What would you do?
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- tkmeister0
uhmm,
the man wants to leave... salisae!i think sometimes people needs to move on, 3yrs is a long time to be at one place in a current market.
- rasko40
no salisae is right, he s houuld quit being such a pussy and stay there, do you think in the middle ages people could just get up and walk away? oh no, no sirreebob! He should stay there and work harder for master, and he should be bloody grateful for the chance he has been given.
People these days don't know they were born.
- honest0
NT is a life-saver and the weekend posts seem to have more intelligence and clarity than the weekday ones! I guess we all go nuts at work – it's why we're on here right?
Many thanks to all your messages. I had a heart to heart to my missus and it's time I tore myself a new asshole and started putting money where my mouth was.
I was scared that not having web skills would restrict my chances of getting rehired someplace else but I have more confidence now and will aim much higher and learn as I go.
A martial arts training partner also moved into the neighbourhood and I'll be training more often in my own back yard. Life is looking good people, I just wish I had some freakin' air con!
- skelly0
Is it common for places to discourage you from using work you created while working for them in a portfolio?
I mean obviously the work BELONGS to them, like you could sell it for money. But can a former employer actually sue you for putting something you made in your own portfolio??
- cram0
I think that you can put the work into your portfolio but I am not a lawyer and don't really know.
If this is that kind of company, you should be looking to move on. If you worked with decent folks, they would be more understanding that you want to work for your own dreams and not theirs. Be nice, be honest and give them plenty of heads up but move on. Doesn't sound like greed is what motivates you. If they treat you bad, move on.
As soon as you realize that you can't win, get out of the game... at least in poker and stocks.
cheers
- letters0
As long as the proper credits are on the work, you can show it all around town.
Besides, it doesnt look like you are wanting to use this super-boss as a pinnacle point of reference, so dont worry about it.
Move on to some thing better. Contentment is the important part.
- CitizenCaine0
Luckily 'experts' like Rasko4 will financially support you when your former boss will sue you or when he will spread the word around.
Worked made while working for a company is 'owned' by that company.
Most companies won't make trouble when you show that work in your portfolio, but some do and make it pretty difficult for you.
Things can be avoided, by not puting those things online, but on a cd/prints that you carry to potential employers. In any case, give detailed credit of what was your work.
- PonyBoy0
Enter response:
bummer, honest... if you signed a non-compete... you're in a tight spot... if not...
... FLUCK 'IM!!
if he really is that much of a prick to work for - you're not going to lose face elsewhere because of him - I say this based on the fact that you said 'past colleagues' have dealt with him.
I find when the 'boss' has aqcuired a bad reputation based on his history of being a 'cock'... moving on to another employer in the same town actually isn't as hard as you might think- because I assure you that other studios 'know his reputation'.
His being a prick for a number of years can actually work to your benefit if it's really as 'bad' as you make it / him out to be.
- Engage0
How are they ever going to know you showed it at an interview?
I was lucky, the mill are good people, and our first site we put work I'd done there with a little*
*Completed at Mill Lab
- normal0
Back your work up, tell him to fuck off and quit. Go out in a blaze of glory. Grow some balls if you're being fucked with at work as it will only carry on if you don't. Your new-found confidence will show through on your subsequent interviews and work. Safe is for when you've got kids and a family to support. Feel the thrill of being ALIVE while you can. Use the work for your portfolio, give credit where credit is due and if he comes after you tell him to fuck off again. He sounds like a silverback that needs to be smacked.
- PonyBoy0
Enter response:
"like a silverback that needs to be smacked."...
hahaha... i wish my bosses were really apes.
- GreedoLives0
Why not change the work just enough so that it's not positively identifiable? Change the names, move something here, add something there...
I'm kind of in the same boat, the owner of my place is a brutal idiot and running the place into the ground, i need out, but they've been firing people when they find out they went on interviews...i can only go to the dentist so many times.
- chossy0
give him a roundhouse kick to the face then dish out a lengthy beating to his abdomen this should make you feel hella better :D
- chossy0
I've changed my mind you should deliver a heavy sack beating.
- Bottlerocket0
I dont know if this is strictly true or not, but I have been lead to beleive that if the work is the public domain, then for self promotional purposes (application of your trade) you can use the work with appropriate accrediation.
Lets face it, its not the crime of the century to show a folio, regardless of what your boss says. And from that viewpoint, his 'legal' angles would seem pretty limited. Its probably all bark and no teeth.
- honest0
I've changed my mind you should deliver a heavy sack beating.
chossy
(Jul 24 06, 02:22)good thing I brought my heavy sack beater to work...
- vespa0
honest get out before you become consumed by bitterness, every begrudged pixel draining a minute percentage of energy from your creative soul like so many monkey-backed scope creeps rendering you sluggish and unable to break your shackles.
- chossy0
pop some wrenches, hammer heads and rocks into the beating sack and you'll soon see great patterned bruising and hear some terrible screams coming from your intended target.
- honest0
honest get out before you become consumed by bitterness, every begrudged pixel draining a minute percentage of energy from your creative soul like so many monkey-backed scope creeps rendering you sluggish and unable to break your shackles.
vespa
(Jul 24 06, 03:28)thanks vespa, you sound like you're trod in my shoes before. I'll heed your advice.
- rtl30
sounds like your boss is a real prick.
jump ship, whilst shootiing fire out your ass for this sounds like a bridge worth burning.