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Take my wife. Please!


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[Gary A.]

Work sucks. Even when I was working as a photog it sucked ... (but then it sucked less ... free film makes everything less suckie).

 

[sm4him]

Work sucks. Even when I was working as a photog it sucked ... (but then it sucked less ... free film makes everything less suckie).

Work sucks especially bad right now.
I've got more to do right now than usual, which sucks.
We have a new GM who has been here a few months. I tried to give her a chance, but I just don't like her much and I have a feeling the opinion is mutual.
AND--at least so far, they've ended up backing out of the deal that was SUPPOSED to get me a DSLR for work, so I've just got a generally bad attitude.

 

[Gary A.]

No new dSLR and a crappy boss ... that's a double suck.

 

[astroNikon]

I'm almost off the leaderboard!!! Help!!! I've fallen and I can't get up!!

Bend over some
I'll help you get up

I don't see how bending over is going to help me!! lol

It would help me ...

 

[astroNikon]

Well, my lovely wife is almost ready for work, so I guess I need to log out.

See you this evening.

Wow
You blew right past me this morning in posting

But now Charlie's gone to work...and you're still here...

I'm home sick
and my internet belkin router isn't working ... luckily I have a backup internet router.

He must have posted a ton in the last day. Way more than I can. I'll never catch up.

 

[astroNikon]

Work sucks. Even when I was working as a photog it sucked ... (but then it sucked less ... free film makes everything less suckie).

Work sucks especially bad right now.
I've got more to do right now than usual, which sucks.
We have a new GM who has been here a few months. I tried to give her a chance, but I just don't like her much and I have a feeling the opinion is mutual.
AND--at least so far, they've ended up backing out of the deal that was SUPPOSED to get me a DSLR for work, so I've just got a generally bad attitude.

So do you have to keep using your own DSLR?
can you charge them usage of your personal DSLR .. kinda like when you go someplace you get car mileage ?

 

[limr8 6]

Work sucks. Even when I was working as a photog it sucked ... (but then it sucked less ... free film makes everything less suckie).

YES!!

Well, my work kinda sucks right now, too. First of all, only half the class submitted their essays - yes, that's good for me in a way because it's fewer papers to grade, but it also means that I've got some lazy ass students. Also that I'll probably get a few more emails begging me to take their paper (I don't take late papers.) Some of them will probably stop coming to class in a couple of weeks, but others will stay around and think that just showing up will be enough, which translates into probably 4-5 conversations come December consisting of, "No, you can NOT submit a semester's worth of work all at the end, and yes, you ARE going to fail this class."

Second of all, some of them are still submitting their work with stupid stupid mistakes, like forgetting to capitalize their own names, or continuing to send work in a format that I have said repeatedly I cannot open. (.pages) or STILL not double-spacing the text.



Yeah yeah, during actual class time, I love it, but right now, it blows being a teacher.

 

[sm4him]

Work sucks. Even when I was working as a photog it sucked ... (but then it sucked less ... free film makes everything less suckie).

Work sucks especially bad right now.
I've got more to do right now than usual, which sucks.
We have a new GM who has been here a few months. I tried to give her a chance, but I just don't like her much and I have a feeling the opinion is mutual.
AND--at least so far, they've ended up backing out of the deal that was SUPPOSED to get me a DSLR for work, so I've just got a generally bad attitude.

So do you have to keep using your own DSLR?
can you charge them usage of your personal DSLR .. kinda like when you go someplace you get car mileage ?

Oh, no. It's worse than that. The Chief Financial Officer is adamant that I NOT use my personal gear anymore. And they aren't saying they'll never buy the DSLR; just that they had hoped to do before the end of the last fiscal year, but that didn't happen-- and so now they don't want to spend that kinda money out of THIS year's budget yet.

So THEN they were going to at least let me buy a pretty decent bridge camera, one that still shoots raw. But I haven't been able to find one that is available locally, and for reasons way too complicated to go into, we can't purchase it online. So NOW, what they want to do is just go to Best Buy or wherever and buy "the best thing" they can get for about $400. And I can't find a single thing locally that will at LEAST shoot raw.

So, basically, they want to buy a point-and-shoot, and then they'll want me to use that stupid point-and-shoot and get the same kind of images I've been shooting. And then down the road, supposedly, we'll still get the DSLR. But I'm not holding my breath.

But they *have* at least conceded that I might need something better to shoot with at the state conference we're hosting in November, so I *might* at least get to rent a decent DSLR for a few days. I'm actually working on what that's gonna be right now.

 

[sm4him]

Second of all, some of them are still submitting their work with stupid stupid mistakes, like forgetting to capitalize their own names.

THAT was so funny it would have made me spit my drink out, if I had one.
Funny, I didn't remember that you taught Pre-K.

 

[astroNikon]

Tell them the dangers of renting a dslr that you are not familiar with .. ie, P&S quaiity photos

 

[sm4him]

Tell them the dangers of renting a dslr that you are not familiar with .. ie, P&S quaiity photos

ESPECIALLY since, it turns out, the ONLY DSLRs the local place rents out are all full-frame. While I'd LOVE to play around with a D800, I've never used one before so I'd have to rent it for WAY longer than we actually need it just to learn how to use it. And I doubt seriously they're going to shell out what it would cost to rent it for 10 days, just so I can actually use it at work for 4 days.

 

[astroNikon]

Yup, all the button placements are in different locations, etc.
You'd have to give yourself at least a couple weeks to get used to a d800 & a lens.

the only problem is, you'd have to give it back.

 

[limr8 6]

Second of all, some of them are still submitting their work with stupid stupid mistakes, like forgetting to capitalize their own names.

THAT was so funny it would have made me spit my drink out, if I had one.
Funny, I didn't remember that you taught Pre-K.

Is it bad that I just laughed out loud at a typo made by a student who happens to be Asian: "Aesop's fable is the story of an ant who woks in the summer..." ?

 

[astroNikon]

Funny !!