Office Elbowroom

Paper Jam?

2006-11-16T16:40:00.001-08:00

Today was a classic day to say "Why is there a paper jam when there is no paperjam?". It took about 3 of us looking at this hp printer looking for paper. We pretty much opened it up peice by peice and put together and it still didnt work. I finnaly pulled out the ol spray gun and shot it with a bunch of compressed air. Shazam! it worked.. dont ask me why but i guess there was a lot of dirt.. as much as a sheet of paper.. They need to make printers smart enough to let me know its a dirt jam not a paper jam!

Paper Jam?

2006-11-16T16:40:00.000-08:00

Happy Hour?

2006-11-09T09:12:00.000-08:00

So the office went on a happy hour cruisade. I think a lot of people in the office like to drink haha. We left work a little early and went to humperdinks. I guess it was a team building exercise or something. It was funny watching how awkward everyone was in the beginning. Its so weird drinking around the president of the company. The only problem is the receptionist didnt come.. I was waiting to see her try and find a man for the night. She was wearing the right clothes, you know the ones that let stuff fall out. I bailed after the first 30min so we will see what happened next when I get in the office.

A serious matter on a different topic

2006-10-31T17:00:00.000-08:00

The past week or so I've started realizing how attached people grow with their pets. It's interesting to see how a person's life changes when they introduce a pet into their lives and how it affects them through out. I got a cat named Shelty when I was about 5 years old. I'm currently 21 so she's spent a long time with me. People have many different pets for many years and grow a type of bond with them. My cat is currently facing kidney failure and old age. It's hard to tell how long shes gonna make it because shes been fighting for 2 years. The doctors told us she was only going to make it a few months and that was 2 years ago... She's gotten to the point where she wont eat and we have to hand feed her and she walks around very dazed, meowing randomly and seems to be confused. It saddens me to see her like that. She almost seems to be lonley and scared trying to find someone to be with incause she passes away. It hasn't hit me yet but I know when she does I'm going to have a pretty hard time getting over it. I find it interesting to think about how many people out there have pets and would be sad to loose them. Human and animal alike seem to have a very keen sence to bonding and lovingness. This goes out to all you animal lovers, give your pet an extra loving touch incause they are taken someday.

there back!

2006-10-31T16:55:00.000-08:00

Well the Bosses are back in from their vacation. Was a lot less stressful without them but I'm already seeing the difference in everyone. The receptionist was talking about how bad she needed a man and all this sexual mumbo jumbo while being very un cooroperative and annoying. Now shes back to her fake nice perky self. They ended up bringing me a pen from India... This is a nice gesture and i know they are trying to tell me, I've been thinking about what I can rag on you about now bahaha... I guess i have to get back on top of my responsibilities, no more goofin off... They still havn't asked me about the faces I made to the camera's... I wonder what they are planning... gulp.

Got a few psycho's loose?

2006-10-19T16:15:00.000-07:00

Our Reseptionist is at it again. For any of you men who like 40 yr old women you should look her up. She was talking about how she needs a man again. It gets old to hear and kind of annoying. I'm sure she hasnt been laid in a few years so keep that in mind people, shes gonna go wild! I was having a conversation with our shipping guy today and we were discussing how it would be nice to be rich. I told him if he was a millionare he should drive the forklift off the dock for laughs. He said "Heck no man I would go on a old man spree, running through walls and windows and everything else.. Now can you picture an older man with grey hair, beard, glasses on a fork lift going mad crazy? haha.. Id still love to see him drive it off the dock though...

What wrong with my coffee?

2006-10-19T16:09:00.000-07:00

Latley everyones been needing a few cups of coffee. I'm not much of a coffee drinker. My solution for my coffee is a cup of ramen noodles. The whole office makes fun of me. Whats wrong with my coffee?! Anyways the CSR has figured out the reason for the ramen noodles to be so cheap. He belives that the company who produced them spelled Roman wrong and it caused a huge drop in price because they arn't the right brand name. Go figure? (And yes this is just a joke, I know its not the case.)

they can see me?

2006-10-18T16:22:00.000-07:00

Ugh so now we got cameras in the office! Now I feel like someone is watcing my back all the time! It gets annoying to walk down the hall and notice black spheres around the office. I walked by one of the cameras and looked directly at it and started making funny faces at it. I wonder if they will see it. Haha hope I dont loose my job!

tripping

2006-10-12T18:14:00.000-07:00

Another busy day at the office. The day is cold and im getting sick. I've been given a crazy amount of work to do... I guess they believe in me! All of a sudden I trip over nothing. I look around and make sure no one saw what happend.. Good no one did. Now our reseptionist walks by and trips over the exact same air that I did. I went in the back to talk to the shipping guy who was busy as well. I was walking and talking and all of a sudden he tripped over cardboard. Time goes on and on and about everyone in the office ends up tripping over something or nothing. I'm guessing the tripping bug was out. At least his friend the falling fairy was sleeping or we would of all been in trouble.

off subject part 2

2006-10-10T16:34:00.000-07:00

Another weekend with the girlfriend. We went to the fair on friday and it was alright. We had to invite one of her girlfriends so they could have their "hang out" time. Did I mention her friend has a kid(shes 20)? Shes one of those MILF'S i guess. I realized that I'm not up for kids any time soon.. if not when im OLD! We went there for about 3 hours and I only spent 20 dollars, which is the only good reason for the kid. We ended up running after him and tyring to keep an eye on him while his mom went and did her thing. It was kinda irratating and I didnt get to spend this time with the person I wanted to. So for all you females out there who want kids at a young age. STOP! It takes away quality time!!

off subject

2006-10-03T17:50:00.000-07:00

so I had a pretty fun weekend last weekend. I got to spend it with my beautiful girlfriend(she lives in fortworth).I couuld spend hours of blogs worth talking about us but i figure thats the same ol sappy stuff. First thing we did was do the walk for overian cancer in grapevine. I then found out that she makes a good freddy cruger haha. We went to a halloween store and she tried on a mask that looked great on her hah. I ended up straining my jaw that weekend. I have no idea how.. hah.. So the funniest part of this story is while I just got out of the shower , her mom's girlfriend walked in on me and got so embarrased and ran out. She ended up tellng the mom that I have a nice body... but who wants an old catholic lady saying that? eww. This is one of those you had to be there to be funny type things!

Lets drive like austin powers?

2006-09-28T15:31:00.000-07:00

Haha , so the shipping area is becoming very crouded with boxes, the company has out grown its space. I go back to help the shipping guy out and hes stuck inbetween boxes with the fork lift trying to ease out. He's going back and forth trying to turn out of an area and doesnt get anywhere so we end up having to move some pallets so he can get out. Imagine an old guy driving a fork lift into boxes.. hahah... I cant say much though, I almost drove the fork lift off the dock.. ow

Running out of time

2006-09-26T11:15:00.000-07:00

The day started easy... Then I got to work and realized.. the files I have for school are wrong! I had the wrong version of a file I was working on for school. Another class's teacher replyed to me 4 days after I had asked about an assignmen and I realized it was done wrong. Now I'm freaked. Starting like this at work isnt very fun! Alright so I'm in the office worrying about all this crap which I had finished and reay for school. While im working on some work the Son boss comes and makes me create some labels for him. I have about an hour left until I leave for school so it was no problem. Right when I get done with that and get back to what I'm supposed to do the Dad comes and tells me he needs me to make some bulk labels for the post office. I thought.."Do you want me to get these jobs done or focus on something that half the plant knows how to do?".. Now I have about 20min until I leave for school so im rushing and stressing, growing those friendly grey hairs..(I'm only 21!!). Last but not least the Mom comes in like a little after "do you have enough to do?" and if I could start working on our logo again.. I wanted to say.. "No, the rest of your family gave me things to do and im leaving in 5mintutes but I never have enough to do..." but i smiled like a pansy and said I would get to it ASAP... ugh! anyone else agree.. Stress sucks?! Luckly I ran out while they were in their office so they couldnt pull me to the side and start talking again.. as Lumberg might say "Hey peter.. yeah , I need you to fix those TPS reports before you go.. yeah... thanks"

Are we aloud to talk about this in the office?

2006-09-21T15:18:00.000-07:00

Well today it seemed to be a little more... whats the word to use?... naughty? I dont know but it seemed like everyone was thinking about the opposite sex. First of all the shipping guy had some interesting thoughts. I was telling him about my weight lifting class and how girls need to learn to wear more consealing clothes. For example, a girl in my class was laying on the floor stretching her leg over her head and flashing everyone what she had because of her really short shorts.
Anyways the shipper was talking about how he would of loved to see that and at his age he would be considred a perv. Next, Jill, one of the ladies up front was taking everything I said the wrong way. Anything with the words down, big, open, noise, anything she would make a comment about. Shes the woman who is obsessed with finding an old man and marrying for his money or just getting a young guy to take care of her.. human instincts. Last but not least, the receptionist randomly started talking to me about the Gino and wanting a man over woman to do whatever they do. I was like holy cow what is everyone on today? Something tells me that someone there needs to get laid...

"looks like somones got the case of the mondays"

2006-09-12T17:02:00.000-07:00

Interesting thing happened at work. First I'm going to gripe a little bit. So while im talking to the other graphics person, the son of president and vice president comes over and acts like we arnt doing any work, complains then gives me a task to do right then, like its urgent Then ends up going into an office with his mom and shuts the door and stays in there for hours. Im sure they are workin real hard! Anyways, so im printing some overwraps for some DVD's right, and i get this paper jam error. So I ask my self "Why does it say paper jam when there is no paper jam". I looked all around didnt see any paper jams. It turns out, the printer pulled a plastic chunck off itself and ate it then decided the peice was too big to swallow. Interactive designers need to make a new sensor that checks the size of whats going in the printer so it can give a different error.. maybe something like.. anonomous object, please get it the heck out of this printer.

Another day in the neiborhood

2006-09-07T17:20:00.000-07:00

So today was another one of those days where you get something to do at work, then about 50 more things pile up so you start working on those then the boss comes and says, "Why isn't the first thing done?". I can't remember if I said what I do, so I'll talk about it agian. I'm graphics and small productiion for a replication/duplication plant. I produce small runs , duplicating, printing on discs, packaging, and shipping pretty much the whole 9 yards. So I walked into work hoping to have a simple day designing a new brand for work. I finished up a job in the production que and was thrown a job to re-create something for a client. So I started working on that for about half an hour then was asked, so hows the flash animation going. I explained what I was doing and got into a little trouble for not working on it. To make a long story short, I wasn't doing the right thing the whole day. I did finish up what was wanted from everyone. It does get annoying how there is no trust in the office space. If they just trust me to get things done, it would get done faster without all the interuption! ahhh

Today.. not so entertaining.

2006-09-06T16:35:00.000-07:00

So today was just another day at the office, working on designs. Nothing super happened today , I was only at work for a few hours. They did have a meeting while I was at school, came up with a new logo I belive... In my opinion.. it SUCKS! but im just a peon so I have no say. Since I come straight from a weight lifting class, I did have to strip and re-dress in my car, that was fun. Other then that nothing crazy today...

Designing is not for the Stressed

2006-09-06T16:24:00.000-07:00

The last few days have been kind of crazy. I got into a wreck out of no where to add to my fun day(At least its their fault). I don't think the bosses understand what my school load is. So I get to school one day and get a few different designing projects. This seems like it will be fun. One small example is that im supposed to reduce a website onto a phone screen. Simple enough really just a lot of though on how to make it easier for the user. Anyways, I head to work and right when I walk in pow! The graphics team is up to re-create the company. They want a new feel .. a brand you could say. So now not only am I desining for school, I also have to stay creative enough for work! (By the way, typo's are going to happin , im just typing away bahah) So I'm sitting in the meeting and get a little bit of marketing matrial, which is fine I can handle that.. But then they want me to do this really eye catching flash animation.. I've never used flash and they know that! So I get to learn flash along the way woohoo! If I tip over and die in class, you will all know why!

Whats going on??

2006-09-02T12:28:00.000-07:00

Ok heres the scoop around the office. The company is owned by a family, a dad, mom and son. It's a small company that is based off very contradictory conditions. I'll get to that later. Basicly I'm their first employ and I work on graphics for them. the dad is the owner, the mom is the vice president and the son is the manager of sales...(hes like the only sales rep). we have a packaing crew, a shipping man, production crew and printing crew. Did i forget to mention its a CD/DVD Replication plant? We also have a few CSR's and a few other graphics people along with me. A couple of key names that will come up will be Jill, a woman in her 40's who's had a hard life and is pretty much dirt poor even though she works all the time. Her main quest in life would be able to find a filthy rich old man whos about too pass away, take all his money and have down and dirty sex with some random cubano guy. Fred, a graphics guy who seems to have an unique opinion on the world and an all around good guy but is delt the wrong set of cards every morning. And Jim, a special older man who does it job to the best of his ability every day and doesn't complain about anything. He's been in shipping his whole life and loves nothing more then to get the job done. I'll mintion others randomly but these people affect my day at the office a little more then the rest. Many people leave after a few weeks because of the crazy hold the higher ups have upon us. Like typical buisness people they want everything for free and it they dont get it, your gone pretty much. This is just an intro to my story, I'm going to let off a little steam every few days and let everyone know whats going on in this typical office space setting. Along with the updated stories Ill let you guys know about the past more too so you can understand the frustration that goes on in this little echosystem I call work. Let's just say no one would be their if they could find something else. Now for me, I've told you I'm on the graphics team their but I'm also ahead of the keeping the network up and operation and any computer problems / random jobs I take care of. This is enough to get us started through this zoo of crazyness and deceit. Let the games begin!!

First Blog

2006-08-31T18:18:00.000-07:00

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