but here's an action shot of me looking at matchprints for the limeproject calendar: each sheet is really freaking long and all the sheets came rolled up into a tube, which i'm trying to balance and not drop as i take the photo and hold the matchprint so you can see more than glare. a closer shot of the cover section of the matchprint: the real cover, generated from the original art: there were a couple of errors when the PDF got output to the printer's imagesetter, so i had to give them a new file this afternoon and sign off on the job with the noted corrections. all things considered, a couple of errors out of the 300+ possible errors is pretty Not Bad.
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from candidate #1: MCCS, IBM/MAC proficient: Adware, Reconciliation, Quickbooks, Kintera, Raiser's Edge, Windows 95/98/00/XP/NT; Microsoft Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Visio, MS Project, Access, BDS, Soundscan, Photoshop, Illustrator, Flash Pro 8, Quicken, Outlook, HTML, E-Mail and Internet savvy including highly skilled with various search engines.... from candidate #2: Photoshop, Flash, QuarkXPress, Ilustrator, Painter, Final Cut Pro, ProTools, Outlook, Digital Research, IBM/MAC proficient, Microsoft Office, HTML, E-Mail, Internet savvy, and highly skilled with various search engines.... Never gets frazzled, takes pride in a job well done, and thrives in a challenging and fast paced environment you know, it doesn't take deploying any sort of literary criticism to see the problem, here.
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i said, 'these images are good, except for the icons i want deleted,' and show him each printout.... i explain to him that when i said, 'use project X as a template,' that means to open up a file from project X and save it in the project B folder.... off-the-chart as in, teachers when i was young, test administrators, and now HR people at my job administering the test say, 'wow, we've never seen anyone score that high in that area,' off-the-chart.
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apparently, on my new minion's planet, the answer is to have his new boss call him twice by 9:42 a.m., wondering where he was! he called me back a couple of minutes ago, saying he thought he was supposed to report at 10:30, when he was meeting with the payroll supervisor. i told him, 'no, you were supposed to report at the start of the work day, which is 8 o'clock.'
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yesterday, my boss and i were meeting after we'd interviewed one of the minion candidates, and she asked me how things were going with the temp. as i paused to think for a minute about how to tactfully describe things, my boss said, 'you know, we can get you another temp.' 'well, i don't want to be difficult,' i said.... 'well, today's your last day; the agency was supposed to let you know that.... i suggested that she learn more about the basic principles of design; that she practice creating comps more quickly; that she get more experience using the software programs so that she could work faster, and i suggested that perhaps she should focus on trying to find other types of work that better played to her strengths.
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