We're doing a new website; we've hired a company to do the design and set-up. I had reservations, because they did our current website ... and didn't do a stellar job. For instance, there's a place to do a search ... but it doesn't work. Never had worked. Requests to them to make it work, when the current site was new, were pretty much ignored. The system we're using for updating the web is outdated and deteriorating - things that worked a while ago no longer work and requests for help are met with the response that, essentially, it's old and shit happens.

Now, with the new site, I'd made multiple requests for specs - image sizes, color formulas, etc. ... and they ignored me. They finally came up with some image sizes, although they're going to have more. And they sent over a "template" to use in Photoshop to create images for our front page "carousel". Only I can't use it. I tried to ... and things didn't work. And the fonts they used for text are ones I don't have. It's set up so I can't do batches of these images - I can only do one at a time. We're supposed to start doing some work on learning how to use the new web management system tomorrow and I dread finding out what doesn't work this time around.

I am required to take an hour lunch. HATE.

Timelies all!

I get a half-hour lunch. When I bring lunch, I'm usually done in 15 minutes. (Lunch is usually a sandwich, soda and an apple. Pretty easy to finish it quickly.)

Toddson, ick. What a nightmare.

Something that made me smile today: [link]

From the title I know what it is. What I don't know is why Twitter thinks it's "sensitive content".

My office now blocks all tumblr sites ... even Good Stuff. Which I could use on a day like this.

As a contractor I was legally required to take lunch. Well, to report lunch--I told them I wasn't taking it, but reporting 8-4 caused them to reject my timesheets.

As a permanent employee sometimes I have to narrow my eyes at them, but the fact is--all the contractors are out for a full hour, and my manager rarely takes lunch (but she does go off campus to buy it, I just realised, and I do that once or twice a month at most), but my nearest FT equivalent grumbles if you try and shift his hour to 12:30-1:30.

Toddson, I'm professionally required to ignore your post, because one of the apps I'm responsible for is WCM. But we do not provide templates--the web team themselves have nightmares with the site designing companies (the team does maintenance, single pages, and front end coding, not full site design), but at least the tool we provide most often works, and gives them a lot of flexibility.

here is a direct link to the photo: [link]

I miss my hour lunch. I need that break from annoyed customers on the phone. But we've been so busy that they've cut us back to half hours--when they don't bring in lunch and we eat at our desks while talking to people.

Bwah! I love it.

It's completely unclear what I'm supposed to do about lunch. My boss once said we were "entitled to a half hour" lunch, but I don't know if that means paid or unpaid. So I clock out for a half hour, but I have no idea if anyone else does.