Karl Salisbury
Suicidalpeanut
JOINED 29.05.10
POSTS 97
Dealing with paper merchants
Posted 27.03.2012 @ 4.22PM
It's a sales pitch, because at the end of the day they are sales people in the business of selling paper. Can't be too hard on them really it's just business.
Worked in a print shop for a while, practically had to chase them out the door with a broom. Most of them are nice enough though.
Maybe just say you need to review their stock but don't have time for a meeting but they're welcome to drop it off.
Suicidalpeanut
JOINED 29.05.10
POSTS 97
do you have a nemesis?
Posted 27.03.2012 @ 4.17PM
Ah sales reps, dealt with quite a lot of them and I swear to god most of them seem to have suffered some kind of brain damage or have an undiagnosed intellectual disability. Blows my mind how these people manage to get employed in the first place.
Suicidalpeanut
JOINED 29.05.10
POSTS 97
Where are the girls?
Posted 09.03.2012 @ 7.59AM
My opinion is Infront is mostly a hangout for developers and digital designers, a very geeky (sorry but it's true), technical facet of design that tends to be mostly comprised of men. I always did find it strange that out of college the ratios tend to be more men than women, with workplaces comprised mostly of women the exception rather than the rule
I personally don't like being in a workplace that is heavily slanted towards either gender. If an all male workplace is a sausage fest does that make an all female one a taco fest? Obviously it's never going to be 50/50 but balance is good.
Suicidalpeanut
JOINED 29.05.10
POSTS 97
Where would you work in the mean time?
Posted 23.02.2012 @ 5.50PM
::Organic farmer, or dog walker, or bike courier.
Can't say I'd want to be an organic farmer. It's brutally hard work (moreso than regular farming, hence the reason they often use woofers) and a financial gamble. At the end of the day it's nothing special, just farming without chemicals.
4 months of woofing really took the romanticism out of it for me.
Suicidalpeanut
JOINED 29.05.10
POSTS 97
"Job" ads on AIF that should be banned.
Posted 18.01.2012 @ 11.00AM
I think it really depends on the extent of the on the job training and mentoring you'll be getting.
That said if they're expecting a high level of software knowledge and completed qualifications it doesn't really sound like an internship, rather a part time junior designer position.
At the end of the day I agree with what was said above. They're a business, they're making money, they should pay you something.
Dittmar
JOINED 07.04.10
POSTS 151
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Where would you work in the mean time?
Posted 24.02.2012 @ 9.48AM
@Suicidalpeanut it would be for a greater cause than financial gain! I think farming without chemicals is very special, but hey each to their own.