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Wow. You know. I have done it again - months between updates. This is because I'm relatively happy with life, and the journal has been mainly a bitching board for me.
How ironic that I come here to bitch, today. Oh, and to show off my new LJ icon. :P
So, I work with the city government, yeah? Anyone who has worked a government job knows what that means:
RED TAPE.
So, yeah. I get a lot of things that I can't do because they need to be approved. Most notable of these is the flyers.
I work at a Senior Center. We have special events, and most importantly (as in, one of our major sources of income), we have trips. Each of these trips needs a flyer to advertise it, and every flyer ends up half a year in the system because of a young lady (well, she might be an old hag, I've never met her personally) named Francie Martindale, better known as Dumb Bitch.
Dumb Bitch (from now on referred to as DB) is in charge of proofing flyers and city-made newsletters. Cushy job, but also vital, yes?
Well, DB doesn't do it right. It's obvious she has some experience with copy writing in her background, with various comments on returned flyers like "what does this $68.00 get you?" and "sell this event to me more" (the latter said about a flyer announcing nothing more than a Mother's Day brunch for the seniors that don't have family to go to).. and yet, she's completely retarded. She knows when things are missing, yet completely ignores when things are wrong. Dates are often flubbed and need to be amended, and the one thing that really pisses me off is that she doesn't seem to know what's good advertising and what's just bullshit.
Take the following line, copied verbatim from a trip to the Getty Museum: "Then it's off to the Getty, where the tour starts with a tram ride to the summit, taking in unexpected views of the historic Sepulveda Pass."
Aside from being an extremely clunky sentence, there's a single word that just screams "WTF?!" to me. Unexpected.
"La la la on the way to the museum WAIT OMG THERE'S A HISTORICAL STATE LANDMARK CANYON THERE I SO DID NOT EXPECT THAT"
Unexpected views? Wouldn't you be expecting them if they were mentioned in the trip synopsis? On top of that, what exactly is unexpected about them? Is there some sort of Godzilla-wannabe storming through the pass laying waste to all around it that you just aren't telling anyone about?
Glorious. Memorable. Unforgettable. So many better words to describe what these people are going to see, and even through five or six incarnations of this same line, we still end up with UNEXPECTED.
...sometimes other people are -so- stupid.
How ironic that I come here to bitch, today. Oh, and to show off my new LJ icon. :P
So, I work with the city government, yeah? Anyone who has worked a government job knows what that means:
RED TAPE.
So, yeah. I get a lot of things that I can't do because they need to be approved. Most notable of these is the flyers.
I work at a Senior Center. We have special events, and most importantly (as in, one of our major sources of income), we have trips. Each of these trips needs a flyer to advertise it, and every flyer ends up half a year in the system because of a young lady (well, she might be an old hag, I've never met her personally) named Francie Martindale, better known as Dumb Bitch.
Dumb Bitch (from now on referred to as DB) is in charge of proofing flyers and city-made newsletters. Cushy job, but also vital, yes?
Well, DB doesn't do it right. It's obvious she has some experience with copy writing in her background, with various comments on returned flyers like "what does this $68.00 get you?" and "sell this event to me more" (the latter said about a flyer announcing nothing more than a Mother's Day brunch for the seniors that don't have family to go to).. and yet, she's completely retarded. She knows when things are missing, yet completely ignores when things are wrong. Dates are often flubbed and need to be amended, and the one thing that really pisses me off is that she doesn't seem to know what's good advertising and what's just bullshit.
Take the following line, copied verbatim from a trip to the Getty Museum: "Then it's off to the Getty, where the tour starts with a tram ride to the summit, taking in unexpected views of the historic Sepulveda Pass."
Aside from being an extremely clunky sentence, there's a single word that just screams "WTF?!" to me. Unexpected.
"La la la on the way to the museum WAIT OMG THERE'S A HISTORICAL STATE LANDMARK CANYON THERE I SO DID NOT EXPECT THAT"
Unexpected views? Wouldn't you be expecting them if they were mentioned in the trip synopsis? On top of that, what exactly is unexpected about them? Is there some sort of Godzilla-wannabe storming through the pass laying waste to all around it that you just aren't telling anyone about?
Glorious. Memorable. Unforgettable. So many better words to describe what these people are going to see, and even through five or six incarnations of this same line, we still end up with UNEXPECTED.
...sometimes other people are -so- stupid.