jochwat
Graphics Department
I worked for three different Nancys. Two out of three of them were absolutely awful. One was great! If any of you Nancys are reading this, figure out which one of you was the great one.
So I worked for an on-site graphics department as a designer, for a large corporate entity. There was some confusion regarding, well, what do you know -- file formats. So much confusion that we all gathered around a speakerphone for a meeting to resolve it. Now, I was pretty new here, and for some reason, Nancy and I were not on the best of terms. But she knew I knew things so I was in the meeting. The client (from the speakerphone) starts to explain that they want to provide the proper files to us, but they are exporting them from Autocad. They also have some graphics in Word that they need to use. I recall the conversation something like this:
Fred, the Client (from Phone): So is there a format you prefer that we may be able to export from Autocad?
Nancy: Joe, can you answer that one?
Joe (that's me): Yes, I'm pretty sure you can export an .EPS file and it would retain the information we need.
Fred: Great! Now what about the Word files?
Nancy: I believe that if you just rename a Word file from .doc to whatever extension you need it to be, it will convert it, so you can just rename the file FILE.DOC to FILE.AI and it will convert, right?
Joe: (tersely, without any hesitation): NO. Anyway, Fred, just send the Word file and we'll get what we need.
Fred: Awesome, thanks! I think that covers it!
Nancy: (glowering)
Not sure if it comes across as hilarious as it did in person. Maybe you had to be there... and had to be me... and know Nancy.
So I worked for an on-site graphics department as a designer, for a large corporate entity. There was some confusion regarding, well, what do you know -- file formats. So much confusion that we all gathered around a speakerphone for a meeting to resolve it. Now, I was pretty new here, and for some reason, Nancy and I were not on the best of terms. But she knew I knew things so I was in the meeting. The client (from the speakerphone) starts to explain that they want to provide the proper files to us, but they are exporting them from Autocad. They also have some graphics in Word that they need to use. I recall the conversation something like this:
Fred, the Client (from Phone): So is there a format you prefer that we may be able to export from Autocad?
Nancy: Joe, can you answer that one?
Joe (that's me): Yes, I'm pretty sure you can export an .EPS file and it would retain the information we need.
Fred: Great! Now what about the Word files?
Nancy: I believe that if you just rename a Word file from .doc to whatever extension you need it to be, it will convert it, so you can just rename the file FILE.DOC to FILE.AI and it will convert, right?
Joe: (tersely, without any hesitation): NO. Anyway, Fred, just send the Word file and we'll get what we need.
Fred: Awesome, thanks! I think that covers it!
Nancy: (glowering)
Not sure if it comes across as hilarious as it did in person. Maybe you had to be there... and had to be me... and know Nancy.