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- nicole_marie0
the last place i worked, the senior designer did that to me constantly... i quit.
- flashbender0
or tell th e CD
"When you tell me I can't do something, it just makes me want to do it more."
Apparently it works for black country music singers.
- rascuache0
This happened quite a bit in my previous job, I never really took it that personally, it was either pulled from me because I was needed on something else, or because as above, it was easier for him to do it having spoken to the client directly, rather than relay it all to me and risk miscommunication or misinterpretation costing more time.
If I were a dick I'd say: Suck it up, it's part of the job, but I'm not, so I say: I appreciate how frustrating it is, but you've probably gotta just accept it and try not to take it personally.
- svenreed0
vax - i hear what your saying but i don't believe thats the case. the last conversation i had had with him was to let me know that versions X and Y were the favorites and were going to be hammered down further. i really think its based around him attempting to stamp the final mark. i could be completely wrong, however if that were the case his communication skills are rather weak.
- vaxorcist0
There is a chance this isn't about you and the CD at all....
The CD may have found out at the last minute that the client totally hates the color green, or something random like that, and the CD has to rebuild it all in order to save the business, maybe he can't communicate to you the clients random freakout because he doesn't want to make you cynical...... not fun, but this also happens.... in part due to account staff not warning creatives about client personality quirks....
- svenreed0
ill post the work once legally allowed, both before and after...you guys rock
- zenmasterfoo0
Maybe take a different tact on this. Ask if you can participate on the project still in a different capacity. Maybe just to communicate with him about the next set of changes he's proposing. Be political in your choice of words. He's obviously taking credit for the project. You can't stop that. But you can possibly still remain as a voice in it's direction.
You need to stand up for your work at the end of the day. He or any other CD will never respect you unless you take a firm stand on the designs you provide. If you think his modifications are shit, ask why the client chose to go that route. Question his designing as he questions yours.
- monospaced0
I've thought about this. Chill, nobody will deny that you were the original designer. You brought it this far.
- svenreed0
i've asked..its more the morals of it to me. a project i've spent weeks on is just roped out from under me for no apparent reason. so i ask politely and get the answer, "no no worries we needed to have it finalized by noon today, thanks." maybe next time ill throw a tantrum on his fridge.
- Orbit0
He wants the credit, he wants the kudos. Ask him to give you a good reason why you are not able to push your own design across the finishing line.
He may reply, quite sharply, that it is because you are, frankly, shit, and you do sloppy work, and as the Creative Director it falls upon him to make sure the job gets finished off properly, because the reputation of the company rests on the quality of the work that makes it out into the big wide world, and you just haven't got an aptitude for a tidy finish, and god knows he's had to jostle and cajole you all the way along on this job already, because your own ideas were pretty shit and you were just not doing a very good by yourself.
But don't listen to that. He's just fucking with you.
- Projectile0
if he just tweaks it slightly, put it in your folio anyway. If anyone asks if it's all yours, say "no-someone else made tweaks"
ba da bing
- if they fuck it up put your original in your folioflashbender
- svenreed0
my point fallow..my point...he needs to STAMP it.
- svenreed0
my point fallow..my point...he needs to STAMP it.
- vaxorcist0
it happens....
your revenge will be the next good job you have elsewhere, where this doesn't happen.... and this company will go downhill if this CD does this all the time.... so start looking around.... and do some good side-projects if the CD has a pattern of doing this, and keep a "before CD" and "after CD" folio....
- on itsvenreed
- god damn coned ads are infiltrating my brains!svenreed
- this is good adviceflashbender
- FallowDeer0
I had this, did a logo for a good project, did all the research for promotional material and website etc
only for me to be taken off it and watch someone else ruin it :(
- vitamins0
When he's having sex with his wife, and she's about to orgasm, take him off and do the final tweaks.
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- flashbender0
take they money they give you and be happy?
- elahon0
Eat his wife, fuck his fridge and take a shit on his brains.
- MHDC0
Fuck his fridge and shit in his wife