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    This is How a Pissed Off Designer Quits His Job

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    Image of pdxpatriate pdxpatriate
    11/25/09

    In reply to This is How a Pissed Off Designer Quits His Job
    Some designer. Didn't even use the right font.
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    Image of LVP LVP
    11/26/09

    @pdxpatriate: He might not have had it on his work computer. I can't get my work place to buy Helvetica!
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    Image of nutbastard nutbastard
    11/25/09

    In reply to This is How a Pissed Off Designer Quits His Job
    the trick is to become really good at your job, but don't document anything. any innovative ways of doing stuff, any improvements to current systems - do not document any of it.

    this makes you valuable and irreplaceable, since the only person who knows how to do what you do is you.

    :P
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    Image of yachius yachius
    11/25/09

    @nutbastard: Spoken like an employee, not a boss. Those are the first people to go when what they're doing is discovered. I'll take the small loss of replacing the employee and retraining and maybe even buying some new equipment rather than be truly fucked down the line.

    You want job security? Do your job well and make yourself well liked, even if that means being nice to people you don't like. That doesn't mean kiss ass. I know I want hard workers who are pleasant to be around.
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    Image of nutbastard nutbastard
    11/25/09

    @yachius:

    looks like i forgot to append the #sarcasm tag. whoops.

    people: i was only half serious. as someone who has survived multiple rounds of layoffs, and whose job it is TO document everything around here: chillax.
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    Image of LVP LVP
    11/25/09

    In reply to This is How a Pissed Off Designer Quits His Job
    A designer friend was let go at work. They hired a new person. Then they hired him back as freelance when they found out they didn't like the new hire's work.

    Isn't it ironic?
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    Image of Parapraxis Parapraxis
    11/25/09

    @LVP: you don't know how hard it is to not start singing alanis morissette...
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    Image of mopo mopo
    11/25/09

    @LVP: Why would he want to even freelance with them?
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    LVP promoted this comment mopo was starred mopo was unstarred
    Image of LVP LVP
    11/25/09

    @mopo: It's hard to get and keep clients in this economy. Plus he can now bill all that overtime they never paid him for since he was salary.
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    11/25/09

    @Parapraxis: IT'S LIKE RAAAIIINNN!!!!!
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    Image of Mobius Mobius
    11/25/09

    In reply to This is How a Pissed Off Designer Quits His Job
    "Hi, I'm a PC."

    "The ad man you treat like shit has quit unexpectedly."
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    11/26/09

    @Mobius: "Hi, I'm a PC. This ad was created by an agency using Macs!"
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    Image of jaymorrisdesign jaymorrisdesign
    11/25/09

    In reply to This is How a Pissed Off Designer Quits His Job
    I think we need to bring back the duel. You either take it outside and shoot each other or maybe a boxing match would be better. Although a dead employee does mean that there might be that opening you've been looking for. Seriously, America has become too soft.

    At the very least this guy did show he had one thing... balls! (or maybe two?)
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    Image of nutbastard nutbastard
    11/25/09

    @jaymorrisdesign:

    i've always felt that dueling is an effective way of removing half of the assholes in this country.
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    11/25/09

    In reply to This is How a Pissed Off Designer Quits His Job
    i always quit my jobs by showing up at the beginning of my shift, walking up, handing a written note to my boss, and walking out.

    anything more is a waste of time.
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    Image of Tyler Sebastian Tyler Sebastian
    11/25/09

    @nutbastard: You make it sound as though you've done this numerous times.
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    nutbastard promoted this comment Tyler Sebastian was starred Tyler Sebastian was unstarred
    Image of nutbastard nutbastard
    11/25/09

    @Tyler Sebastian:

    a half dozen times or so. course i been at this place for 4.5 years now so its been a while. but i had to quit those jobs, as i've never been fired.
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    Image of GTBruiser GTBruiser
    11/25/09

    @nutbastard: Any plans on becoming a boss yourself?
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    Image of nutbastard nutbastard
    11/25/09

    @GTBruiser:

    no. hell no. i see no appeal in it whatsoever. as it stands, if my boss screws something up, that's on him, but if I screw something up, and it gets built, that's actually my bosses fault, since he approved the design. Also, my bosses boss is a douche, and my boss is pretty cool. I'm comfy doin' what i do, even if it means not making huge $$$.
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    Image of highpitch_83 highpitch_83
    11/25/09

    In reply to This is How a Pissed Off Designer Quits His Job
    congrats, you've been replaced by a recent college graduate charging $10.00/hr Have fun in the freelance world!
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    Image of LVP LVP
    11/25/09

    @highpitch_83: Exactly.
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    Image of RE-L RE-L
    11/25/09

    In reply to This is How a Pissed Off Designer Quits His Job
    I quit from a job were I REALLY wanted to tell my boss all the things I thought about his awful way of running things. But I opted for being professional about it and just gave him the resignation letter. I did however change the wallpaper on my mac to one plain white with huge words saying HI (insert boss' name) because he sat behind me to constantly watch what I did. I know, lame, but oh well. Now, all his employees quit on him except for one. Karma, thank you!
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    11/25/09

    @RE-L:

    telling him in what way he was fucking up would be doing him a favor. thus it is good that you didn't.
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    Image of dallasmay dallasmay
    11/25/09

    In reply to This is How a Pissed Off Designer Quits His Job
    "Your company and other employees are not effected."

    Well then, who gives a sh*t?
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    Image of Purple Dave Purple Dave
    11/25/09

    In reply to This is How a Pissed Off Designer Quits His Job
    I don't believe it. Everyone knows that noone writes programs for Macs.
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    Image of Jrsy Devil's Advocate® Jrsy Devil's Advocate®
    11/25/09

    In reply to This is How a Pissed Off Designer Quits His Job
    Well he uses a Mac so at least we know where some of that SMUG comes from....
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    Image of EpiphyteCorp. EpiphyteCorp.
    11/25/09

    In reply to This is How a Pissed Off Designer Quits His Job
    Can someone ring up the Vatican and ask when Entitlement will finally be recognized as the Eighth Deadly Sin?
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    Image of Jrsy Devil's Advocate® Jrsy Devil's Advocate®
    11/25/09

    @EpiphyteCorp.: That would most likely fall under 'Pride' so I'd say it's covered.
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    Image of Ubik2501 Ubik2501
    11/25/09

    @Jrsy Devil's Advocate®: Pride and Greed combined, really. "I'm so special, I DESERVE more than anybody else! Gimme!"
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    Image of Gundem Gundem
    11/25/09

    In reply to This is How a Pissed Off Designer Quits His Job
    I was a temp once. The company went down 3 weeks after i was hired full time. Awesome eh?
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    Image of PaintTheSkyGrey PaintTheSkyGrey
    11/25/09

    @Gundem: Some talent you have there. You must only use your powers for good.
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    Image of Groo8 Groo8
    11/25/09

    @Gundem: One of my friends got a job offer from a startup. She took 3 weeks off between jobs. By the time she got back, the company was out of business. She must be a relative of yours :-)
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    Image of cynep cynep
    11/25/09

    @Gundem: Damn. I need to improve my company-destroying skills. My last (non-contractor) job was in 2000 and company went belly up only 6 months after I was hired.

    Given today's shitty economy, I again decided to convert (e.g. made an offer I couldn't refuse - convert or be gone) from a contractor to a full timer, taking 40% paycut in the process, thinking this time it will be different. And it is...

    I work 20 more hours a week for free, have to do the things I've long (gladly) forgotten how to do, had to sit in in pointless "new hire" training that had nothing to do with my job, and attend a (forced) volunteer assignment in a middle of a ghetto, where I nearly busted my back loading/unloading piss-covered wallpanels at a construction site. *Hi mom, see and you were worried my education and experience wasn't going to pay off in a productive sort of way*

    Oh... and just 4 short months after becomming an FTE, my new company just announced that parent company has cut off funding and they're looking for buyers to buy them out or ways to go on their own... Otherwise it's going buhbye.

    Ain't recession grand?
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    CaseyG promoted this comment Edited by cynep at 11/25/09 5:27 AM cynep was starred cynep was unstarred
    Image of Gundem Gundem
    11/25/09

    @cynep: oh man.

    Capitalism is awesome.
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    11/25/09

    In reply to This is How a Pissed Off Designer Quits His Job
    Kudos to this guy.

    This job market makes everyone frustrated.
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    Image of Chewbenator Chewbenator
    11/25/09

    In reply to This is How a Pissed Off Designer Quits His Job
    That's a good 10 minutes work there, 12 if you had those buttons simply go to hot links to email/websites. Guy seems like a jerk anyway.
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    Odin promoted this comment Chewbenator was starred Chewbenator was unstarred
    Image of Odin Odin
    11/25/09

    @Chewbenator:
    Ten minutes for a prompt? I could do this in one.
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    Image of NorwoodIsMyHero NorwoodIsMyHero
    11/25/09

    @Odin: I know right. Give me photoshop. Screen shot a prompt box with three options, paste the text over it, save the image, set as desktop. BOOM!
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    Image of Odin Odin
    11/25/09

    @NorwoodIsMyHero:

    It'd look more authentic and be less effort to simply code one...
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    Image of NorwoodIsMyHero NorwoodIsMyHero
    11/25/09

    @Odin: Coding! Pfft.... Coding is for amatuers

    edit: And so is spelling!
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    Edited by NorwoodIsMyHero at 11/25/09 9:40 AM NorwoodIsMyHero was starred NorwoodIsMyHero was unstarred
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