Just checking. There just seems to be a distinct lack of posts over the last few days...

Has everyone died in an apocalyptic event that I managed to miss? Should I be looking out for you all coming back as zombies to eat my braaaaiiiiiinnnnnnssss!?

I'm still here ... I think.

ditto.

I'm around, also noting the lack of activity, but I didn't want to post too much myself, wouldn't want you guys to think I'm too talkative or something...

It sometimes gets like this I think, it always has. Even years back on the old board there used to be periods of inactivity, I think it has something to do with sunspots and Solar winds.

And alien abductions...

Or maybe the fact that it's late spring

It's also Friday & I just wanna leave work...

Personally, I was abducted by man-eating pixies last night and had to battle my way out of their pixie castle, dodging dragons and lions and tigers and bears. I ran into a strange man with the ability to make everything around him turn into cheese. I was then turned into cheese and had to go on a long quest to find the antidote to my strange and dangerous affliction before the cheese-eating monkeys found out what had happened and ate me...hang on, sorry, no, that was a dream.

I think my brother's home from England and trying to monopolise all of the family's time...or is that the dream....

Hate it when that happens

I'm... around.

Maze wins the prize for the most creative reason for being preoccupied...

I just figured that having a thread to explain why you weren't posting would at least mean that something would be posted...

Ah-ha! My convoluted logic strikes again!!

Life and several deadlines happened.

It was really quite a terrifying experience...those monkeys are savage!

I wrote out this rant which will get me fired if my boss world read it.
It's a gtalk exchange with Clay from which I have removed any references to Chinese food:

Me: I work at a small marketing/design company. We, until 3 weeks ago had 5 designers (one of them the creative director, one a work placement and one of them more into the technical side of things, like flash programming).
Now, about 5 weeks ago, we were told that the creative director was leaving. Slightly better pay, much better boss. (That last part was told us in confidence, obviously.)


2 weeks ago, another of the designers quit, and then took a holiday.
Our new creative director is more technically inclined, so he doesn't do any design work. (At least, so far I've only see him do HTML/CSS and Some light Javascript.)

Which leaves the following persons in the design department: Me. an intern, who, god bless her, isn't much good yet, and a guy that would rather make things move around in Flash.

Clay: this certainly explains why you haven't had much time for chatting lately

Me: Also: 7 deadlines in 2 weeks, a conference last thursday to saturday (Great, but crappily timed) and (and this is the only good part so far) 2 freelance jobs (one of them for my old creative director)

Yes, it would, wouldn't it... .-)

Actually, the conference wasn't crappily timed, it's just that my boss and the account manager can't plan their way out of a wet paper bag if they had scissors.

On top of that, my new creative director is 25 years old and has broken up with his girlfriend. He also doesn't seem to have any friends. I now screen my calls on Saturday and Sunday....

Clay: jesus

Me: In the last 2 weeks, he's worked 5 times 'till midnight at least. He has no life.

In protest, this week, with deadlines being slightly less harsh, we all try to go home after 8 hours of work.


Me: SO: I'm working on my site and i have ordered bussiness cards. Sending out CV's/Portfolios.

Because on top of all of this, I get shit pay and the owner/boss is a moron who will drive this company into the ground within the year.

His idea of good bussiness is to undercut all competitors. So we end up with a giant workload and just enough money to pay the workers.

He also THINKS he's smart. He has all these little schemes to pay less taxes and shit like that.

Bitter? Me?

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So yes, I hope that answers where I have gone. :-)

Bugger Teph.

While not as creative as Maze you win the I'm working for idiots and am suffering for the stupidity of others prize for being preoccupied.

Sounds like my old marketing research job. And yes my solution was to get a new job too...

Although I am curious about the Chinese food though.