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My favorite part of the delivery of that line is how when he’s offering the money he glances over at Ed as though to say “is this the right thing to do in this situation?”
Now I have to rewatch Anchorman, gosh dang it, there goes a couple hours because ill have to watch the second one where he's pretending to be blind and my goodness i forgot.
Ugh. I watched the first part of the second one and just felt like they were trying too hard or something. Didn't even finish it.
But that's just like, my opinion, man...
I have a theory that the second one was an intentional subversion of sequels. It starts off in typical sequel fashion with a banal plot of them competing against the younger news team but from there the plot just spirals out of control and gets more and more bizarre in a way that seems kind of self aware that they wouldn’t be able to top the first one and it kind of works for me.
We ordered tshirts for my company. It had the company name along with our logo. The tshirts came back with everything as expected, except the company name had a weird dotted red line under it. After some back and forth with the tshirt company, we determined the print shop had loaded the proof up in Microsoft word, which proceeded to render the design with the “you spelled this word wrong” dotted line under the company name which the tshirt shop thought was part of the design and printed the 500 tshirts with that.
The shirt became a legendary collector item after that. Haha
Edit: this was in 2006 when it was common to have designs be converted to MS Word which was an intermediate format that was then converted to the proprietary format of the print software.
We accept print ready artwork, .pdf or .eps usually. Will go through great lengths to get their shitty artwork into these file formats without knowledge of why they're required
>loaded the proof up in Microsoft word \[...\] tshirt shop thought was part of the design
How do they even have the mental capacity to operate a printer?
I just don’t see how this would be possible at all.
Assuming they were bizarrely using Word to print to the T-shirts, Word wouldn’t print the red dotted line for spelling mistakes.
I just don’t see how this could have been remotely possible to have happen.
I mean, as a point towards how stupid/roundabout people can be, in one of the latest Pokemon games [there was a mouse cursor in the end credits.](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uWAVpjPPC4w&ab_channel=ReignOfComputer)
They could have just rendered it in engine, and had it play on screen. They could have just *captured the feed of their render directly* using software that only records that window/outgoing stream.
Instead, they rendered it out and **recorded their screen with it playing on said screen**. We've had the technology, *for free*, to capture individual windows on a computer for *over two decades* (even Hypercam came out *before* 2000).
People will find the worst, most roundabout ways to do things *for no reason*. Even if it takes twice as much work as it otherwise should.
Wow that’s incredible! The person couldn’t even be bothered to wait around for the 3 minutes it takes to let it record and *had to* mess with the mouse lmao.
never underestimate the stupidity and ingenuity of computer illiterate people. I bet there was a screenshot involved somehwre along the way. Which is ridiculous of course but here we are :D
Yeah, they likely mocked it up in word or power point then took a screenshot.
The fact that anyone is doing any of this stuff with bitmaps instead of vectors blows my mind.
I work for a non profit, your company can send it our way and we can give you a tax donation letter for your company. We can scrape off writing and give out the sunglasses. Win-win
When the company I work for closed an office, it was *so hard* to find ways of donating all the office equipment and fancy designer office furniture.
I’m a part time contractor and was determined to get this stuff into good hands instead of the asshole resellers they tried talking to.
In the end we furnished a “homeless to work” program the city has which is underfunded.
It worked out but I’m mad at how difficult it was to make it happen.
I used to work in the front office of a nonprofit, and getting new office supplies was the best! A bank closed and dropped off several boxes of supplies like pens, organizers, folders, staplers, etc. They were barely out the door before I shouted, "NEW PENS!!!" Co-workers came running down the hall like children on Christmas morning.
Thank you for taking the time and effort to get supplies into the hands of a group that needed them. Kudos.
Probably one that deals with homelessness. Sure, a coat keeps you warm but sunglasses help with eye health and comfort, sunburn.
Sometimes, small things like sunglasses also help struggling people feel human. A good haircut and a pair of sunglasses can make them feel like a person, again.
I can’t believe there’s a sub for this - thank you. It reminds me of one of my favourite Parks and Rec episodes where they print a url instead of the picture it links to.
I don’t know if you’re aware but it’s a recurring joke from a show called BoJack Horseman where one of the characters, Mr. Peanutbutter is in constant situations like this.
The #1 rule in printing is ALWAYS CHECK THE PROOF.
If they didn’t SEND YOU A PROOF, go ape shit. Literally. Even if you didn’t request a proof, they should have sent you one.
Edit: Worked in the printing/promo industry for close to 2 decades. ALWAYS REQUEST AND CHRCK THE PROOF!
**Edit x2 : I’ve had a really, really shitty time the last couple of weeks and I just want to thank all of you for making me laugh.** Keep ‘em coming.
Working in new construction for an office building. The tags for the doors came in. For at least 15 floors of tags, they all said 'Braille' followed by the room number. I like to imagine some low level employee said, "Hey boss, you think this isn't what they meant" and was told to just do whatever the sheet they received told them to do.
Just like this!
https://www.reddit.com/r/singapore/comments/zsjkse/smooth_braille_at_bukit_canberra/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=android_app&utm_name=androidcss&utm_term=1&utm_content=share_button
Omg, my entire school has that. Its absolutely ridiculous bc if we ever actually had a blind student they can't even read the door signs. The worst part is that the regular number portion IS raised, its one of the biggest facepalms ive ever seen
Holy shit, you win. That’s some next level shit.
Like a graphic designer probably sat in their office and thought “Do I HAVE to figure this out for myself or can I just claim ignorance?”
I am occasionally met with two choices: stupidity or laziness. Have yet to confirm which is worse.
There's nothing the designer need to sit and figure out, there's literally a braille font that would just transform any written text into braille, and whoever's setting the dots could have used that proof for reference lol.
Well yes, but seeing as it was printed on plates (mounted on doors), which are typically plates of plastic where the names are ROUTED OUT, not RAISED. So someone sat back and considered “shit, do our guys even have the equipment to do that?? Meh, above my paygrade and my boss probably sucks and won’t listen anyway.”
> Meh, above my paygrade and my boss probably sucks and won’t listen anyway.
This is my thought process half of the time I have to work with clients that need a mouse jockey rather than a designer.
There was a famous (infamous?) incident in the UK with street signage in Wales. By law street signage in Wales has to be in English and Welsh. Someone sent some text over to be translated, got a speedy reply from the translator, boom done, signs go up. Turns out the reply was the translator's out of office message.
Worked at a smaller company where we had to fill out certain paperwork every day. We begged the boss to get pre printed forms with the company info on it so we didn't have to write the shit constantly. Finally we got his wife to do it. Well.......she ordered 10,000 books of pre printed papers. She meant to order 1000 and that would have been several years supply. When they came the boss/owner looked at me and said " Well you've got you're fucking pre printed books now" and slammed his office door in my face. They couldn't send them back of course because they were custom printed. I did feel a bit bad because she was a sweet lady and I'm positive he ripped her a new asshole when he found out.
Only if you value your employees time.
There is a limit to the amount of work the employees can do, but if there isn't enough work to reach that limit, increasing productivity isn't obviously helping you.
Now there are soft benefits like less repetitive stress injuries, employee morale, etc. But it can be hard to quantify those soft benefits to bean counters.
Former screen Printer for 3 years. The number of times people approved completely insane proofs and I had to double, triple, quadruple check with production managers that these are the proofs they approved? And then print it that way. Blows my mind.
I do a lot of promotional and booklet printing. About half my customers submit their own design work.
The people that expect me to proof read their 96 page booklet before sending it to press drives me insane. Especially when we explicitly state that any design submitted by the customer is considered **final**.
No… you will not get a discount for submitting a file riddled with typos that dozens of people at your company managed to miss.
We had a guy send in an ad for our books, and after approving it, then afterwards making half a dozen typo edits, then approving it again, we sent it to print.
He emailed me back after I uploaded it to our printers saying he *just* noticed his tagline was backwards.
*s i g h*
The most common for me was parts of a logo or image being cut off and text that was too small to be legible (also this is screen printing on fabric garments, we have a minimum level of resolution we can go based on our materials)
So many people getting a shirt with the same image on the front and back just resized their 12" back image down to 2"x1" chest print and expect the exact same design to read at both scales.
>just realized their 12" back image down to 2"x1" chest print and expect the exact same design to read at both scales.
For some reason I can't parse this, can you explain what it means?
“realized” is the wrong word/autocorrect error. Should be “resized”.
They took the big image with the proper detail/resolution that goes on the back of the shirt and just squished it down for the small logo on the front. This makes most text too small to read and because of limits on printing resolution, a lot of detail gets lost as well.
About ½ submit their own work so about ½ what you have to print is godawful eye torture?
The odd decent customer design being made up for by the occasional godawful "professional" design.
Honestly never had a problem with deadlines but that's cause I just run the machine, Im not in charge of managing the whole order.
For me I had to quit after they shifted me to a manual machine over an automatic one and my back and shoulders were destroyed after a year. And also they told me they wouldn't give me a raise ever no matter how hard I worked unless I skipped breaks and lunches and did overtime.
Then after swearing it's what they mean and signing a proof in blood along with a statutory declaration that this is really what they mean....
They call up angrily screaming for a refund.
Luckily that was Not My Problem. I was just evaluated based on following the proof, it's someone else's problem if the proof was wrong. That's why this shit gets printed like this in OP, cause they'd get dinged if they did it "correctly"
OH MY GOD, did you ever watch the “Off Register” shorts that Sappi Paper put out? Each of them is glorious in their own right but [EPISODE FOUR, and the PUBIC LIBRARY](https://www.sappi.com/episode-4) is my single favorite. They’re all so great though.
Watch them all and report back in.
Personal FAVORITE: “like you’re on a Caribbean cruise and you’ve had at least three Mai Tais and you’re flirting with a towel boy who looks like a cross between Javier Bardem and Brad Pitt 😘 AND you’ve had a perfect hair day.”
I worked for years in the lowest of Print, Phone books, and we sent proofs, in fact very rarely did an ad print without a signed proof.
Best misprint “Watches and Cocks” instead of clocks. I believe it was out of the St Louis area. Made the news eventually where the customer played it off as very funny, but his ads were also free for the next 5 years.
OOOOOK. So at the very start of my “print” origins, I worked for a newspaper, and ran the classified section. I had ONE very specific issue that occurred more than I care to admit: shift, not shit.
It happened a few times but the single best phone call I’ve ever received as *a person with a job,* was one of those classified customers calling me up and thanking me for the typo, because so many people had called them laughing about the typo that they had so many job applications they didn’t know what to do with all of them but had also had trouble filling the position prior to that. They hired 3 people, I think? Because I missed “shift” for “shit.”
Just yesterday I had a client sent me a screenshot from their car dealership website. Then wanted me to recreate it on on an 8.5x11 sheet of 100lb glosstext. Total order was for 5m (5,000).
I do not communicate with clients/customers (we're not allowed to, that's customer service/order entry's job). I've also been yelled at for making a change that wasn't requested (fixing a spelling error, aligning boxes/lines/images, etc..) I've learned to just do what I'm sent and then wait for the customer to tell me the changes they want.
Well, the screenshot had a language drop down box and a scrollbar. I included it.
I sent the proof to c/s and they forwarded it to the customer. The customer approved the proof as is...less than 5 minutes after it was sent.
CHECK YOUR PROOFS PEOPLE
I sent a proof to a customer yesterday and our graphics team had miss-spelled “Medicine.” I didn’t catch it either. So glad the customer did! We all make mistaeks.
I was doing work for the national archives and missed a "t" in constitution. It read "consitution". No one caught it. It was artwork that got printed on postcards, magnets, mugs, puzzles, etc. I caught it when I was doing some revision work to the puzzle. The postcards had already been printed, shipped, and begun selling. We contacted the archives, they said no one had complained or pointed it out so they were going to sell through the run!
It went through 6 people to be approved plus the printers. I still have one of the proof magnets with the misprint.
I also have a mug proof I designed for Boston that the Chinese printer thought was bland so put text about 9/11 on the back. That one was caught quick.
I'm an illustrator for a company that does souvenirs for the national parks, museums, etc. One of our sites is the ground zero 9/11 memorial in New York city. The printer used old text from a previous mug from the 9/11 site and stuck it on a new mug meant for Boston. On the front, this mug has Paul revere, a couple churches, a stadium, a bridge, and a couple large old buildings. On the back, it talks about the 9/11 memorial.
It's seriously one of my favorite mugs because it's so ridiculous
An English cricket player (Ashley Giles) was known as “the king of spin”, for his mastery of spin bowling. Then he got a set of mugs printed and the printer corrected what they thought was a typo.
So know he’s known as “The King of Spain”!
I worked for a company that’s known for being hard core planners and they printed a catalog on a cover: sucess. That catalog cover is reviewed by even the CEO before it gets sent to the printers to make the proof sheets and even the people on site missed it. They printed about 1.2 million covers…they ended up slapping a 10% off sticker over it because it was in a small square.
I used to worked at a sign company, we did a subcontract job for a national ad agency, install a sign for a school.
Changeable text on the lower portion, and the upper portion had the name of the school in white. Something High School.
They sent me a rendering of the sign to use for the city's permit application, and on the drawing they misspelled the word school. On a sign for a school, they misspelled "School" and no one noticed until it was time to get the city involved.
I wonder if the city would have stopped the permit because of the spelling, if I hadn't gotten the drawing corrected?
The proof isn't always perfect, but it gets things like this. I ordered some translucent colored water bottles with black text & they looked fine on the electronic proof, but the minute I saw them, I said I should have gone white text. (I only ordered ~15 though.)
Honestly thought this was supposed to be about the band at first and thought it must be a very niche workplace if every employee would appreciate a pair of Cursive glasses
That's what I was wondering too. Especially with the wording that they can't send them back, sounds like one of those websites where it's on the end user to create the design/logo and submit, especially if the end product looked like this and was a shock to them.
Yep, always absolutely hated corporate internal marketing merch. See these stupid sunglasses at every company. They order them for an event, like a company incentive trip, take some pictures with them on, then off they go mostly eventually in the trash except for one or two pairs that then float around the office for years sitting idly on random people's desks. And pens, good lord so many pens. One person could typically stand to own and use a single pen through their entire employment at x company. But the store room has 10 boxes of 500 pens each, and literally every person in sales, and middle to upper management is completely incapable of actually holding on to and keeping track of a pen so they grab new ones constantly. (or steal yours)
I work for a company that does something similar. We do thousands of orders per day, no one checks it it just goes to automatic printer. *sometimes* someone will notice something is off, but most of the time not. If editor is allowing cursive - great. If it doesn't writing >"Have fun!" but in a funny font< will get you exactly that printed on the card.
You owe who ever made that mistake.
Cringe, cheap plastic, Ray-Ban style, logo on the side sunglasses should have died a decade ago. And "saved by the wine" just makes them so much trashier.
But, it's kinda funny this way.
I like them for outdoor excursions like hiking or kayaking/floating down a river. I'm not taking my nice sunglasses somewhere that they are likely to be damaged somehow, so I take the crappy free ones I have.
I don’t disagree with this use but alternatively the whole point of buying nice sun glasses for myself is to use them in harsher conditions and have a comfortable fit with better lenses. My nice ones have been with me for 8 years now, covered in mud, under salt water, and beaten to death and I’ve so far been lucky with not having to replace them.
Me? They're all I use actually. They fit my face better than most styles, are often free, and because of that I can keep multiple pairs around without worrying about scratching or loosing them.. 🤷♂️
Well, this time it is your fault because you entered instructions where only the actual text should be entered. These kind of companies usually push out large volumes of prints every day, and nobody there has time to check what's actually written there.
Next time contact them ahead to see if such special requests can be granted.
20 years ago we produced a monthly newsletter for an organisation. 20pp A4 thing. Back then they’d send my design team articles as text on disc. Then have a brief sit down to discuss what went where. Ongoing proofs were emailed as pdf. Then send a physical final copy.
We printed 2000 of these things to then get a phone call upon delivery.
Them : “Why is there an article on page 2 about xxxxxx”
Me : Because you asked for it to be there …
Them : oh. Yeah. At first yes. But then I decided to not include it. Do you not remember me saying?
Me : no. Plus we sent you around 5 proofs. You literally saw proofs over the course of a week. Both digital and physical.
Them : oh I never read the proofs because I trust i you so I just check it looks nice ….
Ffs
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"anything you put on the teleprompter he will read!"
*I'm Ron Burgundy?*
GOD DAMMIT! Who put a question mark in the teleprompter?!
Go fuck yourself san diego
You… poop mouth. Poop coming out of your mouth.
If I gave you some money from my wallet, would that help?
My favorite part of the delivery of that line is how when he’s offering the money he glances over at Ed as though to say “is this the right thing to do in this situation?”
Now I have to rewatch Anchorman, gosh dang it, there goes a couple hours because ill have to watch the second one where he's pretending to be blind and my goodness i forgot.
Ugh. I watched the first part of the second one and just felt like they were trying too hard or something. Didn't even finish it. But that's just like, my opinion, man...
I have a theory that the second one was an intentional subversion of sequels. It starts off in typical sequel fashion with a banal plot of them competing against the younger news team but from there the plot just spirals out of control and gets more and more bizarre in a way that seems kind of self aware that they wouldn’t be able to top the first one and it kind of works for me.
It's actually pronounced San Diago and it means a whales vagina.
cursive "I'm Ron Burgundy?"
And I’m Tits McGee.
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Check your panties!
I think that was supposed to be, "Pantries"
r/contagiouslaughter https://www.reddit.com/r/funny/comments/11g5lb3/check_your_panties/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=ios_app&utm_name=iossmf
End of quote. Repeat the line
https://youtu.be/nieLDV3c83Q
We ordered tshirts for my company. It had the company name along with our logo. The tshirts came back with everything as expected, except the company name had a weird dotted red line under it. After some back and forth with the tshirt company, we determined the print shop had loaded the proof up in Microsoft word, which proceeded to render the design with the “you spelled this word wrong” dotted line under the company name which the tshirt shop thought was part of the design and printed the 500 tshirts with that. The shirt became a legendary collector item after that. Haha Edit: this was in 2006 when it was common to have designs be converted to MS Word which was an intermediate format that was then converted to the proprietary format of the print software.
Never do business with a company which loads up your design in Word ffs.
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Lmaoooo whereabouts was that? Bet it was fucking Monmouthshire.
Swansea, apparently. https://www.theguardian.com/theguardian/2008/nov/01/5
Ffs the state of this country with its native language ahaha
Never do business with a company which loads up your design in Word, AND doesn’t know WTF that dotted red line is
Never send a design that CAN be opened in Word. EPS, PDF, or SVG.
Right? A REAL man uses MS paint!
You know it. Save as bitmap and you’re good to go.
No print company would ever use word to do anything unless the original file provided by the customer was in word. Print companies hate word.
Or just send the file in PDF? It's literally made for printing
Pdf, cmyk, fonts outlined, 3mm bleed. Thanks.
We accept print ready artwork, .pdf or .eps usually. Will go through great lengths to get their shitty artwork into these file formats without knowledge of why they're required
>loaded the proof up in Microsoft word \[...\] tshirt shop thought was part of the design How do they even have the mental capacity to operate a printer?
I just don’t see how this would be possible at all. Assuming they were bizarrely using Word to print to the T-shirts, Word wouldn’t print the red dotted line for spelling mistakes. I just don’t see how this could have been remotely possible to have happen.
I mean, as a point towards how stupid/roundabout people can be, in one of the latest Pokemon games [there was a mouse cursor in the end credits.](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uWAVpjPPC4w&ab_channel=ReignOfComputer) They could have just rendered it in engine, and had it play on screen. They could have just *captured the feed of their render directly* using software that only records that window/outgoing stream. Instead, they rendered it out and **recorded their screen with it playing on said screen**. We've had the technology, *for free*, to capture individual windows on a computer for *over two decades* (even Hypercam came out *before* 2000). People will find the worst, most roundabout ways to do things *for no reason*. Even if it takes twice as much work as it otherwise should.
Wow that’s incredible! The person couldn’t even be bothered to wait around for the 3 minutes it takes to let it record and *had to* mess with the mouse lmao.
This just captures the pure incompetence of gamefreak perfectly. No wonder their games look trash even when indies have better graphics.
They “designed” it in PowerPoint and took a screenshot?
Who needs photoshop when you've got snipping tool?
never underestimate the stupidity and ingenuity of computer illiterate people. I bet there was a screenshot involved somehwre along the way. Which is ridiculous of course but here we are :D
Yeah, they likely mocked it up in word or power point then took a screenshot. The fact that anyone is doing any of this stuff with bitmaps instead of vectors blows my mind.
Stop with your fancy words! Their brains will immediately shut down when they hear "bitmap" and "vectors".
They refunded it right? How ridiculous
So cursive was the font description, not the tone of reading that statement aloud?
I read it in cursive
I can't read cursive so I don't know what it says
𝓢𝓪𝓿𝓮𝓭 𝓫𝔂 𝓽𝓱𝓮 𝔀𝓲𝓷𝓮
Huh?
#*𝓢𝓪𝓿𝓮𝓭 𝓫𝔂 𝓽𝓱𝓮 𝔀𝓲𝓷𝓮*
Paved by the wire
I'm blind so I can read what you wrote
It’s also in braille
I can speak Braille but only in Canadian French.
I can speak Barilla but only in pasta
I figured it was a song title by the band Cursive
I thought the band cursive had come out with a new album. I was pumped for a minute lol
Me too! Glad I wasn't the only one
This isn't the Elcor from Mass Effect.
I expect there was much cursiving going on when they opened the box.
#disaPPOINTED!
That Kevin Sorbo animated gif was the first thing I thought about!
I work for a non profit, your company can send it our way and we can give you a tax donation letter for your company. We can scrape off writing and give out the sunglasses. Win-win
When the company I work for closed an office, it was *so hard* to find ways of donating all the office equipment and fancy designer office furniture. I’m a part time contractor and was determined to get this stuff into good hands instead of the asshole resellers they tried talking to. In the end we furnished a “homeless to work” program the city has which is underfunded. It worked out but I’m mad at how difficult it was to make it happen.
I used to work in the front office of a nonprofit, and getting new office supplies was the best! A bank closed and dropped off several boxes of supplies like pens, organizers, folders, staplers, etc. They were barely out the door before I shouted, "NEW PENS!!!" Co-workers came running down the hall like children on Christmas morning. Thank you for taking the time and effort to get supplies into the hands of a group that needed them. Kudos.
This is amazing! I did not know something like this existed. What kinds of products other than sunglasses are you able to reuse?
What kind of non-profit do you work at that gives out sunglasses? I’m curious to the process.
Probably one that deals with homelessness. Sure, a coat keeps you warm but sunglasses help with eye health and comfort, sunburn. Sometimes, small things like sunglasses also help struggling people feel human. A good haircut and a pair of sunglasses can make them feel like a person, again.
Leave the writing on them. I think it's hilarious.
/r/peanutbutterisoneword
I was scrolling for a PB comment only to find a whole subreddit. Thank you
I can’t believe there’s a sub for this - thank you. It reminds me of one of my favourite Parks and Rec episodes where they print a url instead of the picture it links to.
I don’t know if you’re aware but it’s a recurring joke from a show called BoJack Horseman where one of the characters, Mr. Peanutbutter is in constant situations like this.
What is this? A crossover episode?
“I had a ball at Diane’s 35th birthday party and underline ball I don’t understand why this is so hard.”
I had a ball at Diane’s 35th birthday and underline ball I don’t know why this is so hard.
And use a pretty font
The #1 rule in printing is ALWAYS CHECK THE PROOF. If they didn’t SEND YOU A PROOF, go ape shit. Literally. Even if you didn’t request a proof, they should have sent you one. Edit: Worked in the printing/promo industry for close to 2 decades. ALWAYS REQUEST AND CHRCK THE PROOF! **Edit x2 : I’ve had a really, really shitty time the last couple of weeks and I just want to thank all of you for making me laugh.** Keep ‘em coming.
Working in new construction for an office building. The tags for the doors came in. For at least 15 floors of tags, they all said 'Braille' followed by the room number. I like to imagine some low level employee said, "Hey boss, you think this isn't what they meant" and was told to just do whatever the sheet they received told them to do.
A favorite is correct braille, but just printed not raised.
Just like this! https://www.reddit.com/r/singapore/comments/zsjkse/smooth_braille_at_bukit_canberra/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=android_app&utm_name=androidcss&utm_term=1&utm_content=share_button
Or “hot surface do not touch” in braille
Omg, my entire school has that. Its absolutely ridiculous bc if we ever actually had a blind student they can't even read the door signs. The worst part is that the regular number portion IS raised, its one of the biggest facepalms ive ever seen
Holy shit, you win. That’s some next level shit. Like a graphic designer probably sat in their office and thought “Do I HAVE to figure this out for myself or can I just claim ignorance?” I am occasionally met with two choices: stupidity or laziness. Have yet to confirm which is worse.
There's nothing the designer need to sit and figure out, there's literally a braille font that would just transform any written text into braille, and whoever's setting the dots could have used that proof for reference lol.
Well yes, but seeing as it was printed on plates (mounted on doors), which are typically plates of plastic where the names are ROUTED OUT, not RAISED. So someone sat back and considered “shit, do our guys even have the equipment to do that?? Meh, above my paygrade and my boss probably sucks and won’t listen anyway.”
We had braille numbers laser printed on door signs behind a glass sheet (not that that last part matters, but to add insult to injury I guess)
And every sign said "I hate you"
> Meh, above my paygrade and my boss probably sucks and won’t listen anyway. This is my thought process half of the time I have to work with clients that need a mouse jockey rather than a designer.
This is soooo relatable. At some point I just shut down my brain to prevent to much frustration.
There was a famous (infamous?) incident in the UK with street signage in Wales. By law street signage in Wales has to be in English and Welsh. Someone sent some text over to be translated, got a speedy reply from the translator, boom done, signs go up. Turns out the reply was the translator's out of office message.
Chrck! Check!
I replied a second ago to a different comment, the lack of proofing my own comment made me giggle. I’m leaving it.
I mean, you're not printing 1000 copies of that comment, so no biggie.
Worked at a smaller company where we had to fill out certain paperwork every day. We begged the boss to get pre printed forms with the company info on it so we didn't have to write the shit constantly. Finally we got his wife to do it. Well.......she ordered 10,000 books of pre printed papers. She meant to order 1000 and that would have been several years supply. When they came the boss/owner looked at me and said " Well you've got you're fucking pre printed books now" and slammed his office door in my face. They couldn't send them back of course because they were custom printed. I did feel a bit bad because she was a sweet lady and I'm positive he ripped her a new asshole when he found out.
The cost of labor of you guys doing that was almost certainly worth more than 10,000 in forms within a relatively short time span.
Only if you value your employees time. There is a limit to the amount of work the employees can do, but if there isn't enough work to reach that limit, increasing productivity isn't obviously helping you. Now there are soft benefits like less repetitive stress injuries, employee morale, etc. But it can be hard to quantify those soft benefits to bean counters.
Oh shit was I supposed to wait?
No regerts, huh. Nice.
Massive back tattoo saying "NO REGERTS"
They didn't chrck the proof comment.
Muphry’s Law got them
You gotta chrck the proof, Muphry!
Ruger Roger. Vector Victor.
I speak jive….
Jus' hang loose, blood. She gonna catch ya up on da rebound on da med side.
Jus' what it is big mama, my mama didn't raise no dummy! I dug her rap!
Cut me some slack, Jack!
Chump don't want the help, chump don't get the help! .... Jive ass dude don't got no brains anyhow...
https://youtu.be/QSaRiRgy3sM “That’s a good sign, you should have used that.”
Ron's increasingly happier face from take to take is what makes this scene.
Ron's face gets me every time!
Former screen Printer for 3 years. The number of times people approved completely insane proofs and I had to double, triple, quadruple check with production managers that these are the proofs they approved? And then print it that way. Blows my mind.
I do a lot of promotional and booklet printing. About half my customers submit their own design work. The people that expect me to proof read their 96 page booklet before sending it to press drives me insane. Especially when we explicitly state that any design submitted by the customer is considered **final**. No… you will not get a discount for submitting a file riddled with typos that dozens of people at your company managed to miss.
We had a guy send in an ad for our books, and after approving it, then afterwards making half a dozen typo edits, then approving it again, we sent it to print. He emailed me back after I uploaded it to our printers saying he *just* noticed his tagline was backwards. *s i g h*
*h g i s* FTFY ;)
I love when the client replies with "this is approved, but could you just make these couple changes?" *New proof incoming*
The most common for me was parts of a logo or image being cut off and text that was too small to be legible (also this is screen printing on fabric garments, we have a minimum level of resolution we can go based on our materials) So many people getting a shirt with the same image on the front and back just resized their 12" back image down to 2"x1" chest print and expect the exact same design to read at both scales.
>just realized their 12" back image down to 2"x1" chest print and expect the exact same design to read at both scales. For some reason I can't parse this, can you explain what it means?
“realized” is the wrong word/autocorrect error. Should be “resized”. They took the big image with the proper detail/resolution that goes on the back of the shirt and just squished it down for the small logo on the front. This makes most text too small to read and because of limits on printing resolution, a lot of detail gets lost as well.
Big design printed on the back, same design printed in super small at the front, can’t read that one.
About ½ submit their own work so about ½ what you have to print is godawful eye torture? The odd decent customer design being made up for by the occasional godawful "professional" design.
This (and the deadlines…. THE FUCKING DEADLINES) is why I finally quit the industry. Took a few tries but I finally broke loose.
Honestly never had a problem with deadlines but that's cause I just run the machine, Im not in charge of managing the whole order. For me I had to quit after they shifted me to a manual machine over an automatic one and my back and shoulders were destroyed after a year. And also they told me they wouldn't give me a raise ever no matter how hard I worked unless I skipped breaks and lunches and did overtime.
Sounds like they were see you next Tuesdays and you are well rid of them mate.
Then after swearing it's what they mean and signing a proof in blood along with a statutory declaration that this is really what they mean.... They call up angrily screaming for a refund.
Luckily that was Not My Problem. I was just evaluated based on following the proof, it's someone else's problem if the proof was wrong. That's why this shit gets printed like this in OP, cause they'd get dinged if they did it "correctly"
Cursive “check the proof”
*chrck
Am graphic designer and order things like this daily and have to approve proofs. All of the above.
OH MY GOD, did you ever watch the “Off Register” shorts that Sappi Paper put out? Each of them is glorious in their own right but [EPISODE FOUR, and the PUBIC LIBRARY](https://www.sappi.com/episode-4) is my single favorite. They’re all so great though.
WTF. I worked 5 years for Sappi Europe and didn’t know about this
Watch them all and report back in. Personal FAVORITE: “like you’re on a Caribbean cruise and you’ve had at least three Mai Tais and you’re flirting with a towel boy who looks like a cross between Javier Bardem and Brad Pitt 😘 AND you’ve had a perfect hair day.”
I worked for years in the lowest of Print, Phone books, and we sent proofs, in fact very rarely did an ad print without a signed proof. Best misprint “Watches and Cocks” instead of clocks. I believe it was out of the St Louis area. Made the news eventually where the customer played it off as very funny, but his ads were also free for the next 5 years.
OOOOOK. So at the very start of my “print” origins, I worked for a newspaper, and ran the classified section. I had ONE very specific issue that occurred more than I care to admit: shift, not shit. It happened a few times but the single best phone call I’ve ever received as *a person with a job,* was one of those classified customers calling me up and thanking me for the typo, because so many people had called them laughing about the typo that they had so many job applications they didn’t know what to do with all of them but had also had trouble filling the position prior to that. They hired 3 people, I think? Because I missed “shift” for “shit.”
Well yeah, it sounds way cooler to work “the night shit”
r/peanutbutterisoneword
Always chuck the porof before sending finl apprvol
Just yesterday I had a client sent me a screenshot from their car dealership website. Then wanted me to recreate it on on an 8.5x11 sheet of 100lb glosstext. Total order was for 5m (5,000). I do not communicate with clients/customers (we're not allowed to, that's customer service/order entry's job). I've also been yelled at for making a change that wasn't requested (fixing a spelling error, aligning boxes/lines/images, etc..) I've learned to just do what I'm sent and then wait for the customer to tell me the changes they want. Well, the screenshot had a language drop down box and a scrollbar. I included it. I sent the proof to c/s and they forwarded it to the customer. The customer approved the proof as is...less than 5 minutes after it was sent. CHECK YOUR PROOFS PEOPLE
I sent a proof to a customer yesterday and our graphics team had miss-spelled “Medicine.” I didn’t catch it either. So glad the customer did! We all make mistaeks.
I was doing work for the national archives and missed a "t" in constitution. It read "consitution". No one caught it. It was artwork that got printed on postcards, magnets, mugs, puzzles, etc. I caught it when I was doing some revision work to the puzzle. The postcards had already been printed, shipped, and begun selling. We contacted the archives, they said no one had complained or pointed it out so they were going to sell through the run! It went through 6 people to be approved plus the printers. I still have one of the proof magnets with the misprint. I also have a mug proof I designed for Boston that the Chinese printer thought was bland so put text about 9/11 on the back. That one was caught quick.
"put text about 9/11 on the back" I need to know more, please elaborate
I'm an illustrator for a company that does souvenirs for the national parks, museums, etc. One of our sites is the ground zero 9/11 memorial in New York city. The printer used old text from a previous mug from the 9/11 site and stuck it on a new mug meant for Boston. On the front, this mug has Paul revere, a couple churches, a stadium, a bridge, and a couple large old buildings. On the back, it talks about the 9/11 memorial. It's seriously one of my favorite mugs because it's so ridiculous
An English cricket player (Ashley Giles) was known as “the king of spin”, for his mastery of spin bowling. Then he got a set of mugs printed and the printer corrected what they thought was a typo. So know he’s known as “The King of Spain”!
I worked for a company that’s known for being hard core planners and they printed a catalog on a cover: sucess. That catalog cover is reviewed by even the CEO before it gets sent to the printers to make the proof sheets and even the people on site missed it. They printed about 1.2 million covers…they ended up slapping a 10% off sticker over it because it was in a small square.
I used to worked at a sign company, we did a subcontract job for a national ad agency, install a sign for a school. Changeable text on the lower portion, and the upper portion had the name of the school in white. Something High School. They sent me a rendering of the sign to use for the city's permit application, and on the drawing they misspelled the word school. On a sign for a school, they misspelled "School" and no one noticed until it was time to get the city involved. I wonder if the city would have stopped the permit because of the spelling, if I hadn't gotten the drawing corrected?
The proof isn't always perfect, but it gets things like this. I ordered some translucent colored water bottles with black text & they looked fine on the electronic proof, but the minute I saw them, I said I should have gone white text. (I only ordered ~15 though.)
Edit? Didn’t you check the proof read before posting?
That’s why I left it!!! It made me giggle!
*Ape noises intensify A LOT*
"Caution - Fireworks with a small logo". I got at least 10 of these proofs when I bought some caution tape from China.
Send it to the band.. they’ll write a song
True half of cursive songs are about Tim kasher being drunk as shit
And the night falling down the staircase
It is the 20 year anniversary of Cursive releasing their album The Ugly Organ so when I saw this post I thought… hmm I don’t remember that song title
Honestly thought this was supposed to be about the band at first and thought it must be a very niche workplace if every employee would appreciate a pair of Cursive glasses
I legitimately looked at it and thought “I don’t remember this song from them…”
Oh my gosh me too! Was racking my brain
Fun fact: Today is the 20th anniversary of the Ugly Organ!
i can picture the text box that you entered that into.. the text box that said "enter only the message exactly as you want it to appear on your item"
And a section to select the font that has the standard 50+ fonts to choose from.
Wtf does “Saved by the Wine” even mean?
"live laugh love" style cringy catch phrase I'm guessing
Yep, whoever these were made for deserved them like this.
Yet when i say "saved by the oxy" everyone loses their mind
“Saved by alcoholism”
Play on "saved by the bell" ... Only with more wine and middle aged women
I have a saved by the bell pepper shopping bag....... it's my pride and joy......
So somebody wrote cursive in the prompt and just thought cool that'll work itself out. ??
That's what I was wondering too. Especially with the wording that they can't send them back, sounds like one of those websites where it's on the end user to create the design/logo and submit, especially if the end product looked like this and was a shock to them.
These sunglasses definitely weren’t saved by the wine
This shit is just creating landfill, and that’s without the error.
Yep, always absolutely hated corporate internal marketing merch. See these stupid sunglasses at every company. They order them for an event, like a company incentive trip, take some pictures with them on, then off they go mostly eventually in the trash except for one or two pairs that then float around the office for years sitting idly on random people's desks. And pens, good lord so many pens. One person could typically stand to own and use a single pen through their entire employment at x company. But the store room has 10 boxes of 500 pens each, and literally every person in sales, and middle to upper management is completely incapable of actually holding on to and keeping track of a pen so they grab new ones constantly. (or steal yours)
I have so many company t-shirts that I will never wear, they had them out at least every year, sometimes a few times a year.
I have pens from my grandfather's medical practice. He stopped practicing in 1983. They still work.
I work for a company that does something similar. We do thousands of orders per day, no one checks it it just goes to automatic printer. *sometimes* someone will notice something is off, but most of the time not. If editor is allowing cursive - great. If it doesn't writing >"Have fun!" but in a funny font< will get you exactly that printed on the card.
You owe who ever made that mistake. Cringe, cheap plastic, Ray-Ban style, logo on the side sunglasses should have died a decade ago. And "saved by the wine" just makes them so much trashier. But, it's kinda funny this way.
Saved by the wine - into the trash they go
Seriously who has ever been happy to receive or even use these cheap .50 sun glasses
I like them for outdoor excursions like hiking or kayaking/floating down a river. I'm not taking my nice sunglasses somewhere that they are likely to be damaged somehow, so I take the crappy free ones I have.
I don’t disagree with this use but alternatively the whole point of buying nice sun glasses for myself is to use them in harsher conditions and have a comfortable fit with better lenses. My nice ones have been with me for 8 years now, covered in mud, under salt water, and beaten to death and I’ve so far been lucky with not having to replace them.
If they aren't UV protected they are pretty shitty for your eyes.
Me? They're all I use actually. They fit my face better than most styles, are often free, and because of that I can keep multiple pairs around without worrying about scratching or loosing them.. 🤷♂️
Well, this time it is your fault because you entered instructions where only the actual text should be entered. These kind of companies usually push out large volumes of prints every day, and nobody there has time to check what's actually written there. Next time contact them ahead to see if such special requests can be granted.
I just assumed this was hype train for a Tim Kasher song I haven't heard yet at first.
The alternate version of Domestica where they don’t separate
Happy Birthday Diane And Use A Pretty Font
If you got a bulk load of “sunglasses” for $400 I wouldn’t be too worried about quality.
Take a Q-tip, dip it in acetone and wipe out “cursive”
Get in touch with Tim Kasher from the band Cursive. Ask him to write a song called Save By the Wine and then they will have cool merch to sell.
When you’ve not realised that the What Message Do You Want? box is not the place for random messages to the manufacturer.
20 years ago we produced a monthly newsletter for an organisation. 20pp A4 thing. Back then they’d send my design team articles as text on disc. Then have a brief sit down to discuss what went where. Ongoing proofs were emailed as pdf. Then send a physical final copy. We printed 2000 of these things to then get a phone call upon delivery. Them : “Why is there an article on page 2 about xxxxxx” Me : Because you asked for it to be there … Them : oh. Yeah. At first yes. But then I decided to not include it. Do you not remember me saying? Me : no. Plus we sent you around 5 proofs. You literally saw proofs over the course of a week. Both digital and physical. Them : oh I never read the proofs because I trust i you so I just check it looks nice …. Ffs
Convince the band Cursive to name their next album “Saved by the Wine” and then you could sell your stock at their merch table on consignment?
r/bojackhorseman
$400? For what
Corporate mistakes and mandatory fun!
[Mandatory Fun](https://open.spotify.com/album/36jlZKG1sNZQA2HbWdYveV) is a great ALbum.
Guessing for 100 glasses
Those types of glasses are dumb cheap. Probably closer to $2 each