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Author Topic: Things that made you RRRRRRAAAAGGGGEEEE today: Trust-o-nomics Edition  (Read 3747968 times)

penguinofhonor

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Re: Things that made you RRAAAAGGGGEEEE: New rules, read them.
« Reply #27810 on: September 26, 2013, 07:01:29 pm »

The guy who was covering my shift at work this Saturday just told me he can't. This screws up my weekend quite a bit.
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« Reply #27811 on: September 26, 2013, 07:42:34 pm »

Teacher & Parents, when seeing a teen use an iPad/iPhone/iWhatever:
- Children these days never do anything outside!

It's funny because adults use their hip iTechnology just as much as the teenagers they're complaining about.
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« Reply #27812 on: September 26, 2013, 07:48:49 pm »

It's funny because adults use their hip iTechnology just as much as the teenagers they're complaining about.

But they played outside when they were kids so they earned the right to stare at a screen all day.
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« Reply #27813 on: September 26, 2013, 07:54:00 pm »

In my Photography class, we use Photoshop a lot, and I know how to use it because I had a class based around it a few years ago, and also because it's pretty easy to figure out.

My friend, who is really awesome and funny and all, does not understand... anything about it. Even after the teacher lectures us, even after I show him repeatedly, it doesn't sink in. Seeing him try to edit a photo reminds me of a bug trying to crawl up a smooth wall: they keep falling off and trying again, but they never switch their tactics.

I was in a pretty similar situation in my first Photoshop class. Really, the most frustrating thing is that I don't know if maybe by helping him, I'm actually hampering his ability to actually learn the material.
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« Reply #27814 on: September 27, 2013, 12:36:08 am »

Free weekend for RO: Rising Storm on steam means I somehow have to re download the 5gb game all over again..
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« Reply #27815 on: September 27, 2013, 10:03:59 am »

So, in another forum, a guy revealed himself as being transsexual. Debate on transsexuality, homosexuality, gay marriage and transhumanism ensue.
It ends up in me and another guy exchanging heated arguments, and I throwed up the towel when he admitted being homophobic and basically a vitalist. He didn't say the word but he is hell bent on arguing that living matter is somehow special, hence messing with nature is borderline blasphemy. Since his vocabulary is increasingly religious-sounding, I admit there is no point in trying to reason him and rage-quit.
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« Reply #27816 on: September 27, 2013, 10:13:04 am »

so i figured i might as well relearn some quality physicsTM with all this wizardly self-improvement via knowledge and all

never before have i met a thing that was this precise and this arbitrary at the same time switching at seemingly random times and i'm just doing high school level stuff (paths of launched objects with simplified air drag thrown in) which has actually reminded me of how much of an annoyance it was when i learned it in the first place

my, this might be the reason why i got away with bullshitting the ways in which you calculate things in places that are not this forum. does anyone here know how flow rates work? as in you've got a stack of liquid and the walls holding the liquid disappear and it just pyramids everywhere
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« Reply #27817 on: September 27, 2013, 10:16:31 am »

I looked into that stuff for fluid simulation. It is not easy stuff.
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« Reply #27818 on: September 27, 2013, 10:24:07 am »

So I just happen to be messing around with liquid nitrogen and demonstrating the Meissner effect when the fire alarm goes. Fucking brilliant timing, idiot smoking near a heat detector. Part of me wishes there was an actual fire, so I could boss right up to it and put it out with the liquid nitrogen. Alas, by the time I was allowed back in, it had all evaporated. :/

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« Reply #27819 on: September 27, 2013, 10:29:01 am »

Welp, everything's going to crap with work. 2/3 Clients looking to bail as the deadline approaches, leaving me with 30 hours of work done this week, and nothing earned. This what you get for being lenient and trusting, self.

I'm fighting the urge to say Fuck This Shit, I'm Out... but maybe that's just the rebound from my excitement and "Can Do, Lets Go!" attitude getting doused. Flaky clients can bail on you at the last minute, unless you bomb them with legally-binding paperwork before you get started on the work. Which I might have to start doing. But... god, I just want to be able to trust people to honor their word. Is that so much to ask?

"Unlimited Revisions? Sure, I trust you wont just pay me for 10 hours of work, and ask for 20 hours of revisions. Not happy with your game idea? I know you're just paying me for art, but I like this enough to throw in some free game design and consultation too. Got a tight budget? I'll keep my research and sketch work time off the clock, and we can just work out payment once I've got everything ready to deliver. I trust you."

I like being flexible with others, and can be generous with my time and energy. I'd love to be able to be nice, give these projects my all even if I think they're stupid as hell, and try to go beyond people's expectations. When this gets repaid by folks flaking out at the last minute, and and generally taking advantage of my kindness and trust... that kills me. Not to mention leaves me with a fraction of what I thought I'd be earning this month.

Looks like my birthday gift to myself will be an Expired and Invalid License Plate for the car. Among other things. Woohoo.
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Re: Things that made you RRAAAAGGGGEEEE: New rules, read them.
« Reply #27820 on: September 27, 2013, 10:45:46 am »

Welp, everything's going to crap with work. 2/3 Clients looking to bail as the deadline approaches, leaving me with 30 hours of work done this week, and nothing earned. This what you get for being lenient and trusting, self.

I'm fighting the urge to say Fuck This Shit, I'm Out... but maybe that's just the rebound from my excitement and "Can Do, Lets Go!" attitude getting doused. Flaky clients can bail on you at the last minute, unless you bomb them with legally-binding paperwork before you get started on the work. Which I might have to start doing. But... god, I just want to be able to trust people to honor their word. Is that so much to ask?

"Unlimited Revisions? Sure, I trust you wont just pay me for 10 hours of work, and ask for 20 hours of revisions. Not happy with your game idea? I know you're just paying me for art, but I like this enough to throw in some free game design and consultation too. Got a tight budget? I'll keep my research and sketch work time off the clock, and we can just work out payment once I've got everything ready to deliver. I trust you."

I like being flexible with others, and can be generous with my time and energy. I'd love to be able to be nice, give these projects my all even if I think they're stupid as hell, and try to go beyond people's expectations. When this gets repaid by folks flaking out at the last minute, and and generally taking advantage of my kindness and trust... that kills me. Not to mention leaves me with a fraction of what I thought I'd be earning this month.

Looks like my birthday gift to myself will be an Expired and Invalid License Plate for the car. Among other things. Woohoo.
You need to protect yourself, Soli, even if it's just with a deal memo. If you're going to put more than 15 hours into a project, that represents something worth the mutual respect that a legally binding email will give you. It won't be worth going after in any sort of court, but it will at least let them know that you're a professional, and this is how you make your living. You can build flexibility into it, but you should have a reasonably certain idea as to what the terms will be the further you get into the project. Especially as you're putting your heart and soul into it, and that you more than live up to your end of the bargain. You can go above and beyond your side of the legally binding agreement, but at least make sure that you get some form of compensation built in if the deal goes south. You're not always going to get this, but you're a professional now and you need to protect yourself. It's not building an impenetrable wall of steel and spikes, it's wearing a cup.

I need to start taking my own advice about this too. I have been damn lucky about choosing my paying clients (those couple I have had), and most of the stuff I've done so far has been free of charge, but I'm hoping to take more paying clients soon enough, and I really need to set up a standard agreement for compensation in the event of a flaky client.
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Re: Things that made you RRAAAAGGGGEEEE: New rules, read them.
« Reply #27821 on: September 28, 2013, 03:31:13 am »

Yeah, the site Clients from Hell made me think that you have to bombard every single client with papers or they won't ever pay up.
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Re: Things that made you RRAAAAGGGGEEEE: New rules, read them.
« Reply #27822 on: September 28, 2013, 03:57:00 pm »

That damned online homework program I have to use for school is really pissing me off.

It the harshest marker I've ever had to put up with.

Your math equation is off by 0.01? Accidentally labelled the PR in a column as g1 instead of G1 in your general accounting journal?

Wrong answer, you lose marks. Not "you are wrong, you won't get a mark" but "this is incorrect, we will deduct marks from your total because of this!"
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« Reply #27823 on: September 28, 2013, 04:05:14 pm »

It's probably good programming practice! Bugger up a letter case, program explodes~

But yeah, I've got... multiple... software packages like that, that I've been dealing with for the last little bit. You... you learn precision, really. Or, well. I was already like that to a fair degree. To an extent, that's actually a more important skill to learn than whatever it is the class(es) itself is teaching you, though~
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Re: Things that made you RRAAAAGGGGEEEE: New rules, read them.
« Reply #27824 on: September 28, 2013, 04:54:03 pm »

That damned online homework program I have to use for school is really pissing me off.

It the harshest marker I've ever had to put up with.

Your math equation is off by 0.01? Accidentally labelled the PR in a column as g1 instead of G1 in your general accounting journal?

Wrong answer, you lose marks. Not "you are wrong, you won't get a mark" but "this is incorrect, we will deduct marks from your total because of this!"

Oh, I think I know the one. God forbid you have stray whitespace.
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