I hate the fact that people in high positions in a company can make offhand statements and severely affect people like me down in the trenches. The new boss of my company recently commented that he didn't like web site graphics that don't contain photos of people. I wasn't present for the conversation, so I don't really know how directed his comment was. But, having met the man, I bet it was just said casually, that when he's on the web, he likes seeing photos of people as opposed to tired clip art drawings of stuff.
But somehow this has filtered down to me as a mandate from above, that, effective immediately, the site is to be freed of any graphic that does not contain at least one human being. What nobody above me understands is that I'm already way over deadline on this site (not my fault, I swear!) and that I don't exactly have some huge library of people photos lying around. So now I am currently adding what few images I do have, artistically cropping and editing to make them look different from the images already on the site. For this I went to college? Okay, I went to college for poetry, perhaps that's a not a road that bears much scrutiny.
anyhow, not only am I desperately trying to jazz up the site thusly, I am also trying to finish building the damn thing. Meanwhile, I have two meeting an semi-related matters today, plus a time-wasting but heartwarming office holiday luncheon. On top of that, some imbecilic ad firm people keep calling me (presumably because I'm the only one who answers the phone when they call), who despite explanations that we have no use for their services, keep trying to 'maintain a relationship' with our company. They're coming by today to deliver presents to the staff.
Okay, everybody likes presents, but have you ever talked to an ad firm sales rep? I wanna die. I can't wait for that week off at the end of the month. Oh that's right, I have to work through the vacation on some stupid project nobody cares about that might get scrapped anyway. Someday I hope to be in one of these gilded positions in which youget to sit around and try to think up ways to justify your employment.
"Hey, let's change the company color palette each by one Pantone number!"
"I think the clients needs holiday Dayplanners, somebody figure out how to order and send them out."
"Let's slightly change the name of most of our products … and not tell anybody until they freak out!"
I'm so upper-management material!
