Against our code
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- Poopsmith
if your boss asked you to blatantly rip a template...what would you do or say?
- ********0
would protest it 1st. better than getting fired
- blindpilot0
do it, advising changes for reasons either legitimate or fabricated.
my boss is not a designer, he sees what he likes and wants duplicates, it goes through the designers, but they are graphic designers more familiar with print and we end up 'ripping' for them too
- Poopsmith0
see, my boss thinks he's a designer but is clearly not. he spends his day on templateheaven.com which i think is nothing but CRAP and he shows clients the screenshots of these sites and calls them his own. once he gets approval from these clients, he makes me design these shitty things to the T. i've had to do this 3 times before and trust me, it disgusts me as a designer and utterly pisses me off. i have no freedom of design working here and i feel i have alot to offer. i want to just pick up and bounce, but job market blows.
does anyone feel my pain?
- sauerbraten0
well, with a name like Poop Smith you probably should just be happy where you are..
ha
- Bio0
ive had this problem before. thankfully i am usually able to explain that we cant do that for "legal reasons" and that usually settles them down.
- chach0
hey poopie,
it IS your legal responsibility as the designer to prevent plaigerism.
well, at least here in the states it is.
- unknown0
I feel your pain! I was at a place where I was designing different color variations of templates bought off the web.
This job made me want to quit designing, if you could call it that, but instead I just quit that hell hole!
:P
- Poopsmith0
"hey poopie,
it IS your legal responsibility as the designer to prevent plaigerism. "how do i explain that to the unemployment department?
and poopsmith comes from homestarrunner. smartass. ;oP
- robert0
What a crock of sh*t!
first off tell your boss that you can do better (maybe you can't) and then prove it to him by actually designing something that WOW's him. Then he will stop going to template monster and start looking at you for your expertise.
Other wise he thinks of you as a web monkey and cares nothing about your artistic input and just wants you to push pixels around in photoshop.
You choose it's your life.
- Koalition0
I agree there Robert. And that does work sometimes. but.
It's about how much patience you have too, right? How much energy do you have to challange client's/bosse's (usually very questionable) taste in design that day? It's proberly impossible anyway
- corin0
I usually think of these jobs as time invested in self-education. If your boss doesn't care what it looks like then you shouldn't either, spend the time playing with your compression and markup skills. Also, if you feel like your job is effecting your creativity figure a way to get the f**k out of dodge as quick as possible, i'm still recovering from my previous job's soul sucking effects, and wish i'd have gotten out sooner.
- unknown0
what im wondering... is why the boss doesnt just buy the template and fire you......
its cheaper to buy the template...
be careful