The One Uber List for failed Creatives and Geeks
Posted: October 16, 2008 at 7.41 pmFiled under Blogging Subscribe to comments
This evening I can present a rather special Uber list, a list for all creatives and geeks that have failed abysmally at not succeeding in life or their chosen career.
I will accept failed Creatives and Geeks who have just totally screwed up one or more client projects.
This is a list of previous Uber Lists that the more successful amongst us may want to participate in.
Add your personal details to the comments at the end of this post, so all may mock and ridicule you. And more importantly, allow prospective new employee’s or clients to check carefully each new recruits against this list.
Please give full information about you’re shame and embarrassment, and any references or links to examples that may prove useful to those laughing at you.
That’s it. It’s just a list that will hopefully get bigger and bigger and in time I will compile it into a categorized list for easy reference.
28 Comments
October 16, 2008 at 7.44 pm
Name: Graham Smith
I failed roughly 100 CrowdSpring logo projects and the shame will haunt me forever.
I am a total failure.
October 16, 2008 at 7.50 pm
i am currently doing 2 shopping-cart websites, out of which one is pretty huge, and get payed $300.00 for it. They tricked me with the “it’s for your portfolio” line. :(
I should be shot for accepting that.
October 16, 2008 at 7.52 pm
Name: Tom Sinclair
I’ve recently contracted some form of mouth aids and failed to eat properly in 10 days :( Im ashamed to even talk about it :(
I am a total failure
I have failed at providing shoddy, late work for clients!
I am a failure
October 16, 2008 at 7.55 pm
I used to drive a Porsche Boxster and an Audi A6 and live in a three storey house in Twickenham! Earning over 100K sterling per year!
I now drive a 1969 VW Beetle and live in Egypt and tweet everyday ;)
FAIL? Nah I love it!
October 16, 2008 at 7.57 pm
I used to be a woman.
I missed a deadline by 12 minutes and they changed my sex.
Down and out.
October 16, 2008 at 7.58 pm
I couldn’t properly identify the right PMS color of a STOP sign.
My dog turned is nose up at me for offering him a treat today.
I am [Totally AND Utterly] a FAILURE.
Please save me.
October 16, 2008 at 7.59 pm
I speak on skype with Graham Smith EVERYDAY ;(
October 16, 2008 at 8.03 pm
I used to design and implement Disaster Recover Solutions for oil companies HQ data centre (whole country). Was flown to Dallas two months a year to audit the security on their SAP system which was their global core system.
Now.. I tweet..
October 16, 2008 at 8.05 pm
I talk with Style Time on Skype, and I enjoy it… (sorry) ;(
October 16, 2008 at 8.42 pm
I got a $200 ticket for speeding while trying not to be late at a business meeting with a potential client. The client turned out to be a work mate pulling a practical joke on me.
October 16, 2008 at 9.02 pm
I kick small dogs on the street, and then i plan, design and code web applications while drunk… And I tweet
I am a Total Failure
October 16, 2008 at 10.16 pm
I used to listen to Kid Rock whilst I worked.
Now I feel so ashamed and humiliated.
I am a failure.
October 17, 2008 at 5.12 am
I used to listen to Linkin Park.
I = complete and utter failure.
October 17, 2008 at 7.57 am
i used to work on a pc.
i’m worst than the fail-whale.
October 17, 2008 at 8.45 am
I still work on a PC ;(
October 17, 2008 at 9.28 am
@styletime: my sympathies.
October 17, 2008 at 12.08 pm
While seeking employment at the corner print/copy shop; I couldn’t remember the dimensions of a standard US business card! Needless to say…
I am a Failure.
October 17, 2008 at 12.24 pm
I used to work on a PC. I actually had an antivirus…! That’s a FAIL
October 17, 2008 at 1.31 pm
I used to work for someone else, went home and worried about what needed to be done tomorrow as my mind never stopped.
Now I work for myself, things are the same and I still think about design all the time. Am I a Failure… No… because its now about my life…..
October 17, 2008 at 1.40 pm
I also thought Rick Astley was black the first moment I heard him on the radio many many moons ago….. How wrong I was… I am a failure….
October 17, 2008 at 9.19 pm
Rick Astley isn’t black? Oh crap… There you go… I am a failure for that also…
October 20, 2008 at 11.37 am
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October 20, 2008 at 11.55 am
Miguel I and are failures…..
October 22, 2008 at 12.49 pm
During design process for a logo comprised of too many characters; I was looking for a font. While scrolling thru over a 1000 font families, it occurred to me that in my entire design career, I’ve never organized/categorized my collection.
What a font management failure I am! Please help me.
October 23, 2008 at 5.17 am
Ouch… I’m afraid I can’t compare to most of these stories. I did have to throw out a Web design I spent 3 days on and start over from scratch, but that’s about it. Luckily, they liked the 2nd one.
November 10, 2008 at 12.28 pm
I’ve designed a number of mission critical disaster recovery plans. Offsite automated backups, hardware redundacy in multiple locations, the works. Pretty much get hit with a disaster, and be up and running in 6 hours or less for multi million dollar businesses, with the biggest issue being people relocation.
So, some years later, I got hit with a 100 yr flood, and my system worked great at my own office :) but I was too busy to rebuild it.
Then a few months later, got hit with a 50 year flood, and it about wiped me out. Dumb dumb dumb….. I was an idiot, that wont happen again.
November 11, 2008 at 12.08 pm
Ron> I dont mean to offend you, well, actually I do. You are more than an idiot. You are a failure. That’s why you came here.
Admit it…
And that goes to all of you, you are (we) all FAILURES.
November 11, 2008 at 12.09 pm
I allowed myself to run out of duct tape, and actually considered that masking tape could be an alternative.