OMFG

So… now that the snow apocalypse has ended, we are faced with yet another snow storm on its way. I can not believe this is happening… I was so happy that my office was closed today. But it is mandatory to go into work tomorrow no matter how late I am. And it is also mandatory to be at work on Wednesday. Which means, our VP has decided to rent out hotel rooms for the staff members to sleep over just in case the Tuesday night storm is bad. I’m hearing up to a foot of snow. arg!!!!

It was little scary to drive out from my neighborhood this afternoon. I wanted to drive out and see how the bad the road was and I was getting cabin fever. The main roads were okay. I managed to get some gas for my car and went to Target and then got myself some Chipotle. Coming back home was little scary too. I saw this burnt car on the way. It looks like the driver kept on pushing the gas until the car couldn’t take it anymore and bursted into flames. It looked like a battle zone out there.

And now after a phone call from my supervisor, our office building area hasn’t been all that cleaned up either since it’s on the side street. I’m worried how I’m suppose to drive my car into the garage parking lot. And now I have to pack my overnight bag just in case the snow storm is bad, so I can sleep over in hotel room. Just fucking great. Times like this, I wish I didn’t work for tight deadline driven workplace. If it was my previous workplace, I may be singing as I pack my overnight bag… but not here.

school

so i signed up for web design II this semester again. I talked to my coworkers and they agreed to sign me up for late shift every Thursday from now on to end of May. And my professor said it’s fine for me to walk out of the class before the lecture is over so I can run to work.

Have I mentioned how much I like school? I wish I was full time student. Things are so much simpler when you are a student and you got nothing to worry about except absorb what you learn in class. I wish i was working for education. At least you get to attend free classes.

Anyway, this semester, we are going to learn more about CSS, Javascript, PHP. Flash, and some other stuff that I have no idea about.

Anyway, I’m not so happy about the news of snow. Some say it’s going to be 40 inches of snow. That info came from the military. One of my coworkers has relatives in military and they were told this info.

I wish I could just take a day off, but the paper must go on. We are going to crunch and try to meet the deadline by 3pm instead of the usual 8pm tomorrow. So everyone is required to come in by 9am and have breakfast and lunch at work. Our boss is ordering food, so we won’t go out and waste our time.

Let’s see how that works out.

not a good sign

It’s not a good sign when people at work are being fired left and right. For this case, upstairs and downstairs. Since I started working at my new job 2 months ago, I’ve seen 2 people get fired. Both of them were shock to my coworkers, but I’ve been told that one person saw it coming. The other one, which I found out today, was a total shock. That employee was loyal and worked hard. But she was let go out of no where for little stupid mistake she made. Nothing she should get fired over. Some other employees have made that mistake numerous times and only got written up. But this employee was shown to the door without any warning. There are speculations that the boss didn’t like this employee’s personality even though she worked her ass off and was such a loyal assistant.

That really shows how the management works around here. From my last workplace, I was told it was harder to fire someone than lay off a person because there is a lot of paper work and all that legal stuff. But apparently, this work doesn’t have that kind of protocol. It’s not a good sign when employees are in constant fear if they are going to be next.

NYC & creepy nightmare

So my NYC trip was too short. Even though it was freaking 20 degrees and my face was covered in tears and snots from the cold, I had fun. Holly and I literally walked everywhere from 7th street to 51st street all Saturday. Actually walking back and forth too. I didn’t get to try out this Chocolate bar that I heard such a great story about. There were so many people there that we just walked out after seeing the people in line.

After that, it was the same routine. We hung out at St. Mark’s, Union Square, Korea Way, Jewelry district, Rockafellar center. Shopped and ate like crazy. I bought a pair of boots that was on sale. Pretty much got 60% sale. woohoo! Went to Paul Frank store and got some shirts at West Village, tried ‘Mak Gari’ (korean rice alcohol) at Korea way on Saturday night. We found a good drink hang out place. It’s called ‘Ah Rang’ second floor from ‘Kun Jip’.

Anyway, everything was great… except I had the most creepiest dream ever while i was sleeping at the POD hotel. We were upgraded with our room so we got 2 single beds with a private bathroom. I woke up middle of the night from the nightmare and couldn’t dare to go back to sleep right away. I turned on the t.v. all night long and eventually fell asleep. i didn’t think I had that kind of imagination to began with to have this kind of dream. I was really disturbed… mainly because the nightmare took place in the hotel room where we were sleeping… I just really hope i didn’t bring back anything extra from NYC….. oi….

“That’s what she said”

Apparently, my coworkers are a big ‘Office’ fan. I am somewhat too. And they use ‘That’s what she said’ joke ALL the time… Sometimes to the point where I’m just speechless and just stare at them.

They managed to use that joke on me when I said something today. We were talking about clementines and how cute and yummy they are. I told them, “I usually pop the whole thing in my mouth.”

One of them said right back at me, “That’s what she said.”

-.-;

NYC & DC

So I’m planning on going to NYC this coming weekend and I can’t wait! However, I just checked the weather and it says it’s going to snow. I don’t know how much, but it better not be more than a few inches! I got some eating to do that weekend. I even made a list of the places that I want to go. That reminds me, I don’t even know what we are going to do when we get there… I only thought of food… hmm….

definitely go to korea way and buy some hair clips. I hope that store is still there…

Anyway, I had a great Saturday night with Jihee and Daniel at U Street. We first had dinner at Busboy & Poets restaurant.  and then… I didn’t know but there was this beer pub right off the U st. metro. It kind of reminds of Korea’s beer pub and some old english pub… not that I ever went to english pub… Anyway, I thought that place was really cool. And then we went to a chocolate bar where they sell whole bunch of really good chocolates. Too bad they were little pricey. One bar of chocolate was six dollars. But I still bought 2 bars anyway. Their hot chocolate was really really yummy, not too sweet whatsoever… even though it made me sick because I’m now lactase intolerant. I took a med but apparently, it didn’t work so well. I was about to fall flat on my face on the table with drowsiness, nausea, and gas during this great jazz performance at HR-57. Oh man, I think I found a jewel spot in U st. Those two beer pub and jazz bar was so great. I’m going to take my other friends whoever wants to go. It’s not too trendy and hip like some places that makes me feel little awkward. They were all laid back and just whatever. awesome~

donation

Tonight, I felt so proud to be a citizen of US. I watched the last half hour of the ‘Hope for Haiti Now’ charity show and it was heart warming to know that there are so many people who’s helping those people in Haiti. I wasn’t sure if I was going to donate money to this, but after watching a few minutes of the show, I texted and donated $10. My parents are sending their check to the Red Cross.

I am not sure, but I don’t think Korea is really big on donations and helping other third world countries. After all, korea went through a war back in 50s and we were the ones getting help from US and other countries. My parents strongly believe if it wasn’t for US stepping in to help the war, Korea never would have thrived economically like they are now. My folks say, “And yet, all the young generations who never saw the aftermath of the war, doesn’t want US military in Korea. They have no idea how bad it was back then. They would never be anti-America if they ever experienced it.” Both of my parents were born either during the war or a few years after the war. So they experienced the aftermath of war.

I agree. No matter what the agenda is on helping other countries who are in desperate need…. help is help. Even if the agenda is all political reasoning, I don’t care.

I’m bringing this up because my mom read an article somewhere that French are suspicious of US’s overwhelming response to helping Haiti because French and US both wanted to take Haiti a long time ago. I’m not a history expert and I don’t know what’s the history of Haiti, but I’m told that most of the Haiti people came from the slaves who were freed from US while back. When the end of slavery came, the US gov. shipped the freed slaves to Haiti where they can have their own colony. Only half of the population survived due to some disease. And so US feels a bit responsible for Haitians.

Anyway, it’s something I heard tonight. Correct me if I’m wrong.

phrase of the day…

“Everything must be bolded. There should be lots of red and lots of photos of people. Everything has to stand out. No thin fonts because it doesn’t stand out.”

My response:

“Sure, I will design it until my eyes start to bleed. Is that good enough?”

정말 싫어…

오늘같은 날은 정말 일 그만 두고 싶다… 따른 회사에서 곳 열락이 왔으면…

Someone have mentioned that all my blogs are negative. Well, whatever. I don’t care. It’s my blog and it’s my thoughts. Don’t read it if you think this negativity is going to effect you.

My thoughts today…

1. Do not submit your name to the contest when the work you are submitting was designed by someone else. It doesn’t matter if you are the supervisor. You did not do any work on it other than downloading a font.

2. I am not a spell checker nor a copy editor. Don’t blame me for misspellings when it is clearly your job.

3. Do not expect me to finish everything at your command because I do not have ten arms and hands to use the computer and most of all, the freaking program is Quark and the printer is 10 years old. Invest in technology instead of complaining about how slow the printer and the computer is working.

4. Even if you are a supervisor, you should let designers know that you are going to be off today, so I can prepare myself for the paper.

5. Don’t tell me to read the forwarded email when it is your job to tell me exactly what to fix.

my first rejection at work

I guess it was bound to happen at one point or another. After all, I’ve watched one of my coworkers cry because the VP didn’t like the design she did for an event, even after the 4th re-design, completely butchering the fine ad at the end. And that was my first week starting there.

I’ve been told countless times that the VP has to approve every little thing before it gets to the press and I’ve been told she rejects more than approve.

So today’s story is that I’ve designed something about a month ago. It’s going to be a whole package where it will get printed on newspaper, mailing, and then the magazine. I designed something and I never heard back from the VP. Until today.

Apparently, I’m going to have to follow this other design that my coworker did before I started working there. Although, it was a pick-up design from a year before, she wants to use that design as a template.

Sure, no problem. Even though my supervisor liked my design and my senior designer liked my design, let’s go with the old one. It’s not my problem that the VP doesn’t want to expand the horizon and approach it with new perspective.

I will just follow the orders even though i know what I did was better and much neater. And I will just follow the order because there is no point moping over it. It’s not my problem that the company won’t grow visually because the upper management keep getting in the way. I mean, I would cry and mop if someone with an art degree and design experience rejects my work because that person would have more knowledge and perspective in art.

But whatever. I didn’t even hear back from VP until it was the last minute. Now everything has to be rushed and I got other work lined up. So I will put in the amount of effort that deserves on this project. I’m not going to fuck up my wrist that’s been hurting me like shit over the last month.