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Topic: Getting exploited or just reality?
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| darkfire | Posted – 1/29/2008 5:59:39 PM | show profile | email poster I'm a designer for a regional magazine. I've been here just about 2 years and got hired partly due to my portfolio, and partly due to my experience in the trenches of newspaper prepress/production. I do everything in house for our book except put the sucker on plates. I have, at times, personally designed 50 pages of editorial of our 150 page books, to good reviews from readers and local designers. But in the last 9 months, the president of our company has repeatedly placed people in design roles above me who are less experienced, in some cases less able, and now, are people I supervise! Am I getting rolled here? Would designers in other places, or with more experience (I've been doing design since 2002) roll heads over this? Or is this just reality and do I need to suck it up and deal? |
| nandy | Posted – 1/29/2008 9:19:33 PM | show profile When you say you supervise them, what do you mean? Do you critique their work or just make sure they come in on time and turn in their work? If you are in more of an art director role (critiquing their work), then I would look at it as a bump up?something good, but if you have to accept their work, whether good or bad, and are just making sure they punch the time clock, then, yeah, I'd say you are being rolled. |
| darkfire | Posted – 1/30/2008 10:54:55 AM | show profile I handle everything except for approving vacation/sick time, and providing a final say on whether or not their designs are published. The final word goes to the art director. I guess I'm more of the senior designer, but lately the junior designer(s) are getting most of the design, and are now in charge of checking everyone's work (including mine) for style adherence... I suspect this is the kind of thing I should be angry about .... |
