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

[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.