Author Topic: Photoshop (Read 3617 times)

BudGirl · « **on:** May 27, 2008, 10:36:44 am »

One thing a friend and I have noticed at the ballgames is the lack of photoshopping skills by the Astros.

We noticed it as early as the Friday exhibition game against Detroit. Michael Bourn is photoshopped on Morgan Ensberg's body (both #14). Last week we noticed that Kazou Matsui is on Adam Everett's body. Miguel Tejada is on Carlos Lee's body.

How long into the season do the Astros have to play for them to put up correct pictures. It is horrible.

Just wanted to share so the next time you go to a game at MMP you can look and compare for yourself.

BUWebguy · « **Reply #1 on:** May 27, 2008, 01:47:51 pm »

What are you referring to -- banners somewhere in the stadium? Scoreboard photos?

BudGirl · « **Reply #2 on:** May 27, 2008, 01:53:41 pm »

the pictures on the poles/posts in the stadium and the pictures showed on the big screen when the players come up to bat.

Andyzipp · « **Reply #3 on:** May 27, 2008, 02:05:53 pm »

Quote from: BudGirl on May 27, 2008, 01:53:41 pm

and the pictures showed on the big screen

Really?

BudGirl · « **Reply #4 on:** May 27, 2008, 02:20:12 pm »

Quote from: Andyzipp on May 27, 2008, 02:05:53 pm

Really?

really.

Hey, where is yesterday's off-day article?

Andyzipp · « **Reply #5 on:** May 27, 2008, 02:21:07 pm »

Quote from: BudGirl on May 27, 2008, 02:20:12 pm

really.

Hey, where is yesterday's off-day article?

Astros were off. I wasn't. Stupid IT department took down my Kronos Server without knowing how to bring it back up.

I'm working on it now.

BudGirl · « **Reply #6 on:** May 27, 2008, 02:23:32 pm »

Quote from: Andyzipp on May 27, 2008, 02:21:07 pm

Astros were off. I wasn't. Stupid IT department took down my Kronos Server without knowing how to bring it back up.

I'm working on it now.

That is going to be the case usually, isn't it?

Looking forward to it.

MRaup · « **Reply #7 on:** May 27, 2008, 02:42:28 pm »

Quote from: BudGirl on May 27, 2008, 02:20:12 pm

really.

Hey, where is yesterday's off-day article?

Ouch...

Hey Andy, I'll get some ice for your bruised ~~nuts~~ ego.

Limey · « **Reply #8 on:** May 27, 2008, 03:30:04 pm »

Quote from: Andyzipp on May 27, 2008, 02:21:07 pm

Astros were off. I wasn't. Stupid IT department took down my Kronos Server without knowing how to bring it back up.

You're in HR, you can DFA the fuckers.

Andyzipp · « **Reply #9 on:** May 27, 2008, 03:33:46 pm »

Quote from: Limey on May 27, 2008, 03:30:04 pm

You're in HR, you can DFA the fuckers.

Believe me, if there's any justice, someone is being forced to block the plate in front of Al Pooholes as we speak.

Limey · « **Reply #10 on:** May 27, 2008, 03:36:43 pm »

Quote from: Andyzipp on May 27, 2008, 03:33:46 pm

Believe me, if there's any justice, someone is being forced to block the plate in front of Al Pooholes as we speak.

Our server was recently taken down by some mouth-breather who'd been sent there to see why it hadn't been able to complete a back-up for three months. We lost three months of work. I guess there's no Hippocratic oath in IT, despite this twat having the outward appearance of a hippo.

S.P. Rodriguez · « **Reply #11 on:** May 27, 2008, 03:50:40 pm »

Quote from: Limey on May 27, 2008, 03:36:43 pm

Our server was recently taken down by some mouth-breather who'd been sent there to see why it hadn't been able to complete a back-up for three months. We lost three months of work. I guess there's no Hippocratic oath in IT, despite this twat having the outward appearance of a hippo.

Not all IT Professionals are created equal.

Limey · « **Reply #12 on:** May 27, 2008, 04:15:01 pm »

Quote from: S.P. Rodriguez on May 27, 2008, 03:50:40 pm

Not all IT Professionals are created equal.

This guy was just a bona fide dumb fuck. Seems to me that, when presented with a server that hadn't backed up for months, you ought to be posting guards around it rather than recklessly pressing the off button when (a) you'd been told specifically not to moments before; and (b) there was a dozen people attached to the server at the time. But then, I'm not an IT professional either.

Astroholic · « **Reply #13 on:** May 27, 2008, 04:15:09 pm »

Quote from: S.P. Rodriguez on May 27, 2008, 03:50:40 pm

Not all IT Professionals are created equal.

Amen!

Andyzipp · « **Reply #14 on:** May 27, 2008, 04:31:33 pm »

Quote from: S.P. Rodriguez on May 27, 2008, 03:50:40 pm

Not all IT Professionals are created equal.

We've had meetings with IT about the server being old. We've had meetings about the server no longer being supported. The plan was to have Kronos onsite to reinstall. This was all supposed to happen after the end of the quarter

Someone decided that recording ins and outs for 1200 people wasn't as important as clearing a server rack this weekend.

JaneDoe · « **Reply #15 on:** May 27, 2008, 04:37:24 pm »

I have to agree with BG. The Tejada head on Lee's body is the most obvious. The pose is the same, arms in same position, everything. The only thing they changed is taking the number off the jersey.

das · « **Reply #16 on:** May 28, 2008, 09:15:06 am »

Quote from: Limey on May 27, 2008, 04:15:01 pm

This guy was just a bona fide dumb fuck. Seems to me that, when presented with a server that hadn't backed up for months, you ought to be posting guards around it rather than recklessly pressing the off button when (a) you'd been told specifically not to moments before; and (b) there was a dozen people attached to the server at the time. But then, I'm not an IT professional either.

As with most things in life, you get what you pay for in IT.

Limey · « **Reply #17 on:** May 28, 2008, 09:19:48 am »

Quote from: das on May 28, 2008, 09:15:06 am

As with most things in life, you get what you pay for in IT.

Company outsourced IT to India. India needed a warm body on the ground to push buttons, so reverse-outsourced that back to a contractor here. So our IT rep. was a U.S. citizen who could only get a job in IT on the Indian pay scale. You pay peanuts...

Astroholic · « **Reply #18 on:** May 28, 2008, 09:30:15 am »

Quote from: Limey on May 28, 2008, 09:19:48 am

Company outsourced IT to India. India needed a warm body on the ground to push buttons, so reverse-outsourced that back to a contractor here. So our IT rep. was a U.S. citizen who could only get a job in IT on the Indian pay scale. You pay peanuts...

A recruiter friend of mine made this statement that about sums it up: If an IT person does not have a job in this market (Houston), there is something fucking wrong with them.

MusicMan · « **Reply #19 on:** May 28, 2008, 09:31:55 am »

Quote from: Limey on May 28, 2008, 09:19:48 am

Company outsourced IT to India. India needed a warm body on the ground to push buttons, so reverse-outsourced that back to a contractor here. So our IT rep. was a U.S. citizen who could only get a job in IT on the Indian pay scale. You pay peanuts...

This will start happening more and more as the India pay scale starts sliding up.

das · « **Reply #20 on:** May 28, 2008, 09:32:15 am »

Quote from: Limey on May 28, 2008, 09:19:48 am

Company outsourced IT to India. India needed a warm body on the ground to push buttons, so reverse-outsourced that back to a contractor here. So our IT rep. was a U.S. citizen who could only get a job in IT on the Indian pay scale. You pay peanuts...

/on soap box/ Yup. So the problem has nothing to do with IT. That's a management issue. Stoopid them for being suckered into outsourcing a mission critical component of their business. Sorry to say, your company deserves every outage it gets until they fix that problem. /off soap box/

Limey · « **Reply #21 on:** May 28, 2008, 09:35:53 am »

Quote from: das on May 28, 2008, 09:32:15 am

/on soap box/ Yup. So the problem has nothing to do with IT. That's a management issue. Stoopid them for being suckered into outsourcing a mission critical component of their business. Sorry to say, your company deserves every outage it gets until they fix that problem. /off soap box/

Oh, I know who ultimately gets the blame. However, that doesn't excuse the dumb fuck for doing exactly what he'd been told not to do, within seconds of being told not to do it. What is he...12?

Astroholic · « **Reply #22 on:** May 28, 2008, 09:39:11 am »

Quote from: Limey on May 28, 2008, 09:35:53 am

Oh, I know who ultimately gets the blame. However, that doesn't excuse the dumb fuck for doing exactly what he'd been told not to do, within seconds of being told not to do it. What is he...12?

My 8 year old daughter could do a better job than several of the "IT Professionals" that I have ~~worked with~~ (done the work for them) in my career.

das · « **Reply #23 on:** May 28, 2008, 10:10:31 am »

Quote from: Astroholic on May 28, 2008, 09:39:11 am

My 8 year old daughter could do a better job than several of the "IT Professionals" that I have ~~worked with~~ (done the work for them) in my career.

IT Professionals, mechanics, lawyers, ditch diggers, doctors; you largely get what you pay for and in those veins, some shade towards good, some do not. Shame on your HR department for hiring idiots or lay-a-bouts. Hiring competant, hard working IT and technical staff is very, very easy if the hiring manager has even a smidgen of smarts. And, even if the hiring manager blows it, the mistake reveals itself in days, not weeks or months. Then you get rid of the slackjaw. Again, this is a management issue, not a technical one. Hiring 101. No charge.

Astroholic · « **Reply #24 on:** May 28, 2008, 10:55:00 am »

Quote from: das on May 28, 2008, 10:10:31 am

IT Professionals, mechanics, lawyers, ditch diggers, doctors; you largely get what you pay for and in those veins, some shade towards good, some do not. Shame on your HR department for hiring idiots or lay-a-bouts. Hiring competant, hard working IT and technical staff is very, very easy if the hiring manager has even a smidgen of smarts. And, even if the hiring manager blows it, the mistake reveals itself in days, not weeks or months. Then you get rid of the slackjaw. Again, this is a management issue, not a technical one. Hiring 101. No charge.

If you can get competent people in the door, which in this market is somewhat problematic. I don't think "hard working" can be evaluated in an interview. And as far as getting rid of the slackjaw, there are several people at my current employer that do absolutely nothing and have been for more than a year. I know. Amazing (as I type on an Astros fan board).

MusicMan · « **Reply #25 on:** May 28, 2008, 10:56:48 am »

Quote from: Astroholic on May 28, 2008, 10:55:00 am

I don't think "hard working" can be evaluated in an interview. And as far as getting rid of the slackjaw, there are several people at my current employer that do absolutely nothing and have been for more than a year.

Hire slowly. Fire quickly.

Astroholic · « **Reply #26 on:** May 28, 2008, 10:58:33 am »

Quote from: MusicMan on May 28, 2008, 10:56:48 am

Hire slowly. Fire quickly.

Amen.

Kent's Moustache · « **Reply #27 on:** May 28, 2008, 10:59:37 am »

Quote

I guess there's no Hippocratic oath in IT, despite this twat having the outward appearance of a hippo.

I laughed. And, I still don't understand what either has to do with a horse...

sporadic · « **Reply #28 on:** May 28, 2008, 11:00:27 am »

Quote from: Astroholic on May 28, 2008, 10:58:33 am

Amen.

Screw that...both of those would work directly against me

AtascAstro · « **Reply #29 on:** May 28, 2008, 11:01:04 am »

Quote from: Astroholic on May 28, 2008, 10:55:00 am

If you can get competent people in the door, which in this market is somewhat problematic. I don't think "hard working" can be evaluated in an interview. And as far as getting rid of the slackjaw, there are several people at my current employer that do absolutely nothing and have been for more than a year. I know. Amazing (as I type on an Astros fan board).

Peter Gibbons: The thing is, Bob, it's not that I'm lazy, it's that I just don't care.
Bob Porter: Don't... don't care?
Peter Gibbons: It's a problem of motivation, all right? Now if I work my ass off and Initech ships a few extra units, I don't see another dime; so where's the motivation? And here's something else, Bob: I have eight different bosses right now.
Bob Slydell: I beg your pardon?
Peter Gibbons: Eight bosses.
Bob Slydell: Eight?
Peter Gibbons: Eight, Bob. So that means that when I make a mistake, I have eight different people coming by to tell me about it. That's my only real motivation is not to be hassled; that, and the fear of losing my job. But you know, Bob, that will only make someone work just hard enough not to get fired.

Perhaps a stock option equity sharing program would help?