I've finally quit
16 years ago
General
I left my job yesterday and I feel so much better. I was wondering why I've been so sore as of late and I think all the stress and anger being bundled inside was taking a toll on me. Feels so good to be free.
My exit 'interview' was awful though, what with the boss demanding to know how I was handling the transferring of duties to my other colleagues. I suspect this is because previous angry and malicious designers messed with the system, deleting working files and renaming things and he didn't want me doing the same thing. I like to think I am much more mature than that.
The boss went on to tell me that I was not ready for work as I was still in school mode and unable to cope with the real working world. Now while it is true that this is my first job in an office, I have worked in a studio before and it works way way differently from this office. I was made to do secretarial work and answer phone calls, order supplies and chase people around. And while I finished a great deal of the work they gave me, it was never enough, not when they would make me stop what I was doing only to give me work of higher priority and when I finished that, more high priority work was given. I could never get back to the original work I was doing and so of course it never gets done.
I feel real sorry for the two designers who are left there in the office and I can only hope they don't go too crazy now that I'm gone; I was the only one answering the phone since they had very poor answering the phone skills.
I need to rant and let that out. X_X
I guess for now it's commissions in full force while I go book my driving lessons and prepare for my October intake to school again. At least this sorta gives me much more time to focus on drawing again, going to the zoo on monday!
My exit 'interview' was awful though, what with the boss demanding to know how I was handling the transferring of duties to my other colleagues. I suspect this is because previous angry and malicious designers messed with the system, deleting working files and renaming things and he didn't want me doing the same thing. I like to think I am much more mature than that.
The boss went on to tell me that I was not ready for work as I was still in school mode and unable to cope with the real working world. Now while it is true that this is my first job in an office, I have worked in a studio before and it works way way differently from this office. I was made to do secretarial work and answer phone calls, order supplies and chase people around. And while I finished a great deal of the work they gave me, it was never enough, not when they would make me stop what I was doing only to give me work of higher priority and when I finished that, more high priority work was given. I could never get back to the original work I was doing and so of course it never gets done.
I feel real sorry for the two designers who are left there in the office and I can only hope they don't go too crazy now that I'm gone; I was the only one answering the phone since they had very poor answering the phone skills.
I need to rant and let that out. X_X
I guess for now it's commissions in full force while I go book my driving lessons and prepare for my October intake to school again. At least this sorta gives me much more time to focus on drawing again, going to the zoo on monday!
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