Seems this Missing Missy exchange has made the rounds already but I just discovered it and genuinely LOL’d (GLOL’d?) so figured I’d share. Will prob hit even harder if you’re a designer who’s ever been asked to craft a “quick” design for a co-worker.
Shannon: “I opened the screen door yesterday and my cat got out and has been missing since then so I was wondering if you are not to busy you could make a poster for me.”
David: “Although I have two clients expecting completed work this afternoon, I will, of course, drop everything and do whatever it takes to facilitate the speedy return of Missy.”
Shannon: “yeah thats not what I was looking for at all. it looks like a movie and how come the photo of Missy is so small?”
David: “It’s a design thing. The cat is lost in the negative space.”
Gets stranger/funnier from there.
Christopher Hawkins
on 19 Aug 10Is this a hoax? If not, that designer seems rather dickish.
Christopher Hawkins
on 19 Aug 10On the other hand, the “Please design a logo for me. With pie charts. For free.” is both hilarious and pitch-perfect.
Dylan
on 19 Aug 10They were two sizes too small but I wanted them so badly I figured I could just wear them without socks and cut my toenails very short.
Dylan
on 20 Aug 10An oldie but a goodie. This is one of the funniest things on the Internet. Thanks for sharing :) I LOL’d
Joost Schuur
on 20 Aug 10I’m sure it’s just another hoax put together to attract attention to the site.
However, if it is real, the guy is definitely an elitist ass. We don’t know much of the context other than a woman had her cat gone missing and apparently wasn’t in tune with this guy’s schedule. Maybe she was distraught about a pet she dearly cared for going missing? So what if you don’t like cats. Have a little perspective and consider that other people enjoy things you don’t, just like you might have tastes that aren’t shared by others too. No, instead you had to lash out at a woman going through a personal crisis.
He doesn’t like cats and he took the opportunity to mock a woman who dearly cared about one. What a stand up guy he is. If he is real, I definitely wouldn’t hire him based on this exchange.
Rather than make fun of someone in multiple emails and with a number of images, how about he just slap the picture on an image with a header and footer and spend less time on that than it took to write the emails alone. That would take 30 seconds.
It’s snobbish behavior like this that gives designers, Mac users and cat haters a bad name. And I say that as a Mac user and someone with a cat.
Azaliae
on 20 Aug 10A coworker asked me a 3minutes service for something she cared about. I have time to make what she asked me (obviously with 7 pictures made…). Let’s mock her, it so funny ! And I can post it to my Internet friends and gain Internet fame…
Even in a megacorp it’s a strange work environment…
She is a secretary, would it be considered funny if she refuses to accept package delivery because of imaginary workload?
Reggie
on 20 Aug 10[] probability this is real [] probability it’s funny anyway
(just imagine a monotone circle.)
Kirk
on 21 Aug 10Come on…. this is hilarious. I mean why be helpful when you can be an asshole instead.
Gearóid
on 21 Aug 10@Joost Lighten up FFS
Semi-anonymous
on 22 Aug 10Strange that, even though they are in South Africa (notice the spelling of “faeces” and the phone number format), that the reward is in dollars.
Seems like the reward would have been in rand, the currency of South Africa…
Robert Sullivan
on 23 Aug 10This seems like a fresh take on an old internet joke, and reminds me of the swing, or the sysadmin from Hell story, which gave good sysadmins a bad name. Not as funny these days, when someone from India can do the job right the first time, and much cheaper than David Thorne.
Maybe I’m biased, besides cats, the guy hates bicyclists, if you see one of his other posts. So yes, I’d agree, this is one of those snarky columns, intended to incite and draw attention.
Granted, nice artwork and it is funny.
Fully-anonymous
on 24 Aug 10@Semi-anonymous Australia, where David Thorne lives, is not South Africa, but it does have dollars and (for the most part) uses British English spelling.
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