We’ve all been there. It’s late into the night, deadlines loom, but that design must be finished off by the morning. As the hours tick by, your concentration wanes and you start making mistakes, losing focus and generally losing the plot. It’s at this point when you realise you’ve been working too hard.
A graphic designer friend of mine recently related a story about exactly this scenario, and it’s possibly the funniest thing I’ve ever heard.
It was 3am and him and his colleague had been working 8 hours straight on an important magazine layout which was already late. It’s a small office and the room was getting stuffy.
Desperate to get some fresh air in he got up from his desk, walked over to the window and opened it. Now, this is Scotland, so it’s never warm outside at the best of times, so upon sitting back down at his desk he quickly realised it was too cold.
So what does he do? Hits Ctrl + Z on the keyboard to undo opening the window!
Now, that’s when you know you’ve been working too hard. Can anybody beat it?
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Peti - 12 August 2006
Heh.. that sucks.
It’d be decent when it would work, though.
Like the ever requested search function, when you can’t find your socks in the morning.