Things to complain about

[Tony Greyfox]

Screaming kids and clueless tourists yakking at full volume while tromping loudly through a bird sanctuary where other people are trying to take pictures. Y'know, people, if you want to see birds (other than the ducks, geese and pigeons that would mooch for food in the middle of a carpet bombing) then you should try and, I dunno, BE QUIET.

[Sevrin]

I look good in hipster glasses... though I'm not sure if that's a bad thing or not, perhaps I should post this in the happy thread?

[Selkit]

Got fired. One of my co-workers quit in protest over the firing, and I've just watched seven months of work spiral the drain. And for what? The sake of a single man who can't acknowledge the real problem on the project is his lack of focus, total lack of management skills, and language barrier with his English-speaking staff. Rant time. It may get a bit brow-beaty in spots.

If you're going to manage a bloody project, firstly? Get project management software that's actually worth a damn. Use Trac or similar. Start a wiki that isn't tied to the god-awful abortion of production software you've saddled us with. An internal reference friendly wiki that's actually up to proper wiki standards. Don't rely on SVN logs alone. Project management should operate on KISS theory. Communicate by voice, even if you have an accent. People have accents, I can deal with it. Hell, just communicate in the first place. You know what was not cool? Firing me and the shader artist by simply closing our SVN accounts, project management accounts and e-mail accounts without warning or any notice whatsoever, then going silent for two fucking days without explanation while we panic and think someone hacked the repo. Doubleplus Uncool.

Secondly? You have been a massive dick lately, boss-man. You know exactly what about. You vastly overestimate what your project is worth, you have no idea what your crew's talents actually are, and you attempt to squeeze free work out of people who have already been taxed for all they're worth under extremely trying times. I started working during my grandmother's funeral. During an extremely stressful period, I was nose-down on my laptop working frantically to help push out a demo that you oversold and failed to actually get a contract out of. You have no concept of time-lines, you've banjaxed not one, but three publisher approaches now, you've badly oversold what's otherwise just a slice of mediocrity you've tooled about with for two years running and completely failed to acknowledge why there were morale problems hindering work. Hint: It's got something to do with your endless stream of false promises. And maybe a little to do with the solid osmium boat anchor of a project manager you saddled us with. And you seriously, honestly wonder why you have timeframe problems?

Three? Learn how to set a goddamn plan of action and stick to it. You know what I despise? The fact that after you changed the scope seven times in seven months, bollixed all publisher negotiations and went on from there to banjax prior work by rendering it pointless with your continual focus changes, you had the temerity to state I had done nothing. The three and a half gigabytes of content I have sitting around for folio purposes now would beg to differ. And yes, I am using them for my portfolio, whether or not you give a damn, because frankly, you have no content license to them. Glad we managed to at least agree on that much.

Now, honestly? I can't say it was entirely your fault. I can fault you for your handling of the situation. I can fault you for your total lack of empathy. Here's what you can lay on me. Yes, I haven't worked much lately. Got me there. Then again, you haven't exactly paid me for the past while, stated you have no intent to do so, and no intent to reimburse me for the shipping costs that were laid squarely on my own wallet. Honestly, I'm a little jaded and burnt out from an endless stream of false promises and your strange insistence that we somehow could not have a working relationship without a friendship. I don't like you. I don't like your methods. Feel free to blame me for not forming a proper rapport, but it was carrot and stick with a suspicious surplus of stick hidden behind the promise of carrots. And yeah? Near the end, nearly ass-all got produced. It was after focus shift number seven, and I was doing technology experimentation to see if the proposed method would even work before proceeding full steam into yet another round of work that may or may not get finished or even physically work. On that note, the last round of testing I was doing before you did just decide to close accounts and callously dismiss me? Yeah. There was a reason I did that; Have fun figuring out that the terrain idea you were proposing is unworkable. I won't be the one to test another solution to find another option, at least.

PS: Offering pirate software for use, and keeping an FTP full of it for staff use is not a shining hallmark on your practices. FYI. It's also a practice of yours that I documented in case the issue gets dredged up again. Just let it die. There's a pretty good reason why even despite your annoyance with me using Modo instead of Max, I continued to use my own personally purchased Modo 501 license, because we both know that between you and I there isn't a legal and registered copy of 3DS Max.

PPS: Names will not be named, including the studio. Libel is srsbsns, I actually respect the other staff there, and I just want the whole issue behind me.

Excuse me, fuzzies. I think I need a drink, smoke, and walk.

[Renwaldo]

. . .

Did he give you your three months notice of discharge? If not, legally speaking he's still obligated to pay you for the next three months after letting you know he's going to lay you off.

Unless all your pay is by commission. In which case, you may be screwed.

[lunar_prodigy]

Got fired....

~hugs~ sorry to hear that bud. my hearts with ya on your search for a new one.

[zenia]

I wait a little longer than the projected timeframe for my money to get cleared into my PayPal account to buy the cage I want... and when it finally does, the online store is SOLD OUT and I have to wait until September for them to get more stock. So I went to another site who say that they now ship to Canada (they didn't a couple of years ago) and they accept PayPal. Awesome! So I fill out my info and go to checkout... and they don't accept PayPal payments from non-US accounts. FFFFF!!! So if I want the cage in any decent amount of time, I have to pay more and I won't know until they calculate shipping for me, to get it. If I bought it from the place I wanted, it would have been $247 (including taxes, duty and shipping). The Canadian place wants $189 just for the cage. Shipping is at least $50 or $60, plus taxes. =___= I may end up having to pay $40 more for the cage than I want to.

Why can't the Petsmart at the other end of town sell this cage? They sell the version for ferrets. T___T

[Selkit]

So what next, world?

Fired a few days ago, and after moving, I got notified by Orka there were a few phone messages waiting for me. One of them was my father informing me that my grandfather has passed on. That's four family members gone now in just two years. I have no career, I've lost my marriage, and I'm losing my health. Oh, and my odometer clicks over another year on the 7th of next month. 28. And all this. I'm only one of four surviving members of my direct family line now.

What's next? Show me worse, world. I dare you.

[Carthage]

I'm losing my health. Oh, and my odometer clicks over another year on the 7th of next month. 28.

What's next? Show me worse, world. I dare you.

I'm 29 and I have had surgery on four major joints Two of them are artificial the other two are held together by screws and wire. I have a neurological disorder (diagnosed at 14) and will be medicated for the rest of my life.

How does that work for you?

[Sikkab]

Douchebags, attention whores, angry nerds, and this bird. --->  :birdy:

[Selkit]

Considering that I have an oncologist now, Carthage, figure it out.

[Mattfolx]

Drinking coffee with no sugar *Bleh* and I can't buy any more, YARG!!

[EmoFox]

headaches that last all day. -.- it has been a terrible, terrible day of achey head pain.

[H u nn Y]

lol woot, doctor called today saying that I'm still anemic :D looks like 6 months of iron pills for me again. xD Fun..  :birdy:

[Lt ReiStark]

All I've got to complain about is the existence of this thread

[Sevrin]

you realize that by posting that, you make it larger, right?