jay gonna get rekt.Ultrafunkula wrote:
No they won't. They'll see how well you manage without any help to do the job of two guys. Should've done a shittier job there mate. Now they won't hire the new guy to assist you.
Its 2016, do I really need to tell a customer that you no longer have to courier CDs across town, you can send files by email and that zipping files often makes them small enough to do so?
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we still get authors turn up to deliver manuscripts as 500-page printouts... it's like, dude, i am not scanning and sending this to the typesetter. email me your word doc.
Anyone ever bring in anything handwritten?uziq wrote:
we still get authors turn up to deliver manuscripts as 500-page printouts... it's like, dude, i am not scanning and sending this to the typesetter. email me your word doc.
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Reminds me of Hillary Clinton's email server. When the state department asked for the emails still on the server, she had 55,000 pages printed out and delivered.
older authors do all sorts of weird shit. handwritten indexes/appendices, giving us 'photos' that are basically those 25 pixel square google image thumbnails, etc. you just can't explain to a certain sort of person that, hey, this isn't going to blow-up to a 300CPI resolution print-worthy image. and no, i am not going to key in your manuscript to a word processor. that would take me 40 hours.unnamednewbie13 wrote:
Anyone ever bring in anything handwritten?uziq wrote:
we still get authors turn up to deliver manuscripts as 500-page printouts... it's like, dude, i am not scanning and sending this to the typesetter. email me your word doc.
btw dilbert it's a WeTransfer kinda world for big files, not a zip archive.
One of my submissions last year
"Ah, you miserable creatures! You who think that you are so great! You who judge humanity to be so small! You who wish to reform everything! Why don't you reform yourselves? That task would be sufficient enough."
-Frederick Bastiat
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You guys still do stuff on paper? Wow.
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Really? I thought those were Tom Clancy manuscripts.
Srsly though, there's a fair bit of old school practice in construction sort of work. No shame in it. I don't think I've ever seen anyone carry around a poster-sized tablet to scribble notes on, much less roll one up and toss it onto their back seat. If they had one, I doubt they'd want to expose it to the elements.
Plus you get to sit in an office that looks like Gandalf's library if you're so inclined.
Srsly though, there's a fair bit of old school practice in construction sort of work. No shame in it. I don't think I've ever seen anyone carry around a poster-sized tablet to scribble notes on, much less roll one up and toss it onto their back seat. If they had one, I doubt they'd want to expose it to the elements.
Plus you get to sit in an office that looks like Gandalf's library if you're so inclined.
Those are submission docs though, I haven't worked anywhere which used paper drawings in 20 years.
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Everything is paper in NYC. When, at the start of construction, I ask for electronic shop drawings from the contractor rather than paper, they both look at me like I have three heads and thank me.Dilbert_X wrote:
Those are submission docs though, I haven't worked anywhere which used paper drawings in 20 years.
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No wonder why cranes are always collapsing in NYC. They don't have ipads.
FTPuziq wrote:
older authors do all sorts of weird shit. handwritten indexes/appendices, giving us 'photos' that are basically those 25 pixel square google image thumbnails, etc. you just can't explain to a certain sort of person that, hey, this isn't going to blow-up to a 300CPI resolution print-worthy image. and no, i am not going to key in your manuscript to a word processor. that would take me 40 hours.unnamednewbie13 wrote:
Anyone ever bring in anything handwritten?uziq wrote:
we still get authors turn up to deliver manuscripts as 500-page printouts... it's like, dude, i am not scanning and sending this to the typesetter. email me your word doc.
btw dilbert it's a WeTransfer kinda world for big files, not a zip archive.
we FTP our actual business stuff. getting an author with a tendentious grasp of technology to send us a 100Mb of MSS? wetransfer or dropbox.
We use shared remote drives and FTP almost exclusively. I don't think I can send more than maybe 15 megs in an email, and until we moved to office 365 almost a year ago, I'd have to archive my emails every 2 weeks.
oh fuck you i just wrote a whole thing out and the site crashed and it didnt post
my boss got fired and a bunch of people in my department quit so now i'm basically the only guy with good knowledge left in my department
without being too much of an ego maniac, pretty much everyone at the company thinks i'm great (and they're right)
the execs are bending over backwards trying to get me to stay, they just gave me a pay rise and a roadtrip around the US but I think i can leverage my position a little more here
has anyone been in a similar situation?
without being too much of an ego maniac, pretty much everyone at the company thinks i'm great (and they're right)
the execs are bending over backwards trying to get me to stay, they just gave me a pay rise and a roadtrip around the US but I think i can leverage my position a little more here
has anyone been in a similar situation?
come to california and i will take you out to do California-type stuff. Just don't rent a convertable mustang.
do you know what i'm actually probably would rent something like that
i'll be in beverly hills and then san fran towards the end of next month if you wanna hang
i'll be in beverly hills and then san fran towards the end of next month if you wanna hang
im about an hour south of bev hills. Do you have a free day? Come to OC and we can go to Laguna Beach and I'll take you on a tour of all the reality trash tv sites here.
No but seriously, try to get a half day free and I'll show you around. I'll either be in SF or Vancouver at the end of the month as well.
No but seriously, try to get a half day free and I'll show you around. I'll either be in SF or Vancouver at the end of the month as well.
ok jokes aside lets actually do this ken
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keep us updated on how your date goes.
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Could you visit whoever kept that BF2s photo camera?
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"Ah, you miserable creatures! You who think that you are so great! You who judge humanity to be so small! You who wish to reform everything! Why don't you reform yourselves? That task would be sufficient enough."
-Frederick Bastiat
-Frederick Bastiat