I wasn't exactly sure where to put this so if it needs to be moved that's fine.
I'm a graphic designer for a home renovation supply company. When I first started this job, I actually really enjoyed it, but that's sort of worn off since. It would be fine if I was doing only what I was hired to do, but instead I'm doing that work plus the work of like 3 other positions. I'm doing all the communications work, writing blogs, social media stuff, anything that needs to be written I'm writing it, which would be fine, if I didn't have so much design work to do already, and if my boss hadn't told me that she was going to be hiring someone to take on that job. She hasn't hired anyone, and I don't think she will, she's claiming now that there isn't enough room for another person in the other showroom. Well okay then, I told her a lot of the communications stuff may get pushed to the wayside while we prepare for a trade show that's coming up.
Then I'm expected to be doing video editing, something that I have no training in whatsoever, a fact I informed them of when they were interviewing me. So I'm having to learn how to use the software to make promotional videos, on top of the design work I'm already doing. Awesome.
Then my boss, the head of MARKETING, asks me to create a marketing plan for 2012. I'm a graphic designer sure, I understand a bit about advertising, but I'm not really trained in the business side of marketing. It was never something on my resume, and hell they never even asked me about it in the interview, I would have been honest by saying that I didn't have marketing experience. Besides which this is supposed to be my bosses job, she makes the plan, we follow it. I do the design for the advertisements and get print quotes and all that stuff. Now I'm going to have to try and wrangle deals out of advertisers.
My bosses seem to enjoy not giving all the information to me and expecting me to mind read. I got talked to like I was stupid about product descriptions in our most recent flyer. Sorry but I wasn't given anything but what was on the website, which wasn't much, it isn't my fault if the information I have access to is wrong, it's yours. I don't mind making the descriptions sound nice, but I need all the correct information before I can do that.
They also certainly aren't paying me what all of this work is worth. Basically I get the impression that they're trying to squeeze as much as they can out of me for what they're paying me. My 3 month review is coming up and I hope that they see the work I'm putting in and compensate me accordingly, but I get the feeling that's hoping a bit too much. *sigh*
This definitely isn't a job I plan to stay at for more than a year or so, for the experience. They just don't seem willing to compensate their employees for the amount of work they do. If I didn't need the money and experience so badly, I'd probably leave now.
I'm a graphic designer for a home renovation supply company. When I first started this job, I actually really enjoyed it, but that's sort of worn off since. It would be fine if I was doing only what I was hired to do, but instead I'm doing that work plus the work of like 3 other positions. I'm doing all the communications work, writing blogs, social media stuff, anything that needs to be written I'm writing it, which would be fine, if I didn't have so much design work to do already, and if my boss hadn't told me that she was going to be hiring someone to take on that job. She hasn't hired anyone, and I don't think she will, she's claiming now that there isn't enough room for another person in the other showroom. Well okay then, I told her a lot of the communications stuff may get pushed to the wayside while we prepare for a trade show that's coming up.
Then I'm expected to be doing video editing, something that I have no training in whatsoever, a fact I informed them of when they were interviewing me. So I'm having to learn how to use the software to make promotional videos, on top of the design work I'm already doing. Awesome.
Then my boss, the head of MARKETING, asks me to create a marketing plan for 2012. I'm a graphic designer sure, I understand a bit about advertising, but I'm not really trained in the business side of marketing. It was never something on my resume, and hell they never even asked me about it in the interview, I would have been honest by saying that I didn't have marketing experience. Besides which this is supposed to be my bosses job, she makes the plan, we follow it. I do the design for the advertisements and get print quotes and all that stuff. Now I'm going to have to try and wrangle deals out of advertisers.
My bosses seem to enjoy not giving all the information to me and expecting me to mind read. I got talked to like I was stupid about product descriptions in our most recent flyer. Sorry but I wasn't given anything but what was on the website, which wasn't much, it isn't my fault if the information I have access to is wrong, it's yours. I don't mind making the descriptions sound nice, but I need all the correct information before I can do that.
They also certainly aren't paying me what all of this work is worth. Basically I get the impression that they're trying to squeeze as much as they can out of me for what they're paying me. My 3 month review is coming up and I hope that they see the work I'm putting in and compensate me accordingly, but I get the feeling that's hoping a bit too much. *sigh*
This definitely isn't a job I plan to stay at for more than a year or so, for the experience. They just don't seem willing to compensate their employees for the amount of work they do. If I didn't need the money and experience so badly, I'd probably leave now.
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