Venting alert…

Gah. I’m getting so frustrated with life in the ‘real’ business world. It’s no wonder that corporate America takes forever to get anything done.. Here I am, a designer, working on a project with a company that was/is a client. I did their website (they’re web consultants), and now I’m on their ‘team’ for one of their projects. Basically what they’ve told me: “Attend meetings with our clients, some of which will be 5 hours or longer… Take notes on stuff that will help develop a brand and website/application… Okay, so now that you’ve taken all these notes and gone through all your discovery excercises… do NOTHING… Write a ‘creative brief’ but don’t design any logos or any sites yet… We’ve got another company to do the logo, despite the fact that a) you’re better and b) the amount of time we’ve allotted in the budget for you is nowhere near the amount it would take to write 1 document… So you’ve got 45 hours left in the next 3 weeks, but just don’t do anything ‘creative’ with that time, even though you’re our ‘creative’ team member.” GAGH. And the real end-client WANTS me to work on the logo. THEY want me to, but this jerk who thinks he’s a project manager is telling me not to, because the company that did their shitty logo is doing the logo for the client… so my time has been budgeted, but not for logo work, so therefore, I cannot do work on the logo even though I know that the people actually doing it won’t do anything that the client will like. SO frustrating. All of a sudden, working at a cool Lower-Downtown office with rad people seems like something I was CRAZY to leave. -Sigh-

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