Other What's ruining your life right now?

I don't have it that bad but, yeah pollen is a bugger.

Some other ailment i seemed to have accrued with age.

 

We were in Rome, it was 35 degrees. All we could do was sit and drink.

When we left we shared a taxi with an Aussie guy, he'd done a five hour walking tour of the city.

We didn't manage to walk to the next bar

 

Hayfever will be the death of me

 

Replaced the pedals on the bike due to a clicking I could feel in my feet. One pedal had something loose so thought job done.

Clicking is, still there, my own fault the stock bottom bracket is terrible quality known to fail very quickly so I'll have to invest in a rather expensive one.

Also lost most of the sound in the door of the car during the week. Checked the easy stuff, speaker terminals, connectors, amp. All good so ended up gutting one side of the car. Turned out the crimp terminal to the speaker I had checked. Had corroded away new one fitted, all terminals now covered in marine grease. Four hours to find a, crimp which I'd checked in the, first ten minutes.

 

the art director of a new studio opening in Leamington spa contacts me out the blue, "found your portfolio online, your **** is great, wanna come join my new art team I'm building?"

its a respectable studio so sure, I'm game. 2 weeks later I get a response back "hey could you do a test for us?" interesting I thought being as you wouldn't have contacted me if you felt I couldn't do it, but my portfolio is 99% science fiction based and covers multiple disciples so i ask what the test is for "oh its a UI design test, you'd have 5 days to do it tho" OK sure I say. I get the brief, and the deadline on it says 3 days plus it has holes in it, not major ones but worth an email asking for clarification. so I set to work and email over my questions regarding the brief. by the end of the second day I've not heard anything, **** it, the brief states that its just a guideline and that it can be winged if I feel I can enhance it. job done and its in their inbox within 3 days along with a design sheet stating my thoughts on each element of the design.

get a response back this morning saying that they're not taking my application further.

what the...? I didn't apply to work with them they contacted me asking to join.

I'm ****ing raging right now, I've spoken to their recruitment team this morning only to get the response "err we'll get back to you after we've spoke to the art director" no you bloody wont, i'll be chasing you later on this afternoon!

this contract would have been the win that I really need right now, I dont need this ****.

 

some chinese knock off firm maybe but Sumo Digital?

 

only an NDA that I keep my yap shut about the project and not reveal any artwork I receive, there was nothing in there regarding rights ownership.

 

I'd be sending them an invoice for the work they solicited from you and a vague mention of taking legal advice.

It probably won't come to anything but these shysters like being answered back to even less than they like paying for stuff. It's pretty obvious that there wasn't a contract and there never will be.

 

Might be the IT dept. that didn't disable them properly...

 

nah you're good. I got a call from the studios operations manager as she was driving home apologising over the breakdown in communications on their part. 40 min conversion later and she's putting me in touch with several studios who are looking for staff around the leamington area so its not a complete loss. still mildly ****ed off over it.

 

Yeah just disable the device as part of the build, less hassle.

 

Sorry El Banko dislike sound, unless its from someone walking around having a private conversation on speakerphone, or video conference at a random persons desk with their speaker bar on full whack.

 

The default bong is actually the only useful windows sound, by virtue of the aforementioned volume indication.