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Who here has to deal with situations at work where there are 5 people trying to be in charge and giving conflicting criticism that just take you in circles and waste time and money?

This has to be one of my biggest pet peeves about working at a firm rather than doing freelance work for a living.

Sorry for the rant but I have 400 lights in my scene currently because of additional minuscule changes that have been requested. Ugh.

Create strong hierarchy, crush them with brute force.

You must be working for architects?
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I can share your pain. I am currently working on a project that is in Ireland I have 2 Principles 2 Associate Principles 2 Associates, me as senior designer, then 3 designers to do all the production work on a huge project.

To top it off they have been interviewing a ton of people and they seem to think they need more middle management type architects before they need production staff!!!

JCAddy wrote:Who here has to deal with situations at work where there are 5 people trying to be in charge and giving conflicting criticism that just take you in circles and waste time and money?

This has to be one of my biggest pet peeves about working at a firm rather than doing freelance work for a living.

Sorry for the rant but I have 400 lights in my scene currently because of additional minuscule changes that have been requested. Ugh.

Yep. I get that. Everyone who is not a designer where I work wants to be one, and those who were designers and now manage want to really be doing the design work. You can imagine the chaos that takes place. Its all comes from good intention, but it can be very frustrating.

You should watch the old movie the fountainhead http://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/fountainhead/

There is so much truth to that movie. Most things that are visually and functionally truly inspiring rarely comes from a large collective group.

What I think is that they should all come to an understanding first, then tell me what they want. I think things would go much smoother that way.

Ugh....this file isn't exactly easy to maneuver, even with a super machine.

Common prob in the freelance world too - at least in advertising. Push hard for consolidated feedback and talk it through before doing any changes. How well it works depends on where you sit in the food chain though - as the higher ups are generally content to have peons waste 3 hours versus spend 15 minutes of their own time.



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Luckily, the firm I work for has 1 guy at the top who makes all the final design decisions. But that brings up other problems....

I definately feel your pain tho.

I know this kind of situtations. It's not easy, but I try to tell my clients, that I need consolidated infos or I can't hold the project price. Most my clients understand it and try to find a better workflow.
Best you get payed per hours.

If nothing helps, I would not work again for this company. That's the good side of freelanceing - you can try to choose your boss.

I feel your pain... God Knows i feel your pain. I deal with it in this way;
40mg of prozac twice daily!

I always ask for feedback to come through one agreed point of contact, that way you can forget all other comments that fly into you inbox.........

Just wrapped up a job with 10mins to spare before deadline.......so I would feel for you, but I'm just too damn tired to feel anything right now.