made more hourly going to Taco Bell). He comes back the next week and tells me he's not "feeling" the new website, and refuses to pay me until I completely redesign the site.

For some reason i'm a giant sucker and redid the site for him. And this is why I pretty much don't do websites for friends anymore. I either never get content, never get paid, end up creating something terrible to make them happy, or get busy and go five months without working on it. Never ends well.

[Freed Roger]

nothing will beat ms paint

Well, JL could have made those boobs bigger on that one.

[JL21]

I told him would look like a giant turd. I created a mockup so he could see this giant turd

lol

I assume all of you designers have seen this?



And the full piece:

http://theoatmeal.com/comics/design_hell

It could not be more accurate.

[thrill]

My best work bro designed a website for the bar we used to hang out at twice a week after work. The owner, who we were really friendly with, was so insufferable about being hand's on and basically wanting to make every design he came up with worse, that we eventually had to stop going to that bar.

[lukethedrifter]

that's hilarious.

my favorite line:

you begin to fantasize about other careers, like someone who ... gives sponge baths to the elderly

[AWvsCBsteeeerike3]

I can't believe no one has posted this about why not to [expletive] with gds:

http://thenextweb.com/shareables/2010/0 ... designers/

Also. Everyone is an expert now that the internet is around.