ADSeptember 15th, 2022 “Ginny”
a girl crying to a woman, fancy industrial style office, photo realistic, interior design shot, very high detailed, cinematic lightingToday one of the designers reached out and wanted to talk to me, I immediately felt it must be something bad, and I was right. She complains about another team member, let’s call her Ginny. Yeah it’s Ginny again, everyone knows about her, every company has a Ginny. So Ginny’s not supporting her work and arbitrarily decided to cancel her project. While I feel it...
ADAugust 31st, 2022 “Semi-Holiday”
Interior of a fancy office, industrial style, a girl sitting at a corner, laptop, stationary, very high detailed, cinematic lighting, hyperrealistic, 8kDespite the unwillingness I worked 12 hours. Cancelled my yoga class and eye doctor appointment. I thought I’m taking care of myself, but I just can’t stand seeing my tasks piling up and overdue. Should I have a “Semi-Holiday”? Recently my genius colleague invented a “semi holiday” thingy. She’s travelling to Europe and claims she will work re...
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I am kind of a manager of 2 designers. The “kind of” part is they are both older and have more experience in the space than me. But because my manager thinks my “organizational skills” is better, so he assigns some management work to me.
My latest assignment is to put together a Q3 report, things like how we improved the UI with what method, our learnings and challenges. So I created a google doc, drafted up some headings, and invited them for a meeting to discuss it. It was last week.
In the meeting we all agreed we would collab the doc and review it this week. And today in the meeting I found none of them wrote down anything. Actually even me I was too busy having lunch in bed in the afternoon so nothing was really done yet.
I was mad and frustrated, we agreed to work on it and I thought they would do something. But at the same time I feel like we are on the same page. I bet they are in a quiet quitting mode too and we are an accomplice. I should value their effort in this movement.
