I Want My Own Cockpit, Damn It!

Is there any company out there that actually respects the designer’s expertise in real day to day work and does not do design by committee or is it the nature of the field that everyone and their pet wants to get involved?

I can’t help, but wonder what is the point of hiring a really good, very experienced designer if you’re going to have a bunch of non-designers make all the design decisions? Like the VP of Marketing who’s constantly hovering above my head like a fucking helicopter.

Why not hire a junior designer and hump him all day instead? It would be a whole lot cheaper and the result would be exactly the same.

This is like your mom going for surgery and you and four other relatives standing there in the operating room and directing the highly experienced surgeon (you insisted on hiring) during the fucking operation.

- Make an incision here. No, not here. Two inches to the right. Yeah, that looks good.

- Stick your hand in and pull on that. What is that anyway? Bob, any idea? No? Hmm… We need input from Cindy. Cindy, come here… What do you think that is?

- Hey, what if we cut over here as well? Not here. Riiiight there… What would that do? That could be interesting. Oh shit, that’s a lot of fucking blood! I think she’s flatlining! Sow it up, sow it up!

- [Whispering] Man, this surgeon sucks… Mother fucker almost killed her!

Do pilots get constant advice on how to fly a plane by the passengers? I’m sure there would be plenty of passengers who’d like to get involved like every fucking control freak on the plane, or in other words, everyone in business class.

Maybe that’s the real reason they have a bullet proof door to separate the cockpit from the rest of the plane. It’s not the terrorists they’re worried about. It’s 700 pilot wannabes.

I want my own fucking cockpit, damn it!