Why You Never Ask the Designers For a Favor

Usually there is nothing funny about a missing pet, but the tale of Missy the lost cat is hilarious. It serves as an example of just how clueless your fellow employees can be, and why you should never ask the designers to drop what they're doing, and help with a personal matter.

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Link to the original

[Petersko]

I think this might be the original - why not start there? There are some other articles that are funny as well.

http://www.27bslash6.com/missy.html

Re:Link to the original

[Anonymous Coward]

it's David Thorne. If anyone actually believes that there was really a missing cat, i have a few bridges to sell you and an igloo with an awesome Sub Zero freezer in it.

Re:Link to the original

[Soulskill]

Updated with the proper link. Thanks.

Stolen content?

[GoNINzo]

Why did you post this link to a bunch of stolen content?

The original source is 27bslash6.com, which is David Thorne's website. Which is awesome.

Holy crap, two people that are perfect together

[jeffmeden]

Despite being incredibly funny (to the point of an uncomfortably loud outburst in an otherwise quiet office) I have to think that those two would make quite the couple. She didn't seem to badger the designer about the poster, she sent just one brief email that he could have ignored as easily as he no doubt ignores all the others. Although it was a project that would take a complete amateur no more than 5 minutes to perfect in MS Word, and a "pro" probably 10 minutes out of insistence on plodding through Frame Maker or Illustrator to achieve the same thing, the designer is understandably upset that his workload is going up. Good thing he decided to carry out 5 design projects, all off-spec, in order to spite her for asking for one very simple thing.

Those two should hook up already.

Re:The guy is a nasty, vicious idiot.

[LearnToSpell]

Option 3:
Make the whole thing up (or generous parts) to tell a funny little story, in a similar vein as his other, oh... 50 or so tales, and watch the outrage and moral anguish fly.

Re:Last month wants its meme back

[Dahamma]

Last *month*? Thorne has been (in)famous for a lot longer than that...

http://www.amazon.com/Internet-Playground-David-Thorne/dp/0980672929

Re:Didn't Seem Like Any Designer I've Worked With

[tumutbound]

learning enough about it not to electrocute himself when scaling a photograph.

Somebody is doing something very, very wrong here. Let me guess, you use GIMP.

Shows how much YOU know! gimp is battery powered and is completely safe.

Yes

[Sycraft-fu]

It is amazing the amount of time assholes will spend on being assholes. They can be pressed for time to get their work done, yet find plenty of time to be dicks to people since they take pleasure from it.

Now this doesn't mean that this case isn't made up, but I could certainly see it being real. It follows asshole logic (such as it were) perfectly:

--Spend 10 minutes helping you: WASTE of time! How could I waste so much time on something that gets me nothing when I'm so busy!

--Spend 2 hours making your miserable: Great use of time! I derive pleasure from your misery!

Link to More Relevant Story

[Roger W Moore]

Rather than report on the missy one why not report on one of the stories far more relevant to Slashdot (Open Source, discipline without thinking etc.) which is arguably funnier because the teacher is more deserving of the treatment and which is brilliant at the end in that it might have actually reminded the teacher what is really important.