who gives the lamest excuses?

its amazing the excuses that have been flying across my desk recently, mainly from adult designers. I think, without fail, every time I have ever hired someone to do design work they have a serious illness in their family (usually their mothers). Its almost like clockwork, I hire them & pay 50% and wait a week, then get in touch with them for an update and their mum was sick / in the hospital / on her deathbed / etc...

So who do you think gives the lamest excuses?
(voting more than once is allowed)

cheers,
Luke

Definitely designers!

Luke...

All i can say is GayDesignStudio.com is going to arrive very soon, with some VERY gifted designers, who wont fob you off with knob-end excuses, WHY? Because they are all gay durrr! :D And lets face it, gay designers are just better :D :luke:

Now Sam...

You know as well as I do, with gay people, it isn't excuses, it's DRAMA!!!

So it will be (said at 100 mph) "OMG my best friend's boyfriend left him and came back to his apartment and took all his stuff and even his clothes and he needs his new suit to start his new job and I have to go with him to get another suit because his boyfriend has left town and no one knows where he is"

:broccoli: :broccoli:

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Originally Posted by gaybucks_chip

Now Sam...

You know as well as I do, with gay people, it isn't excuses, it's DRAMA!!!

So it will be (said at 100 mph) "OMG my best friend's boyfriend left him and came back to his apartment and took all his stuff and even his clothes and he needs his new suit to start his new job and I have to go with him to get another suit because his boyfriend has left town and no one knows where he is"

:broccoli: :broccoli:

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LOL!

Ok Chip that actually had me laughing :cheekymonkey:

We will see, but i think you will be suprised ;)

I think Chip was not making that up, he was repeating an actual excuse he heard from a model :-)

Chip
That is so funny but so true. I can't tell you how many times I have heard that excuse over the years. :)

I pay ALL my bills on time...unless I forget and have to be reminded...but then I pay promptly. :glasses:

I am frustrated everytime I go to a show and see people that owe me money spending and spending. Their excuse? Well it is always the same:

"We are just a middleman. We sold your DVD's to ________________, and they have not paid us yet, so we can't pay you yet."

lol.


Chip has somebody ACTUALLY given you that as an excuse?
Shame you didnt get it on video :D Would have been a YouTube hit LOL :broccoli:

To tell the truth, I don't think I've gotten that excuse verbatim, but Chad is quite correct that I have heard many, many excuses that were even more ridiculous than that one... these are all real stories I've been told...

My boyfriend trashed my apartment and I had to move out before he came back

My friend went crazy on acid and I have to go talk him down

My friend got drunk and passed out and I just got a call that he's sitting in front of someone's house and I have to go get him before the police come.

My mom figured out that the "modeling" shoot I was doing was porn, so she won't let me out of the house. (This one turned out to be true, but the guy got out anyway.)

The sad thing is, I bet, thinking about it, that *all* these stories were true. That's why I said, with gay bois, you don't get excuses, you get drama.

Hm I think corporations in general. Don't get me wrong - I use them for most services of course. But somewhere along the way, common sense is lost.

I remember having to change a plane ticket (and since I was use to flying Southwest and they make it so easy) this was my first time using another company. So instead of doing it the most sensible way, he rep was going in a round-about way. I'll admit - I lost it and called him a moronic corporate imbecile. (At the point, I got transferred to his supervisor, who switched everything around the sensible way.) The supervisor did explain that reps did not have the authority to do it "this" way

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Originally Posted by gaybucks_chip

Now Sam...

You know as well as I do, with gay people, it isn't excuses, it's DRAMA!!!

So it will be (said at 100 mph) "OMG my best friend's boyfriend left him and came back to his apartment and took all his stuff and even his clothes and he needs his new suit to start his new job and I have to go with him to get another suit because his boyfriend has left town and no one knows where he is"

:broccoli: :broccoli:

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LOL!!! some of these excuses are rather funny! Any one got any other good funny excuses? post them!

(ps - the designer that started this for me is now pumping out new sites again, seems all is well again with his mum!!!)

cheers,
Luke

I find that Chip is right. With gays it is all about drama! And God forbid if your project falls around a gay event like pride, Halloween or some circuit party. Work stops for a week on ether end of it.

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Originally Posted by Chilihost

its amazing the excuses that have been flying across my desk recently, mainly from adult designers. I think, without fail, every time I have ever hired someone to do design work they have a serious illness in their family (usually their mothers). Its almost like clockwork, I hire them & pay 50% and wait a week, then get in touch with them for an update and their mum was sick / in the hospital / on her deathbed / etc...

So who do you think gives the lamest excuses?
(voting more than once is allowed)

cheers,
Luke

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LOL -- still using those Phillipino designers are we?

nope, no filipinos anymore...that was an absolute disaster!!!!

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Originally Posted by Chilihost

nope, no filipinos anymore...that was an absolute disaster!!!!

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.... not to mention very very green (and I don't mean money) : tongue in cheek :

designers

Producers!

OK! enough with the designer shit already!

You know that I AM a "real" graphic designer and take great offense when you speak ill of my fellows....!

Yes, I know that there are good designers and bad designers BUT!, if the clients don't spell out what their specific needs are and hire someone with no experience and no references, then you can't really blame anyone but yourselves for bad management....

I mean really, I get what I expect from someone I hire to do a major task for $300 knowing that the real world price would be more than 100X or $30,000 for the same -- problem is, in the porn world, nobody wants to pay

The operative word in the above described cases should be "wanna be" deigners - real designer such as myself with over 30 years experience are worth every penny we get...! that's why my clients such as AT&T and EXXON are so successful and well recognized around the globe....

Just hire me and I'll really stick it to you (but then again, I DO deliver....) -

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Originally Posted by A_DeAngelo

OK! enough with the designer shit already!

You know that I AM a "real" graphic designer and take great offense when you speak ill of my fellows....!

BUT!, if the clients don't spell out what their specific needs are and hire someone with no experience and no references, then you can't really blame anyone but yourselves for bad management....

I mean really, I get what I expect from someone I hire to do a major task for $300 knowing that the real world price would be more than 100X or $30,000 for the same -- problem is, in the porn world, nobody wants to pay
Just hire me and I'll really stick it to you (but then again, I DO deliver....) -

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Which is why I selected producers =-)

I actually used to be the Production Manager for the largest large format digital printer in the U.S.
People would always complain about the Digital (design) depo but I knew you get what you give =-)

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Originally Posted by A_DeAngelo

OK! enough with the designer shit already!

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It wouldn't be so bad if it weren't for the fact that they ARE so talented. With their ability to create you'd think they could manage to weave a good lie when they want to blow you off or something.

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Originally Posted by A_DeAngelo

OK! enough with the designer shit already!

Just hire me and I'll really stick it to you (but then again, I DO deliver....) -

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Wait, I thought we were talking about design here, not "personal fulfillment services" ;)

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Originally Posted by Chilihost

So who do you think gives the lamest excuses?
(voting more than once is allowed)

cheers,
Luke

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Oh Man! Now I feel like an idiot for sure. Sometimes ppl do get sick and sometimes life does screw with a person. The majority of this industry, (not including the Big Boys who have actual paid staff) are small companies like ours, and trying hard to stay ahead of our growth.

A head cold, broken toe, or plumbing emergency, can set any 2 person team back 3 steps, at any moment. Guess all a person can do is keep plugging away, or learn to design.

Personally, I'm about out of memory space in my old brain! :eek:

You need to add "Models" to that list :) You wouldn't believe how many models can't get a ride to the airport or forget where the airport is on the day of shoots...