I didn't have a definitive return date so I had to buy two singles. I really should have just bought a flexible return.Originally Posted by Yevrah
I didn't have a definitive return date so I had to buy two singles. I really should have just bought a flexible return.
I wouldn't worry. The whole pricing structure of the UK hotel industry was ruined (thanks to BUSINESS) long before you rocked up and stuck an overpriced burger on your claim form.
You should have. They're what, £80 more?
I know, my initial post was because I've slagged off 'expenses wankers' for precisely this reason.
Where are you that their restaurant is fully booked on a Tuesday evening?
Inverness, but hotel restaurants being booked up is hardly unusual is it? They did have something at 8.30pm but I'd barely eaten all day and didn't fancy waiting.
What hotel?
The Drumossie.
And yes I'm sure there's fancier even here but had I chosen it would have been a cheap B&B in the city centre.
Outside of fancy places in big cities, I wouldn't have imagined it was all that regular an occurrence on a Tuesday.
That's where we're having our Christmas do. The breakfast was shite. The polish staff didn't know what toast was.
Also fucking lol I'd cry if work put me up somewhere of that standard. Lucky cunt.
They're hosting the conference I'm attending, which explains both why I'm staying here and possibly sheds light on why they're particularly busy.
Should have posted in the Jobs thread and been clear of you.
Artillery fired there. Ooft.
I'm an engineer.
See you in the Jobs thread, Tobes.
Before you go @Magic recommend a decent pub to watch the Scotland game in on Thursday. I'm assuming you know Inverness pretty well by now.
We normally watch it in The Exchange. Gellions has it on too but that's a pretty shambolic pub.
That looks like it'll do. Glad you say that about Gellions as I was just looking at pictures and praying that wasn't the best available.
Its about a tenner from the hotel in to town IIRC. Do you have to eat at the hotel? There's a lovely bistro called the Fig & Thistle that's opened which is pretty good.
Yeah I got a taxi from the train station earlier and it was about that. Eating here tomorrow but will look somewhere else on Thursday night.
The clip that keeps the lid on my black recycling box has broken on one side so the lid doesn't full close. I put the food recycling bin on top of it to keep it from blowing off. The black box is to put in cardboard and glass - a weird combination, I'd say. Anyway, just spent about two minutes squashing a massive bastard of a cardboard box into a small enough size to fit in the recycling box for tomorrow. Opened the half-broke lid to reveal about nine giant slugs in there, obviously all enamoured with the smell of beer from the glass bottles in there.Serves me right for not rinsing them, I suppose. Annoying, though. I just put the cardboard on them, put the lid on best I could and ran back inside. Gonna take a real feat of bravery tomorrow to get it from the backgarden to the pavement at the front of the house, ready for the binmen.
I'm a twit
I was waiting for the interesting bit and then the post ended. You boring bastard.
That's my weekday for you. Every weekday.
I'm a twit
.....
I always mean to look.
I don't care if I am caught.
Why does the client never want the good logo? Always the crap one. You try to display them in a way to make sure they don't choose that one and then it ends up in a unanimous vote for the one you shit out in 5 minutes so you came in with more than a couple of half baked ideas.
Clearly the moral here is that you shouldn't try, just churn out shite in 5 minutes.
Yeah but now I have to base a whole A2 poster around this shite making it even more work.
How many concepts do you provide?
It's a half day job so 5. Normally I do 10-12.
Fucking mental. We do 3 absolute tops, but usually do one with a bunch of subtle variations.
My logo design work is so garbage that I have to do loads or I worry that they'll say they're terrible and never pay me again.
I want to design magazines
I've always worked on three for presentation, give them too many and they'll find it harder to make their mind up.
This is the issue with never having worked with other designers. I've just freestyled my whole career. Less logos from now on. Yay.
Another tip - never present stuff and say "So what do you think?". Always show them the work and talk them through it, and why decisions were made on fonts, colours, placement, whatever. If you can genuinely justify your decisions, then it almost becomes a logical decision rather than a question of taste. Doesn't always work, but I've found that since doing it, pointless and ridiculous revision requests have almost disappeared completely.
Got everything in by deadline but it's all a bit second rate and crap. I really should give myself longer deadlines but the way my contractor contract works means I can't charge under 46 CHF (30 quid) an hour (that's how much they would pay me if I was a full time employee and they're not allowed to pay under that legally or something) and people won't pay that much for an extended period of time leaving me always submitting 3 minutes before deadline.
We tend to do 2-3 as well and without fail, they pick the worst one every time.
Getting up for work when it's dark especially when I haven't set the heating to come on automatically either.
The heating already?
Getting to the gym only to realise you left your work shoes at home, meaning I have to spend the next hour driving home and back again. Seething on a Friday, horrible.
You'd probably be better with trainers in the gym.
Can you not just wear trainers for a day and write it off as a mistake? Surely they'd rather have you working for the hour you were driving home? Or was that the intention? Ben.
I could but I'd feel a tit walking round in my gym shoes, subconsciously I probably left them at home to avoid doing any exercise. My subconscious
So you've binned the gym? How bad are your trainers like?
I don't have time to go to the gym, because I had to go home, you tit.
My trainers aren't bad, it's just a smart office so if I'm wearing smart clothes and then some fucking gym trainers, it'll look stupid.
Yeah I'm sure nobody gives a fuck you precious twat.
#Boyd
I've got slippers to wear when I'm at my office, fuck wearing shoes all day.
I go barefoot when it's warm enough but slippers most of the time. I normally don't shower until mid-day so no socks either.
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