I'm Sick Of This Crap

esunaesuna Rock Bottom Join Date: 2003-04-03 Member: 15175Members, Constellation
<div class="IPBDescription">Work</div> *Sigh*. I'm sat in work, just p*ssed off. I'm just filled with damned rage and anger right now, i'm SICK of taking the flack for other people's f**k ups.

For the past month or so i've been working on a website, design, code, editing... everything. I've poured blood, sweat and tears into getting this going and the company we're doing this for has turned around and suggested a few changes. Ok, they're an insurance underwriters group, i expect them to be pretty f**kwitted, but i've been told by my pseudo-boss that the design doesn't fit with their corporate branding.

Looking at the branding materials i have with me, it fits rather nicely. It's got the soft white-yellow gradient, it's got the images of cogs, it's got the soft curves and it has the correct colour scheme. Well, this would all be true if they were the <b>current</b> branding guidelines. No. They're not. I've been given them for NO F**KING REASON! Throughout the design process i took their attributes as gospel incorporating them all into a nice design, only to find out that it's all completely wrong and not what they wanted.

I've been told by my pseudo-boss that a cd that we recieved from them contained their current ad campaign, ok, so i trawl through the ad campaign directory to find several print quality logos, high-res images of cogs and 4 Quark files i can't open on account of not having Quark installed. <b><i>F**king marvelous</i></b>! He's now giving me s**t for not coming forward about this sooner, <b>dispite telling me the branding guidelines were the current ones</b>.

I've put in so much hard work into this site and i am really pleased with the layout. F**k me if i'm changing it.

Comments

  • CaLFiNCaLFiN Join Date: 2002-11-04 Member: 6909Members
    Can you not save the layout for another site but change the images/text? Or could you not replace the Ad Campaign images with the current ones?

    I'd probably have been sacked by now for telling this company where to stick their site <!--emo&:D--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/biggrin.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='biggrin.gif'><!--endemo-->
  • esunaesuna Rock Bottom Join Date: 2003-04-03 Member: 15175Members, Constellation
    First, i can't tell them where to stick it, they're paying thousands for our time and effort, so we have to make something that <b>they</b> like. Being a web designer is much like being a prostitute.

    I've just been informed, a month into the creation process, that they have said they'd like it to be like www.someothersite.com. Great guys, i've only bothered to sit down design, lay out, format 129 pages of html and write a complex template, formatting and search script in ASP dispite having no prior knowledge in the language. Thanks, really...

    So it's entirely back to the drawing board. I'm <b>really</b> looking forward to my long weekend off now.
  • CaLFiNCaLFiN Join Date: 2002-11-04 Member: 6909Members
    Skulks are gunna start looking like little men in suits jumping at you now... The rage will build and you will unleash your fury upon thee.
  • esunaesuna Rock Bottom Join Date: 2003-04-03 Member: 15175Members, Constellation
    <!--QuoteBegin--CaL_FiN+Aug 14 2003, 09:20 AM--></span><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> (CaL_FiN @ Aug 14 2003, 09:20 AM)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'><!--QuoteEBegin--> Skulks are gunna start looking like little men in suits jumping at you now... The rage will build and you will unleash your fury upon thee. <!--QuoteEnd--> </td></tr></table><span class='postcolor'> <!--QuoteEEnd-->
    I'm gonna reskin the marines to suits and eat my way through them all.
  • Nemesis_ZeroNemesis_Zero Old European Join Date: 2002-01-25 Member: 75Members, Retired Developer, NS1 Playtester, Constellation
    edited August 2003
    On the bright side, you just burned through all the bad karma you could possibly have had <!--emo&;)--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/wink.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='wink.gif'><!--endemo-->
  • BogglesteinskyBogglesteinsky Join Date: 2002-12-24 Member: 11488Members
    imagine them wearing only their boxers. that should help
  • esunaesuna Rock Bottom Join Date: 2003-04-03 Member: 15175Members, Constellation
    <!--QuoteBegin--Nemesis Zero+Aug 14 2003, 09:37 AM--></span><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> (Nemesis Zero @ Aug 14 2003, 09:37 AM)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'><!--QuoteEBegin--> On the bright side, you just burned through all the bad karma you could possibly have had <!--emo&;)--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/wink.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='wink.gif'><!--endemo--> <!--QuoteEnd--> </td></tr></table><span class='postcolor'> <!--QuoteEEnd-->
    Finding i had 129 flat html pages to edit and format did a pretty good job at that before all this crap.
  • MoquiaoMoquiao Join Date: 2003-05-09 Member: 16168Members
    tough break dude..

    go play ns with your clan... im sure they are an amasing bunch of guys! they will cheer you up by insulting you! huzzah! <!--emo&:D--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/biggrin.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='biggrin.gif'><!--endemo-->
  • WigglesWiggles Join Date: 2003-05-13 Member: 16253Members, Constellation
    Wolf you fish <!--emo&:0--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/wow.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='wow.gif'><!--endemo--> <!--emo&:0--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/wow.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='wow.gif'><!--endemo-->
  • lolfighterlolfighter Snark, Dire Join Date: 2003-04-20 Member: 15693Members
    Wow, for a change, esuna's tired of his job. I'm starting to wonder why he's doing it...
    Oh yes, that money thing. HAH! I've just made the foolish danish state pay for my education, so I'm good for four and a half years. God, an entire country of nubs, bwaha!
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