Comments on: 10 Things Your Boss Hates About You: Open Thread

By: Colleen

Colleen — Thu, 06 Aug 2009 18:05:06 +0000

Alas, the blog migration did this to a lot of posts. thanks for the heads up. I will fix.

By: Arlnee

Arlnee — Thu, 06 Aug 2009 17:59:07 +0000

I don’t know what happened with the coding on this thing but all the apostrophes went nuts. Don’t know if it’s worth cleaning up, but as is it’s really hard to read

By: scribblerworks

scribblerworks — Tue, 03 Mar 2009 19:12:31 +0000

I gradually learned as I got into trying to break into comics (still working on that too – someday someone will pay me!), that you have to be careful about naming names. When I comes to writers, I’ll mention specific stories that I didn’t like, and be specific about why (poor plot points, failure at characterization, incorrect details, being obvious – those are “writer’s sins” to me), but I avoid commenting about people *as* people. I don’t like the idea of going around saying “So and so is a jerk”. Only if there has been a blatant, public occasion of that jerkishness will I say so – otherwise, I’ve learned to just try and keep it (at least in public) to “Not my sort of person”.

When a pro rags on another pro’s work, it can get “bloody”. I know one inker who can wheel out a tirade about a certain penciller’s current work. But I’d say he’s earned to right to it, as he used to ink that penciller’s work A LOT.

By: Colleen

Colleen — Tue, 03 Mar 2009 17:42:38 +0000

I had the very unfortunate experience of hiring a guy many years ago who used to help pack books, run errands, and for a brief time applied tone sheets. I found him to be unbearably lazy, and I realized his primary interest was getting close to me so he could gossip about hanging with a pro. He didn’t work with me very long.

I have never known a more ridiculous liar in my entire life. He lied about everything. He lied about things that didn’t matter. He lied about what he liked, what he watched on TV, what he did during the day. He lied to people claiming he was working for me six months after I declared I would not longer avail myself of his services. He lied to people claiming he had worked for me five years before I even knew who he was. He lied about knowing directions to places, having been places he had never been. It was utterly bizarre.

I remain puzzled by this guy to this day. I have no idea what he was getting out of all that lying. A cheap sense of power? I realize that information is currency in fandom, but dang.

It occurs to me that he may have lied about his likes and dislikes to try to pretend we had common ground, but he did nothing but arouse my contempt. I came to despise him.

By: VT

VT — Tue, 03 Mar 2009 16:59:09 +0000

From that list, I think a lack of passion/interest bothers me the most in a minion. And petty lying.

I had a minion who claimed he wanted to be a designer more than anything; wanted to abandon HTML and learn the ways of print design. Turns out he liked the idea of being a designer far more than the reality of doing boring composition and typography exercises. Look, I don’t expect anyone in a creative field to muster up enthusiasm for filling out purchase requisitions — but try to be somewhat excited about learning the elements of design, okay?

I’ve fired people for petty lying. I react much, much better to someone being honest, no matter how lame it might sound, than I do being lied to.