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  1. Need a helping hand - banner material

    ours is only 38" material, sorry
  2. To any & all owners

    ... hmmm.... never thought of it from that point of view before...
  3. To any & all owners

    I run the shop, and i have one other full timer here with me. there is a part time receptionist and thats about it. even if I didn't show up and open the doors, the owners wouldn't know unless i called and told them. like i said, they are only here about 6 months out of the year so i would just...
  4. Software to view vector files in bulk?

    if on a mac, Finder will render previews as the icon, just open the folder and set the icon size to the largest and scroll through them.
  5. Having trouble combining in X5

    This happens sometimes in Illustrator for me. If I am trying to cut a top shape out of multiple bottom shapes the bottom shapes must be combined in to a compound shape first. some times with provided files, I just take the direct selection tool, and delete the extra shapes and below them is...
  6. To any & all owners

    I think it might be my time in the military that makes me just do my damn job regardless of the circumstances...."I need you to get a link to the satellite" "but we're under dense forrest cover" "Then you better start chopping some trees"... DAMN YOU MILITARY!
  7. To any & all owners

    The owners are only around about 6 months out of the year and even when they are here, they dont have much to do with the sign business, thats my AO, and currently i dont expect to see them until about late october. all communications are through email or text messages except for the rare...
  8. To any & all owners

    It gets old doing that every week. the time i was 2 weeks over due, I sat the owner down, and had them write me a check out of their personal account, and told them I would pay the taxes. which she did. I just feel like i have the same conversation all the time. but... this is my last day before...
  9. To any & all owners

    it has been happening for the whole 3 years i have worked here but over the last 8 months it has been a constant occurrence. I know they are busy... but come on. I could write a small novel detailing the intricacies and interconnections of the owners 7 businesses and how all of the revenue ends...
  10. To any & all owners

    Anyone care to venture a guess on a good reason why an owner cant seem to pay its employees on time. Frame work for scenario is: Owner is not having financial hardships. Weekly Pay is late from 1 day - 2 weeks, at least 3 weeks a month (averages 2-3 days late.) Any guesses that could...
  11. Deadbeat Customer

    Ah HA! Its you isnt it! :ROFLMAO:
  12. Some Recent Wrap Designs - Kickin' it old school; Simple & Clean

    Boy I wish they would let me market our shop! at one point I even sat down at home and made up a marketing calendar for 2011 outlining important holidays, and local event through the year that we could use to build recognition of our business, what products we could market at those times to have...
  13. Some Recent Wrap Designs - Kickin' it old school; Simple & Clean

    this hasn't worked for me so far. they usually leave and email me pictures of the ones they like which are everything you can imagine. every once in a while someone will come in and say "you're the professional, just do whats best." but about 80% come in and have a clear vision of what they...
  14. Some Recent Wrap Designs - Kickin' it old school; Simple & Clean

    How do you get customers to let go of the crazy ideas they have when they come in the shop and get them to accept a focused design?
  15. Broken Records....

    I've been thinking Denver would be nice. Long spring, skip summer and straight in to fall.
  16. How do you find good employees?

    The owners are only in the state about 6 months out of the year, So I do pretty much everything that the Owner/GM would do as well as all of the "grunt" work. we have some part time installers, But I still consider myself to be the most capable installer/vinyl monkey. The hardest thing for me...
  17. Newest Product!

    We were about 4 hours, and counting, from Chicago when the pick was taken. Might have been on his way to a st. Louis ghetto though
  18. How do you find good employees?

    HA! Yeah I talked to the wife about that. she said it was a long, expensive & uncertain move. I really appreciate the offer though!
  19. How do you find good employees?

    when I took over the shop, we had 1 computer, a Summa DC2 and a 24" plotter in an office shared with a storage facility and the shop had never done a wrap. I had never made signs before or applied vinyl. We now have a multi-office building, a roland XC-540 a laminator and the same damn 24"...
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